SyCo_VeNoM

As the topic says what got you hooked on hobby grade RC's.

I'll start After I ditched out of my nephews communion party to goto a fish store I've always heard great things about (and Yes I skipped out of a party to goto a fish store). When I got to the place I saw a pile of people gathered round in the parking lot next door and saw a pile of RC's racing. Just something about seeing the cars ripping around and hearing the engines made me want one. 2 weeks later I bought a used MT1

I've owned plenty of cheap RC's before that like TyCo's and a few years before the hobby grades I had a pile of TOMY *****arges with a pile of parts for office racing (me and a few others on the shift raced them before the boss came in).

DaveG55

My father(who was building RC planes before i was born) bought my brother and I a line control nitro plane for our birthdays (8 & 10 respectively). A few years later, after destroying most of the plane, I built an airboat using the engine from the plane. A few years later I started into surface electric and nitro. Put it all away for a few more years, then got back into surface RC (boats, cars, MT's) then into planes and helis.
I got my 1st plane, a Cox PT trainer, for my 10th birthday in 1965 so I guess I've been hooked on RCs for a while now.

Devils-Reject

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All growing up i always loved all types of r/c's as a kid i had a whole closet full and i was always taking them apart re-gearing them making super large battery packs and everything. once i got older and was able to afford nitro i never went back to elec. [although i am planning on getting a few now]
i started out with going crazy i bought a used hpi on-road a used truggy and a bunch of planes.

then i sold them all off and always wished i hadn't
i just recently bought another brand new one and im already getting a list of others i will be getting.
i am also building a 1/5 scale

i just love the nitro cars. the though of controlling a small gas powered car that goes crazy fast is such a rush

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you reminded me, my father also used to build huge scale r/c planes when i was young.....
he now builds ultra-lights and flys them....
maybe i'll be a race car driver soon...... hahaha i could only wish

magnus213

When I was really young my brother let me tag along when he was hanging out with his friend (they're a couple years older than me). We went to the friend's house, and HIS older brother had built a small off-road track in his backyard and was running a nitro-powered buggy. I only watched him for maybe ten minutes and never saw him run it ever again, but I kept it in the back of my mind for years (seriously, probably 5-6 years) until I made enough money to buy one for myself.

Kind of weird how things work out like that...

redfisher1974

When i was ten i bought a Mauri Big Bear off of a friends friend for $100 RTR,And it was a great truck in its day.

suburban_hooligan

my cousin raced 1/10 electric off road back in the early/mid 90’s. that introduced me to it. used to want a tamiya blitzer beetle. then the slot car track i raced at moved next to so cal raceway in garden grove, ca. i would hang out at so cal in-between rounds. quite racing slot cars and got into VW’s. was thumbing through an issue of RC Car Action back in april 1997 saw an ad for the kyosho stadium baja. bought one a week later.
been here raising hell ever sense

rast4man

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I was about 10 or so and my parents bought me this 57 Chevy that actually had "realistic motor sounds". Me being me, I ran it into a puddle and fried it. After complaining that I wanted a "real car" they bought me a Grasshopper and then a Kyosho Rocky 4WD. After building those two, the passion began.

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yea i had an elec grasshopper & 57 chevy too now i see they have the exact same thing all beefed up looks just the old 1980 style grasshopper i almost bought it just because i had the same thing when i was a kid

MCSRacing

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back in like 84 my brother inlaw and i stopped by the hobby shop and ended up buying a couple cars .. he got a grasshopper and i bought a marui hunter LOL... after about a month i bought my first rc10 .. a gold tub bearing car with the varilok tranny .... carpet off road ... those where the days!! .... slow motors and batterys and radios that almost all glitched really bad .... brushless and 2.4ghz are a blessing!!

black mamba

Back in the mid 80s when I was just a little kid, my uncle had a Tamiya Hot Shot. He needed parts one day, so I went with him to the hobby shop (Pat's Hobbies in Oak Lawn) and I ended up leaving with a Tamiya Frog. I "raced" that out at some outdoor track in Plainfield that was right off of I-55. I really got seriously involved in RC when I was in jr high. I started racing my RC10 with my cousin who had a Losi JRX2 at our local track-Remotely Daytonas. Over the years I have always had some kind of RC car/truck and just recently got back into going to the track (Leisure Hours) with my Flux and Blitz. I bring my 5 year old daughter with and she has a blast with running the Blitz and being track marshal. It's fun and relieves a lot of stress.....and is good for building character in kids.

butt_housed247

bronx boy

my dad owned a slot car store in 1966 he had three big tracks 60 feet long 8 lanes i was hooked on speed back then i was ten i bought a nikko dictator back in 84 then a blackfoot used them a few years stoped till my godson was born 9 years ago then i went completly insain up to 36 cars now all kinds nitro electric i need help i cant stop

Access

Robotics basically, I needed a platform for a robot so I talked to the guys at the hobby shop and they suggested a first-generation E-maxx (this was probably ~5 years ago). That's basically what got me into the current batch of RCs I have today.

quietnas1

When I graduated high school I had gone to a friends of mines house to hang out a play some Nintendo 64 (remember that) and I saw this car sitting on the floor. I asked him what it was he said it was a Grasshopper. He told me what LHS he bought it at and I went the next day. While I was there I saw the box for the RC10GT and when I found out it ran on gas I was like yeah that's what I want. The Guy at the LHS helped me pick out a radio and engine and I placed it all on layaway. Well when I finally built it and ran it I was hooked. That was back in the summer of 1994 and been playing ever since.

nitroade

Bought the full colour Tamiya catalogue in 1984, that was it for me.

rcslsafut

both my uncles flew control lines when i was a kid .(early seventys)
i got into hobby grade cars in the ninty's when i bought my kid a toy grade r/c and got sick of waiting 15 hours to charge it.(10 min run time)
once again my uncle told me about the stampede,THATS ALL SHE WROTE,i have been hooked ever since. started with two stampede's one for him
one for me ,been haveing a blast ever since !!!!! prob have ten of my own, he has about five,recently got my youngest daughter one for christmas!!

dudecat

About 6yrs ago i got my tamiya mighty bull. That was the hook line and sinker. Then i bought some pedes and then had to sell them to make some bills i had. Now i got my first running nitro and what a learning experience it has been.

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Hahahaha so funny. yea i remember the tower hobbys cats. when i was younger

SyCo_VeNoM

I got a working Atari 2600 still :P
and every system Nintendo's made (even virtual boy) in working condition, so yea I remember it

john01374

Around 3rd or 4th grade a kid brought in a Tamiya Fast Attack for show and tell. He ran it around the class room and up and down the hall a few times. I was hooked. The following weekend I asked my mother to take me to the local hobby shop where we put a Grasshopper on Layaway. I spent the rest of the summer cutting lawns, washing cars etc to get the money to pay it off. My mother paid half of the cost and I paid the other. I ran that ar to death for 2 years before getting my next car...

I've been in the hobby without a break ever since.

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now from reading all these posts these were lots of factors that got me into r/c. its like a little bit of what everyone else says. weird.
also when i was younger a kid in school [a little rich kid who got everything]
got a black foot kit and that thing for the time was huge and high tech
i wanted one so bad...
and eventually i got them

rast4man

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This thread makes me feel old. In a good way though.

trx1

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seeing a r/c car in a parking lot. i was 22 then. never heard of them before that!

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WHAT!!!!????
were you raised in a cave???

sike nah, just kidding but really?
mani have been infatuated since i was at least 4-5
i remember one christmas my mother got me and my father matching stock cars on different channels so we could race each other.