RE: My first Tamiya
the worst thing i ever bought NEW was when i was young and dumb, i bought a 1/8 scale porche touring car, i was SO excited to get it, and when I opened the box, it was a cheap nikko type car with plastic wheels and no digital proportion, on top of that it took 2 months to get and spent a whopping $130 on it, the seller (from china) offered $70 after i sent it back and paid shipping.
since the car was useless I tossed it in the garbage but kept the body.