How many Runners do you have?

[twrig83 12]

I have a TT02, M06, Frog and Grasshopper.  The TT02 is the most fun. I bought the cheapest version I could find and started turning it into an off-road rally car. I think I enjoy repairing, upgrading and problem solving more than the actual driving. So every other weekend or so, I take it out, break it or decide it has some sort of problem, and then see if I can fix it. 

[Grumpy pants 5180]

Just one, which is my daughters Lunchbox.

I have others that could run, but I can’t bring myself to -

Rere Sand Scorcher

Ranger - SRB

SWB M38 Wild Willy 

I will have the Blitzer Beetle RTR shortly, which has always been a firm favourite of mine. 

[SlideWRX 883]

On 5/17/2024 at 5:06 PM, TurnipJF said:

Do tell us more?

I was working on a FF-02B myself a while ago, until I came across this rendering:

...

Which led to my FF-02B plans turning into this:

That's beautiful!

Yeah I decided I wanted to try out a FWB buggy after learning of the various (but few) production ones over the years.  I found a thread from years ago apparently doing the same thing by @XV Pilot, but that thread lost all its pictures due to the ravages of Photobucket.  I've taken a few pics and will do a build thread soon, although I still don't know what body & tires I'll put on it...

[Nicadraus 6422]

All of my seven kits are runners. But two of those are shelf queens that gets to run behavely once in a while. The FF-01 and WIld One. The rest are constant runners and gets to do real action on and off track.

[El Gecko 1428]

All of mine are runners, although some are on the shelf more than they used to be, but it's still fun to get them out for a drive from time to time.

[Busdriver 6270]

I believe I have over 40 and all are technically runners. Some might need 20 mins of wrenching to get fully ready. I only have one car that has never been run and that is my  Custom liveried Opel Calibra, but even that could be up and running in under an hour. As has been said by others it’s not so much how many are runners but how many run!!!  I reckon 10 out of the 40+ are used, the rest just sit on a shelf, trouble is they are difficult/not worth selling so I’ll keep them for the time being.

[technics 3162]

I´m not answering this without a lawyer present!

[OldSchoolRC1 1067]

Good question, had to run down and do a count. It's been a while. I've got about 92 that I can put a battery in and run. plus another 10 or so that could be runners, but just need a bit of work or in parts for various reasons. 

About 40 crawlers of various types, 20 TC's I haven't run in forever, 20ish buggies for backyard bashing, and a few monster trucks and old nitros still hanging around. 

Of those, I've driven 5 so far this year.  Not a great year so far for RC. After 30+ years though, sometimes I run heavy (last year) sometimes (like this year) it's a light year. All depends what life throws at me.  

[Rinskie 851]

We should hold an intervention for some of you folks. 

[Jason1145 4683]

I’ve got about 8 that I could throw a battery in and use immediately, they all have their own radio sets as I like it that way. 1 is a Kyosho Fazer Mk2, there’s 2 x Traxxas 2WD Stampedes plus an Associated RatRod 2WD Short Course truck which is the most fun runner I have.

I do lose track of what I have sometimes!

The ones I run carefully are my Clod Buster, Wild Dagger and Bear Hawk, and then the ones I’ll never run are my Strikers and Sonic Fighters.

The abused ones are the M05, M06 , TT01E and my daughters Lunchbox!

Ive got about 5-6 more that need electrics to be bought -and installed but I  do aim to get them all able to run.

Further to that I’ve two new kits to be built, a Kyosho Scorpion Turbo plus the gorgeous TB01 Ferrari Enzo that’s just arrived, they’ll be runners too one day.

Next on the list will be either the MB01 Citroen DS if it ever comes in to stock, or that BT01 Supra 😍

(Or I buy Toyolien’s 2 x TT02 from the Sales section here!)

[Grumpy pants 5180]

18 hours ago, Jason1145 said:

(Or I buy Toyolien’s 2 x TT02 from the Sales section here!)

Can you please, otherwise I’ll have to buy the blue one 😂

In all fairness I would have done already, but the surprise purchase of the MB01 caught me out 🤦‍♂️

[toyolien 5491]

10 minutes ago, Grumpy pants said:

Can you please, otherwise I’ll have to buy the blue one 😂

In all fairness I would have done already, but the surprise purchase of the MB01 caught me out 🤦‍♂️

Blue one now sold. Orange still left 

[Grumpy pants 5180]

2 minutes ago, toyolien said:

Blue one now sold. Orange still left 

Excellent, a great buy as well. 

[Jason1145 4683]

6 hours ago, Grumpy pants said:

Can you please, otherwise I’ll have to buy the blue one 😂

In all fairness I would have done already, but the surprise purchase of the MB01 caught me out 🤦‍♂️

Off topic, which MB01 did you buy?

Back on topic, will it be a runner? 🥳

[Grumpy pants 5180]

1 hour ago, Jason1145 said:

Off topic, which MB01 did you buy?

Back on topic, will it be a runner? 🥳

The Alfa, chucked in a cheeky bid.

£100 delivered, with bearings, no ESC. 

I’d like to think it’ll be a runner, but I’m woefully slow with anything ‘T’ and routinely go through buying sprees and selling sprees 😂

[kalsh 48]

My wife says I have no runners as I never seem to find the time to run any. I have plenty of cars (far far too many)  both on road and off-road which could of course run with little to no work. The challenge would be to find all the corresponding transmitters ( a lot of my stuff I guess would consider vintage given the radio hear mainly use tnx and Rc chips…..I do have some 2.4ghz but they are in brushless or nitro chassis(non tamiya).  Now where are the batteries………? 🙂

[Ray_ve 1161]

Out of the 10 cars presently sitting on the shelfs, 8 are complete and runners. But as my daughter said: 'you never run them dad' so eeeeeh there is that... 

[Killajb 1594]

40-ish (too lazy to count on a Saturday morning) cars in my collection and all are runners.  Just top off the battery and they're ready to go.  How much I actually drive them is another subject altogether.

[Grumpy pants 5180]

On 5/19/2024 at 8:07 AM, Grumpy pants said:

Just one, which is my daughters Lunchbox.

I have others that could run, but I can’t bring myself to -

Rere Sand Scorcher

Ranger - SRB

SWB M38 Wild Willy 

I will have the Blitzer Beetle RTR shortly, which has always been a firm favourite of mine. 

Now 2 💥

[urban warrior 407]

On 5/9/2024 at 9:37 PM, Mad Ax said:

I wasn't sure, so I just opened up my CarManager app to see what I've got catalogued.  Bearing in mind I did a full catalogue in Nov '23, so the total car count should be reasonably accurate - it's showing 91 cars in total.  If I filter by Runnable, it's...

42.

By runnable, I mean, the chassis is fully assembled, it has a body, steering servo, ESC, motor, and receiver.  The only thing it may not have is wheels & tyres, since I swap them around a lot when I'm racing, but I've got a big selection for all my car types.

I expect that is mostly accurate.  OK, it's possible I broke a car at some point and didn't update the database, it's also possible I pulled the servo or pinion or some-such from a runner to get something else working, but then again, it's possible I had non-runner cars that have become runners but never had their entry updated either.  Also I can see at least one trailer on the list, and all the big rigs, plus there are novelty items like the tow truck, the hearse, the Mad Max truck, etc, which technically run but aren't really something I'd drive around the garden for fun.

Is this collection too big?  Of course it is.  Can I run them all at once?  Heck, no.

When I went to Tamiya Junkies in 2021, I took 19 cars with me.  I had to take the passenger seat out of the van to get them all in.  Most of them got ran that day.  That's probably the most cars I ever ran in a single day.  That day was combined with a trip to Carlisle to race in the Iconic Cup, so those cars did around 650 miles with me that weekend.

This stems back to when I joined the hobby, around 18 years ago.  Back then, local Tamiyaclub members would meet up in car parks or at country parks to run their cars.  I'd arrive with my DF-03, Midnight Pumpkin and TT01 drift car, and everybody else would have a whole heap of cars to play with.  2wd buggies, 4wd buggies, modern buggies, vintage buggies, realistic buggies, touring cars, rally cars, fwd cars, rwd cars, monster trucks, stadium trucks...  I got caught up in buying a bit of everything, a lot of stuff I didn't enjoy and sold on, some stuff I kept.  I didn't lose a lot of money though, and I enjoyed the builds, so I got my money's worth.

Right now I'm happy with what I've got.  Or, more accurately, I can't decide what I should get rid of.  Every time I find something surplus to requirements, I come up with another use for it.

Getting caught up in "having to have a big collection because everyone else has one" is not really a great way to live, but it's natural to want to have what other people have.  I often found that a car that felt brilliant when someone handed me a controller for 5 minutes suddenly felt less than ideal when I had one of my own.  Sometimes it's about what you really want out of it.

Right now, I've got a small number of just about everything.  I don't have any really big ticket items, but I've got a few clod-size monsters, a few 2.2 monsters, a few crawlers, a few touring cars, a few 4wd buggies, etc...  so that if ever I'm in the garden and some friends mysteriously appear out of thin air, we can all drive the same type of car around together.

Also, with vintage racing being over-subscribed these days, having a selection of cars means it's easier to get a place.  If I've got 1 car for every class, then I can put an entry into every class and hope I get one.  If I only had a car for one class, I'd be less likely to get a place.  Also if I've got 2 cars for every class then I know I've got a spare when I arrive at the track.  More than once, I've totalled my car during practice and had a long and lonely drive home when I can't get parts trackside.

Finally, what's made a huge different to actually running cars, is keeping the best-suited runners in the right place for running.  My 2.2 monsters, clod monsters, Supershot and G6-01 are in my studio, which is next to the garden.  Any time I want, I can throw in a battery and go play, with minimum fuss.  My crawlers are now on a rack in the workshop, so I can grab one and go to the woods and put it back while it's still dripping mud, and not have to worry about getting my studio dirty.  This means I'm running my cars a lot more this year than I ever have.

And I thought that I was crazy!

It may be possible that we are brothers in mind. Due to my last move I did somekind of an inventory of all my stuff. Regarding RCs I came to roundabout 83 kits with around 10 or so in running condition. Not to mention all the static modelling stuff, with some larger models that offer a potential to get some electronics inside to be driven.

@skom25: It seems that you were quite struggling with your approach to the hobby. Well, everyone has to chose his heaven and h€ll. I really admire people who got the discipline to stick to one or only a short number of models, since I cannot. At the end it doesn't matter if you got one model or ten. What matters is what you get our of your hobby. You should always do things you like or love. If things become a curse or a burden, you have to question yourself if this is the right thing. Since I already parted with parts of my hobby (which was really a pain for me), I know where my passion is "buried".

[skom25 1754]

I decided to stick to models I have. I think I will even sell new XV-01 or just put it into box as a spare car for future.

Now I have TT-02B which is my "fancy" runner and I am during build of well upgraded TT-02, which will be my "Endurance" car ( weak motor, fan etc.)

 

[River19 65]

Five cars, five runners.....race 4 of 5 of them and probably soon to race the 5th as well.

Only been back in the hobby since March 2024....so call it 3 months.

2 TLRs (carpet and clay)

1 Schumacher L1R (clay)

TT-02R (Carpet)

AE TC4 (probably carpet)

[Kowalski86 3983]

This is my current list of runners, I've done a big trim of my fleet recently so I only have a few:

1. Redcat Gen 7: My regular trail truck/yard waste mover. It's what got me into crawlers, I can drive it in so many more places than my bashers.

2. WPL C74: One of the few WPLs that I've liked out of the box, junk driveshafts aside. I've even thrown a few upgrades at it. I can run it around in the backyard all day.

3. Traxxas Stampede 2wd: My go to basher, it works fine off-road and the tires won't go bald on asphalt.

4. Traxxas Rustler 2wd: More of a nostalgia purchase, this may end up being sold off. The shocks are worn out and it's less of an all-rounder than the Stampede.

5. WPL D42: After breaking my second WPL D12 chassis over a minor dip in the road, this one might get sold off before that happens a third time.

I no longer have any on-roaders since they get dusty rather quickly on asphalt, and they wear through tires quickly.

[Ghostpig 468]

I have some runners

1. Team Xrayciated RC10XB2 (Xray XB2 made to look like RC10B2)
2. Team Associated RC10T5m
3. Kyosho Tracker
4. Kyosho Stadium Baja Beetle
5. Kyosho TF-2
6. MST MTX-1
7. Own build Ferrari 312F1 67
8. Own build scale chassis Skyline GT-R " Hakosuka"
9. Mini-z mr03
10. Mini-z 4x4 Jimny

Then soon to be runners

1. Kyosho Optima Mid rere
2. Kyosho Outrage

[dannymulder 933]

Actually all my cars are runners, but some I have to rebuild and repair.

Cars that are ready to run, and only  need a battery in it are:

Tamiya wr-02,

Losi rock rey

Traxxas ruster 4x4 vxl

Tamiya lunchbox

Tamiya Ta-03f

Cars that need repairs;

Tamiya Firedragon, only need an new suspension arm.

Tamiya M-05, only need new tires, maybe swap the brushless motor for an brushed one.

Hpi Jumpshot MT v2 brushless, needed new diff gears, rebuild the diff 2 days ago, and need to put together.

Cars that need rebuild,

Tamiya Ta-03 f-s

Tamiya Ta-03 R-s

And have enough parts to build an ta-03 F or R out of it.

 Cars that  are  New in the box, and waiting for hopup parts to build them:

Tamiya BBX

Tamiya Mf-01x