My first RC and still my number #1 car
**PLEASE READ THIS** for anyone looking at this model displayed in my showroom and wondering if I will sell it? PLEASE DON’T ASK!!! I get numerous requests from TC members wanting to buy cars displayed in my Tamiyaclub showroom, and to be honest I get very annoyed when people ask to buy something that is clearly NOT FOR SALE!! This car is part of MY COLLECTION and as such I want to KEEP IT!! So please don’t Email on the off chance that I might sell it to you, if I want to sell any of my cars I will put them up for sale in my TRADE ROOM, so look there to see what cars I am prepared to sell otherwise don’t bother asking cos the only answer you will get is NO!!! thanks for reading this disclaimer. Regards wldnas.
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My very first RC car and probably still my favourite has to be my original Kyosho Pegasus, if I recall correctly it was purchased back in late 1986 when I used to live in the nearby town of Rugby.
Back in those days the highlight of my saturday mornings would be to walk up town and call in at my then local Model shop called Moores handicrafts, it was there I first saw this car, it was being sold off cheaper than equivalent Tamiya cars but there was something about the kit that endeared itself to me, I could not afford to buy the car outright so I set up a revolver account with the shop keeper and every week I would take in what money I had and pay it off bit by bit and after months of patient payments I finally paid off the full amount of £42.xx and the car was at long last mine.
However I had just bought the car and had to make further payments (with a little help) before I had the radio, battery and charger, but in the mean time I went about building the thing, and I soon realised why it was being sold off cheap, cos the instructions manual was missing, so I ordered one up and I didn’t get it until long after I had built the car myself and bought the radio to fit, because of this cars extremely simple design I was able to build the car quite easily without the manual, and when I finally got it and checked over my work I found that apart from a few missed out washers I had built the car exactly as the instructions had intended.
I painted the car in its original colours and drove it around for a number of months until at Christmas 1987 where I got my first Tamiya in the shape of a Hornet, as I only had 1 radio set it was removed from the Pegasus and fitted to the Hornet, but as time went on I would swap the radio between cars when I became bored with driving that particular car and fancied a change, my Pegasus was one of the early unmodified types, so it had a number of design flaws that caused me grief one was the front lower upright ball cups would wear and cause the uprights to pop out, the other was the hubs on the front wheels were brittle and eventually broke out of the centre of the wheels.
As time went on I decided to do a minor cosmetic repaint of the car when the body started to get tatty, this involved repainting it black with silver trim and repositioning some of the decals with clear cellotape over them to hold them in place, as I had cut the windows out the roof bars had snapped so I had to secure them with plastic tube glues to the inside, I had also replaced the broken front wheels with white Ultima rims and super glued the tires onto them for extra security, but it was then I lost my interest in RC at about 1990/1 and all my old RC were packed away in the loft, and during the 10+ years they were in storage I did remove to radio gear and speed controller for some abortive Robot wars experimentation in which I managed to lose the original speed controller :(
Over a decade of dark storage did the car no favours and it was in a pretty poor condition when I came to restore it after re-finding my RC interest restored as a RC collector, I then set about restoring what I could of my original car, there were quite a few bits missing and the body was in very poor condition but I soon found a guy who was selling one as part of a large collection of cars and parts in a lot on Ebay, I made him an offer for the Pegasus and he agreed to sell, that became car number 2 and using parts from that I managed to mostly restore my original car, it had a green body which I have used in place of the original and in modifying a Mardave standard mechanical speed controller to fit as replacement for the absent original and that made the car a runner again.
With a new Sanyo 2400mah Racing pack in it the car drove surprisingly well, better than I ever remember it running and for a long time that’s how the car stayed, I’ve since bought 3 more Pegasus cars and a huge pile of spares and from that lot I’ve replaced the mardave controller with an original type taken from the 3rd Red Pegasus, I’ve also fitted a new bumper set and modified original type wheels and taken one of the white bodies off Pegasus #4 touched it up and repositioned some of the decals and made that replacement shell for my number one car.
With all this I’ve now managed to get together a full kit comprising of my original (if slightly battered) kit box, my original restored car, a period Acoms radio, Instructions manual and original Kyosho Pegasus advertisement flyer in Japanese, My Pegasus hasn’t looked this good in years and is still my number 1 car :)
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shoeboy23
my 1st, and favorite too...i am about to restore my old guy. I hope it turns out as nice.
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