RC Car Recommendation?

H22A4 said
Totally agree with your advice! It brought a trip down memory lane though as I got into the hobby years ago after my older brother bought the Tamiya Grasshopper. He then upgraded it to the oil filled shocks the Hornet came with and ditched the RS380 motor for a Kyosho 480 Gold motor. That thing screamed. I bought a Hornet a few years later and then the Tamiya Thundershot. They were fun cars to play with. My parents kept all the RC cars when my brother and were interested in the real thing and they sat in their attic. When my parents moved into a condo last year my brother and I brought the cars back with us and we'll bust them out when our kids are a little older. It's good to see Tamiya is re-releasing all the classics as they bank on us wanting our kids to have some neat toys instead of an iPad/computer games. I was also into the Tyco/AFX slot cars and my parents kept all that stuff too. It was really neat going through the cars, track pieces (cliff hanger, etc) and making a circuit to test it out after all these years. When my 6 year old is ready in a year or two I'll be racing the slot cars with him before graduating to the Tamiya RC cars!

Yep i pulled out the HO slot cars a couple years back and built the dream layout i always wanted as a kid. I was hosting races with friends on friday nights, even hooked up an old Dell desktop for a lap counter / race timer. The old aurora afx i restored to running condition, but the new super G plus, Tomy SRT, and Mega G 1.5, and 1.7 cars will spank the old pancake motor stuff badly. I even wired my new track up with 4 independent 26V power supplies, and dynamic braking. My little boy is only a year and a half old in the pic. He is holding my black n red tomy SRT dodge daytona.

Round 2 is now making the old pancake motored stuff, and makes nice bodies that fit old afx, and the new tomy afx.

I stopped doing the races as my middle 2 kids would come into the garage wanting to play too. I had good intentions they each had a car i bought them. It always devolved into an argument about cheating, and other assorted sundries. The end was when one of em threw one of my parma controllers at the other. I figure by the time my boy is old enough to play with these with me, my older kids wont want to be bothered. It sucks my middle 2 kids are such a buzz kill to each other and us, but the only thing i can do because of this is to put it away for now. It folds up into the wall for storage.

Matt