What were you guys doing in the 80's?!

[Supershot]

What were you guys doing in the 80's?Explain your r/c life with all the cars you owned and all the memories behind them!!!!

[Stefan(2)]

i was... ehm, just drewling at the lhs..

did'nt get any

now making up for the lost time!

Bye, Stefan

[grusomkis]

Driving around with my moped.

With various rc cars strapped to the back of the moped.[]

Also had a mullet[]

[spiff84(2)]

hi

well in the early 80s i was busy being born. Towards the end, when i wasn't playing with Lego (Lego must be the greatest toy ever!), i was looking at my Tamiya Catalogue, wishing there was a way i could afford a Hotshot II.

P.S oh my! i now have 100 posts, i feel sorry for the new people to these forums who may think i actually know stuff!

[rcgrabbag]

Bought a Rough Rider in '81. Was blown away by how 'fast' it was compared to the other 'toys' I've owned. Sadly, it is with me no more, but Ebay and Tamiyaclub have reunited me with a few Rough Riders and more!

[killerkip]

I bought my first Tamoya catalogue in 1988 and read it apart

In 1989-ish I bought some mini 4WD cars, like the avante and vanquish. I fooled around with trying to make upgrades and basically destroyed them. Threw them out later. I bought my first car, a thundershot, in 1990. Later upgraded that to a terra scorcher. But that's it for the 80s (I was 12 in 1990...).

[Bill Wessels(2)]

I was in my 30's and operated a tire store. I built, and played with, a Grasshopper, Falcon, Super Champ, SG Coyote, Panda Cyclone, Big Bear, TamTech Ferrari, and RC10. I sold all (except RC10) at a local model car swap-meet for literally pennies on the dollar![]

Here's a interesting, but sad, note: In 1989, I hooked-up with a warehouse supplier and bought-out all their obsolete Tamiya RC's for $50.00 net each! I took 'em to swap-meets, to sell, with little interest.[:0] Little did I know, by now, they'd be worth a small fortune![!] Oh, well........ I could say the same thing about the kits I've sold, on eBay, just in the last couple years![:I]

[trabbi daz]

I had quite a few cars in the 80's like a sand scorcher which wasn't exactly perfect but it went ok.A brand new blackfoot,hotshot,wild one ,a frog,a toyota hi-lux and a bruiser,porsche 959 and a bigwig that i swopped with the hi-lux.......sob, if i only knew then what i know now [] []

[TWO STAR]

in the early 80s i was riding my hutch BMX bike & playing with meccano.i didnt have any r/c s [V].but a good friend had a bigwig,959,& a blackfoot[^]...so every chance i had i went over to his place to watch & run tamiyas.......

[urban warrior]

Hi,

in the early 80ies I finished school and started my apprenticeship as a tracer, finished 1986, made my drivers licence and bought a motorbike, a Yamaha XT500. I still have it today, it's now 23 years old (built in 1980). At the end of 1987 I bought my first r/c-model, a Bruiser.

Martin

[usapirap(2)]

I was racing actively at local tracks with Hotshot, Blackfoot, and Optimas. My Hotshot and Blackfoot was unbeatable on dirt oval. I remember those chain drive Yokomo 4WDs were really fast too. I even raced my RC10 shoulder to shoulder with Jamin Jay, the factory team racer for Team Associated at the time.

[hotgolf]

Got my first R/C car at the late end of the eighties. It was an AYK March 76s type II. Loved the thing to bits, but......I just had to have a Lunchbox. So, after months of tantrums and shouting (c'mon, I was only 12) I finally got my first Tamiya.[]

[wildwillydriver(2)]

I was 13 and i played with my Wild Willy......! []

Bye

WWD

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[Coneykid]

Got my first 1/10 car in the late 80's the now classic Hotshot. Ran this completley as Standard. It was a christmas present that i had been building early ready to run on Christmas day. The inevitable happended, 20 minutes in the street, reversed into the kerb and snapped the chassis in two.

Changed the Hotshot for bommerang sometime later. Then eventually bought an Optima Mid Pro Custom Special, Ball raced, esc, modified motor.

One many a race with all the cars but back then could'nt realy afford to buy the top end esc, batteries & motors etc, so could never really compete with the top lads.

Am gutted now that i didnt keep the Hotshot & Boomerang, i think i must have sold them to buy the optima. Have still got that but it is need of a good strip and re-paint.

All my racing was done at Archdales indoor track at worcester, i belive it still running now but at a new veune.

[sosidge]

Most of the 80's I was a child, making Tamiya plastic kits, and having a few brief drives of my dad's Tamiya Hilux, that we could never get the gearchange right on.

Then got my Super Sabre for Christmas '87 (brother got a Lunch Box), which I started racing in Spring and had thoroughly destroyed within a few months - it was mainly held together with string and wire found at the track!. Then me and my brother got Optima Mid Customs in early '88 - didn't get another Tamiya until the Avante 2001 which was sometime in '89 or maybe even early '90.

[Scorchio]

School, Bad clothes, bad hair, acne and puberty. Oh yeah and late addition to this post is SKATEBOARDS spent the entire eighties skateboardig (even when it was'nt cool) all the way into the mid 90s.

got a holiday buggy in mid/late eighties for £30 dreamed of scorchers, got sand rover body for hol bug and put 540 motor 7.2 v humpbacks super champ msc srb font end, then Acid house heppened, lost plot went mad & loved every minute I can remember.[8D]

[richtea78]

quote:I was 13 and i played with my Wild Willy......!

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I was still at school although when I look back on it now dont think that I have grown up any

[cossie3dr]

I remember in '87 going to the International Model Engineer Exhibition and looking at a 959 and a Celica GRB.I came away with the GRB as at the time I didn't like the look of the Porsche (cost me £120,I was only earning £75 pw).One week later the Celica was lovingly built but the front suspension already broken.I never did get the parts to fix it and within 2 weeks gave it to my father.Then came a Blackfoot which lasted much longer but that was it for the next ten years,except for marriage,family,house ect.

[Big Al(2)]

A few friends and I used to race our cars (Hornet, King Cab, Blackfoot, Madcap, and Astute) on these dirt trails behind some houses in my neighborhood. We had 4 battery chargers and we plugged them into the houses electrical outlets to charge our batteries!! I bet these people were wondering why thier electric bill was a bit higher than usual!! We used to race them for about 10 hours a day!! haha! I also remember looking through all of the Tamiya catalogs and just drooling over the Wild One and Bruiser! They were the good ol' days!

[Cavscout]

Geez, in your 30's Bill? Or should I say, Grandpa Wessels?[] Nah, just kidding around Sir, or should I say, Old Timer. Nice to know that it is not just a bunch of young punks messing around at this site. See ya.

Scott

[bruiserbuilder]

well, in the early 1980's I was most likely playing PONG on my Atari or playing Baseball on my brothers Intelevision!

In 1986 I was bashing every penny out of the bruiser that I had worked all summer to purchase.

In 1987 my father surprised my with a brand new Turbo Charged Dodge Shadow coupe!!!!

Needless to say, my Bruiser didn't get used very much once I got my 1:1 car.

In 1989 I was graduated High School.

[GroupCFan]

I got my grasshopper in 1985 for XMAS. Took 2 weeks to build because my dad insisted on building it in his spare time. My mate also got a Grasshopper and we raced those things to death. We always had to one up each other. I got the 540 motor, so he put a motor from a 7.2 volt drill in his. We had a friend with a Marui Super Wheelie. We used the Grasshopper's as battering rams and broke the Supper Wheelie on numerous occasions [}]. I remember I got the 1985 catalog, which I still have, somewhere. I remember looking at the Toyota Hi Lux and F150 for hours. Next car was a Road Wizard. Super fast but the speed control was very brittle. I had one catch fire. I used to race cars up the street. My friend as always one-upped me with the Porsche 956, which was insanely fast. Next I traded the Grasshopper and Road Wizard for a Porsche 959 which I still own. My friend got a Hotshot with the Technipower motor but he was no match for me in speed or handling. That 959 was so much fun. I had a number of battery packs and I would take the car on safari. Finally I had another Road Wizard and a couple of Hotshots

[Shodog]

In 1983 I worked with a shop owner named Gary that sold about everything from Bicycles to skateboards to R/C cars. What ever the fad was at the time, he was there to fill that need. He was an avid model aircraft builder and flyer. I remember he bought a sand scorcher and built it up. The minute I saw it doing donuts in the dirt lot across the street from the shop, I knew I had to have one. For my 13th birthday my parents bought me a frog that was one of Gary's personal cars. It was ready to run. I ran the heck out of it. Probably replaced 4 gear sets before I figured out how to shim the diff so it wouldn't slip and strip. I built up many cars that the shop sold. Mostly Frogs, Hornets, Grasshoppers, Blackfoots, Monster Beetle and RC-10's. Eventually many of the cars came back in various disrepair and I inherited or bought some of them very cheaply. While working at the shop and buying cars at wholesale prices I was able to amass quite a collection. My older brother started to get into it also. By the time I graduated from high school I had about 15 cars. The fad had somewhat wore off and I was on to bigger and better things. I ended up giving the bulk of my collection to my brother. His garage was burglarized and subsequently all of the cars along with his tools were stolen. I only kept two things. An incomplete Hilux chassis and my fox.

[spice]

I got my first proper RC car on Christmas 1984. It was the Tamiya FAV and raced it at least once a week on both a huge dirt field and just outside school.

Soon after getting my FAV I bought and installed a Techigold motor since I was racing against Hornets, Frogs and a few Super Champs mostly and I actually won a few races.

We would each pay out about $5 before the race and winner took all. I remember there were about 30 kids in our school into rc tamiya cars then.

In April of 1985 I bought my second Tamiya which was the Grasshopper, I barely raced it since the handling was appalling.

I still have my original FAV and Grasshopper which I will never ever sell since they are of high sentimental value. []

spice

[oldfordguy]

In the early eighties, I was beginning a lifelong passion for rc airplanes. In mid eighties,we were running a frog, hornet, audi quattro rally, and a big bear. In late eighties, my friends and I were thrashing optimas, royal rippers, a zerda, vanquish, and scratch building competition rc hand launch gliders. Somewhere in there(late) My first real car arrived (81 audi 5000 turbo), and the rc toys took a front seat to girls[] Yeah, I really wanted an audi 4000 quattro coupe, but the 5000 turbo was similar in appearance. Both had a nice front air dam, quad headlights, checherboard interior pattern, and that unmistakeable 5 cylendar turbo hiss growel howel! To this day, I can identify without looking, the sound of a 5 cyl audi. It is the sweetest music to my ears.