Just curious Ive seen some awesome models and tether cars Does anyone run RC CARS? I have a few from the 70s&80s and sometimes run them up and down the block Or if Im really board go and hang out at my local Trader Joes parking lot after 12:00 pm Or across the street at the Wells Fargo parking lot no traffic lots of space and occasionally a few other guys show up nothing scheduled just random So have you got them do you run them ???
Check this one out.Not mine,but I wish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz2SUshYdTk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y25SPZm3Izk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYPYclVmbZU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ldQnZVpXM The guy makes all of his own bodies
yup... gotta couple road cars, one truggy, an electric funny (thinkin of converting to nitro) Used to do quite a bit f 1/4 scale blacktop stuff....and even had a bunch of conley 1/4 scale V8's (estate sale find).... Like an idiot I realized what the Conley's were worth and didnt even keep one to myself (had three and a bunch of parts).....hadda finance some other projects....
Here's some more from the same guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MxC96_lxyk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osvuc9vrPUs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ9GgsLrO3w The guy is funny to boot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DWuiKJZoJI
I have the same radio with a vintage Latrax corvette, also have a team losi nitro stadium truck, a 4Tec 4 wheel drive nitro car, three tra**as electric trucks, a few kyoshos, several Tamiya electric cars, two helicopters (not minis), and a bunch more I can't remeber right now.
I have a few early Tamiya electric RC's. I love all the cast alloy parts in those ch***is. Building a 1/10 custom replica of my he**** with my team at work. The Tyco RC team here at Mattel actually have a couple of Hambers in their midst.......
I have an old RC 10 and a Big Foot truck and electric Bolink drag car. Haven't run them in years and I think only the Bolink is working.
have a few, all 4x4 off road stuff though and all nitro. HPI savage 'monster truck' [8 of them], HPI hellfire truggy, Losi LST 2, GS storm buggy, and a couple of HPI nito m/t's. actually, my garage would make a hell of an r/c 'boneyard' with all the extra **** i have laying around.
I have a couple of 2wd off-road electrics in the garage.... with about 50 batteries for that never ending kinda fun.
I race RC (dirt oval and carpet) and collect, build and restore vintage RC cars. Attached are pics of some of my recents builds. All are 1/10 scale electric. The altered and the '50 Ford are twin motor/dual stick pack screamers. The '55 is an 11 cell/7 turn with a microswitch for the speed control. The '47 ragtop is an old Bolink, the '57 Ford is a Parma Pro Mod with a Mcallister body.
I just got back in R/C cars hard....I raced heavily in the mid-late '80s. Now really into scale crawlers and collecting vintage offroad cars I remember from my youth, but couldn't afford back then. Have @ 12 right now. Nice paintwork Shortbus!
I have a couple - an RC10 gold pan that hauls *** and an RC18 4wd buggy I just got. Great fun, just got back into them recently
Thank God I'm not the only one! Just kidding, i love R/C cars. I just got back into R/C racing after being out for about 15 years and am loving every minute of it. I'm a 1/10th scale electric guy all the way. x426x where did you get that bad*** '50 Ford body?
i have a carpet car and a black -foot and a box of parts id sell if anyone is into this stuff ..they have alot of money in parts dumped into them ill sell em cheap..
Picked up the '47 and '50 Ford bodies on feebay a while back. I believe they are vintage ***ociated- long out of production but one turns up online every now and then.
Damn im suprised i didnt see this thread before! I was brought up around these things. First one was a tamiya monster beetle. Oh that thing was great! Then i got hooked on allt he nitro stuff.
Parma years ago made some cool bodies, although they were a little "off" as far a s scale. A '50 chopped Merc, '57 Chevy pickup, and a few others I can't remember at the time. The 1st issue of RCCA (1986) had the scratch-built 1/4 scale '32 roadster with the fully functional, blown SBC that actually ran. Remeber that one fellas? Connelly I think was the builder. I think there's been a post or two about it.
Very cool transmitter. I had the same transmitter. Did you bolt on the slot car handle with trigger onto the back of the tx with spacers? Then you hooked up the trigger to the slide control on the side. Cool stuff, before the high tech pistol grip shaped radios came out. Home made ch***is made from blank pcb material from electronics surplus store. Check out the primitive speed control.
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