Racing a 30 year old Tamiya RC Car against modern profesional cars 

THANK YOU for showcasing how fun carpet track can be. Hopefully this video inspires a whole new generation of racers to come out and play. Its so much fun!!!

I'm 3 yrs older than you Kevin and I remember the prices being insane to have an RC car that moved with any speed, now I have the JLB CHEETAH and I'm fully satisfied with the speed, performance and the comparatively low cost.

Kev I've been a fan of yours for over 5 years, I also got my first hobby grade rc car when I was 10. On my 10th birthday my dad bought me a traxxas bandit and it was such a blast. About 2 years later I got a brushless setup for it with a 3s lipo and I managed to get 70 mph which was alot for the time. The feeling of driving that car was unbelievable and ever since then I've been hooked on rc cars and now I have over 10 cars in my collection. Thank you so much for all the content you've put out not just for me but for all the amazing people that support and watch your videos, keep doing what you do. You dont know how much you've tought me about the hobby but all I can say is that you've taught me everything I know. Again kev, thank you so much for the videos, happiness and joy you've given me throughout the years. To many more videos and knowledge, i say cheers!🤘🏻

Nice to see some Tamiya content on the show Kevin!

Love this one dude ❤ Sand scorcher for me. The original was amazing. Sledge body fitment is next level isn't it 💪 Stay awesome 💥

As a big Tamiya fan This is probably one of my favourite videos . That top force evo was flying. You were taking that right angle jump like a pro!. Well done. I’m tempted to buy a rere Evo now after selling mine .

I totally get it kev My first RC car was a grasshopper and I also had a manta ray and a lunchbox "Showing my age" Those were the days or tuned brushed motors and Tamiya hop ups Enjoyed this video thanks kev

Kevin, on the project 203MPH you could maybe get an fpv camera and mount it on the car so you could get even further range. if it reaches that long. the videos are the best too!!

I had a Manta Ray too Kev, I’d wanted it for so long and when I finally came out the model shop with it in hand I was the proudest kid on the block so I completely understand your soft spot. They always looked epic! I wish I’d kept mine, manual speed controller and all 🤣

I love your videos bro. I have almost watched them all. You are the reason I got back into the hobby

I’m really enjoying these indoor racing videos you have been doing lately. It’s another side of the hobby that you don’t see much. Looks like really good fun. Thank you for all the hard work with the videos and the editing. Keep it up.

Love the support for the local hobby shop 🙌

This was also my first “proper” rc car. It wasn’t quite as fast as my friends more expensive kit builds but I upgraded the heck out of it!

Kevin must be 40yrs of age. Good to see that older people enjoy these toys. If you grew up with toys, you tend to enjoy them more when you grow up and can do more fun things with them.

Hi! First of all, love the channel, the vids and the energy you give off in every one of them, its pure fun all over. Just wanted to mention that I just got back into the hobby of rc restoring a 1987 Golden Arrow from Radio Shack, finished it just this week, took out all the electronics and stuffed in it an ecs, brushless motor and new servo, had a bit of a hard time finding wheels so I finally opted for Tamiya Thunder Shot, Terra Scorcher, Grasshopper II tires that worked perfectly. The thing is fast as hell and fun to drive around. Cheers for your channel!!!

I was visiting London with my dad and we went to Hamley's and he bought my first RC car: The Grasshopper II. I have great memories from that trip. Cheers from Brazil!

I really wish I had the RC culture in my area like you have there. The closes track to me is like 3hrs away. I'd love to do some indoor racing like that. Looks like good, clean fun.

I think this video is absolutely EPIC!!

It was a Manta Ray that got me into RC racing..... after practising around my patents garden I joined my local club and won my very first club race... as a 12 year old I thought it was the best thing since discovering a Cadburys Twirl.... amazing car to begin with..... brings back a few memories......

Thanks for a awesome vid Kev. My 1st rc was a Manta Ray as well. Makes me want to upgrade it. Brought back some great memories. Looked like you guys had a lot of fun racing.

I LOVE these older model vids! She loved that track regardless of the tires you used

Brings back childhood memories of me racing Falcon and Bear Hawk alongside the Mantaray, love it kev ❤️

I had a Manta Ray as my second rc car. I didn't realize it was hobby grade! I was 12... Now I'm 43. That car was awesome until someone stepped on it and broke the suspension. I was too young to realize I could fix things like that 😩. Now I bought a Traxxas rustler for my 8 year old to learn on. I'm saving for an XMaxx for myself! Love the videos! You're the reason I got back into RC again!

Absolutely EPIC! 💯

Love your vids Kev! Because of you I got back into the great Hobby! Today, after a long time i took out my old Reely Air Attack Nitro Buggy and it still runs lovely!

Top Force is such a slick and beautiful looking car. My first was a Tamiya Falcon, followed by a Hornet…..well actually two Hornets. Those were simpler good times, really good times. I’ve never heard of off-road buggies running on a carpet track until recently. I used to race my RC12L on a carpet road course, I guess that just shows how behind the times I am.

I love these vids the most! For old tech the Top Force/Manta Ray did exceptionally well for its first outing. Bit more dialing in and who knows... Tamiya under dog FTW 👍

You never fail to impress kev. your my favourite RU-vidr and I can’t wait to see what’s next. I bet that it’s going to be ABSOLUTELY EPIC!!!

That was really cool. Good to see an old buggy out there with the new ones.

My first car that was hobby grade was a Kyosho Javelin! I got it when I was 14 years old and I did not have the money to buy batteries and radio until I was 15! I still have the original also but I got the new upgraded one so I can use the new systems with out shredding a 200 dollar belt every time I hit the gas! Your Manta Ray looks bad ass too! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I recon it looks absolutely epic!

I still have my first car too. It's an Associated RC10-T3. Loved it and still do. Need to pull it out again and get it running.

Love the racing vids Kev. I raced for years hard core. Absolutely love it. 🔥👍✌️

I use to have the Holiday Buggy in 1983,took me ages to build.

My 1st RC that i can remember the name of was the tyco Fast traxx. I know i had others before that but i was so young is cannot remember which they exactly are. Its amazing how much fun that car was!

Please make more racing vids! I do it too, and it’s very funny to see u try 😂 maybe 1:8 scale next?

Just subbed to the channel. To see a grown man with, I'm assuming, the same energy and enthusiasm as when he was ten is just awesome to experience.

I raced one of those as a kid as well. It was such a great starter RC car.

I love the Borat impression! It's funny as hell

oh hey i got one of those little gt24tr's basically the same as the gt24b. great little fun that thing is. stick a 2s lipo in it and upgrade the gears to metal ones since the plastic ones in it like to start stripping after some use. now if only there were tracks to race these things on lol

5:46 I just thought you were sporting wood from being around all those new RC's. 😂

My first RC car was the Sears Lobo II I had the purple/blue 49mhz and my brother had the Red 27mhz car... That was my favorite Christmas gift as a kid for sure!!!

Also, great job Kev! it's hard to go fast on corners like that.

When this guy uploads its like Christmas for me! Thank you

This is more fun to watch than the bashing.

Love these racing videos every now and then. YOURE GOOD!

awesome mate got back into RC racing with my son and loving it after a 30 year break 🤣 really enjoying these racing videos 👍

Man this bring back memories. My first RC truck was a traxxas rustler. I was maybe 10 and I went all in on that truck. I had the race bag, truck stand, tool kit, extra tires, spare oils and parts. I remember when I was young I would beg my parents after school to take me to the hobby shop and I would go to the track and I even built a track in my yard. I ordered that truck from tower hobbies out of the catalog. Man that was a Christmas to remember.

My first good RC was a Kyosho Raider 2. I was 13 yrs old racing it at a RC track in Southern California called Outlaw RC. Outlaw RC had a large dirt oval for 1/4 scale Sprint cars and Pro stocks with a offroad track in the middle. 1/4 scale dirt oval is amazing but tracks are hard to find. Would love to see Kevin get a 1/4 scale Sprint car!!!

I’ve just gotten my Durango Racing DESC10 (a discontinued stadium truck from like 2015) ready for racing again with a proline bug body! It looks great and these racing vids have made me really excited to get into it myself lol

Thank you so much for making another racing vid.your awesome Kev!

Wicked video Kev, and nice to see you using Tamiya in a suitable environment rather than trying to send it. I had a hornet in around 87/88 and while never into racing (it all seemed a bit too serious for me and I couldn't afford any of the racing kit), I loved what bashing was back then and the hornet was ace for that. Roll forward a few years and lock down got me back into RC. Went down the Tamiya route again (TT-02B) and was very underwhelmed. The build was okay (a bit too easy), but the driving experience was meh. Took it to the BMX track where I used to go as a kid and the jumps have had a bit of an upgrade too. They are now mahoosive - I can barely walk up them. The poor little Tamiya didn't stand a chance. Pimped it up to the max and went brushless and it still struggled. Not to mention it's not really designed to fly 10+ feet in the air. This then led me to RU-vid to do some research and I found you doing silly stuff with that big ramp on that long grass field and launching cars miles into the air. While I didn't necessarily want to go to that extreme I saw that bashing had moved on massively and I fancied some of that. Got myself an RTR brushless truck and it's fast, reaches the moon with no problem and it's built like a tank. However it lacks soul and character that the old Tamiya kit had. While I would never want Tamiya to become Traxxass or Arrma, or any other of the extreme bashing brands, I wish they would move on a bit and build perhaps 1/8th scale kits. Let's face it most of us outside of Japan only used Tamiya for bashing anyway as other brands built better race cars and it would be nice to have something a bit bigger that could handle a bit more power and abuse. Anyway I'm waffling on now. Keep the vids coming, they are great, and looking forward to seeing the monster truck in action. Also what's happened to the 200mph car?

Cool to see how the older rc cars compare to newer ones. Great vid!

Nice to see the original RC that got you into the hobby

Oh man. I had the ready to run version of this (46013) was super slow but i had hrs and hrs of fun with it when i was a kid. My first RC car

Race day can be so much fun!! Thanks for the great video!

Man you're loving the "BOOM" lately! 😂😂😂

I had the tamiya quick drive ,it had a switch on the back of the motor, high and low drive, and the same body as the mantaray it was the extreme budget version, but I loved it....

When i was 4 years old i started watching this channel now that im 10 FINNALY i got a hobby grade rc car .

Like it when Jason has to show something. Sadly the rc shops nearby me was all closed :( When i was out of the hobby my hone village got one i was like why you couldn't be there 10 years before.

Wow Whot a child hood toy I’ve still got my first rc car I had when was about 10 years old with all the updated technology in it it dose go very well kev fair play 👍👍

definitely my new dream rc car build, looks amazing loveing the vids

i got a hornet back in 1985 and it's still one of my favorite cars... something about those tamiya buggies that just can't be matched...

Honestly, I don’t care what kind of videos you put out, I just like YOUR videos. You did a really good job racing!

Literally just got my original sand scorcher out of the shed for lots of TLC ... excited to hopefully see it run again 🙏

I love it when he goes, *3..2...1.. BOOM!*

Another awesome video, Kevin! When you take it racing, are there restrictions to what you can have in it for engines/electronics?

I completely understand it looks amazing and it’s what got you started

Been loving the racing content latly

25 years ago I had a Tamiya Lamborghini Countach. was an absolutely great car and had a lot of fun with it!

Looks WAY COOLER with the while wheels and knobbly tyres mate! Nostalgia overload

Kevin I think you were pitching a tent when you say you got caught up on the hook at the RC shop 🤣

Finally tamiya on the channel!

I used to have a grasshopper and a midnight pumpkin back in the 80’s with a brushed reedy red dot motor 😁

Great video great job and you’re actually pretty good at driving around the track impressive

Love you're video editing and passion for RC bro!!

Love when Kevin takes us on a field trip to Redfin Models =))

hi Kev, not commented in ages. loving all of the new content. I've changed my name from "the RC basher" now but I still watch all Ur vids

Really Loved this Vid !

I love the manta ray chassis, I had a dirt Thrasher a year or so ago but put an scx10ii gearbox in the middle of it 😁😆😆😆

Pretty cool when Jason of Redfin Models shows what's new at his shop. Wish I lived closer.

I like videos like this. Revisiting old goodies... I hope you enjoyed yourself!

watching kev having fun AND doing well is nice...your driving has improved on the track a lot in the last few months :D

Its nice to see an old tamiya like that hang with the new rc's on the track! I wonder if pulling the center driveshaft making it 2wd would have make the cornering better on that carpet track?🤔

The tyres you got would've been great, if it was an outdoor track. Not so much on carpet. But it looked like a lot of fun. And someone need to build a Stemp transmitter with an on/off switch instead of a throttle.

Nice smooth driving at times kev👍 Racing is hard work. Grats on making the a main😁

Just here to say you are not bad for the RC hobby. Carry on good sir.

Talbot. You want a room mate mate? Your love for rc is bad ass.

That was great to watch 😀 manta ray was cooking with gas 👊 looked good round the course, shame about the body carnage lol.

Long live Kevin Talbot. Thank you Sir!!

You rock Kev, the content is top notch.

Awesome my first was the Grasshopper. I put a 540 motor in it it ripped.

As im buying an xmaxx next week and havnt seen a xmaxx video from you in some months kev its awesome to hear you say its till the best in the world lol.

Looks epic ❤

I love the old school RCs!

Ahhhh.... I remember my Tamiya Super Champ like it was yesterday.... :)

"That's a proud man right there". Lmaooooo

absolutely epic

I use to go to the rc model shop Models in Motion when I use to work in Stevenage it sold pretty much everything. This one looks interesting. Certainly worth a visit definitely. 👍 👍

This was awesome 👏