FUGLIEST cars ever - YOUR FINAL 10 PLEASE!

[RETRO R/C]

One of the main reasons I am doing this is to improve the profile of the club as well........it is a "swings and roundabouts" type of thing..........more people read the mag and subscribe to it - more people find out about the club.......you know what I mean.

Cheers

Darryn

[Stefan(2)]

Can i vote under diffrent names ?

vote rigging! lol

sorry, quite bored... switching over from night->day shift/life.. lol ..

i want to sleep! but i can't .... but i want to... ehhmm...

never mind

Stefan

[Old Busted Hotness]

i'm just waiting for Tamiya to build the Fugliest Buggy of all time.

they already have the molds for the body and have could easily re-release the chassis.

they could drop a Bullhead body onto the Frog chassis and call it the Bullfrog.

you gotta admit, THAT would be fugly.

as for the top 10, maybe some pics would help get more votes from us "great unwashed"? not all of us can tell the difference between a Sonic Fighter and a Mad Fighter (or a Bull Fighter?) from memory...

[andyhall_bn]

Now then..play nicely! There's NOTHING wrong with the Sonic Fighter (apart from the styrene chassis that always broke just behind the front suspension mounts unless you boiled the chassis) I used to race one with a Range Rover bodyshell and a Kyosho (SPIT) Optima Turbo wing on, and used to beat Meteors and Topcat's every now and again. And that was indoors on pinspikes! PS If anyone has a Sonic Fighter up for sale, let me know!

[Wandy]

Well if I had my way it would be:-

1) Cox Bandito

2) Cox Bandito

3) Cox Bandito

4) Cox Bandito

5) Cox Bandito

6) Cox Bandito

7) Cox Bandito

8) Cox Bandito

9) Cox Bandito

10) Cox Bandito

...but since I dont make the rules then :-

1) Cox Bandito (surprise!)

2) Tamiya Bullhead ( a chopped up truck cab on monster wheels..whaaaaattt??!!)

3) Tamiya Fighter Buggy (did they run out of lexan that year or summat???!!)

4) Tamiya Saint Dragon (see above!)

5) Nichimo Luminous (looks really nice...after downing copious amounts of LSD)

6) Tamiya Sonic Fighter (a collection of Mr Tamiya's waste parts bin perhaps???!!)

7) Aristocraft Kangaroo (would be really impressive..if it could do hops and hold mini Aristocraft Kangaroos in its pouch)

8) Tamiya Manta Ray (Conversation overheard at Tamiya HQ - "I know...lets drive a real size car over the middle of this buggy..and we'll call it the Manta Ray!")

9) Tamiya Striker (Is it a bird, is it a plane..actually what the badword is it??? It's a Tamiya Striker!!)

10) Traxxas TRX-1. (The most pointless use of Lexan in the history R/C???)

[boogyloop]

Anything by Tyco

Give's me shivers thinking about em,

and anything from that shop em the one that was like Maplins i forget the name now.

[RETRO R/C]

Thanks for all those have taken the time to vote, however I think it unlikely that I will get the article up and running with this few votes on the final 12....

Sincere thanks to all those who have contributed.

Cheers

Darryn

[Scorcher Champ]

That's a shame Darryn. I would have loved to see the article make it. I can't believe out of the hundreds who viewed this thread, only a hand full voted.[V]

[ukzz4iroc]

Hi mate.

We need a proper poll thingy on this forum. Have asked before but it would make this sort of thing far easier and fun.

Antway here goes, hope you can still do the article []

1) COX BANDITO

2) TAMIYA STRIKER

3) TAMIYA BULL HEAD

4) HI-TEC / ARISTOCRAFT "KANGAROO"

5) TAMIYA FIGHTER BUGGY

6) NICHIMO LUMINOUS

7) TAMIYA "THUNDER" 4WD SERIES

8) SONIC FIGHTER

9) TAMIYA SAINT DRAGON (2WD)

10) TAMIYA BUSH DEVIL

Cheers Darryn.

Felix

[gothcat]

Anything by Tyco

Give's me shivers thinking about em,

and anything from that shop em the one that was like Maplins i forget the name now.

TANDY in the UK

Radio Shack in the USA

And Maplins is about the same

[HomerJHandley]

Holy thread revival batman

[gothcat]

Holy thread revival batman

Joys of been stuck at work

[lucasan]

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wild one

these are the most ugly buggys ive ever seen and there all tamiyas sorry to all the fans of the wild one but its a realy realy ugly buggy

pete

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I disagree with you also Pete. The Wildone was the last of the realistic buggies. With a little effort they can look really cool. I have some really cool plans for mine.

I second that. I love the exposed roll cage look. For me, one of the best looking buggies Tamiya ever released

[merckx]

holiday buggy.

well, perhaps more specifically, its driver.

who let the village people guy drive it!

[kstar]

no competition without these:

Playtron / Multiplex MB 500 K

kyosho bomber

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...79&id=21824

kyosho raider:

the one in the middle.

kyosho big boss:

ugly stickers.

there are more out there....

....but I just don't wanna know.

[Sayer]

Anything by Tyco

Give's me shivers thinking about em,

and anything from that shop em the one that was like Maplins i forget the name now.

I heartily disagree with all of my heart.

[pikachoo-75]

I dont consider any Tamiya ugly..as in "so ugly the tide wouldnt take it out" ugly.

but to choose a Tamiya it would have to be the Fighter buggy RX/Rookie Rabbit

Its not offensive ugly...its just too odd?

the car looks like it should be short..then they remembered it had to have a rolling live axle at the back...it just looks stuck on?

add the comic decals (i know its aimed at kids...kids who like weird rabbits?) and the box art shouts WEIRDO

i am cleansed...

[30cms]

no competition without these:

Playtron / Multiplex MB 500 K

ha haaaaa!

what a car. the wheels. the merc badge.

i want one!

[kstar]

Good luck, they are pretty rare. that one belongs to Tc member Tobbe70.

more pics can be found here.

[Hibernaculum]

Yeah in the early 80s, there were a few strange attempts to blend vintage car styles with buggies. That one is the most disturbing.

A couple of toys I've seen over the years.

A hideous 1990s re-release of the fairly nice 1987 Atcomi Beetle in my Avatar...

And the Taiyo Raccoon...a sort of Landcruiser mutant with 6 wheels.

[B.M.T.]

That Jeep is lolworthy.

Anyway. my top 10 as the D-man requests:

10. CC01 Jeep - Looks like it's gone into a gutter at 80km/h and driven the front axle back a foot.

9. Ishipa Monster - That is what happens when you use a chassis from one car and a body off a totally different one.

8. Monogram Lightning - Cross breed of a Hotshot and an inflatable house brick

7. Royal Ripper - The roof is for the rear monoshock. I'll just sit out front and chauffeur it from here.

6. Royal Crusher, Varicom Big Grizzly and all of the Kyosho Tracker fun cars... When you can jump a race buggy over the chassis and not clip the bottom of the bodyshell, YOUR DOING IT WRONG!!!!

5. Panda Pandamonium - You are supposed to wear a Powerdrome, not drive it around by remote control.

4. Yokomo Dogfighter - That's where I left my helmet visor.

3. Kyosho USA1 electric version - Body wheelbase 11", chassis wheelbase 9 3/4"

2. Kyosho Gallop/Progress - Obviously inspired by a roadside wreck seen in Mad Max 2

1. Madcap - Hideous with the body on or off

[30cms]

nice chassis, but the looks are ruined by the woeful body. maybe some speed holes would save it . . . .

[highflyer]

nice chassis, but the looks are ruined by the woeful body. maybe some speed holes would save it . . . .

Saw this coming. That body looks awful .. What kind of mystical spirit/god is the Zahhak?? A Dragon?

[DCLXVI]

Something like that, Persian mythical dragon-something....

[Static Age]

I think that body could be saved with a decent paint job, clear windows & a driver. Looks more like a proper buggy than most modern RC's do.