what started you in this hobby

[rs43drifter]

ok i was 11 years old i was at that freestyle motocross thing that waste land was talking about. i was into FMX at the time i could do a few tricks anyway i saw those little RC cars jumping this huge jump and going fast around the track i was in WOW! those are sweet so i said i will have one so i went home and i didn't know who made them or what they were really called at the time but i got lucky and found HPIRACING so i looked on that site for years envying everything i saw so about 5 years later i got a job and the first thing i saved up and bought was a RS4 RTR3 well now i think it should be illegal to get someone bitten by the nitro bug but its still fun as hell as you know LOL

Tell me about how you got started with nitro RC

p.s. don't get mad if someone has already made a thread like this i looked but didn't find anything

 

[Error401]

I guess it was my Dad. He flew R/C since he was a kid, and Mom would take me to the field when I was in diapers. Back then (late 60's and early 70's) mufflers were just catching on as a real good idea, so you can imagine how loud a .60 is with no muffler. I had nitro in my nose from early on. Dad was stationed at Ft. Rucker in Alabama and Ft. Bragg in N.C. till the mid 70's. He flew for a short bit after we moved here. It was years later that I finally went and built a 2 meter glider and tought myself to fly. Dad thought that was cool and got back into flying. I eventually started competing in precision areobatics (pattern) and cruised the regioal circuit for a couple years. We eventually drifted back out of that hobby and I got into flying helis. then the county outlawed flying at one of the best parks in the area so I quit flyinf (for now). I picked up nitro cars because you can run them jsut about anywhere and I love the smell of nitro.

 

[DarthRacer]

I blame my uncle for my R/C addiction, but I think my nito fever goes back to my dad when I was about 4 years old.

I remember when I was a little guy my dad took me out to an open parking lot and fired up his Cox van. That thing was cool. You had to spin the flywheel with your finger to start it and it only had steering control. I whish I had than thing today.

Years later when I was 12 my uncle brought an R/C kit by the house that he sold to my dad which was a Marui Ninja 4WD car. I watched my dad assemble it and wanted an R/C of my own. That same year for Christmas my parents bought me a Tamiya Lunch Box, which I still have today. I bashed the hell out of it and now it needs some restoration. I got addicted to R/C once I graduated HS and had a nice job to pay for my hobby.

 

[Çh®i§tiªñ]

Well as a kid the Frog and Grasshopper were a given. However, I put up the hobby for many years thereafter.

A couple years ago, I quit smoking and decided I needed something to occupy my time to keep my mind off of it. Thus, back in the hobby :thumbup:

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

I saw a T-Maxx running around my buddies yard jumping a ramp they built like 6 ft in the air, I fell in love rest is history.

 

[nitro dave]

I saw a video on the internet. It was for the Terracrusher. I knew I had to have nitro. I ended up with a first gen tmaxx, and here I am today.

 

[rs43drifter]

my uncle ( Waste Land's dad) flew planes about like 8 or 10 years ago i was spending the night with him i had just got back from the dentest and they gave me a rc magazine and we were looking at it and his dad was talking about a track that used to be around here Spring Cove International Speed way i dont know if anyone has ever heard of it but its huge well any way he took us there and it was sweet and about 2 months after that i went to huntsville alabama and got my first rc there were alot of forces at work that comvenced me to get one now i got it ok i glued the wheels and a few minor things that the guy at the HS told me to do. ok I'm done with that stuff now i crank it up and walk to the road and run it my dad was like damn i gotta get me one of those and so he headed out to huntsville for the second time that day ok so now i gotta go to work so i call home and see what he got well my mom awnserd and said he got a axis and he was headed back to huntsville for the 3rd time that day huntsville is about an hour and a half away so he must of got bitten good ok so a few days later we go and get waste lands Storm and its sweet ok a few more days later we go back and get Waste lands dad one so all because of me i cost my family around 3 grand in like 2 months lol

 

[NooP]

A friend gave me his car and said you can have this for free, but you'll see that driving that car will be far from free. Prepare to spend a lot of money on it.

--NooP

 

[SokuShi]

can't argue with a free car

 

[StrechM]

While racing my slot cars at our local track I saw a T Maxx setting on the counter. You know the rest of the story.

 

[Diver6127]

My dad saw some kids playing with their electric buggies and saw how much fun it was. He gave my brother and I a Tamiya Hornet, he put it together. We both liked it and pretty much fought over it a little so he got a second one, the Tamiya Falcon. We were happy. Then my brother got an associated RC10L. Man that thing was fast. Then we packed them up for a few years.

Last year, my brothers girlfriend bought him an HPI SNR. He loved it and brought it home one day when he was off from school. I was with him while he was playing. He let me do a couple of runs with it ... My R/C bug was born! The next day I bought my NTC3 Team kit and I never looked back.

BTW, the original electrics were refurbished and replaced the electrics with esc instead of the mechanical ones with mechanical resistors. We still play with them too.

 

[msly]

Well My bro in the early 80's had a really fast electric buggy...cost him about $500 at that time... I can't remember the name. well that was my first insight into hard core RC stuff.

Then Imbroken showed me a video of a T-maxx when it first came out and when I heard that puppy hit 2nd gear I was sold.

sLY

 

[robmob]

My dad bought a Tamiya Rough Rider back when they first came out. After he built it, I gave it a spin and was hooked.

My first RC was a Tamiya Hot Shot. I then bought a Kyosho Assault Nitro which I sold shortly after finishing the build. For some reason I thought Nitro was a pain in the ass. Clod Buster was next, followed by a Tamiya Thundershot to replace my beat-up Hot Shot.

After getting married I got a Losi Junior-T which was my last new RC 12 years. Job, marriage, mortgage and putting my wife through college took up all my time and I lost interest in RC.

10 months ago, my dad showed me his new 2.5 T-Maxx. Could not believe the speed and the fact it had a 2nd gear. Hooked me again. Thanks dad.

 

[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.

 

[zoeybadm]

My parents bought me a RC10 way back in the day....ran it for a couple months and faded away into baseball season. Picked it up after catching a special on TV about RC and I remembered how fun it was. Started racing at the local track and never looked back....

 

[agjell]

About 6 years ago I saw a nitro driving outside my LHS. Of course I thought it was damn cool, so I bought a cheap nitro and drove it for about 6 months. I think I was to young at that time, didnt care about breakin in the engine or anything. At the end I didnt have more money for parts, so I gave up and left the car in the basement until now. I found the car a couple of weeks ago and decided to try it out. Engine worked like clockwork and I remembered how fun it was. I'm soon buying a new car and plan to use the local byggy track as a place to meet other enthusiasts, maybe that'll keep me running for longer this time

 

[SavageRockS]

After watching a couple of on-road nitro races, I got hooked. I started with on-roads RC racers in Japan, but switched to monster trucks when we moved to Michigan. For me, it is a form of releasing stress and unwinding from a day's work especially during the longer evenings of the summer months.
:hi:

 

[El Pirata]

I was a drying out alcoholic that was just about to quit paintball and I needed another hobby to blow my money on.

 

[Maxx Trooper]

i actually seen a old Clint Eastwood movie where the bad guy was using a old gas powered car with explosives to blow peoples cars up. sweet. it got me hooked. that night i got on eBay and bought a TRAXXAS Nitro Hawk.

later

 

[nitromaniac]

My nephew brought his savage and NTC3 over one day about three years ago, when I saw the tc3 fly past my feet at what seemed to be 100 MPH, I got in my car and went and got my first nitro, I am sorry to say it was a very short lived nitro4tec, then after I learned what not to buy, I got my own NTC3 and GS storm, and the rest is history! Growing up with three brothers , there was always something RC going on, I dont even remember what my brothers had, I just remember my dad yelling at them to put them away and get in the house for dinner! I live hundreds of miles from my brothers now,,when they come and visit they wanna break my poop! I always manage to not have fuel or a broken servo or something, works everytime!