R/C Dueling

[AstroVannin(2)]

I was just thinking of the fun we had in public school with our "toy" R/C cars, tycos and the like. We had a big paved aprking lot and used to have demolition derbys. It was just a mele and destruction, somone usualy ended up taking thier car home in a bag, somtimes we all did. What a blast. Anyone else ever do this? Anyone still do it?

[bholio]

I (unintentionally) do this now with my 5 year old son. I try to be careful when I run my tamiya cars, they're too nice, but when I have my traxxas spirit running, anything goes. Usually he drives the Traxxas Stampede.

We break the occasional part, but the Traxxas stuff is readily available, very cheap and easy to find at the LHS. No parts trees, just buy the indivdual broken part.

[AstroVannin(2)]

I agree that vintage Tamiyas are too nice to smash. However, by installing an old radio into a "toy" car you can create an awesome dueler and not worry about its total destruction. Just get another from a yard sale.

[Shodog]

Yes I love doing this, I like to use my hilux and mountaineer as the metal chassis's hold up better than the plastic when you smash them together. Just the other day I was playing monster jam by driving my mountaineer over my sand scorcher. It was cool how the A pillars crushed on the scorcher body. Just like how real cars do. Then I cut up the box top from my NIB scorcher and used it fo a jump for my porsche 935. You should have seen it when it landed, there were body parts everywhere.[}]

Actually tycos and nikkos are great for bashing. They are made for kids and such usually have some sizable bumpers on them. I have a tyco 6x6 scorcher that is a blast to drive. My Tyco mcgrath motorcycle has taken some pretty big jumps. I have driven my tyco hovercraft on a river. I accidently hit my sons nikko truck with my tmaxx. The nikko truck didn't win. I don't intentionally try to thrash things. Sometimes it just happens

Jim

[urban warrior]

Jim !!!

You are cruel !!! Muhahaha !!!

Regards

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[TamiyaBeaterFleet]

Did things like that in school all the time.

Demo Derbys with tycos ended up with kids crying and me boasting proudly about my clodbuster.

The school used to let us bring in our rcs and do it up at recess,

but soon after the clodbuster maulings they brought a stop to it.

(i guess i ruined it for everyone).

[volksrod68]

me and my ex-mate used to run our tamiya's at his house when we were like 10 yrs old, about 9 years ago.

i had a mudblaster, he had a lunchbox, and if you have ever seen the freestyle sessions at a monster truck show, you will know how we treated these trucks.

big ramps, head on collisions, great fun.

if they broke we were happy.

now i have grown up slightly, and have a bit more respect, if you can call it that.

blondiniboy will tell you how roughly i treated my old fg marder, must have been 10 foot in the air off a massive 'ramp' , landed nose down into solid quarry surface.

bent the chassis and broke the front suspension in loads of places.

ah well thats retired now and i have a new one.

[Shodog]

My thought is this, If I can go down to my LHS and buy parts for it, I will run the heck out of it. If parts are scarce, I either run it with a lot of respect or leave it on the shelf as a display.

Many of the parts on my T-maxx and Nitro RS4 have been replaced from mishaps

[SJoerD]

I actaully never mash up all my cars, certainly not intentionally... Not even when I was younger actually... [] When I first had my car, I was already focussing on in-out-in and slow in-fast out cornering techniques etc. etc.!!! [8D]

I always treat all my stuff with the greatest care. [^] now that I mention it, I never replaced a part on any of my cars because of a crash! [] [:0]

[DJTheo]

quote:now that I mention it, I never replaced a part on any of my cars because of a crash!

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YOu propably never had a car with a SRB front bumper then [][]

[SJoerD]

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quote:now that I mention it, I never replaced a part on any of my cars because of a crash!

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YOu propably never had a car with a SRB front bumper then [

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Nope... My Holiday Buggy was ran very little and only vey slowly and doesn't have a bumper. Neither does my Sand Rover and that is yet not even in runable condition... []

Haven't have time to run my Sand Scorcher yet. (which has a broken bumper) And actually nowhere to run off-road around here... [V]

[rc-martin]

quote:blondiniboy will tell you how roughly i treated my old fg marder, must have been 10 foot in the air off a massive 'ramp' , landed nose down into solid quarry surface.

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I'm cringing now thinking about it! It did look good though for that split second before it took a nose dive straight into the ground!

Soniq and me had a bit of a destruction derby latley as well, his mint Wild Willy v's my mint Wild One head on. Lets just say Ray Lynch came off better than poor Willy.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom.asp?id=130' rel="external nofollow"> Run em' till you wreck em'

[BiggusDitchus]

LOL, Tamiyas not good for demolition derby's we race banger racing now and again at my rc club... our weapon of choice is the mardave v12

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[DerAlex]

I liked jumping over fire with Monster Beetle and Midnight Pumpkin when I was a kid.

Did you know that Midnight can swim .... I accidently drove into a deep hole when we were playing at a construction side - I didn't know the hole filed with muddy water was so deep []

[mr_pushrod]

Before I started collecting seriously, I bought a Bush Devil off a mate complete for £20 (still have it!). He had thrashed it and it only seemed logical for me to do the same as I was buying cars to drive. I went through a period of launching the car off steps, culminating in a 15 foot drop. By the end, the car was held together in places with cable ties (still is although I have recently bought some new bits) and with a shredded spur gear (replaced). I even recorded a video of it being launched off some steps at my old school, although you can ask sjoerd about that

[Spacemate]

Back in the 80's there used to be a cheap RC Grasshopper look-a-like called the Jet Hopper in Australia. I have one and it used to get a pummeling. I drove it off stairs, watching it bounce down the bricks to the bottom, smash it into things, nearly anything. And it still went. Haven't used it for years, the poor thing.

Meanwhile the Sand Scorcher is driven like a million dollar Rolls Royce ("A bit of gravel in the way? Better swerve around it [] )

[mr_lister999.]

quote:Meanwhile the Sand Scorcher is driven like a million dollar Rolls Royce ("A bit of gravel in the way? Better swerve around it )

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You must have to swerve early then, a good few yards before you get to that piece of gravel. Got to love the srb's though!