Your first Tamiya

[El Gecko]

8 minutes ago, Wooders28 said:

a while back -

Indeed it has been awhile. Long enough for you to forget our discussion on the previous pages of that thread

[Wooders28]

4 minutes ago, El Gecko said:

Indeed it has been awhile. Long enough for you to forget our discussion on the previous pages of that thread

Just read it back, how could I forget...🤦‍♂️🤣

[J@mes]

In 1987 The Hornet was my 1st 

[nel33]

the money pit known as the TT02D GTR R33 body shell. put 3-4 recent kits worth of money into that one chassis with spare rims tires, body, spare parts trees. i also just sunk another $36 into buying 2 sets of tires so i can replicate Mako/Sayuki's Initial D sileighty body and rims... i got plenty of stuff for that one kit and i dont drive it much lately...

its all the quarantine's fault, wasnt able to go to the arcade to drive my wine red R33 on maximum tune 5. the logical choice i made after talking with coworker also into RC was to replicate that GTR to something i can drive whenever i want and not play the game in one location. still go to the arcades to this point but this tt02 let me fall into the rabbit hole...

[joeling]

My first Tamiya was purchased at the end of 1985. The one and only HotShot ! Totally smitten by it. No racing where I was at the time. Just some bashing downstairs in the public area of the condominium. Did a restoration last year or was it this year ? Getting old.

Old girl from 1985

 

Restored

[Zealot]

1 hour ago, J@mes said:

In 1987 The Hornet was my 1st 

I'll second that.

[Super ally]

My first was the fox,bought second hand from a member in a model plane club i was in back in 87 or 88 i think it was.My dad bought my brother the falcon from another member first so it was the first i got to use.I then built a hornet and blackfoot soon after that.Still have all these still but only the fox is able to run.

[Mad Zero]

This old VLB was my first Tamiya, it’s in the loft atm but it’s still a runner. I bought it late 80s I think just because it looked cool, I ran 1/8 circuit cars at the time so this was something of an antidote..

 

..it always had the alternative paint scheme  because I didn’t like the yellow but the innards evolved over time to include a 5th shock in place of the brittle pivot springs, standard shocks to preserve the bouncy handling (I already had cars that handle), the wheelie bar wheel was replaced with a ballrace, the motor died & got replaced with a slightly warmer one, cable ties on the spring rods to lower it slightly & take out the camber on the front and I replaced the steering arms with Losi Mini-T ones which stayed put longer. The chip above the screen was made by my toddler son (now 18) driving it flat out into a bicycle his sister was riding.. long story short I eventually got rid of both children but kept the VLB. 

[Saito2]

This is my Lunch Box freshly built with zero miles on her shot with my mom's old Kodak Instamatic. IIRC, I was even allowed to use one of the "prized" flash cubes to get the shot. I added my "Wild Mini" Lunch Box Jr. to the pic at the last moment as I had collected many (if not most) of them before finally acquiring an RC Tamiya. I was so happy and proud. The Lunchie seemed so big and "grown up" compared to the Nikkos I had prior.

I still have both today. Since I now own a fleet of Clod Busters, the Lunchie doesn't seem quite so big anymore. The RC version has a ton of miles on it now. It was (poorly) repainted and re-stickered back when the re-re came out in the 2000s but the rest of it is the same. I'm working on tracking down the original radio gear (Airtronics Vector stick radio) that's buried in my collection of parts to reinstall in it. I might even take it for a spin, MSC and all. Its probably aged better than me.

 

[GazzaRose]

My first Tamiya was also my first R , although I have got a really vague memory of one of those terrible wired remote control cars that would go straight forward and turn left as they reversed! I think it was Xmas 92ish, and waiting for me on Xmas morning was a Bush Devil complete with a NiCad that lasted all of 10mins! The body didn't last much longer! It got a bit abandoned as I moved on to a nitro Traxxs truck and a boat, then left RC behind for 20+ yrs and bar a couple of parts has been lost to time and the various clean outs of my dad's shed over the last 3 decades. I've now got a few Tamiyas, a Tt01, TL01, Dt03, a Lunchbox that I built this weekend and a Df03 that I'll hopefully build this week and I've got a new Bush Devil body and stickers that I'm hoping to mate up with a chassis at some point so I can hang it on the wall and stare at it!