How did every one get into this?

[draggerman11]

Well, I had a 60$ toys r us car, and I wanted more speed. The car even had shocks :eek: So I went to my lhs(hobby shack, now hobby people) and saw all the cars and decided I was getting one. Next year, for my b-day I got a Traxxas Rustler. It was fast for me at first(c'mon I just came off a toys r' us car) I left it stoc until Christmas, and then got a 4tec(this was all in 1998) I put a 17 turn monster of touring motor in it, then bought a 15 turn monster of touring(along with a rooster esc) It was pretty fast. Then came a Novak Dually esc, and an 11 turn speed gems. To say the least, that was FAST. Then came a b3, and then a stampede. And I just bought a Bolink funny car, with 7 cells, and a D4 9 turn.

[LosiMan3456]

I had always been into Tyco and nikko cars. I had one called triple wheels which was pretty fast! My neighbor whos dad owns Canney's Culligan(Hey Culligan Man!) and he was into it pretty big. So I wanted one bad! First I got a boat. It was a speed vee 800 when I was 10 I think. Then I got my first car which was a Used XXcr KE.

[DirtRacinFool]

I had a old Train that I had decided to get more track for, I went to a Hobby Shop to buy some track and seen the RC's they had. Well I left the Hobby Shop with a Marui Galaxy Buggy, Futaba Stick Radio, a Charger with the 15 minute timer and 2 1200 mah battery packs, but no track for my Train. LOL That was back in 1985, since then i've had a Original RC10 Buggy, RC10T, Traxxas SRT, Traxxas Nitro Hawk, Converted the SRT to Nitro using parts from the Nitro Hawk (which I still race every weekend), Kyosho Inferno 10, Traxxas Nitro Rustler, RC10GT, Kyosho Ultima ST-R GP and a T-Maxx. Guess you could say that one visit to that Hobby Shop got me Hooked for Life. :cool: :D

[ChumsGum]

When I was 12, my friend's dad had a Tamiya Grasshopper. They let me drive it a few times and I got hooked. Later that Christmast, I got a Tamiya Lunchbox. A couple years after that a Turbo Ultima, a USA-1, and an Ultima Pro XL. I eventually sold everything, but am now looking to get back into it.

[Throtl Hapie]

A long time ago, when I was maybe 10, I really wanted a go-kart. I was supposed to get it as a birthday present. That never happened. Then my parents said they would get me an R/C airplane, because I liked airplanes. I was supposed to get it on Christmas, but I never got it because I was too young and the slowest plane my parents found went about 60mph. So then that Christmas I got a Radio Shack buggy thing. I used to lpay with it non-stop, and one day my neighbor came out with a car I had never seen. It handled better, it lasted longer, and it was faster. It turned out to be a Tamiya Grasshopper. For a while we used to mess with our cars. Then he got this little on road car (I think it was a Tamiya Porsche 962 or something) from his uncle. In order to compete, I had to by myself a car, and that my friends, was how I got into this lovely mess that is the RC hobby.

[chucksolo]

Actually I had owned numerous "toy" RC cars from Tyco, Nikko and Radio Shack and got into "real" R/C when I picked up a copy of RCCA and read it at the grocery store. I knew I had to have one!!!!! I now own 6 cars/trucks. BTW - I have a vintage Nikko hovercraft in the original box with all the accessories, it has only been out of the box once. I'm holding on to it to see if it becomes a bonified antique someday.

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[RC Crazy]

when i was 10 i got a tyco scorcher and was atached for a little while but since it realy was not an off road car, i got out of it but when i was 12 i got a tyco mutator(yes another tyco car). It was kinda fast and powerfull and whent almost anyware, untill it broke. I never knew there was any rc cars better then that untill i picked up RCCA at a book store and 6 months later, i had a HPI rs4 mt with 12T motor and that was screaming fast. I still have my scorcher and it still works :eek: . That is one tuf car.

[TA03 Drive Hard]

I got into rc bout 15 years ago... my first one was tamiya's nissan somethin... had the f1 chassis 2wd direct drive... i loved playing with it... i was a speed demon and did she go fast... i didnt know anything bout motor mods so i said give me a mod motor that will go fast... got a D2 12Q... and was it a bullet!!! :D :eek: :D next car was a RC10L w/graphite chassis... i had so many probs with it... kept on glitching and i fried my novak 610 esc :mad: :( then i bought a RC12L from a friend played with that for a while... then phased out for bout 5 years... 4 years up till now i am a proud owner of 6 ta03s, a tl01, kyosho tf4 and a hpi sport 2 :D i enjoy putting these cars together more than i run them... the only car outta the group i play is the tf4... and one ta03... the other cars (except the sport 2 which i am selling) are fully loaded with aftermarket parts, so i display those only... this is truely one hobby i enjoy most rather than working... well sleeping is what i do best... my girlfriend says im "flo jo" (spanish for "lazy") :D

[Fergy]

Two years ago an elderly retired gentleman sold me an original Tamaya Juggernaut for 50 bucks and I was hooked. Now I have a total of 7 RC cars.

[Cheyslayer]

A month ago I was if ft collins colorado and happen to stop by hobbytown usa and they were having a parking lot race. Watch all afternoon like it so much I went in and bought a t maxx and n4t. just love to race.

[DirtRacinFool]

Hey Jon. whatever happened to the Hobby Shop in Cheyenne that was called Collective Creations? (I think that was the name) They used to have a track behind the building where Dan's supermarket is.

[Serius Black]

I've been in the hobby for around 23 years, my grandfather bought me my first car.
I can't even get in to all the cars I've owned, though I've had at least 25 or 30 in the past six years (Since getting married).
I tend to buy a car, try it, and if I don't like it, sell it within a couple of weeks. At least that's what I used to do. Now I only get new cars when an upgraded version comes out, or as the racing seasons change.

[Grizzbob]

Well, I also got my initial interest from the Sears/Radio Shack cars as a kid(don't remember what age I was), but it was in '89 that I saw a kit R/C car for the first time, so I got some money together & bought a Tamiya 1/12 scale Porsche 962 pan car, & I was pretty much hooked after that. Within a month of that car, I discovered the racing scene, & saw the RC-10, so I saved up some more money & dove in. I've gotten more into it with every year since then..... :)

[ATeam]

My brothers bought a Futaba FX10 off of a friend and then eventually gave it to me. I never really got it running but that and RCCA got me hooked.

Fast forward to 1998, I'm on my own and finally got the $$$$ to spend on RC. My first was a Kyosho Dodge Ram with the QRC. I thought it was blazing fast.

Then I wanted to race, sold the Kyosho and bought a T3 and realized how slow the Kyosho was.

Then I bought a used B3 and raced for about a year. Times got tough and had to sell all my stuff. Now times are good again, and I just order a T-Maxx which is going to get the royal hop-up treatment.

ATeam

[HauntedMyst]

Mine is a more unusual story of how I got hooked on RC.

I was walking down the street one day while I was in New York City. The wife was working and I had all day to kill. Some homeless guy (I guess techinically he wasn't homeless since he was leaning on his Buick) was standing there and said "Hey you! Give me a dollar!" I recoiled and I said "Hey you, give me 10 dollars!" and giggled to myself and kept walking. Once I was past him, he said "hey you!" again and I turned around to see what he wanted this time. Before I knew it he chucked a Turbo Inferno right at me. Well it didn't have the bumper attached and I didn't have time to react andit stuck right there in my forehead, man was I angry. Who ever though a bum would have such a good throwing arm? I said "Now look what you've done!" I punched him in the nose and then walked him over to the Buick. I put his head in the passenger window and rolled it up so he was stuck there, arms all flailing about while he screamed like a school girl "Get me out, your ruining my new hair cut!"

It was then that I looked up and saw how really cool the car was that was piercing my skull. I tore off the sticker that said "Property of Steve Pond" and saw it was a Kyosho Turbo Inferno. I had seen them in the hobby shop but never thought I could afford one, and here I had a chance to get one for free! I said "Tell you what, I wont sue you and take your Buick, but I'm keeping this thing stuck in my brow." He said "OK OK, just roll down this window, my hair is ruined and its giving me a migrain!" I left him there just to teach him a lesson and as an example to other bums of what happens to bums who throw RC cars. I later called the cops on him and then sent him up the river for assault and battery.

On my way to the hospital, I stopped and bought a copy of RC Car Action, my first issue ever! I read it nearly cover to cover before I passed out while I waited in the emergency room to have the Inferno surgically removed from my forehead. That silly car never ran right but I kept getting different cars until I got one I liked. I still write that bum in prison (he serving 10 to 15 years) every Christmas and thank him for getting me hooked on RC. He writes me back and thanks me for getting him a warm bed, a new play mate and 3 squares a day and promises to show me his new knife when he's released. It's good to know I helped someone in my some small way.

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[Andrew the RC man]

started with a tyco Bandit and then i got many other tyco and nikko trucks before my relatives made what they thought was the single biggest mistake by each giving me 50 bucks which ended up equaling $220(20 from a cousin) and i rushed out and bought an Epede

[very low budget racer]

What kind of a moron would throw and R/C car at a guy? thats low... I started out with many Tyco's and RS cars, once christmas I got a Rockrunner RS truck, then at the magasine shop looking for mad magazine I see the 1996 RCCA buyers guide and buy it thinking its tyco and RS cars, then I saw these cars, read the mags for a year till I figured out what made all of these cars tick, when I wanted to order one I went to Hi-tech hobbies in raynham, they told me go with electric ST's, picked my an XXT, Duster 2 ESC, ect... and raced that same day, didnt keep up with them even with a 14t motor, I was flipping the car everywhere backwards over the table top jump, its was soo much fun, cost me 400 bux in one day, but it was all worth it.

[tadium54]

I'm like Grizzbob. I was sick of cheap cars

[very low budget racer]

Andrew, thats why i look forward to X-Mas and Birthdays, no gifts, my relatives understand that I would be happier if they gave me cash anf baught what I want. X-mas is the biggest "money harvest" averageing in about 600 bux a year for me and my bro each :D .

[grandmasterofpool]

You guys are so gullible...lol HM that was quite the farce.

I'll bet you guys believed his story about the rocket car going into Best Buy too...haha :D :D :D

My late cousin got me into R/C when I was 11 years old. My first rc was a Tamiya Super Blackfoot. He had the original foot so I was hooked on monster trucks from the start. I messed with it for a few years and then it collected dust until last September when I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis.

Being stuck at home all day sick as a dog I asked my mom to pick up an issue of RCCA so I could have something to read. I was instantly hooked again. R/C has been my shoulder to lean on over the past year when my friends and family couldn't be there :) or simply just didn't understand what I was and still am going through.

I'm doing much better now and I've met some awesome people on this board and others. I'm almost better now and I haven't put down my radio yet ;)

I believe God has a reason for everything that happens to us in our lives. If this hadn't happened I never would have learned of my love for airbrushing. I never would have learned a lot of things about myself and others. So I guess you could say my disease changed my life in a good way, heck, even a great way!!!!

[Jonathan210]

I became a R/C'er about 4 years ago when i was 11. I loved it and got all kinds of mags. At 12 I got my frist r/c for christmas. It was a MT10M and i loved it. Every since i've been hooked. I find it a great hobby but very expensive. I also found it a great way to meet new friends and learn about stuff. Also it keeps us out of trouble and off the streets. lol.

I also beleive God has a purpose for everything!

[E-MAXX]

Yes, the Best Buy story was hilarious! I got into RC about 2 years ago but knew about it for awhile. I was 6 years old and this kid named Andrew had a buggy and his dad had a stadium truck. When he ran it, it was amazing...fast(i'd say about 30MPH,fast back then). Andrew was real sensitive to his car, he accidentaly jumped it and screamed,(for god sakes it's meant to do that!). I was sick of my old 2 wheel drive radio shack vehicle that didn't go more than 2 MPH and took 4 hours to charge it's ugly battery. Fast forward to me 12 years of age. I bought a radio shack "red shaker" which hit about 10MPH and was blazing fast to me. Then I went to Walden books to look at there magazines, I have been wanting to buy an RCCA magazine for a while but didn't do it. I finally bought the September 1999 issue and read it over and over not knowing what they where talking about, but I enjoyed it. At the very back of RCCA they have the ads in black and white. I used to sit on the couch for hours at a time looking at the cars going... I have to get one! I mowed lawns and had enough to buy one and saw on Tower Hobbies the SFGP for only $279!! That was one bad looking car to me! About 2 hours of saying I'm not wasting my money to my parents we did a phone order to buy the car. When I got that car I was so excited!!! I jumped up and down...then finally opened the box. Wow this car looks awesome! That shiny engine and tuned pipe....Just say I was in love. I turned that thing on after reading and watching the video and pulled the trigger gently and that was blazing fast for me(even at 10MPH) after break-in I started to nail the throttle and make smoke everywhere and watch the tires roast before my eyes! Neverless,I was excited to get home from school the next day!
Philip S

[mavrick0611]

Hey, How did all of us r/c nuts get into r/c?

Me, i was given a rc10l orignal, when i was ten. i tried to get that thing running but never did, then 99' hobby town was holding r/c races and i was hooked! HAD TO HAVE ONE!

How about you all?
aj

[Possumbot]

My bro had a few cars when i was young, and i just got hooked, then he sold me his crappy 10t, and i almost quit. But i got a inronman and finally sticked.

[danw]

When I was 11, I wanted an R/C car. My Mom worked at a toy & hobby store, but those R/Cs were so expensive.

So my Dad and I looked at Radio Shack and Tyco cars. After about five minutes we decided they were junk and would be broke before it was home.

So to the toy & hobby store we go. There was this guy who worked there--he was about 16, had a Tamiya Lunchbox and was just about the coolest guy I knew. I bought a Grasshopper with my birthday money and my Dad bought the rest of the gear (a HiTec Challenger 250, Pro-Tech 702 charger and a battery pack). The 16-y/o came to my house a few times to see how I was doing and help me with building problems.

Once I got that thing running... wow, that was it. I was hooked.

Dan

[TC3Racer]

well i was shopping for a magazine about 2 weeks before christmas and i was looking for the usual skateboarding mags that i always buy... they didn't have one and this R/C car mag caught my eye. i kinda flipped through it and decided to get it. after i bought that one mag.... i was hooked! and after my parents saw that i was so interested in R/C they bought me a TC3 for christmas.

[Grizzbob]

Very true, grandmaster. For myself, I credit the hobby for developing my technical skills(especially for things mechanical) & for my soldering, which led me to my first full time job, as an electronics assembler, & now I'm an avionics technician, & the skills I picked up woking on our R/C cars have helped me immensely in my career on just about every front(& my boss seems to understand it too). They even let me shop at the commercial supply shops(like Grainger) that our company has accounts with for my tools & stuff, at discounted prices....... :)

[XXXER]

I got into R/C when I was younger, of course, with Radio Shaft-type cars. Then, during one of my summer breaks from School, we went to California, to see our relatives. I saw my cousin, had his Team Losi LXT---THE schwingest Stadium Truck out there. He had all of the cool things, the Red Sanyo cells, that were MATCHED! a Tekin charger, and a Novak......OH NO! I forgot what it was, but it was OLD SCHOOL. He even let me drive it! It was one sweet truck. He still has it, and I want it! My dad informed me that he had a hobby class RC when I was younger, he bought it a month after I was born, from SEAR'S! When we got home, we got it working, and got new tires, etc. It turned out to be a Hornet. That thing ran like a champ for about 2 years, until it broke, and we could not figure it out. This was at like at about Thanksgiving time, so, I set it aside for a while. At Christmas, I asked for another one of those piece of crap wal-mart trucks, but when I got to the box at Christmas, none of them were the right size :sad: Until, when I opened one, it was a STAMPEDE!

That was the best Christmas ever, and turned a hobby, into an obsession, into an ADDICTION! It has been 7 years, since I have started REAL R/C, and I hope to have another good 70 years of it

-Steve

[Cheyslayer]

Hi dirtracinfool
The place went out of business, so no track in Cheyenne now. I work for the school district so I have been running on one of thier parking lots.. Been going to ft collins on sundays and checking the races down there at hobby store on college.

[william2001]

Flashback to 1985, buddy at school (jr high) says there's this place that races RC cars, what! Never heard of that! His mom takes us to this little indoor track about 10 miles from our hometown. Never seen anything like this, these cars are fast! (But sure didn't last long) They had suspensions and shocks and stuff that really worked! And when they flipped over, the bottom was gold colored (heh,heh). Remember seeing something called a "Yokomo Dogfighter" in the display case, wild. Started reading this cool new mag called "Radio Control Car Action", (purchased second issue ever and immediately subscribed). Just had to have one, started working my butt off to save money, and finally bought a Kyosho Optima. Ah, the good ol' days.....

[paxil]

I got a toys 'r' us rc. It didn't work so I took it back. Then I went to west vally hobbies got my self a stampede (for my birthday )and then I was sucked in

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[kartrun]

Hmmmmm A long time ago in a.....j/k..lmao!!Anyways,a buddy of mine had a optima mid with a lemans 240st and i went with him to a race at our local mall parkinglot and was hooked!!I,at the time,had a tyco turbo hopper and trashed it for a tamiya striker powered by a race prep orange endbell(or was it pink?)stock motor(and i still use race prep to this very day!!)Anyways,my competition at the time was modified rc10s'(original)and believe it or not i did fairly well with the striker racing on a carpet oval!! ;)

[Andrew the RC man]

Low budget- i still get B-day cash

[primuswoostinkinhoo]

when i moved to the house im at now(10 yrs ago or so) my nieghbor had like 3 original rc 10s a clob buster some pan cars all kinds of goodys he let me drive one everyonce in awhile, he was top guy over at our track in the parking lot. anyways i wanted one since we moved here so like 2 yrs ago i got a max st used it for a yr lost intrest got a tc3 and wont stop spending money on this every again. i now own 6 or 7 cars

[Usagi]

HUM????? well its was a long time ago..... Way before I got married. Now i am married and my cars and I moved with me......Married with r/c cars.....

[Clayton]

After my initial Radio shack types, I stumbled across a magazine back in the 80's that seemed really good at the time and I went from there..

[gubbs3]

My interest was sparked by the library at my elementary school which carried R/C Car Action. And my older brother's friend also had a Traxxas Rustler that he had let me drive and I was off and spending hundreds.

[CaseyMan]

my dad bought me a Tekin buggy back in 92 :/ been hooked since then :o grandma bought me my second car which is a tamiya TL-01 bout 4 years, put a rooster ESC in it, 11T double turn engine, oil shocks on all 4 corners, raced it in Elkart IN for about a year, put it up and just got it out again bout a week ago. looking to get a nitro car now since im older and it sounds like a challenge to actually have to tune the car instead of doing almost nothing ;/ electric cars arent that much work at all

[racing mason]

i started with little tyco cars ,my best one then was called HAMMER, not bad, and was fairly fast for a tyco. got tired of chargeing that 9.6 volt so i upgraded to a nitro sport and now i can't put my radio down

[Jamedup]

In short...
I messed with the old cox tether drag cars when I was young but never really got hooked because I was already hooked on dirtbikes.
Now since all those years of dirtbike riding has taking it's toll on my lower back, I had to give them up. :(
Then I bought a nitro r/c just to see how much hp I could get out of the engine but after I drove it a few times, I crashed it hard into a tree. Right away I noticed I didn't get hurt :D but it still gave me the "on the edge" feel that I loved so much about moto-x. :D

[B3Tyler]

I had a pede, but i never used it. My friend got a rally, then i got my ft B3. I was hooked, started racin offroad, then my friend got a tc3 and iw anted to race with him...i got my rclabs and here i am :D

[kkd]

Well, back about 15 years ago, I had a plane, Hirobo Heli and some C/L planes (da.mn fast little things...LOL)...

Sold it all, too easy to crash... Never had any cars as a kid... Too poor....

This February, I went to LHS to find a Nitro boat and walked out with a T maxx... LOVE IT... Since then, have gone to a .21 :eek: :eek: and have a Nitro 4-tec that flies, an rc10gt with an os cvx hyper .15 and Saturday I just bought an OFNA MBX... Broke it in and LOVE it....

Its nice when the wife works, house is FINALLY paid off and I've got a good job myself....

Sees ya....

[Crazy Canuck]

I had this little 1:24 scale model I wanted to make into and RC car. So I lloked up in the yellow pages and went to a LHS with a track. I saw the cars running and got hooked. First I got a Tl01 then my brother got hooked and got a TC3 racer.

[Railman]

I started with Aurora HO cars back in the mid 60's, & went to competitive 1/24 slot cars in the late 60's. Then I got hooked on MX in '70. Was 250 amature national champ in '72, & national #46 250 class as a pro in '76 :D: . Got married in '76, quit MX :eek: & had 3 boys. Needed a hobby for me & the boys & got hooked on gassers the 1'st time I saw one run. They just sound so much like MX'rs that I still get chills when I hear them...I guess it just brings back fond memories from my glory years. We race both gas & electric RC equally, but lately it's been very hard to get to races because of our busy schedules. Been at it off & on for about 6 years, & stiil enjoy it very much, only wish I had more time to race. :cool:

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[Kas_Finally]

I went to my local Hobby shop, while waiting for a interview next door. I started looking at some catalouges, and then went home and researched on the net, and bought some mags. and now I am hooked. I dont own one yet..but I will soon, hopefully w. your guys's help.

[Nitro_Rustler_15]

Hmmm.. lets see how this started. I was like 4 or 5 when I got my first tyco which I still have, the "wild thing" I thought that was fast until I won a $100 bucks from a 50 cent lottery ticket and bought an even faster tyco car! But anyways a couple years passed by and I saw my neighbour driving some crazy buggy on the street, I was like sweet but I didn't have any money for one (I was like 12). So 2 years pass by and I go to a chapters/starbucks combo and check out the hobbies section for I think pokemon cards or something lol, and I see the 1999 october or september issue of RCCA with a Duratrax ST on the cover, I bought it and was determined to buy a Nitro Rustler, but to do that I would have to get a job. I got the only job I could get at 14, Wendy's. A few months later (january i think) I got it. That's bout it. :D

[KC10Chief]

I started out with a Tyco car when I was a kid as well. My little brother and i got one each for Christmas. They were buggies and his had green trim and mine had orange I believe. We drove those things all the time. Several years later, he had lost interest, but I wanted to get a better car. My parents knew I drove my Tyco all the time and wanted to race so for Christmas of whatever year that was, they got me an RC-10 World's Car. I started putting it together that morning and worked on it non stop until about 3am. I was supposed to be in bed, but as soon as my parents were in bed, I was back at it working on it until it was done. I took it outside and drove it around the driveway and my dad comes out and he's like "WHAT THA H*** BOY!!!!!". Then he saw my car and we drove it around for a bit and I finally got some sleep. Anyways, I raced it a couple of times but found that parts were hard to come by when you're 15 and don't have a job. When I turned 16, I bought a real car and had a job at Whataburger and had a little money to get some parts, but kind of lost interest since I didn't have the money to fix my car up like I would have liked to. Anyways, I got out of high school and went to college and joined the Air Force. I got into RC planes for a few years and thought I'd never go back to cars. Then I went out and watched a race one night and was hooked. I bought a T-Maxx first and then later bought an RC-10GT Factory Team truck. I still have the world's car and I fixed it up a few weeks ago with new batteries, radio, speed control, motor, etc and race it now. It's pretty heavy compared to the newer buggies, but it keeps up reasonably well. I think I'll upgrade to the factory team B3. I'm really hooked this time and haven't touched my planes in a couple months. Matt