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[Subculture]

In all honesty, unless you have your heart set on a Tamiya car, if you want a monster truck style vehicle, I would look at Thunder Tiger, HPI, Losi etc.

The build quality and design are much better than Tamiya cars. Tamiya do really nice scale details for there vehicles, they've never been bettered in that respect, but the engineering aspects of the cars are not so refined.

[grendel]

I collected these the first time round, sand scorcher and other buggys, great fun racing the sand scorcher when a wheel comes off.
Grendel

[Martin (Admin)]

I've had a Tamiya Toyota HiLux it sold for £700 Tera scorcher and a Mad Bull

.... do Tamiya or Kyosho do build your own kits any more?

[Subculture]

Tamiya still supply their range as kits. Kyosho appear to have gone more for the RTR market.

[essex2visuvesi]

The holy grail for Tamiya collectors
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RC-Tamiya-Porsche-934-935-KITs-2WD-Cars-NEW-NIB-1976-1977-RA1201-RA1202-/151079596739?ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123


Bloody good price for unbuilt kits as well! But I would have thought he would have made better money if he split them

[Subculture]

Good grief. Could probably get a real one for not much more!

[essex2visuvesi]

http://www.teamassociated.com/news/latest_products/1157-_Make_History_Again_with_the_RC10_Classic





Team Associated are re-releasing the RC10 from 1985
Anyone who was raing in the mid 80's either had or wanted one of these so should sell well.... looks like it will be about $250
Got mine pre ordered :)

[Subculture]

It was cars like that along with the Schumacher CAT, Yokohamas, high end Kyosho's which pushed the off-roading scene into a different league, both technically and in terms of price.

It prompted my departure from model cars as a hobby, and I went back to boats, where creativity was valued more than the size of a wallet. Just couldn't race on any competitive level with a basic Tamiya car against things like that, and the price of those cars was way out of my league at the time. I think the hobby ate itself in many ways with spiralling costs.

Thankfully the technology matured, and you can now get a car of fantastic spec ready to run for about eighty quid. The Thunder Tiger Phoenix line look great value IMO.

[essex2visuvesi]

It was cars like that along with the Schumacher CAT, Yokohamas, high end Kyosho's which pushed the off-roading scene into a different league, both technically and in terms of price.

I quite agree, I was racing competitively at club level with a Tamiya Superchamp in the early 80's and like you said then came the RC10 etc and it all started getting too expensive for a schoolboy on pocket money.  The local club did try to cater for us pocket money racers by creating a new race class with restrictions on buget, model, motors, batteries etc which worked for a few seasons but I moved on to other things, still dabbling with RC cars but only for fun.

[Subculture]

At the club I used to go to, which was in Chingford, there was no stock class. It was just completely unrestricted. Had there been some attempt at a stock class, it may have kept my interest.

I think the only car that Tamiya developed that really was competitive, albeit for a short time, was the Brat/Frog chassis. With dampers fitted on the front suspension and a decent motor, they gave the Scorpions and Hirobos a good run for their money.

I always had the most cars in the Tamiya line. Had a Sand Rover, which I loved, but basically wore out with use, and spares availability back then wasn't always great (pre-internet). This was replaced with a Grasshopper, which was an improvement with an enclosed gearbox and differential, but handling wasn't the cars strong point, and I always missed the beach buggy looks of the Rover. Both cars were upgraded with a 540 motor.

[Howard]

My local model shop has a big yellow dump truck 1:20 I think bow front is so faded so must of had it a bit often wonderd if a should buy it.
                                   Regards Howard.

[essex2visuvesi]

My local model shop has a big yellow dump truck 1:20 I think bow front is so faded so must of had it a bit often wonderd if a should buy it.
                                   Regards Howard.

Sent you a PM re this