RACING 30 year old RC Cars

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Cool 👍😊👍

I had the Tamiya Super Hornet, my mate had the grasshopper. I still remember spending the whole night building it and not realising I had the suspension parts mixed up and had to strip it all back haha.
One day I upgraded all the electronics and built a cooling intake, I felt so proud of myself.

Great video keV. Lov the racing vids. Great topic too love the vintage 1/10 racers. I too dreamt about all the upgrades I wanted for my thunder shot.

Omg love the old akool rides. I still have my ZXR and my RC10 from back in 91 when I was 15 and racing… miss those days. There is something special about the old cars and the fact that they were kits and you built them which was part of the fun. Love your channel mate… looks like you guys have got a cool community of RC enthusiasts in the UK.

Ah, Manta Ray. My friend's older brother had one, was a weapon (at the time).

The dreaming before sleeping was the thing that made me so happy in the 90's!faster motors and stuff,cars 1/8 buggy was my dream

Hey man! That was my first hobby grade RC car too and just as you I still have mine with its now terribly beat up body. Regarding the chassi there was a fibre reinforced chassi released for the Manta Ray later which is the same as the top forces but not carbon fibre. That's what I currently run on mine. That chassi kit didn't include the protective plastic undertray with obvious results. Still love this period of buggy designs.

Really impressed. I thought the Manta would get monstered but it didn't. Good job Kev. More vintage stuff!

Kev, you crack me up when you say the motor has some compression. It's an electric combustion engine. 😂😂I know what you're saying, it just sounds funny, lol. Excellent video, buddy! I love vintage RC cars.

In the early 90s i had a toy grade car, it was really good actually, but it used the manta ray bodyshell weird how that happens

Please make a video on mjx hyper go brushless 16208

I resurrected my original ProCat from 1990, it hadn't been out on a track since 1991, until last week at a Vintage meet in Cardiff.. I was proud as punch to see it running again 😎 it can still cut the mustard!

Can I send u a rc car that I don't wanna work on anymore

Kev I am a 14 year old boy from Australia and I have about $130 dollars and I really want a hobby grade RC car what will be the best RC car for my money @kevintalbot

Wow video 😯

Well done on keeping tabs on your original RC cars. My first was from the very bottom of the Tamiya range (I, too, had to save for ages via a paper round) – some desert vehicle thing whose name I can't even remember. All I remember was how slow and basically useless it was. Fortunately, I had friends who were also into RC and managed to make better selections. I remember a grasshopper and a monster truck. I eventually graduated to a Hotshot, which wasn't just loads better than my previous car, but also had far more articles about it in the magazines, with suggested improvements and aftermarket parts. That was my first real introduction to mechanical things. I remember removing the front drivetrain to save weight and make it faster when racing on grippier surfaces, then putting everything back together to race around at the park, upgrading motors, swapping pinions to optimize gearing, building independent suspension systems to eliminate the front and rear monoshock, etc.

But mostly, I remember how utterly dishonest the Tamiya marketing materials were, showing cars flying through the air off of steep sand dunes in much the way your xmax is actually capable of today. But those cars were nowhere near being able to do that kind of thing. Not only would those landings have destroyed the suspensions and drivetrains, but they simply weren't fast enough to launch 20 feet into the air as depicted in the videos,. sand flying off the wheels. On any kind of deep sand, they didn't really have enough grunt to get much air at all, and that's with a tiny pinion and aftermarket motor.

But those experiences are why I enjoy your channel today. I haven't driven an RC car in more than 30 years, but watching you and your friends enjoy them so much has been a really fun revisiting of the past. I've been tempted to go spend a bunch of cash on an xmaxx but I know I'll enjoy it for a short span and then it will end up sitting on a shelf, so I'll just continue to enjoy RC cars vicariously through you. Keep it up!

Is there any reason why you couldn't race with the carbon fiber chassis?

Kev! You said you were going to race the original manta ray one last time after rebuilding it. What are you waiting for?