Lap time shootout between Vintage 2WD Tamiya Novafox, Schumacher Top Cat & Kyosho Tomahawk RC Buggy. 

I got myself a Tamiya Holiday Buggy fitted with the GT Tuned 540 motor. I bought my brother the grasshopper with the same motor. When he gets round to building it we’re going to have a head to head race (reliving our youth at 40, based on the cars we had back in the early 90s).

It’s the front ribbed tyres causing the lack of steering issue, pop some spikes on.

How about next time: Tamiya Super Astute, vs Kyosho Ultima, vs Schumacher Top Cat? The winner of this race goes head to head with the..........Associated RC10!

More like this 🤩👍 really good vid

Would be interesting to see the times of 4wd buggy’s of the same era. Keep up the good work!

Those wonderful pesky kids, great driving guys and dad you did alright too. Good job.👍

These remind me a lot of the Lobo that Sears sold when I was a kid but they ran on 8 AA batteries. I really like how things have improved with the cars now.

Dude, Great job, Great music, great sound effects. Great job all the way around.

Nice snap shot of how quickly 1/10 RC cars changed in the 80's. The 1983 Tomahawk with its scale looks and the other end of the time line the 1988 Top cat built to race and nothing like a real car . I was amazed how close they all were in terms of time. Get the RERE RC10 up and running and use that as the bench mark for 2WD runs.

Awe YEA!!! The Fox was my first hobby grade RC. It was fun to build with my dad and race at the track with my friends. You are correct, the steering was not the best, but I to think a better servo would have helped alot. I miss that buggy!!!

This was good fun, more "Lap time shootout" videos please!

god damn, i literally had the exact issue with my tomahawk lol, first time running in the snow, worked for 5 minutes then had that issue, went thru whole thing even retorqing the face of the diff lol. Good video! sorry im late to the show

Awesome video!! Please do another 2wd shoot out with the Ultima, Super Astute and the real benchmark the RC-10!!

Awesome video again! Just wanna thank you for cutting the grass, much easier to see the track 😊

I like how you did your track. I will have to remember this when spring comes next year.

Class video buddy, thanks.

Fun video 👍 I love the Novafox 💙

Yes enjoyed that. Nice to see the car's where they belong, on the track!

I need to mow my grass like a track do what your doing. I have some cones. Great video. Love the Fox. I need to get to building mine.

Hello there, My first 4wd buggy was a well used and abused ProCat back in 1992...can't remember how much i paid for it but what a great little machine it was. Best wishes to you and yours from Dublin.

Great video that mate, loved it and look forward to seeing some more like this. Would be good to get the slowest and see if you can mod it to match the fastest etc for another video. Think the front tyres will have big part to play on the turning too. Imo

It may be slower but the Kyosho tomahawk looks the best.

Lovely garden Gav! Even better with some rc’s. I loved the video though, out of three I’d go for the Schumacher. I’m guessing you know why. 😁

Would be good to compare a super astute or a zahak against the topcat

Fabulous video! I love to see the old school cars racing! Hopefully you include the Hotshot in the race! Thank you for the great video!!

Great video, will be interesting to see how all the other classics compare. I'd love to see the CAT XLS and CAT K1 Aero times. I see several comments suggesting that all cars should run the same motor etc. I can see where they are coming from but in a way this doesn't really create a much fairer comparison because the strength of some cars over others will be that they have the drivetrain and handling abilities that can take the more powerful motors. Nobody watches Top Gear and says hang on a minute, you need to put an Astra VXR engine into all the supercars to make it fair :)

Nice Video Gav 😎👌🏻

That was a good shootout, for some reason I kept thinking I would like to see the Super Astute battle the Top Cat . Hopefully you use Top Force in the 4wd shootout. That motor must have really gotten hot to burn up like that . That always makes me nervous when I run my old buggies. Great video Gavin.

reminds me so much so much of rc grand pix on sega master system.

FUN!

This comparison should have been Tamiya Astute vs Kyosho Ultima vs Schumacher Top Cat. They're a similar pedigree of cars with double wishbone suspension and shocks on each corner, chuck in the same motor and gearing, as well as having a control tyre.

The Schumacher looks really good. It’s interesting how wide the front arms and stance is, even compared to the back of the buggy. I love all of them but the blue looks great on that buggy.

Loved the video, great shoot out. I think if you added the RC10 to the mix it would be an excellent 2wd match to this shoot out.

The F. A.R.T = Family Amateur Race Track 👍

Very fun video to watch. Loved it! Any chance you might do a 4wd track shootout?

The fox's front end was very weak. Heavy impacts with track barriers always filled the indoor track building with a loud "crack" sound and parts would be seen flying into the air back when I raced in the 80's. Someone would always show up with a Fox and leave with a broken Fox.

Ah tires slipping in the wheels. I had this problem in July with my Madcap restore. Couldn't figure it out. Rebuilt the diff. Then I had the ah-ha moment and noticed the tires slipping :)

The Novafox is the best looking tho! Gotta be a top 5 best looking Tamiya buggy.........well it's in my top 5

i like what you don here ... can't wait to see more although i am a kyosho fanboy... i kind of knew it will lose as for name i think it will most likely get one in time as you crash into things.... (if this was a revolt track it would be called cones of terror yard)

Ahwwww we need a rematch with similar Tires/Motor/Servo/Speedo.... well at least i guess that is what would be nice for the next comparison, this time topcat clear winner so it can go against the next 2 2wd that you come up to race with in next spring. It would be great to always have 3 cars in race and then carry the best one over to the next race of that class, Taking 2WD 4WD and Monster classes. You only need to train your daughter and wife so you have 3 drivers....

Very late to the party, but I've got a great name for your track: The Weekend All Terrain Family Accredited Race Track T.W.A.T.F.A.R.T

@RCKicks "Kee·O·Sho" my friend. 😁

Very good video. Spikes all round...... in the dry. Would be interesting. What did you use to record the times?? Looks like it was a motion sensitive lap timer app.

How about the "Back-Track"? Simple, descriptive, catchy, and fun to say.

What timing system did you use?

Rc10 vs jrx pro vs traxas talon vs top cat vs ultima pro all the big doge of the day would be awesome

to make the comparison significable you should have put the same motor in each car

Good lord look at how wide the Top Cat is compared to the other two!

Love the idea but not really a fair comparison. Really wanted to see either stock challenges ie standard electrics. Or all the same so running the same servo same esc radio gear and motor that would show whats best. Not that we don't know already. Thumbs up.

Hey Gav, how about “Kickin’ Grass R/C Track”

Like the video but lol wasn’t fair. The Fox has a 19T but the top cat had a 15t there is quiet a bit difference in that. Not to mention pinion size etc. not sure if you use the same battery because those turnigy are dang good and have an incredible discharge rate. Be neat to see them with all the exact same electronic and all just stock.

I am suprised that the nova fox is that good compared to the Tomahawk but that Schumacher is out there on its own

Tires makes a huge difference, the Schumacher definitely has the best tires. I bet if you got the same tires on all three cars, they will be very close in lap time.

That is a cool duel. or triuel/trial? mhm, .... well you know what we mean. What app did you use to measure the laptimes?

I'm bringing over my RC 10. Be ready.

The top cat would not break away the arms if the grass was not so high.

What is the timing app ?

Dunsfold Aerodrome - TG track

If you see this what where you using to time these laps?

Have you already chosen cars for the 4wd competition ?

The 2 slower cars need better ft tires for grass

Tell your wife you need to get rid of the grass 😎

byt rc. back yard track race challeenge. or byt tt.

What App is that for timing ? Please and thanks

This would have been a great video if you'd used the same motor, esc, servo and battery in each of them for a fair comparison, but a fun video nevertheless.

someone send this sad man a losi associated or kyosho rc car for some real world building racing. it opens a whole new world.

Top Force vs Top Force Evo please.

Just do the whole wall and make a top gear one with the times.

Not sure which is worse. That track name or the music in the videos.

Run a hornet 🐝

Just like I said in the first post, Nova fox is junk and schumacher is better. Kyosho looks even worse than the nova fox