why do we love vintage

[speedfreak(2)]

just wondering, why does everyone love tamiya re-releases. are we just funding mr tamiya while he continues to get rich off 20 yr old ideas while companies like losi make way superior machines like the xxx4 and us tamiya fans are stuck paying crazy prices for ancient cars like the hornet. just my opinion, but would like to hear what others think. and mr tamiya if your reading please make something new and technologically advanced (competitive buggies would do)to keep those who have been buying your cars for many years happy

[Big Al(2)]

I think the old old saying goes, "They just don't make em' like they used to!" I love the vintage kits because they were more complex, had many metal parts, were packaged better, and they bring back many childhood memories. The modern kits of today are made of mostly plastic. I still like the modern kits but there was more variety with the vintage kits.

[spannerboy]

i lve how life like the old kits are, if you look at a mountaineer or bruiser compared to say, a tamiya hummer or ford f150, the detail in the chassis and drivetrain is amazing, things like free wheeling front hubs and a 3 speed manual 2wd/4wd gearbox that you just dont get on modern cars.

[TamiyaBeaterFleet]

Simple , Because we grew up with them !

[Badboy]

Because they looks like real cars (most of them)

Everything in scale to the rest of the parts...

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New buggys is like a small thing with big wheels(?)

Doesn´t apeal to me at all!!!

I like the SRB because the looks real to me!!!

[kontemax]

Time is a great gentleman, people. He decides what's good and what isn't.

Over the good things he doesn't work. The good things remain beautifull forever. No way for the other ones.

Max

[robster959]

I love them because they're as close to a scale model as you can get as far as radio control goes. It's also because they are just plain nice. Obviously the newer cars perform better in every measurable respect. Speed, weight, handling... but there's nothing really nice about them. They are simply driving machines. It's kind of like comparing a civic and Ferrari. Sure you can make the civic faster and bettery handling than a Ferrari, but the detail and quality isn't there.

[CLODBUSTERS]

crazy prices??hmm are you crazy?you call $85 at tower hobbies for a new lunchbox kit alot of money,a frog for $139,these prices are great for this one of a kind fun toys,vintage tamiya kits are the best period,how can you not love a blackfoot monster beetle lunchbox and a clodbuster?they are my favorite 4

[CLODBUSTERS]

speedfreak how old are you?where you around in the 80s?me being 35yo i was 16 yo in 1986-87,im sure most that love the kits from back then are over 30 yo,if your just a kid then i can understand

[backtomyroots]

hey speeedfreak, I for one am very pleased with the re-releases as I grew up with those vehicles. The problem was back then I couldn't afford them, now that I'm an adult with my own payroll it is great that I can relive those memories now that I can afford them. The vehicles of yester-year were not all meant for competition, they were a pleasure to build and great fun. I would venture to say most people on this site don't race at the competition level but enjoy these rides as a hobby. If I want to race then I'll buy a race specific chassis. If I want to feel like a kid again, I'll buy that re-release [].

[btsai]

As long as they make them a little more "robust". I keep putting money into my 20 year old Monster Beetle. Sure wish the diff/dogbones/axle set up was stronger/wore better...

[lester]

I think TAMIYABEATERFLEET hit the nail on the head "Simple , Because we grew up with them !" my first car was a HB back in 1980 and I bought another last week for that very reason.

[Dephcon5]

Why? I like them for various reasions. Mostly because the vintage cars were very realistic to the 1:1 counterparts. My favorite is the Countach which is a very realistic looking model. The HPI RS4 nitro with a 200mm countach shell is ok and will run circles around the original tamiya countach in every way, but 58008 looks better on the shelf and in the street. Restoring an original takes time and money but the sense of acomplishment from a job completed is awesom. A re-release gives some of us the ability to "almost" own a piece of that history with fewer expenses and headaches. My Wild Willy 2 gives me a guilt free nostalgic feeling when running by bringing me back to my early teen years. I race on weekends sometimes and use more modern cars to do so, but for the fun of vintage a re-release is hard to beat. I restored a 1967 Shelby for the same reason, even though the new cars have A/C, better brakes and definately get better fuel economy. How many people say "nice car" to me when driving my A4? No one.

The old Tamiyas had a personality and a character others simply do not have.

[MISFITS]

Why? its simple, lets face it most of us in the hobby are backyard bashers. True a Losi or Associated buggy will outperform my Tamiya on the race track anyday but you just cant compare the two. I would rather see my hornet shoot a 10 ft rooster tail of dirt across my yard than some mega buck losi buggy hook up and go.

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

i think the re-release kits are cool!!!

i'm "only" 19, so i obviously never saw these old kits the first time around, well at least not when they were new.

my first ever tamiya experience came when my dad bought me a clod buster and a monster beetle from my cousin, about 6 years ago. for quite a while i never new tamiya were even still making cars! not until i went into a hobby shop hunting for some pinion gears.

so i guess becuase my first ever "true" rc was a vintage tamiya, i'm kind of attached to the older models.

but i think all tamiya kits have good engineering and good design. sure lots of the new stuff isn't as inspiring as a sand scorcher, but tamiya have still created some very nice vehicals in recent years.

the detail of the 1/14 tractor trucks is amazing. i was lucky enough to see loads of them in action at a truck show this year and the detail of the bodies and the chassis was amazing [8D]

i got a tamiya txt-1 for xmas this year. the quality of the duralumin (its not aluminium, its a harder alloy [8D]) chassis sides is amazing. the truck performs so realisticly and looks very true to scale.

its definatly not a 20 year old idea []

i'd really like to see what tamiya come up with for the txt-1s replacment in years to come, whatever it turns out to be i'll definatly want one lol []

but in the same way i'd also like a re release frog, as i like the retro look of it, and because it would look really nice on the shelf next to my monster beetle []

[MikeT]

TamiyaBeaterFleet Posted - 26 Dec 2005 : 11:17:57

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Simple , Because we grew up with them !

Fair enough, the older ones on here may have.. ( No Offence Lads/Lasses )

But the reason that i bought the Tamiya Grasshopper Re-Release is because they have CHARACTER, the new cars are bland, the bodies are lexan blobs.. The old tamiya cars, the Styrene shells are beautiful, the metal chassis'd cars, HAD CHARACTER, they may not handle perfectly, but thats the thrill of a vintage car nowadays.

I'm only 15, and i have Purchased a Tamiya Ford F150 Ranger XLT From Ebay Today.. I'd much rather have that than an Xray T2. Or a HPI PRO4. Or a Associated TC4.

I think i speak for most people when i say it's that the pld cars had, character, but i can understand what your saying when the older ones ( people pushin' 30 ) grew up with them when they were a kid, waking up on their 13th Birthday for example, with a NIB Sand Scorcher, and Period Acoms Radio, and their Hump Pack Battery, and a Fast Charger that they had recieved.

But the appeal for me is simply their character.

Thanks

Mike