trying to revive an old Traxxas...

[ausher]

I don't think the tx or rx is any good its very glitchy and the futaba esc is either stuck full speed forward or full speed reverse.

 

[MudSlinger33]

That's an old timer, do you know what year its from?
It's amazing how far a long today's RC's have come.

 

[Rolex]

That's got to be early 80's. A lot of similarities to the early Tamiya tub cars.

 

[ausher]

I bought it new when I was in high-school so its gotta be about 25 years old. I got the instructions somewhere should be a date on it. I remember wanting it because it did wheelies so easily.

I may have to stick the mechanical speed controller back in it.

1/10 monster trucks from the 80's are puny compared to 1/10 monster trucks of today.

 

[Rolex]

I had Tamiya grasshoppers and I thought the oil filled shocks were the coolest thing ever. I'm surprised I don't have scars from the ceramic speed control resistor.

 

[ausher]

Those ceramic resistors sure got hot! My first real rc was a Blackfoot. I dunno what happened to it. My dad has probably 6-8 clod busters that he has modded and converted. One has a sassy chassis 6x6x6 chassis. I still got my jrx-pro I'm going to make brushless and lipo. Just sold a jrxt parts car. Got an rc10 I may sell too...

 

[Rolex]

I held onto my Grasshoppers for over 20 years. When I got back into the hobby, things had advanced to such an extreme that I sold over $500 worth of Tamiya cars and parts for $40.

I built a few for other people, including the Blackfoot and the 4WD 911 Porsche.

 

[ausher]

I never sold any of mine. Now I see they are worth some $$$..
After I got my drivers licence I got out of rc's. One day back in '02 wife was at some makeup store and I went next door to a hobby shop and a spur of the moment impulse buy I bought a nitro rustler. I ran about a quart through it and then it sat for 11 years (well its still sitting) A couple months ago a guy at work had a 2.5 revo and sold it to me for $20. It kinda got me back into the hobby. Now I'm trying to get my boys in it.

 

[Rolex]

At $20 you made out like a bandit. You know what it's worth. It won't take much to get it running, I don't care what shape it's in.

 

[ausher]

I wouldn't have taken anything to get it running, but I somehow managed to dump $500 in it...
Hopefully this sledgehammer won't be that much:\

 

[Rolex]

I'll give you $25 for it.

 

[ausher]

I think all I got left of the 2.5 is a arms... sold most of it on eBay...
guess I can let the a arms go for $25

 

[Greywolf74]

I had a Tamiya Team Frog back in the day when I was a kid. I burnt myself more than onc eon that ceramic resistor. lol

 

[ausher]

I gotta put the mechanical speed controller with that big ol ceramic resistor back in it so my son will burn himself and be initiated into the rc world it's like a right of passage hehe...

 

[Greywolf74]

lol

 

[Greyryder]

Never burnt myself on the resistor, but I did lose a battery pack after trying to run a modified motor with the mechanical speed control. Melted the Kyosho connectors together! :whhooo:

 

[override]

I burnt myself so many time on mine, my first rc car was a rustler, lol. Cool looking truck!

 

[chickenman242]

Haha the old days of mechanical speed controls , resistor and try to run a modified motor on them

 

[darthfury78]

As a kid, I never got into the hobby grade R/C's because it was way out of my price range. It's amazing how the technology has come so far from the old Latrax era.

For a time, I was collecting vintage R/C's that ranged from toy grade to hobby grade. And the Radio Shack Corvette C5-R got me into the hobby. But once I obtain the Pro-Cision Corvair Monza, I was hooked with obtaining the Latrax cars.

From 2003-2010, I searched for these elusive cars with no luck. Then I stumbled upon Yahoo Japan Auctions and saw a Latrax Buggy NIB in December 2010. The by July 2011, obtained a Latrax Tran am NIB. Then in early 2012, finally got a NIB Latrax Corvette. As for as Hobby grade R/C's goes, Latrax cars are the most difficult cars to find new in the package. They are even tougher than the NIB(ready to run) Traxxas Fiero.

 

[MudSlinger33]

Sounds like I didn't miss out on much. Mechanical speed controls were way before my time.