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While rumaging round in a box of old rc stuff i bought, i found this screwed up in the bottom. I was wondering if this is the same Tamiya Club as this, or a completely different early club? Were any current TC member also in this early club, and did any of you take part in the Tamiya challenge?

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looks like its pre internet? Probably still had to have a post office licence to use radio

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4 minutes ago, Busdriver said:

looks like its pre internet? Probably still had to have a post office licence to use radio

Oh good old days when you got ya magazine and spent ages combining through it page by page and clubs like the old tamiya one you actually got stuff through the post (membership number, stickers, club mag, )😍👍 that's what kept that passion alive because you had to physically and manually look for stuff............don't care what anyone say that was the good days for rc!, Indecently a few month ago I was have a meal in a pub in the middle of a journey I was doing and looking at the address at the bottom of the menu it was bugging me how the address rang a bell so to speak🤔 then it hit me weeks later (when I wasn't even thinking about it) it was two doors down from the 13-15A high street hemel Hempstead that was on all the tamiya boxes back in the 70-80s😁 just wished I thought of it when I was there I'd have looked to see what's occupying the address now?

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If I remember Ill have a look. I drive a bus in and around Hemel

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1 hour ago, Busdriver said:

looks like its pre internet? Probably still had to have a post office licence to use radio

I think its probably from the 1980s, so it would certainly be before the internet as we know it today, and the fact it asks you to send a large stamped addressed envelope it a bit of a giveaway. It must have had quite a few members though, the membership number on this letter is 7216.  I wonder if Richard Kohnstam the man is still around?

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Not the same club. However Chris May have had this name when he started this message board. 

There was an older message board named Roby’s old Tamiya database. Something was happening to it and it was going away and this club started as an off shoot of it. 

I used to be member 34

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Richard Kohnstam was the local distributor, all the Tamiya kit boxes I have from the '80's have the RICO sticker on them, happy times  ; )

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4 hours ago, Shodog said:

Not the same club. However Chris May have had this name when he started this message board. 

There was an older message board named Roby’s old Tamiya database. Something was happening to it and it was going away and this club started as an off shoot of it. 

I used to be member 34

As far i can remember, roby's board ran parallel for a short while  , then most people moved over to *here*  ( when it was still co.uk ? )

In -the early days- it was quite commen to cross-link to the board of roby for information.

( i tried to dig it up with wayback machine, but i keep ending up on a very ... dead copy )  

That database used to be quite extensive.  

 

 

... feels old ...

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3 hours ago, KING_TUBBY said:

Richard Kohnstam was the local distributor, all the Tamiya kit boxes I have from the '80's have the RICO sticker on them, happy times  ; )

RIKO was their logo.

Also a typo in 1st para... 

10 hours ago, junkmunki said:

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that letterhead would've been no earlier than ~1984 with the Hotshot.

Whereas the LP500 & JPS would've been late 70s. 

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Funny how we’re now nostalgic for the early days of the internet. :D  Is it really that long ago?...

:blink: It’s been 20 years of eBay for me, this year. Crikey.

I did visit “Robysoldtamiya”, but my personal fave early Tamiya websites were:

- Hiro’s RC Collector’s Page. I used to visit this almost daily around 1999-2001, to try to buy stuff (you had to email him and hope you were first! Then go the post office and mail him a Western Union Money Order). 2 years later, your stuff arrived.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000226175856/http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~hirofact/HOME.html

Pics are gone on this next link, but I bet I bought that Grasshopper. And how about a NIB Monster Racer for US$247? Shows you what prices were like when online trade sprang to life. Before all the old stock was snapped up and they began to soar...

http://web.archive.org/web/20000604045551/http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~hirofact/NIB.html

- Tamiya R/C Collector’s Site, Alex Jung. Who was once a member here also, and also published a little magazine about vintage Tamiya... before giving it all away and disappearing. 

http://web.archive.org/web/20010604065948/http://www.toyexchange.addr.com/tamiya.html

- And of course, Darryn’s site full of NIB kits that always amazed me for how **** quickly he had accumulated this stash.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010811133431/http://www.darrynsretrorc.20m.com/index.html

H.

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On 5/6/2019 at 6:28 PM, Hibernaculum said:

Funny how we’re now nostalgic for the early days of the internet. :D  Is it really that long ago?...

- And of course, Darryn’s site full of NIB kits that always amazed me for how **** quickly he had accumulated this stash.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010811133431/http://www.darrynsretrorc.20m.com/index.html

H.

Hahahha - it took me decades!! 🧐

 

 

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On 5/5/2019 at 10:24 AM, Busdriver said:

If I remember Ill have a look. I drive a bus in and around Hemel

I live in Boxmoor and its not been there for at least 20 years.

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