what started you in this hobby

[DarthRacer]

Originally posted by HumboldtBlazer
Isn't it funny how many people Traxxas either brought in or brought back into the hobby from the T-Maxx, pretty powerful thing that T-maxx was, and now I strongly detest them go figure.

Don't forget about the old-skool Tamiya kits. The Grashopper ruled back in the day. I remember my uncle had one of those too.


I do have to credit the T-Maxx for getting me back into the hobby after about a 3 year hiatus. Damn internet and all those videos!!

 

[NitroM3GTR]

Well, I've always liked cars and one day at school I picked up an R/C car magazine. I saw the Micro RS4 with the BMW M3 body, and with the M3 being my favorite car at the time, I knew I had to get one. I'm one of those people that waits a long time to buy their expensive things, because I have to ponder it for hours. I saw the 1/10 nitro's in the hobby shop and figured I could never afford one myself. However, I got onto Ebay and found my Nitro RS4 Racer, buy it now, for $180. I bought that and was hooked, although it was kinda a disaster. I got a Yokomo GT-4 RTR for my birthday, and I've been in ever since.

 

[pissant]

well, i was about 12 now 16. i was hooked on flying rc planes and i was at a tutor session and i saw a couple guys play with a couple of nitro rc trucks (can't rember what they were) after two hours of flying a plane, i was like this is not for me and i decided to try out a traxxas buggy as my frist nitro car and now i have a savage and now i love it!! :fro:

 

[Lessen]

One of my technician buddy's at the car dealership I used to work at brought it in one day. Thought is was the coolest thing in the world. Kept sayin I was gonna get one but never did. Couple years later (last summer) I moved an hour away to the other side of town. Whataya know... my new neighbor has one too. OMG, now I HAD to get one. Well to make this short and sweet, my fiance bought me a new T-maxx for X-mas. It got ran over by a car in March. now I'm in the midst of creating a custom Street/light off road Maxx. (I'm not into jumping really... just a lot of speed. Although that house jump vid is totally wicked.)

 

[Waste Land]

RS43Drifter pretty much sumed up my story. He saw the cars at a monster truck area. Years past and I get my montly import tuning mag, and they had a huge thing about RC cars and me and tyler sat up late loking at HPI. Tyler went and bought one about a year later, his onroad to be exact. His dad got the axis,I got a storm and my dad the terminator. Tyler felt left out being the only onroad so he bought a NMT. His dad got obsessed bought a Savagae for Tyler and a tmaxx for himself. Alot of trading went down adn I kept his big large eating mass amounts of my other large dog that eats alot of food, either way now his dad has the xterm and my dad has a tmaxx. Soon aftter that his dad bought a mammoth....go figure, lol.

Originally posted by Lessen
(I'm not into jumping really... just a lot of speed.

Give it time. This is RCNT. The bashing spirit will be released into you like the holyghost at church. lol

 

[newnitrofan]

Well guys had my first Tandy Lamborghini when I was about 6. Got my first Tamiya black foot when I was twelve as all of my neighbors had something. It got stolen a couple of years later and well I lost interest. Last year my buddy took me to hobby town got my first on road and have been re hooked ever since.

 

[R/C Madman]

The Need For Speed!:redbuggy:

 

[joneser4u]

I was always into r/c, I remember 2nd grade I had a little ferrari(spel) the remote had 2 buttons,one for forward and one for reverse that would also make it turn.I slowly graduated to the NICCO and TYCO full function wal-mart line,hey the TYCO BANDIT 9.6v nissan truck was pretty fast back in the day I remember owning like 7 of those.Then when I was 13 I saved for what seemed to be for ever for the GOLDEN ARROW RADIO SHACK buggy,at 7.2 volts it was decently fast.I was just begining to tinker with things so I had some 9.6v packs laying around and noticed the plugs was the same as the 7.2v,yep hobby knife and lighter I squeezed it into the golden arrow,this thing was fast,but it broke alota drivetrain stuff and eventually the chassie so I threw it in the closet started geting into 1.1 cars and girls.After highschool a friend had a touring car it was nitro?One smell was all it took,a week later I owned that very car!So many years and thousands of $ later here I am.I'm in a very small redneck town,when I break out the nitros farmers ask howd you get that weedeater motor on that lil toy.Its funny

 

[bennyboy444]

it was in 1987,it was the day after christmas and i got the TURBO HOPPER,the red one.I went outside to play and my friend's father came to the house with is Nitro car and make fun of me.From this day,i promise myself that one day i will have one like that too.17 years later boooooooom!!!!Guess who's back!!!

 

[rs43drifter]

joneser you should come to our bash you live in middle tennessee right, thats not too far

 

[joneser4u]

Ill be attending the Va. bash,when is the Al. bash,I may be able to make it?

 

[jon2]

TAMIYA BABY

I have to say that I was actually pulled into RC about 17 years ago when I went to an old Price Club ( Now Costco ) and saw a MRC Tamiya Boomerang. I cried and cried and then one day my parents bought it for me. i Put that whole kit together and raced my cousins Blackfoot. We did that for about a 6 months till he got out of it. I stayed with it till I got a RC10 Championship edition.That was SHiot!!! I dropped in a hot motor and ran an old Tekin Speed control and I was good till I saw Losi XXT CR. I moved to that and then sold. WHat got me into Nitro was a RTR3. My inlaws were into it and damn it to hell if I was going to pass a hobby that I could have a few family members to bash with. So we had my RTR 3 and two NTC3's I got sick of the rtr3 and got a NTC3 and played with it till I got a Tmaxx 2.5. The wife wanted that one and I moved to a Monster Gt. Love that truck!! THen DAMN ALL OF YOU for getting me hooked onto buggies!!. Henceforth I now have a Hyper 7 PCR PRo. Nitro RC... Gotta love em.. Bill to pay for em...Hate em but not enough to leave this great hobby!!

Jon

 

[nitroanime]

I've always loved r/c but the toystore cars couldn't my abusive nature. They would be done in less than a month-at most. 4 months ago I was walking through a japanese mall when i came to a hobby store. Went inside to look at some models and walked out with a car. Now I have 5 and i'm still not done.

 

[Nitro_Freak]

when i was 10 i had a realy spoiled friend that had the original rs4 rtr and maximum st, and after watching him drive them for a while, i was hooked and i got a nitro rustler. well, since i was only 10 or 11 at the time i didn't know anything about it so it broke eventually and i left it alone. recently my friend got an rc10gt (now broken since he's an absolute dumbass), and that resparked my interest. i have since bought a new nitro rustler and am now using my old one for spare parts

 

[olds97_lss]

When I was around 13, my older brothers bought me a Radio Shack Golden Arrow buggy. I broke it the first day I had it. If I had it now, I would have fixed it...

Anyway, I was always interested in doing something stupid with any vehicle I played with as a kid and as I got older, I did stupid stuff with motorcycles and 1:1 cars (by the way, a chevette always kicks to the right when airborn).

Now I'm married, and the wife isn't to thrilled about me wanting a motorcycle again. When we get a house, I can have a bike. So, now I have 2 t-maxx's. One that is built for brute force (21 conversion) and one that is built to beat the crap out of.

 

[woody]

Well, this year 2002 I had a bad motorcycle accident. I had gone down before, but it was due to my own fault. Usually riding above my means. But, this time I was not my fault. I was hit by 4 wheeler (car). Guess they did'nt see me?? I was only doing like 40-45 mph. While recovering from the accident, I rebuilt the bike to pristine condition. I happen to think it was better than before. Anyway, I kept it for about 6-8 months more, but only rode it like once a month to work and back. The I guess you could say I was kind of scared to ride it anymore. Now I had been riding for like 8 years, and this was my 3rd bike. After discussing it with the wife, we both agreed it would be the best thing to do. Sell it! A month or so later, I was really bored (no hobby) The guys across the way were playing with a bunch of RC's. I told I think I would like to have one. Low and behold, I went to check the mail one day and there was this huge package in the mail. Almost a year later, I have a second RC, and a supermaxx that is almost completed! The rest is history!

Woody:w00t:

 

[rs43drifter]

it should be in the fall when it cools down a little bit me or waste land will let you all know the exact date

 

[4u2nv]

I bought my 1st Rd truck/car when I had bought a plane and was a total rookie at it. Didnt have a CLUE what I was doing. So after I got really sick of repairing a plane I constantly was sticking money into after all my crashes I figured Id by a Nitro truck (Tmaxx) to drive in between plane repairs and days to windy to fly. So now I am a Avid Flyer AND basher. Now thinking of hitting the waves also.

 

[pmoyer]

I'm a beginer in r/c, but i satrted with a piece of crap radio shack car for 100$ a while ago but i started to play with about 1 year ago. i got my first rustler and the a nirto stampede then i went back to electric with a e-maxx

 

[SaVaGeR21]

I've always like the little tyco electrics. but what got my into nitro was two things kind of. about 2 years ago, i was 11, and my buddy across the street had the magazine on nitro powered cars. i though i was gonna save up my money to buy a car but that same buddy got my hooked into tunrtables and i got those instead. but like 7-8 months ago, my cousin got a hpi rs4 mt and then i wasnted to get one so i got on ebay and found a nice used savage .21. thats what got me started.
savager