Anyone into Radio Controlled Vehicles?
#1
Couple years ago I jumped into the Radio Control world with both feet. It all started when I purchased a Traxxas 3.3 Tmaxx

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It was a great truck and put ALOT of Nitro fuel through it. Also broke ALOT of parts which was why I had a BIG stock pile of spare parts. One night I was bored so I decided to put some of my spare parts together. Next thing I know I had a 2nd Tmaxx :)

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Then my buddies talked me into racing with the local RC club and well ofcourse the Tmaxx was no good for that so I had to purchase a 3.3 Revo

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But once I watched what it was all about I decided against it (should have done that before my purchase)

So then I had 3 trucks.....2 brand new and one that was beat to Heck LOL so for some reason I thought I needed a 4th LOL To the hobby store I went and out I came with a Jato 3.3

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Truth is actually my buddy bought something that was faster then my Tmaxx so I bought the Jato to kick his butt, well......if he didn't blow his motor and had no plans to repair it. So........Jato never got dirty LOL

Then I decided I had a problem hahaha.....So I sold the 2 Tmaxx's and fired up the Revo. Jato still lives in the box but thats o.k......eventually I might get it out again.

Also have a couple electric vehicles

First is a Traxxas Emaxx

Stock

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Then I turned it into this

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And last but not least, my basement winter racing car :) Its a RC 18 with a brushless motor in it.

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Only thing that sucks about it is I can't get a Mustang body for it, but it FLYS!!!!! and is actually alot of fun.

Just looked at all the pictures I posted and they all look too shinny. Have to shot some pic's of the REVO & RC18 but for now here is some of the Old Tmaxx & Emaxx

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Emaxx

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#2
Those are pretty cool. I've played with my kids Radio controlled ones, but they were not that fancy!
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#3
They can be alot of fun. Pretty expencive hobby though. Fuel alone was 35 a gallon when I last purchased it. Who knows what its worth now. I kinda got out of it for a year and am slowly kinda getting back into it. Just purchased a new charger and finding out that my batteries didnt like being stored for a year LOL Don't really wanna purchase new batteries, priced out the cost to repaced the ones I have and it was $300 plus shipping to Canada.
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#4
I used to be into them about 8 years ago, but got bored with it, not to mention it gets very expensive.

To many hobbies with cars, quads, motorcycles and RC cars, computers, electronics. I don't have enough money to do everything Sadcry
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#5
I raced nitro road cars pretty heavily in 1998 with and against a bunch of my pals. We'd head out every Saturday fr several months and blow the whole day just driving - tons of fun!

I originally bought a Kyosho Pegasus back in '85, but soon discovered it was pretty much a turd and I hated charging batteries. So, once again bitten by the bug in 1997, I bought my first nitro car: Kyosho SuperTen GP and had ball with it. Then I inherited a Traxxas Nitro Hawk from one of my buddies before he left Goodfellow. A few years back I got bit by the bug again and snagged some nice deals on ebay.

My cars now:
Kyosho SuperTen GP
HPI Super Nitro RS4
HPI Nitro RS4 Racer
Traxxas Nitro Hawk
Kyosho Pegasus (2 of them... don't know how I wound up with the second one)

Road racing's fallen out of favor again, but I don't care. All I need is a clean parking lot and I'm good. I just wish I had a couple buddies to run with - it's so much more fun that way.
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