Your R/C dreams come true.

HPI has a Datsun 240z kit. It look damn scale for radio control. Now imagine it in BRE colors.

http://www.hpiracing.com/products/en/7210/

Noice! I <3 240Zs.

I want one of these:

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=58382

S8 RX-7. So... sexy...

In reply to Appleseed:

HPI has some nice stuff out right now. I would have gone that route but I needed some tuff enough for my 5yr daughter to drive. So I went with a Traxxas Slash. Next step brushless&esc upgrade!!

Did you see the 510 body as well I swore off RC but it's calling me back like a bad crack habit....

I quit racing 1/10th scale banked carpet oval and 1/12th scale 4-cell carpet road course to go racing full sized motorcycles and it was cheaper and took less time.

Seriously.

Now I'm back to planes from small electrics to 27% scale, 40cc gas 2-stroke things with 2 to 1 power to weight ratios. Still not as bad as "seriously racing" RC cars. Talk about crack.

Glee!

More Glee!

grinch77 wrote: Did you see the 510 body as well I swore off RC but it's calling me back like a bad crack habit....

i know that feeling... i got like 7 of these nitro cars in my attic... one of them wasn't even worn out yet... i should get that thing out....

Mmmm, after having a nitro touring car with nowhere to drive it years ago, I have the desire for one of the new stadium trucks!

I have that RS4 Mini with an e46 m3 body on it... I gotta order the Miata one!

I trust that you guys have seen this: http://www.bre2.net/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=breabc510model46&Category_Code=models

The full body "short course" style trucks popularized by Traxxas' Slash is set to explode. Associated, HPI and Losi now have trucks. Its gonna rule.

I have a Slash and I can't kill it. Even with 5000mah batteries.

Thanks guys, now i want one...

Just took a peek at the BRE car... my Lord, how things have changed since I last played with my car. The last one I got was the new, top of the line world champion RC10 off road car. Between the car, the Novak esc, and the not-legal-for -sanctioned-racing Omni sealed brush motor, I had the hottest of hot rod rc cars of all the rc geeks in my school. I think that was maybe'85 or '86. God, I feel old.

Appleseed wrote: The full body "short course" style trucks popularized by Traxxas' Slash is set to explode. Associated, HPI and Losi now have trucks. Its gonna rule. I have a Slash and I can't kill it. Even with 5000mah batteries.

http://www.rc10.com/

YES!!!! The 4wd RC8 is nasty as well.

Man I wish I had an original RC 10. Those things dominated for 7 or 8 years. An eternity in the RC world.

I've still got one of the RC10 buggies, its the second generation one, with the simplified 3-gear trans with the diff at the bottom instead of the original with 6 gears and the diff at the top. i think the original might have had a trailing arm style suspension rather than the a-arm setup of my championship edition.

[mutters to self] I will NOT have those crack cocaine like things in my house again. [/mutters]

BTW Strizzo, the original RC10 (gold tub) had A arms front and rear. AFAIK (and I could be wrong) the only trailing arm chassis were the aftermarket A&L with aluminum arms and I can't remember the name of the other brand (Paragon, maybe?) which had glass filled nylon arms.

yeah, i guess it was the predecessor to the rc10 that had the trailing arms f&r. mine is the gold anodized Al tub, with nylon a-arms (never broke one, even with all the abuse over the years) although a lot of the anodizing is gone off the bottom. last time i put electronics in it, it was still a blast. still too light in the front end so it plowed pretty bad.

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_RC10

the one i have was the "championship edition" that they came out with after they won their first national title. it has the same tub and suspension arrangement, but the updated simplified gearbox (the one in the picture has the 6-gear trans)

Does yours have Cliff Lett standing next to it? God that add sold sh-tloads of those cars.

I had that poster in my room for years, under the one with Jay Halsey's car i got from the Hobby shop when I bought mine. Three years of lawn mowing and delivering soda so I could learn to curse like a sailor building the transmission and burn my fingers putting together the mechanical speed control.

What Wally said. I had the original RC10, along with a charter membership to RC Car Action. Those_were_the_days.

I forgot what day we were having yearbook pictures for my HS graduation. I showed up a school with my AE shirt on. My parents were pissed.

Unless you stick with a really low-buck/spec class, it's cheaper to start real racing.

Jensenman wrote: [mutters to self] I will NOT have those crack cocaine like things in my house again. [/mutters]

sooooo true right before I quit racing at last count I had seven different on road chassis's and twenty some odd bodies laying around.Nothing like racing toy cars for bowling trophy's though.

Ah, the infamous 3-gear RC10 Stealth transmission...that thing basically became the prototype for all off-road racing transmissions. EVERYBODY adopted that format.

I was a Traxxas guy back when Traxxas was still getting its rear end kicked by Losi and Associated in stadium trucks instead of building monster trucks. And yes, it's cheaper to race real cars instead of those things.

I want a nitro truck to play with in the park by my house. Right now I have a pair of neato "kid level" electric RWD's (a Lotus Exige and a Ferrari F430). They go pretty quick, but they are definitely entry-level hobby stuff.

Will wrote: Ah, the infamous 3-gear RC10 Stealth transmission...that thing basically became the prototype for all off-road racing transmissions. EVERYBODY adopted that format. I was a Traxxas guy back when Traxxas was still getting its rear end kicked by Losi and Associated in stadium trucks instead of building monster trucks. And yes, it's cheaper to race real cars instead of those things.

The first 3 gear tranny I saw was an MIP. In fact, I had one in my favorite RC10, which really wasn't an RC10: it had an A&L chassis, MIP tranny, titanium dogbones, someone's wide front control arms, an aftermarket body, aftermarket carbon fiber shock towers, IIRC the long Kyosho Gold shocks (less drag on the seals than the AE pieces at the time) chrissakes I forget what all else. I remember looking at it one night, thinking 1) the only AE parts left were the front control arm mount blocks and the cut down battery box and 2) I had around a grand in the rolling chassis before putting any electrics on it. That's when I decided to go buy another motorcycle and start racing hare scrambles and enduros again.