RE: Tamiya Toyota Hilux: Time For Tea?
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Davey S2 said:
That's the last one I had. No idea where it is though. I suspect it was thrown out as it didnt work (but only a few parts needed to get it going again).
Will need to check my parents loft next time I'm there.
That's exctly what I did, rescued it from my parents loft. Wasn't quite sure why it didn't work when it went into hibernation in about 1989, but I swapped out a few gearbox parts, fully ball-raced it and added oil dampers, all all available from ebay. Goes like a dream with the original mechanical Speed controller, motor and radio gear, I just added a new high mAh battery.Will need to check my parents loft next time I'm there.
And that's when I started looking at Re-Releases and bought the Egress...
Just shows what impression those incredibly well designed models and catalogues had on us back in the day - like class A drugs. We got addicted and Tamiya keep supplying the demand as we now get older and have more money.
when i was about 5, my dad got me a 2nd hand tamiya frog. it had a demon motor and my first go saw it shooting across teh garden and into the hedge within about half a second. even burning my thumb on the resistors on the side didn't put me off.
later, i got a schumacher cougar 2 works, but i never managed to get the slippy diff right and burnt out all the ball races.
last year, i bought a spare cougar 2 to rebuild my old one, but i'll probably turn it into a truck, and restore the frog to it's former glory. difficult to find an old one to salvage all the bits from tho without spending over £100.
later, i got a schumacher cougar 2 works, but i never managed to get the slippy diff right and burnt out all the ball races.
last year, i bought a spare cougar 2 to rebuild my old one, but i'll probably turn it into a truck, and restore the frog to it's former glory. difficult to find an old one to salvage all the bits from tho without spending over £100.
I had a Tamiya Hornet for Christmas when I was 12. My old man and me built it on the dining room table. It had a hard life, and I remember getting b
ked when asking Pops to buy me new tyres. I ended up cracking the tub jumping it down a big flight of stairs, and had to sell it for parts to a local RC shop as he refused to pay for any more parts.
I now have two sons ages 10 and 11, and bought a HPI Wheelie King about 6 years ago, so my sons could have a go *ahem*. I heavily modified it spending about £150 on bits, and then sold it on Ebay, in favour of a new HPI E-Savage. I barely used it, and sold it last summer.
I'm going to buy a Traxxas VXL in the Spring.
ked when asking Pops to buy me new tyres. I ended up cracking the tub jumping it down a big flight of stairs, and had to sell it for parts to a local RC shop as he refused to pay for any more parts. I now have two sons ages 10 and 11, and bought a HPI Wheelie King about 6 years ago, so my sons could have a go *ahem*. I heavily modified it spending about £150 on bits, and then sold it on Ebay, in favour of a new HPI E-Savage. I barely used it, and sold it last summer.
I'm going to buy a Traxxas VXL in the Spring.
My Evil Twin said:
Whats a good starter RC for me my 7 and 5yo boys
Mostly to be played with in a grass garden and our tarmac road.
either a kit to build or a 2nd hand one off fleabay..
I'd be tempted to suggest the Tamiya Lunchbox (if they're still available). Bought one for my oldest a few years back (he was 9 at the time) and it has been utterly brilliant. Handling is pretty lousy, but it is huge fun to drive around. Full speed reverse to full speed forward results in the blighter flipping onto its roof.Mostly to be played with in a grass garden and our tarmac road.
either a kit to build or a 2nd hand one off fleabay..
Edited by My Evil Twin on Friday 31st October 13:48
The detail on this model is fantastic, if only they carried on making them out of metal rather than the weaker plastics. The gearbox blows me away on these !
I started out with a Tamiya thundershot in the 90's. Coudlnt afford to keep repairing it as a kid - pre internet days so buying parts was a bh ! I've had some ta03f pro's and now a ta06 pro with carbon chassis - brilliant with 2s lipo in and fast as hell. One thing has always bothered me about tamiya, theyre not made out of the best materials and break quite easily, then as go to repair it you end up spending a small fortune getting it running again.
I made the move to losi last yaer and bought a losi scte trophy truck which has been INDESTRUCTABLE, ive smashed it over road jumps, into walls - nothings broken apart from the lexan shell which is stapled together at the moment. A friend has the petrol Losi 5ive which is almost as indestructible but doesnt have the zip that a 3s battery offers !
Move to losi if you're serious about bashing !
I started out with a Tamiya thundershot in the 90's. Coudlnt afford to keep repairing it as a kid - pre internet days so buying parts was a b
h ! I've had some ta03f pro's and now a ta06 pro with carbon chassis - brilliant with 2s lipo in and fast as hell. One thing has always bothered me about tamiya, theyre not made out of the best materials and break quite easily, then as go to repair it you end up spending a small fortune getting it running again.I made the move to losi last yaer and bought a losi scte trophy truck which has been INDESTRUCTABLE, ive smashed it over road jumps, into walls - nothings broken apart from the lexan shell which is stapled together at the moment. A friend has the petrol Losi 5ive which is almost as indestructible but doesnt have the zip that a 3s battery offers !
Move to losi if you're serious about bashing !
Had a Hornet back in the day, a reward for doing well at school I think. As has been said already the pleasure was in building it, and I agree that it probably taught a generation more about cars than any TV programme did. Turning one back wheel and seeing the other go the other way and working out that it was due to the differential (that I'd had to make myself) was a revelation.
Mate of mine at the time had a Hotshot, and I lusted after a Hotshot II but must've been a bad boy or something because I never got it.
Mate of mine at the time had a Hotshot, and I lusted after a Hotshot II but must've been a bad boy or something because I never got it.
0836whimper said:
Just shows what impression those incredibly well designed models and catalogues had on us back in the day - like class A drugs. We got addicted and Tamiya keep supplying the demand as we now get older and have more money.
I helped my old man shift some stuff in their garage a few weeks ago. He has my old pine wardrobe from when I was a kid in there just for storing general garage cr@p in. There are about a dozen pictures of Tamiya cars selotaped to the side which I cut out of the catalogue when I was about 10.
I was bought a Hornet as a kid. Then one Christmas me and Dad built a Tamiya Beetle. I remember Dad had to go away on business and i'd finished it whilst he was away - he really wasn't happy at all. It's still at Dad's somewhere and looks just like this (Dad painted the shell, and he's a perfectionist).
I guess after that, i didn't really buy any more until recently - when i bought an HPI Nitro thing that was seriously rapid a few years ago. Too rapid for me, and i properly crashed it. It now resides under a heap in the garage.
Recently i bought one of these on the way home from work, and built it whilst drinking a crate of cider on my front room floor. Managed to finish it by the time Mrs Crash fell through the door in the early hours!
Bought a Strada XT Evo last year to play with the dog. Great fun but wish lost interest quickly, probably because i didn't build it.
Next one i will definitely build myself. Much more fun!!
I guess after that, i didn't really buy any more until recently - when i bought an HPI Nitro thing that was seriously rapid a few years ago. Too rapid for me, and i properly crashed it. It now resides under a heap in the garage.
Recently i bought one of these on the way home from work, and built it whilst drinking a crate of cider on my front room floor. Managed to finish it by the time Mrs Crash fell through the door in the early hours!
Bought a Strada XT Evo last year to play with the dog. Great fun but wish lost interest quickly, probably because i didn't build it.
Next one i will definitely build myself. Much more fun!!
clonmult said:
I'd be tempted to suggest the Tamiya Lunchbox (if they're still available). Bought one for my oldest a few years back (he was 9 at the time) and it has been utterly brilliant. Handling is pretty lousy, but it is huge fun to drive around. Full speed reverse to full speed forward results in the blighter flipping onto its roof.
+1. They are a hoot for lads of that age and very easy to build from a kit. I have four of them - replacement parts are cheap and you can bash them about a bit as they take some abuse. Get a good battery and when charged, chuck it in reverse and then full on forward and they will wheelie for yards!
Bought as a christmas gift by my folks for good school grades when I was 13/14 I think. Lived in Norway at the time and used to race it along our street when it snowed. Good times. Actually had an RC car club after school for a few years. Built a make shift track and ran little tournaments for the few of us that raced. Wasn't really that far as we all had very different cars.
My folks dug it out of the attic when they moved house a few years ago. I bought new batteries and replaced some parts, bought a new shell etc. But when I realised I was never going to race it again I flogged it on eBay.
Leins said:
Never did get around to buying one of these, as all my Christmas money either went on mountain bikes or Scalextrics instead. Always wanted one of these two:
Like others, I'm beginning to think about putting one of these under the tree for myself in December
These were awesome, and 1/12scale rather than the more familiar 1/10th scale , I always found these had terrific scale handling. Lovely details on the chassis too - had remote filled dampers and came as standard with the hop up Technigold motor if I recall correctly. If I could find one at a reasonable price I'd consider buying one, Sadly most Tamiyas go for way too much money on Ebay and the like.Like others, I'm beginning to think about putting one of these under the tree for myself in December
I was always a buggy person myself and ran the awesome Tamiya Avante for several seasons. My friends raced the Egress (effectively an evolution of the Avante) and Top Force Evolution which were simply unbeatable in their day - Only a few of us ran Tamiyas at our club, many prefered Schumachers and Team Associated but I always found the Tamiyas far tougher and easier to set up.
0836whimper said:
That's exctly what I did, rescued it from my parents loft. Wasn't quite sure why it didn't work when it went into hibernation in about 1989, but I swapped out a few gearbox parts, fully ball-raced it and added oil dampers, all all available from ebay. Goes like a dream with the original mechanical Speed controller, motor and radio gear, I just added a new high mAh battery.
And that's when I started looking at Re-Releases and bought the Egress...
Just shows what impression those incredibly well designed models and catalogues had on us back in the day - like class A drugs. We got addicted and Tamiya keep supplying the demand as we now get older and have more money.
Egress was and still is one of the best cars Tamiya ever made - Awesome piece of engineering - to race one was a real privilege back in the day And that's when I started looking at Re-Releases and bought the Egress...
Just shows what impression those incredibly well designed models and catalogues had on us back in the day - like class A drugs. We got addicted and Tamiya keep supplying the demand as we now get older and have more money.
Edited by morgrp on Friday 31st October 17:13
clonmult said:
My Evil Twin said:
Whats a good starter RC for me my 7 and 5yo boys
Mostly to be played with in a grass garden and our tarmac road.
either a kit to build or a 2nd hand one off fleabay..
I'd be tempted to suggest the Tamiya Lunchbox (if they're still available). Bought one for my oldest a few years back (he was 9 at the time) and it has been utterly brilliant. Handling is pretty lousy, but it is huge fun to drive around. Full speed reverse to full speed forward results in the blighter flipping onto its roof.Mostly to be played with in a grass garden and our tarmac road.
either a kit to build or a 2nd hand one off fleabay..
Edited by My Evil Twin on Friday 31st October 13:48
I awlays thought the Wild Dagger and its sister car (I forget it's name) was a great, simple, tough model to have fun with:
Wild Dagger is a twin motor 4wd set up too - I believe they do a tamer 2wd single motor verison too
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