New project arrived today!

[STINEY]

I know 2 boys who are going to be thrilled tonight..... make that 3.

[JOES66FURY]

HEll yeah! I loved that car when I was a kid!

[BBR]

Get a 540 motor for that sucker! The 380 is sloooooowww!!!!

I have a Tamiya Frog, Falcon and an RC10 we drag out and play with on occasion!!! They are a blast!!

[SpiderGearsMan]

does it have much legroom ?

[Russell]

Now you just need 2 more so yall dont have to share? Is it electric?

[STINEY]

Hehehe. My old truck (from the '80's of course, I don't recall the name) has a 540 and ball bearings and is going to be donating its radio for the new car. Its a crystal radio, still works fine. The poor truck just wore apart at the joints.

Yep, electric.

My oldest already has a very impressive 1/26 4wd truck. I forget the name of it too right now, but that little thing flat-out flies! Our 60+ year old sandrail friend Jim just bought a 1/5 30cc 2-stroke 4wd Losi truck 5b, and Dad-in-law will probably have one soon too.

I know the Grasshopper isn't quite in the same league anymore, but it makes good learning assembling it over the Ready to Run stuff. And leaves plenty of room for "moving up" later.

[SuperBuickGuy]

you kill me, I was hoping for a 70s Corvette.... alas, that is probably faster

[Thumpin455]

I had one of those 20 years ago. LOTS of fun. Now I have a Nitro Revo 2.5. Thinking about stuffing a 3.3 in it instead. RC is the most fun you can have sitting in a lawn chair.

[Russell]

I have a nitro car that I got in college we would take them out to the empty parking lots at night. Sad thing was I spent more time trying to get it to crank that playing with it. At some point I striped out the glow plug so I guess it needs a motor or head to run. I wish I would have gotten an electric.

[STINEY]

Russell, there are lots of ex-Nitro cars converted to electric. Depending on what you have, there may even be a kit for it.

Nitro is cool, but seems you end up tuning FAR more than running. Run time rules for us.

The best for run time is the 2-stroke gassers like our buddy Jim bought. That sucker runs for about an hour on a tankful, then toss more fuel in and run some more! 3 hours till the servo batteries need recharged.

[SuperBuickGuy]

RC is the most fun you can have sitting in a lawn chair.

not true

[1931s/x]

cool i had a bunch of frogs, monster beetles, a bullhead, the original rc10, a rc10st, i now have the original t-maxx and a lunchbox. neither has been used in years. i put some hotrod .15 in the tmaxx and it became a real glow plug muncher. took the fun right out of it. i liked the old rc stuff since it was cheap when i was a kid. the bullhead was the tractor version of the clodbuster with some chrome accesories. i picked it up on sale it was my first new rc, that i had to build. i think i was 10. did it all on my own and bought it with my allowance that i horded away for years. didnt want the tractor body, but it was way cheaper than the clodbuster. that one i wish i still had.

[antmnte]

I still have my Subaru Brat. I got it when I was 14,saved up and got the whole thing from this big hobby shop in the city-Americas Hobby center on 34th street I think,was a load of fun but I could not afford all the aa batteries for the remote so it sat a lot. I had a motor that this guy down on Canal street in Manhattan made,Canal street had all kinds of electronic fixit places and this guy had a shop there. It beat the 540 motors at the time.

[BOOOGHAR]

i passed on one of those at a garage sale a couple years ago, they wanted 30 bux and it was in rough shape and no radio

[1931s/x]

i saw a nib brat on cl a few weeks ago. i felt like buying it.