Tamiya Grasshopper RC Car

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:51 pm

How many of you remember these from the eighties? Just bought one for my dads christmas cause there back in production. Wish I had someone like me to buy me gifts

To Make it worse Im stuck in northern Norway and charlenes wrapped it so cant even look at it before christmas

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:55 pm

ooh

I wanted them as a kid and never got one

must stay strong and get real toy car fixed

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:58 pm

How cool is that!!! I had one with an rs540 technigold motor, sanyo matched cell battery pack and bfo spikey tyres!

I remember building it on my 14th birthday on the kitchen worktop all day, reading the manual as to how to drive it, how to take racing lines and had an hour of fun until I drove it into the garden pond lol!

It dried out

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:00 pm

£130 quid and you get the complete kit, try and tell me your not tempted

Admitedly only over night charger and 1hr batt but good for a start!

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:09 pm

Ooh, believe me I'm tepted... Is that including the radio gear and servos too?

Fast chargers are cheap, but trash your expensive battery - having said that, I'd be quite happy to build one though, powered of a 12v source rather than the mains.... For race meetings

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:16 pm

Yeah evrything you need, also the fast chargers have 12v fag socket, like you say be good fun at meets

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:24 pm

This thread is pointless without links on where to buy one

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:58 pm

Still have several RC cars in the attic.. Might bring one along to a meat if I can get it working again....

jason · Post by **jason** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:31 am

Was lucky enough to build a Sand Scorcher waaaay back in 1980. It was discarded many moons ago

But I have a Hotshot from ~20yrs years back... dusted it down and ran it a bit a couple years ago. Took out the front drive shafts to improve it's handling. Great fun

/geeky kit building and r/c fanatic childhood faction

paulW · Post by **paulW** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:21 am

Was the Tamiya Hornet for me.

recently, reluctantly gave to a friend's son. Excellent fun.

Post by **Shug** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:10 am

Still got a 1:5 scale DTM Merc C class in the shed downstairs. 23cc strimmer engine - bloody hilarious; only problem is finding a bit of tarmac big enough for it!

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:10 am

My Kyosho Ultima happily scalped those things

dlogan · Post by **dlogan** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:46 am

My first car was a Lancia 037 which was basically a Tamiya Frog.

It got me into it big time!!............. and I raced all over the UK in 10th scale electric off road 2wd and 4wd as a fully sponsored "driver" and gave up as it started to look like European level.

The costs just to travel were making karting in Scotland look cheap so go into racing TKM for a couple of years before real cars, birds, and booze took over and I gave up.

Andy, I will raise your rear engined 2wd Ultima to a mid engined Optima Mid, 4wd, Schumacher Pro-Cat , then a Yokomo Works 93 Dogfighter followed by a carbon tubbed, inboard mounted suspension Tenth Technology Predator.

Sorry for the epic geekyness, but hey -ho.

Back to the main point though, those retro cars are cool!

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:53 am

dlogan wrote:My first car was a Lancia 037 which was basically a Tamiya Frog.

It got me into it big time!!............. and I raced all over the UK in 10th scale electric off road 2wd and 4wd as a fully sponsored "driver" and gave up as it started to look like European level.

The costs just to travel were making karting in Scotland look cheap so go into racing TKM for a couple of years before real cars, birds, and booze took over and I gave up.

Andy, I will raise your rear engined 2wd Ultima to a mid engined Optima Mid, 4wd, Schumacher Pro-Cat , then a Yokomo Works 93 Dogfighter followed by a carbon tubbed, inboard mounted suspension Tenth Technology Predator.

Sorry for the epic geekyness, but hey -ho.

Back to the main point though, those retro cars are cool!

You're more of a saddo than I realised...

r055 · Post by **r055** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:03 am

caligarinet wrote:Was the Tamiya Hornet for me.

recently, reluctantly gave to a friend's son. Excellent fun.

I had the bigfoot monstertruck and put one of my mates model RC helicopter electric motors in it for a try

Think the battery lasted about 5 mins, but it was rapid