Does anyone remember these?

[mattviatura]

When I was little I used to have a couple of battery powered snap-together (Tamiya I think) models. One was a blue Ford Ranger pickup and I think the other was a white Bronco. They were four wheel drive, about six inches long and had soft rubber tyres which used to help them climb around the garden.

I have no idea what they were called, can anyone help?

[jpringle819]

I think they must be the Tamiya Mini 4wd series. There are loads of them now and they race them in Japan.

[mattviatura]

Don't think so, they weren't remote control models and they were more like self-build toys.

[jpringle819]

These just run on two AA batteries and are raced on a plastic track

http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/32wild...

[Rude-boy]

Yep i do.

Had about 5 or 6 of them over the years when i was a kid. Mini reps of the r/c cars powered by a couple of AA's.

Sadly all long since crashed and burned, chucked after trying to convert to run on Scalextric track (don't ask ).

[Rude-boy]

jpringle819 said:

These just run on two AA batteries and are raced on a plastic track

http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/32wild...

Those look like the ones i am thining of but they also did a Hot Shot and a Boomerang.

ETA:-

These puppies:-

http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/32race...

Edited by Rude-boy on Wednesday 20th July 14:02

[jpringle819]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70edH2aUos&fea...

[SWH]

Rude-boy said:

...trying to convert to run on Scalextric track (don't ask ).

Glad I'm not the only one who tried that!

[mattviatura]

Nope, nothing like that I'm afraid. I may have been wrong about them being made by Tamiya.

[jpringle819]

These were the original ones http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/32mini... there are a lot slower I remember having the Range Rover as a kid.

[mattviatura]

Yesss, that's the Ranger, top left.

Woohoo, I want one.

I remeber a Range Rover as well now, a sandy brown 3-door.

edit: I can remember cutting out those stripes.

[dr_gn]

mattviatura said:

Yesss, that's the Ranger, top left.

Woohoo, I want one.

I remeber a Range Rover as well now, a sandy brown 3-door.

edit: I can remember cutting out those stripes.

I had something very, very similar, but it wasn't Tamiya. IIRC it was Matchbox (Trekker 4x4??). It was a bit bigger than a small matchbox car, had tyres made of foam and was powered by a single AA battery that was located under a snap-on cover. You had to take the body off to change the battery. I once stripped it down, and there was a small motor that drove two tiny white worm drives that powered the wheels (4 wheel drive). No steering.

It was ace.

ETA Matchbox Rough Rider 4x4. I think mine was a Ford pickup truck.

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 20th July 22:02

[miniman]

I remember these - closest I ever got to a proper Big Wig

[mattviatura]

dr_gn said:

I had something very, very similar, but it wasn't Tamiya. IIRC it was Matchbox (Trekker 4x4??). It was a bit bigger than a small matchbox car, had tyres made of foam and was powered by a single AA battery that was located under a snap-on cover.

ETA Matchbox Rough Rider 4x4. I think mine was a Ford pickup truck.

I've mixed up my childhood toys. Although I had the Tamiya Ranger it was these I had first. The tyres were very soft, ridged foam. I seem to remember four different versions at the time and I think I had a white Bronco or Blazer 4x4 (this was in the days before the term SUV had been invented and the yank 'trucks' were the only models available).

I'm going to try and find one for sale.

[Hard-Drive]

Yep, I remember these. I had a Trekker 4x4 Toyota pickup, in green, little row of yellow lights on the rollbar and foamy tyres that were more "gear" shaped than tyre shape.

I also had the Tamiya Range Rover, IIRC it was in the VSD racing colours (Paris-Dakar)or similar, a great model. Wierd how you remember details, the wheels were like slot-mags, the chassis was brown and there was a silver switch that you twisted to turn it on/off. However it was a bit too fast...it would launch itself at my mum's rockery at a scale speed of about 80mph and invariably end up in a hideous crash, yet when the batteries were knackered it would do much more of a convincing rock-crawling effort! Yikes, we're talking 25 years ago now!

[dr_gn]

mattviatura said:

dr_gn said:

I had something very, very similar, but it wasn't Tamiya. IIRC it was Matchbox (Trekker 4x4??). It was a bit bigger than a small matchbox car, had tyres made of foam and was powered by a single AA battery that was located under a snap-on cover.

ETA Matchbox Rough Rider 4x4. I think mine was a Ford pickup truck.

I've mixed up my childhood toys. Although I had the Tamiya Ranger it was these I had first. The tyres were very soft, ridged foam. I seem to remember four different versions at the time and I think I had a white Bronco or Blazer 4x4 (this was in the days before the term SUV had been invented and the yank 'trucks' were the only models available).

I'm going to try and find one for sale.

Pretty similar to these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pko_iTP4sQ

[Skii]

I had one of these, I'm sure it was the Pajero.

[ferrisbueller]

Kyosho did them, too. I have a mini Optima Mid.

[ferrisbueller]

dr_gn said:

mattviatura said:

dr_gn said:

I had something very, very similar, but it wasn't Tamiya. IIRC it was Matchbox (Trekker 4x4??). It was a bit bigger than a small matchbox car, had tyres made of foam and was powered by a single AA battery that was located under a snap-on cover.

ETA Matchbox Rough Rider 4x4. I think mine was a Ford pickup truck.

I've mixed up my childhood toys. Although I had the Tamiya Ranger it was these I had first. The tyres were very soft, ridged foam. I seem to remember four different versions at the time and I think I had a white Bronco or Blazer 4x4 (this was in the days before the term SUV had been invented and the yank 'trucks' were the only models available).

I'm going to try and find one for sale.

Pretty similar to these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pko_iTP4sQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I4rgcXfUtc

[Zaxxon]

I had one as a kid, great fun making it, bit slow but still whiled away the minutes till I broke it.

With the cost and miniture size of RC nowadays, it would be awesome if Tamiya re released them with RC