Y'all gotta see this...especially rally fans!

Okay, I spent some time road racing R/C cars. An Associated RC1 in the 70s, and an RC12 (mostly on carpet) during the 80s. But at one point in time, I had one of the old Tamiya rally cars (the Audi Quattro, of course) and really enjoyed running the thing around the yard. I thought that it would be really cool to start a series for R/C rallies, but just couldn't figure out how to do it. All my attempts were more like a rallycross than a real stage rally.

These guys in the Czech Republic have addressed my shortcomings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPIT-7K3Ng

http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeydotcz#p/u/8/nOsgqJjfS4g

http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeydotcz#p/u/2/NvpDCGUiOT8

http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeydotcz#p/u/3/86rbkMiQeCI

The vids have the usual idiotic YooToob music over the top of the nat sound, but the action rocks!

If I were 30yr old again (and could actually run behind the car like they do), I think I'd try to spread that stuff over here!

Hey, that's no idiotic youtoob music, that's Primus! At least in the first one.

alex wrote: Hey, that's no idiotic youtoob music, that's Primus! At least in the first one.

Hey, I'm not dissing any bands...I'm just tired of everyone who posts a vid to youtube thinking they're a real filmmaker. Kill the "overproduction", let the nat sound rock!

looks like fun, I am seting a ae tc4 for the vintage tran-ams class that we do over here

I'd play along, looks like fun! That format looks awesomely simple.

Of course, over here somebody would fall and put a stick through their eye and sue.

That was very much appreciated.

The lawyer for the offense should have a stick put through HIS eye.

Man, you brought back some memories. I played around with a RC12 back in the late '80s myself. We were trying to see how fast we could make it go, using a radar gun from the friendly police station across the street from the shop. Covered the car with tin foil so they could get a reading on it.

We put a very expensive, very hot, motor in it. Then I built up a battery pack using more than twice the standard batteries. We had to put a massive spoiler on the back for the speed runs, otherwise it would "lift off" and go spinning through the air.

We were getting very close to 80 mph when I moved out of town, and were getting faster each time. That's actual speed by the way, not scale speed. It would kick up a rooster tail of dust 4 feet high behind it, and was absolutely amazing to watch something that small going that fast. :)

um, shorts, boots, black socks.

that is all.

That's awesome!

Kentetsu wrote: Man, you brought back some memories. I played around with a RC12 back in the late '80s myself. We were trying to see how fast we could make it go, using a radar gun from the friendly police station across the street from the shop. Covered the car with tin foil so they could get a reading on it. We put a very expensive, very hot, motor in it. Then I built up a battery pack using more than twice the standard batteries. We had to put a massive spoiler on the back for the speed runs, otherwise it would "lift off" and go spinning through the air. We were getting very close to 80 mph when I moved out of town, and were getting faster each time. That's actual speed by the way, not scale speed. It would kick up a rooster tail of dust 4 feet high behind it, and was absolutely amazing to watch something that small going that fast. :)

That's awesome. How much did it weigh though, I wonder how much damage it could have done to a person/car/shed at that speed :)

When I drive realy fast I hear footsteps stomping behind me

/dope voice on/

Hey, dude...maybe our cars are just, like maybe...R/C cars in the hands of creatures from a bigger universe...

/dope voice off/

An RC1 is gotta be worth some change these days.

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

Kentetsu wrote: Man, you brought back some memories. I played around with a RC12 back in the late '80s myself. We were trying to see how fast we could make it go, using a radar gun from the friendly police station across the street from the shop. Covered the car with tin foil so they could get a reading on it. We put a very expensive, very hot, motor in it. Then I built up a battery pack using more than twice the standard batteries. We had to put a massive spoiler on the back for the speed runs, otherwise it would "lift off" and go spinning through the air. We were getting very close to 80 mph when I moved out of town, and were getting faster each time. That's actual speed by the way, not scale speed. It would kick up a rooster tail of dust 4 feet high behind it, and was absolutely amazing to watch something that small going that fast. :)

That's awesome. How much did it weigh though, I wonder how much damage it could have done to a person/car/shed at that speed :)

The only additional weight was for the battery pack, which was about double that of stock. At top speed, I could easily imagine it breaking someone's ankle, or killing a small child if he was napping in the middle of the street. :)

Kentetsu wrote: The only additional weight was for the battery pack, which was about double that of stock. At top speed, I could easily imagine it breaking someone's ankle, or killing a small child if he was napping in the middle of the street. :)

OK, my sick mind is going back to the original 'Death Race 2000'

I am inpressed.

That was pretty cool!

About RC top speeds: way back when the Clint Eastwood movie 'The Dead Pool' had a chase scene where a psychotic was strapping explosives to RC cars and using them to kill people. The climactic chase scene involved Cliff Lett (probably the world's best RC driver at the time) chasing Eastwood's cop car with an RC10. Lett built a whoopass RC10, figuring he needed everything he could get to keep up with the full size car. Turned out he got to the end of the course almost 20 seconds before the other car; he had to scale way back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-bS6vw7F8

Lett later went to a bicycle track known as the 'RC Thunderdrome' and squeezed about 112 MPH (real, not scale) out of a RC10 pan car. That would have been around 1990 or so. The current electric RC car record is 161.76 MPH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=yXpVTOH9e4M&NR=1

Appleseed wrote: An RC1 is gotta be worth some change these days.

I don't have it anymore..don't even remember what happened to it.
OTOH, I know I've got the old Tamiya Audi stuffed in a box somewhere. I've heard that a lot of the vintage Tamiya R/C stuff is going for a few bux as well.

I don't think I'd sell it, but it would be pretty cool to restore & run. IIRC, all it needs is a new final drive & diff gear. They stripped because the diff hits the ground a lot (cracked), and all the grease leaked out. I'd need a new radio, though. All I've got left around here is a early 90s Futaba Magnum Jr. that doesn't even have the quick-change frequency crystals.

Tamyia is repoping a lot of old kits. Grasshopper, Blackfoot, lunchbox, etc...

I wonder if Thorp will come back and make diff kits for all of them again.

Now I can finally get a Brat and steal that plutonium for my science project.

Jensenman wrote: That was pretty cool! About RC top speeds: way back when the Clint Eastwood movie 'The Dead Pool' had a chase scene where a psychotic was strapping explosives to RC cars and using them to kill people. The climactic chase scene involved Cliff Lett (probably the world's best RC driver at the time) chasing Eastwood's cop car with an RC10. Lett built a whoopass RC10, figuring he needed everything he could get to keep up with the full size car. Turned out he got to the end of the course almost 20 seconds before the other car; he had to scale way back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-bS6vw7F8 Lett later went to a bicycle track known as the 'RC Thunderdrome' and squeezed about 112 MPH (real, not scale) out of a RC10 pan car. That would have been around 1990 or so. The current electric RC car record is 161.76 MPH. http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=yXpVTOH9e4M&NR=1

The Dead Pool car was an original RC-10 driven by Jay Halsey. Why can I remember that and not the combo to my gym locker.

Some pics here http://aedownloads.com/pdf/deadpool.pics.pdf

Wally wrote:

Jensenman wrote: That was pretty cool! About RC top speeds: way back when the Clint Eastwood movie 'The Dead Pool' had a chase scene where a psychotic was strapping explosives to RC cars and using them to kill people. The climactic chase scene involved Cliff Lett (probably the world's best RC driver at the time) chasing Eastwood's cop car with an RC10. Lett built a whoopass RC10, figuring he needed everything he could get to keep up with the full size car. Turned out he got to the end of the course almost 20 seconds before the other car; he had to scale way back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ-bS6vw7F8 Lett later went to a bicycle track known as the 'RC Thunderdrome' and squeezed about 112 MPH (real, not scale) out of a RC10 pan car. That would have been around 1990 or so. The current electric RC car record is 161.76 MPH. http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=yXpVTOH9e4M&NR=1

The Dead Pool car was an original RC-10 driven by Jay Halsey. Why can I remember that and not the combo to my gym locker. Some pics here http://aedownloads.com/pdf/deadpool.pics.pdf

Seriously cool. I never had an RC10, but that was a great chassis, wasn't it? Onroad, Offroad, good at everything as long as you put the right suspension & tires on it!

At the time, I thought the Tamiya touring cars would be the way to go. I had (have, but stuffed into another box somewhere ) a TA-01 and a FF-01. I was racing full-sized cars at the time (early to mid 90s) and didn't really spend any money on improvements, since I wasn't taking it seriously any more.

friedgreencorrado wrote: I'm just tired of everyone who posts a vid to youtube thinking they're a *real* filmmaker. Kill the "overproduction", let the nat sound rock!

On a sidenote, this is one of many reasons why Victory By Design is automotive nirvana

In reply to JeepinMatt:

I really miss that show. Beautiful cars that I will never be able to afford. But I love to listen to them all day long.

Kia_racer wrote: In reply to JeepinMatt: I really miss that show. Beautiful cars that I will never be able to afford. But I love to listen to them all day long.

They released 4 more recently. I bought the first six, then kept an eye on them for a while until they released a few more (I know they have Ford, Corvette, Grand Prix and Lotus. I think they like to release them in batches; it just takes them a while to round up so much rare iron and make a show.