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I still have my first tamiya rc from back in the day which are the fox,hornet,blackfoot and the falcon.These do not run anymore as they would need a bit of work.Do any of you still have your first tamiya kits.

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Yes. My Lunch Box:

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As I've recalled before, I would still have all my childhood kits if it weren't for my parents throwing away several cars, including my Grasshopper 2 Super G, while I was away at college because they wanted to re-purpose the cabinet I had them stored in. But, the past is the past and many of us have similar stories.

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Restored now but this is how I found my OG Astute after 20 years

 

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Nope. Used to only be able to afford one at a time, so sold one to fund the next one. Sold the last one from the 80s (A clod) to fund a model aeroplane which was destroyed by a catastrophic mid air structural failure.  Wasn't till the early 2000s when I bought a clod buster off EBay that I started getting back into the hobby again.

 

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Sadly no; most of my original RC models - a Grasshopper, a Falcon, an AYK 566B that I bought at a garage sale for $50, and the broken Kyosho Optima that I traded a neighbor kid an even more broken Marui Big Bear for - disappeared when my mom sold the house. They either were sold in the garage sale, or ended up in the dumpster; I'm not sure which, and I don't want to know. My original Blackfoot I took with me to college in 1990, but it vanished somewhere along the way. Probably sold or traded to fund a race car; I got into indoor on-road/oval carpet racing in the early 90s.

I still have my last "serious" on-road race car, an Associated RC10LSO, that I bought new in 1994 or 95. But that's the oldest one I still have.

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Yep, still got my original Sand scorcher and still run it on occasion . It's got a monster beetle body on it which I fitted when the M/B first came out. The original body was in a very bad way as I ran it hard back then.

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I never had a Tamiya or any other hobby grade r/c car as a kid.

I still own the first and only Tamiya that I ever have had. 

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Yep, my Christmas '88 Thunder Dragon which I cleaned up and had running this time last year after it living in the loft for decades.  It's almost completely original - as part of the clean up it had new tyres (cracked and flat spotted), new wheel adapters (broke when the car was dismantled) and an A5 brace was added but that was all.  The body is my handpainted original, the front twin shocks were added in '89 or '90 after I bent the original monoshock and were the original Hop-Up from back in the day.  I have two replacement gearcase trees with no A5 part so it looks like the one on the car is the third it had, which sounds about right.  I can remember breaking it a couple of times.  The original Acoms transmitter, receiver and servos are all good and I have orange and brown crystals.  I also have an Acoms trickle charger, a Powertron fast charger and the NiCad battery I last used in my teens, which I seem to think was the second battery the car had.  The first was a smaller capacity and I think I must have thrown it out back in the day - it may have stopped holding charge?  The one I have is unbranded but "made in the UK from SAFT cells" according to the label.  No idea what capacity it is though!

 

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I sold all my cars when I took my first hiatus back in 1987? 1988?   I was poor so needed the funds to pay for my next hobby..which was playing musical keyboards.  

I also drove my cars hard so they were pretty worn.. I had a great time with them so no regrets selling.  

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Yup still have mine it was also a Lunchbox, since then added another and two Monster Beetles a Wild Willy 2 and Super Clod Buster. I have an addition a Tamiya addiction.:lol:

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yep, as a teenager I managed to collect 5 cars all up over about 3 years.

my very first car, a Marui Galaxy, it took me ages to save up for at the time, I wanted the Frog, but that was out of my budget. Price wise it was between the Grasshopper and Frog, and it was good fun to drive. Now it just needs me to replace the rear tires and it will run. But it really needs a full strip down clean and rebuild.

The next 3 cars I bought cheap in a job lot. A Renault Martini Mk 2, a Celica LB Turbo and a Hornet, I think I paid $40 at the time. The Renault has been restored and even driven. The Celica was the victim of a rocket engine experiment, but is restorable. The Hornet - the chassis is broken and has been cut to accept a Scorcher body. Some of the wheels are broken, the previous owner had chopped up some hotshot rims and made them fit on the front and accept bearings.  I had a lot of fun with the Hornet, it took so much abuse from me! The body needs replacing as it’s flatter than a pancake, but I’ll eventually put the Sand Scorcher body back on it.

The last car I bought was a Fox that a local supermarket had managed to get in cheap, at the time it was nearly half the price at the hobby stores, so my brother and I both bought one. It’s in need of a proper strip down and clean, probably replacing a few cracked parts, but it does run.

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Yes, i still have my first and only Tamiya rc. Found it just recently, and i got it in 1982 or so for my own money!

Its an Datsun 280ZX.

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Yes, yes I do.

I bought this in the summer of 2001, I believe. My buddy had just gotten the TA02 Humvee and I got this to run with him.

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It's got a new body since then, but I do still have the old body too.

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Haha. Not quite as nice as the replacement body but it brings back memories.

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Yep,  still have my original Blackfoot from back in the late 80's.  Body is in very bad shape.  Frame rails were replaced with Frog frame rails I got at swap meet as the original red rails got broken.  Lots of mods, lots of fun, lots of good memories.  Plan to restore it some day.  

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My first Tamiya kit was a Frog when i was 10 or 11.

The only part of it i have left is one of the rear dampers (I know its the from that car, because my dad repaired it for me). I have no idea what happened to the rest of it. :(

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Yes I do still have my first: an original Mud Blaster. That said, I've retired the original shell and treated the whole thing to a full resto-mod. Takes pride of place on my study shelf where I get to see it every day. ☺️

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So glad I kept it, even if it spent two decades in the basement. It is still in use at least once a season : )

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The whole top row are my cars from BITD. I even have the build manuals to all but the LB. Sadly I did get rid of and  / or destroy of more than pictured like Frog, Audi Quattro y, Hot Shot, Cold Buster and Avante but I’m happy about the ones I retained 

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i also replicated my Audi Quattro 58036 and believe it or not this car does include some of my original Audi parts like one front shock, front bumper mount, one tire and rim, some of the plastic bumper “top hats” and steering rods. So my Audi kind of lives on and I have the build manual too

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Sure do

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New versions of the tyres (“Copy CAT’s”) I used to race with back in the day

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My first Tamiya was a Boomerang that I inherited from my Brother.

Rumours vary; it might still be in my Dad's loft (a few thousand miles from where I live) or it was potentially taken to the dump :( 

I have pre-ordered a ReRe but not sure I can buy it until I know 
whether mine is still around or not.

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I have a Hornet in my collection. It is technically my first Tamiya from wayyy back in 86. I can confidently say the driver is original. Everything else has been changed out at least once though.
Ship of Theseus.

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This one isn't going anywhere! Quite literally at the moment too!

I bought this when I was 16 from the local hobby shop, Reigate Toys & Models. Sadly it no longer exists, but back in the day, probably the best toy shop in the area. They had the toy shop on one side of the road, and the model shop opposite, and myself and my brother were frequent visitors to both! The owner used to do a 'savings club', where he would reserve a kit for you, and you could pop in and pay in instalments until it was paid. He would even build it if you desired, but I had no interest in that, I wanted to build mine! I believe it was £200 with the radio gear, a battery and a charger, and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it! My mate got a Super Hornet at the same time, but I had no interest in buggies back then, I wanted a rally car! Over the years, she got trashed. The shell took the brunt of it first, then I managed to wear the spur gear and it wouldn't move! A few years later, I managed to find a replacement in Harrods of all places, and that ignited the spark that led to the collection I have now. The chassis has worn a few other shells over the years, a couple of Escort Cossies, amongst a few others shoe-horned on, but now she's proudly wearing the correct Lancia Delta Integrale shell, thanks to  Rallyebaz on here. I still have the box with all of the offcuts from the original shell, the interior cockpit lives on in spirit, if not 100% complete, I think I even have the empty spray can I used to paint the original shell! 

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On 2/12/2023 at 12:54 PM, OnTheTrail said:

Yep,  still have my original Blackfoot from back in the late 80's.  Body is in very bad shape.  Frame rails were replaced with Frog frame rails I got at swap meet as the original red rails got broken.  Lots of mods, lots of fun, lots of good memories.  Plan to restore it some day.  

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I would leave that exactly as it is. If you restore it, you'll end up losing everything that makes it special. That's a proper one-of-a-kind B)

My advice ... if you want a Blackfoot runner, buy a re-re.

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