Destroyed my winter project

**Diegoboy** · 12-09-2009, 12:14 AM

Ouch!

**pescador** · 12-09-2009, 02:18 AM

Nice crash!
I've got a couple of full race 10T's that were pretty hot back in the day and a ton of parts collecting dust. Now your giving me ideas mmmmm brushless

**marko500** · 12-09-2009, 10:00 AM

An old RC10 got me back into RC. My son found my old RC10 in the basement and started running it again and crashing it. It's getting harder and harder to find parts for it so we picked up a couple brushless Traxxas cars. That led into brushless boats, and 3 brushless cars, a crawler and 5 brushless boats later here I am. When my wife gets mad about the money we spend on this hobby I just blame my son!

**BILL OXIDEAN** · 12-09-2009, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by marko500

An old RC10 got me back into RC. My son found my old RC10 in the basement and started running it again and crashing it. It's getting harder and harder to find parts for it so we picked up a couple brushless Traxxas cars. That led into brushless boats, and 3 brushless cars, a crawler and 5 brushless boats later here I am. When my wife gets mad about the money we spend on this hobby I just blame my son!

If I'm not mistaken, I'm hearing a story of a family who got into boats through cars??

A class that incorperates car equipment is a viable resource for the crossover i think more guys enter electric boats through cars than one might think.. I certainly did

**marko500** · 12-09-2009, 10:40 AM

My first RC car was a Tamiya Blackfoot then the RC 10 after that I picked up a Futaba Candy boat ( remember that one!). It was nice because the boat used all car components (motor, speed controls servos, batteries) I was bitten by the RC boat bug. I then got into big gas powered boats but was limited by places to run. So after a break FE was the perfect answer to both speed and availability of places to run. My sons also are pretty confortable with the boats after some wheel time with the cars. We still swap the batteries and chargers between cars and boats.

**BILL OXIDEAN** · 12-09-2009, 10:50 AM

Originally posted by marko500

My first RC car was a Tamiya Blackfoot then the RC 10 after that I picked up a Futaba Candy boat ( remember that one!). It was nice because the boat used all car components (motor, speed controls servos, batteries) I was bitten by the RC boat bug. I then got into big gas powered boats but was limited by places to run. So after a break FE was the perfect answer to both speed and availability of places to run. My sons also are pretty confortable with the boats after some wheel time with the cars. We still swap the batteries and chargers between cars and boats.

Amen, I want to publish this story..
A sega of a man who through many adventures in radio controlled offroad bashing
discovered his final quest... A fast electric rc boat..

I can't stress to guys enough that many come into this through cars. Boats that accept all of your car gear make trying boats simple, way more affordable, and user friendly.

Sanctions are stepping away from boats that accept car equipment but here in NAMBA country we're pushing to utilize the awesome technology these car motors and speedos have to offer

**Darin Jordan** · 12-09-2009, 10:52 AM

OUCH, Bill! That one hurts!! (the trashing of your truck...) You did that one good!!

I have a Stampede... which I'll admit... got me into BOATS!

I had a Dumas DV-10 in glass when I was about 13... Built it the best I could... put in an OS-Max 10FSR... Full-sized servos, etc... I was just a kid with no $$$ so I did what I could...

Took it to the lake the first time out... got it running, tossed it into the water, and SNAP... flex shaft snapped and I never ran it again...

Years later I got a Tamiya FAST ATTACK Vehicle and that got me started into Cars... Then years went by without anything...

About 8 or 9 years ago, my parents showed up for my Birthday and my Dad, who liked to surprise us kids, hands me a package that was a Traxxas Stampede with charger and batteries... BANG! I'm off...

After running it around for a year or so, I was cleaning out the garage and found an old Dumas DV40 hull that I had purchased used from a friend's dad that used to race it... I had cleaned it all up, repainted, etc... and then it had been put into storage for YEARS...

I started wondering about powering it with Electric power, so I started inquiring, and after getting in touch with Fuller and PSFEMBC, here we are today!!

I still have the Stampede, and I also have several RC10 onroad cars, including an oval racer with several bodies. In addition, I went on a streak on E-Bay a couple of years ago and bought up enough spare parts for Traxxas Rustlers to build at least two complete vehicles... one for each kid... haven't gotten to do that yet, but I will...

**pescador** · 12-09-2009, 11:30 AM

For me cars and trucks definitely led to boats, sailboats first but I eventually got faster.

My first car was a Cox .049 Dune-buggy no radio control just point and shoot. I finally found enough parts to restore one for the shelf.
That eventually led to racing 10T's offroad, but competing against fully sponsored factory drivers the costs started to get crazy.
When the RTR T-Maxx came out it got me back into nitro and now trying boat racing 15 years later.

**BILL OXIDEAN** · 12-09-2009, 11:48 AM

I like these stories! its like a trip down memory lane..
I grew up around the corner from a hobby shop. I was raised through the hobbies starting with slot cars at 6 went on to rocketry, then got my first hobbby class rc car the tamiya super champ in 1983. I next got a tamiya falcon, then a kyosho optima then I turned into a girl chaser.

At 19 I picked up a Traxxas Rad-2 and went through literally hundreds of cars thereafter. a couple of college buddies and I thought it would be neat to run an rc boat after the shnicks and giggles we got out of my high flying cat chasing buggy, so we pitched in on a Kyosho Viper rtr. I modded the crud out of it, then after reading boat modeller saw Randy's ad.

Being less than a 20 minute drive from my house, I went into his shop and he started teaching me the ropes. It wasn't long before he had enslaved me in his polishing dungeon, and made a parts boy outta' me.

**Eodman** · 12-09-2009, 12:15 PM

Was Never in RC cars ... when I was young - 45 years ago we had a summer home with a ski boat and of course I had to have my own boat!

Parents got me a plastic one with an OB on it, little on off switch no RC but it was mine and slow!

A few years ago, my sons & I watched a regional Gas race here in Sayreville and the interest was renewed! Then I bought the the contents of a storage container and low and behold in the front of the container was a newer Villian and an almost new Supervee still in the box and the Beast rared up and bite me in the a@@! Took a bite out of my son also!

That's my story!

**marko500** · 12-09-2009, 12:20 PM

My sons were laughing at me when I was telling them about the "good old days" when we were thrilled when 1500mha Ni-cds came out. and the Pro-Tec chargers where you set the 15 min. timer and then kept resetting it until the battery was warm. Or the old 3 step Tamiya speed contols with the resistor. We go through boxes in the basement to prove these things actually existed! We sure have come a long way. Makes me wonder what my kids will be telling their kids about this sport some day. Sure is fun building memories with them.

**Diegoboy** · 12-09-2009, 06:28 PM

Here's my "other than a boat" hobby vehicle. I hope that doesn't happen to mine!

**BakedMopar** · 12-09-2009, 06:37 PM

Nice Danny! Looks good. I got into boats from cars/trucks of over 20 years. I still got some RC10Ts and some others. They are getting harder to find and when you do it's a lot of $.

What I like most about boats is the challenge. Your setup has to be very close or perfect where as cars/trucks it's not as sensitive. You can change your driving style to suite a bad setup in a race. Boats bad setup and it's over.

**screwball** · 12-09-2009, 08:42 PM

i got into boats through cars over the summer and i was hooked! lol i started with a micro scat cat, then a mini cat racing velocity mono then another micro scat cat and now im bilding a renegade rigger!

James

Destroyed my winter project

Destroyed my winter project

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