This Vintage RC Car was left in a Bag for 30yrs! 

This video completely sums up why RC went nuts during the first lockdown. Every middle-aged man was buying either the RC car they always wanted or getting another on of what they used to have. My local park was buzzing to the sound of freshly built Tamiya's and other stuff most evenings for a long time, especially Lunchboxes. Lots have continued the hobby too!

As a kid I bought my first Tamiya from Beatties. We had one in Lakeside Essex, I remember going in there with my late father and seeing the newly released Tamiya Mini Racing (M-03 chassis?) I begged my dad for one and he told me if I could save the money he would take me there to buy it. The next day I got a job as a paper boy earning £10 a week. 13 weeks later my Dad kept to his promise and drove me to Beatties and I still remember the joy I had handing over the money and buying my first Tamiya RC. I spent all weekend building it in my bedroom and had endless fun with it. I lost my dad 2 years after that but still remember the valuable lesson he taught me of if you want something enough, you have to work hard for it. ❤️ Great video Phil, brought back floods of memories 🙂

While clearing out my parents loft I came across my old beatties bag.... Inside a Tamiya Madcap. I remember saving up birthday and Christmas money and having to settle for this as I didn't have enough money for the Avante. Great memories of blasting around in the street..... Although I always lost races to my mates Tamiya porsche 959...... The best news is it still bloody works.

As a child in the 70s my Dad would pull up outside a Beatties shop in London (Central London area) on a Sunday night when they had their rubbish out ready for collection in the morning. Rummaging through the boxes he would often find complete trains, carriages, train track and small train set accessories that were either in near perfect condition or would require small repairs!

I received a Tamiya Hornet for my 12th birthday in 1987. It's still at Mum and Dad' s place somewhere. Getting nostalgic for vintage RC now!

Beatties, Techniplus, Tamiya Madcap, Mechanical Speed controller - so much much nostalgia

It amazes me how powerful our imaginations were as kids. My first car was a Tamiya Hornet and I swear it was the best handling, fastest and coolest RC ever. I recently acquired a new one and it was almost comical the way it drove. Shows how far RC cars have came in 30 odd years. Enough rambling from me, that was a really good video. Sparked off some nostalgia for me too 😁

NOSTALGIA!!!! I kept my old Tamiya Lunchbox in the exact same bag in the late 80s

Can't beat a bit of nostalgia whether it's rc cars, biscuit tins or a Raleigh Chopper 😁

I had my first rc car at 1995, Tamiya tl01 Ford Escort WRC. Exact same mechanical speed control. Good old days. Thank you for nostalgia.❤️

That mechanical speed controller is so flipping cool. As a sort of kid who's only been in this hobby since around 2012 this stuff is so cool to see.

Just found this video. Beatties bag brings back memories. I had to sell a lot of my old ( from my childhood days ) RC cars, needed the money when covid hit. My bag had the Yellow Lunchbox with spares & random Tamiya Cossie / other spares as well, Controllers etc. Probs worth a lot more since then Daniel.

For me, it was a Tamiya Striker. Plastic galore with front friction dampers. It handled terribly & slow , but almost every evening after school it would be "blasted" for 10 mins, then a full strip down & clean just for the hell of it. Fantastic memories!! Great content & keep up the nostalgia 👍

Yes, still smiling. The good old times. Charging over night for a short run. Capacities much lower but higher prices than todays batteries. ESCs which cost more thqn the kit. Ball bearings expensive and just only from Tamiya. No after-markets or internet. I don't know how we survived this era. I know granpa is talking about war times😁😁😁

I was 10 years old when I received my first radio controlled car. It was given to me by one of my older brothers friends after my brother sadly took his own life. The car i received was a Striker. 20 years after and I was racing RC cars. I'm 42 this year.

My first was a red Nikko turbo aero. Back in the 80's nobody knew what turbo was, just that it made everything faster. Dad noticed that even though I would leave my bikes and baseball mitts in the rain I always took care of my car so the next Christmas he got me a Super Lobo. My God that thing was fast! It was the best one RadioShack sold. It must have cost a small fortune.

I ❤ your collection of digital LCD wrist-watches! 😊😉

Oh man, so many memories of old RC cars in the late 80's and early 90's. This is the first video that RU-vid has recommended of yours. Awesome to see you get your hands on that Madcap! The first RC car in my house was a Tamiya Frog, which belonged to my younger brother. He eventually bought a Kyosho Nitro Brute which was crazy fast in a straight line but couldn't corner at all. If I recall, my first RC vehicle was a Kyosho Blizzard. At the time I was enthralled with monster trucks, but more specifically, car-crushing tanks that had car bodies, like the Bigfoot FasTrax. I found a van body and put it on the Blizzard to make a monster tank. Unfortunately, it was really slow so I ended up selling it at some point. My older brother bought a Tamiya Subaru Brat and had a lot of fun with it. Later he bought a Traxxas Sledgehammer, when it was first introduced. That truck was a ton of fun. The saddest story was my brother trading his Kyosho Nitro Brute to a friend for an RC-10, then he kept trading down until he was left with a few random RC car parts. He went from a $400 (1992 money) gas-powered monster truck to maybe $40 in parts in a matter of months.

Blimey, that brings back memories, i got a tamiya hornet for christmas when i was about12, it was bought from beaties in liverpool, had the same bag, the bag is still in my mums house. Beaties was heaven to a kid in the 80's & 90's. R/c cars, tanks, boats, model railways, model kits etc. It was in st johns market.

Used to love going in my local Beatties! Bringing back happy memories ☺️

Looks nice!! I really like Tamiya RC cars. I miss all the ones I have had. It was really nice to meet you today.

What a great memory awsome find !! Great deal

This is brilliant…. Exactly what I had as my first car… the madcap… in a Beatties bag… with an Acoms Techniplus 2 radio!!! Wicked!!!

I'd just like to appreciate the deliberate montage of songs that some percentage of the commenters are guaranteed to hate.

That manual speed control.....a blast from the past right there!

Wow this takes me back. I had a Avante 2001 in the late 80s or early 90s ( can’t remember exactly) bought by my parents for a birthday present from Beatties model shop in Swindon (Wiltshire). Loved that thing. Even tho a C clip popped off the steering first test drive and it crashed into a tree😄. Cheers for a blast from the past.

I was 11 or 12 in 92. Miss the 90’s. Love the channel.

Last Year i bought a Madcap 100% MINT condition - and now its sitting on the shelf looking pretty as yes you just hardly see any and i did pay silly money but hey you dont take it with you so enjoy whilst you can i always say thanks for sharing this Nostalgic Memory with us all Tomley :-)

That MacDonald's hack is worth a like for sure!

I also have my first RC (re-bought) on the shelf for memories, The red Nikko Chipmunk.

What a coincidence. I was recently feeling so nostalgic for Beatties that I bought 2 of these canvas bags! I use them as my pit bags at the racing club. Man, I miss Beatties!!!

I remember going to Beatties in Ealing back in 87 when I was 12, and I fell in love with the lunch box, couldn’t ever afford it, had a second had Road Runner and Pumpkin instead, but I finally got a lunch box last year!! 😀

Beatties ! I remember those shops. My favourite place as a kid. Usually full of Tamiya goodies. You know you’re old when you remember Beatties lol 🤪👌🏼

Was just reminiscing with my Sister a few weeks ago.....and fir the life of me, I couldn't recall the name of the model/RC shop in Swindon, back in the 80's.......BEATTIES...! 😆 Bought many an Airfix model from there, and used to drool over the Grasshopper....! 🤪🤷🏼‍♂️

Brings back memories seeing the Beatties bag, we had one in St Enoch Square in Glasgow City Centre and i can remember getting the Tamiya Escort rs Cosworth for Christmas back in the mid 90's.

0:47 I'm a Thomas Fan I was so F***shock 😲 that you played that theme dude that hit me so hard as The Flying Scotsman would hit me with it's buffers

You've made me more of a believer in tamiya and it's potential nostalgia. Seeing what you had to say and how you presented it was great. 17mph is rubbish but when you see it through kids eyes that's blasting down the road 💨👍

A MadCap! That is a gem, a piece of RC history! Congrats, sir, awsome find! I feared those mechanical speed controllers, because sometimes, when the battery voltage dropped, you suddenly found yourself with a runaway car and you had to run after it, praying to be able to catch it in one piece. Those were good times.

😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 My all time favourite ever rc ever ever ever and I never had one. This is the year for me

Wow! So nostalgic. At the time, being 10 I couldn’t afford this. Ended up with the grasshopper super g. The best thing about these old models, was the joy of receiving a box of pieces. Every cog and gear had to be assembled. Putting oil in the shock etc. It really helped understand the car completely. Especially as calls to the tamiya parts hotline were a regular thing! None of this rtr stuff. Patience and skill required before use. Excellent thanks

Oh wow. I had this exact Madcap. The memories. Makes me want to get one for my son.

I can't be the only expecting some centre console spillage when you started stirring 😅 . I keep seeing one of those bags on ebay . Cool old piece fella 👌 . I think all us old farts have memories of those manual speed controllers. Certainly experienced the stuck wide open bit 🤣

Some fantastic nostalgia there. What a great find and in such good condition after all this time. Love the drive montage!! 🤘😎

Used to love going to Beatties.. I had a blue bag for my Hornet 😊 brings back a lot of memories 👍😃👍 Pete

Lucky Guy. Madcap was my 2nd Tamiya, First was a Hornet. I hope they re-re this one day.

That mechanical speed controller takes me back! 😁

Me and u and u grew up pretty much the same with real cars and R/C cars. Sweet. It’s crazy with the mechanical speed controller u could bend and scratch more material where the arrow goes side to side. Lol

I remember going into Beatties in Southend-On-Sea in the 1990s. Where I bought a discounted LGB garden trainset. They also had a shop at Thurrock Lakeside as well. Where they had a LGB trainset running around the top of the walls. So South Essex was well served.

My first Tamiya was the Blackfoot, I saw a guy running one at a hobby shop with a clear body on it and I was mesmerized how I could see all the inner workings through the body. Then xmas morning Santa left me one with a Futaba stick radio and fast charger. Oh it was glorious.

Wow that takes me back seeing that old speed controller my first car was the apache rwd I'm 48 in December and took up the rc car and a number of other things rc again 4 years ago and it still makes me smile like a kid it's just fun I've just upgraded my FTX Carnage to brushless motor 3s and put bigger wider wheels which has improved the handling no end which has now made me think about going more power lol nice find you got there !!

Nice one mate. It’s nice to have a physical memory of where it all started. Stoked for you.

Ooh , keen for an LCG crawler update seeing it lurking in the background

Brings back loads of memories Phil, my friend had a madcap,whilst I had Bearhawk, Falcon, Grasshopper and a Lunchbox we had some fun times and now I'm back into it thanks mate, love seeing old cars from 90s 👍

Look’s CooL👍👍👍👍

nice back to the old time with this vintage rc buggy🤗

Nothing like reliving your childhood where you can. Awesome vintage RC 👍

Great Vid for a bit of nostalgia and to see you get your first Tamiya back (almost), my first hobby grade rc was a Clodbuster back in the early 90’s which I recently re built, love the channel, great work, would like to see more retro reviews on stuff we had back in the day 👍

Mine first was the Tamya Hornet. Second one was the Marui Ninja 4wd. Good times in the 80'

I remember the mechanical speed controller. Had one on my first RC. The Tamiya Thundershot. Loved that car. It's the car on your bag 😜

Loveing the singing mate 🤣

Wow I remember those speed controllers and receivers. Those were the days. Great find👍🏼👍🏼

Tamiya Hornet 🐝 for me, late 80’s! Mad fast 50 kph 😎 Mega fun..

Man this brings back memories my first hobby grade rc was a Tamiya bear hawk seeing the old school manual speed controller just brought me back!

Made my day, this has Phil! You know I still use those old radios, and I got 2 of those original Beatties bags! Awesome find, mate, glad you got those memories back!

Wow, I still have my entry level Tamiya from 1992 - very, very similar. I replaced the speed controller with an electronic one years later, then replaced the stock motor with a Slot Machine - which was honestly a bit too fast. Four wheeling in the dirt was always way much more fun than being on pavement and going at max speed.

That bag brings back so many memories going Beatties in Bristol and looking at all sorts I wanted but was never allowed 😂

Madcap is to Astute as Vanquish is to Avante, Lovely car, and pleased to hear the TTTE theme on your road trip playlist :)

Thomas the train!! What a great driving tune lol.

Happy, Happy, Happy just fantastic!

I feel your memory Still have my super hornet , black foot and quick drive beetle!

Never had the Madcap, but had a scorcher and a couple blasters. Then I got given a Grasshopper, and did every upgrade I could to it. I still have my old Futaba square box steering wheel. One of the first ones to come out. Love the memories, have fun.

Wow this brings back memories, must have been around the time i got my first RC the Tamiya Celica GT Four, with that very radio, still have it and really must give it a restoration. The bag also brings back memories. So good you were able to find one in such great condition

That radio is my all time favourite. It was so nice to use. 😁

You got It in the Bag Mate! Yummy Stuff.

Crazy hearing all these people talk about how popular rc was when they were kids, I’m a kid and don’t know anybody who drives rc at my school

I have had mine for 30 years. Still have a Beaties bag too. Recently rebuild diff, oil filled shocks, ESC and an original Technigold 540 motor transforms it into something really usable.

I had endless fun with my Madcap back in the day, brilliant budget buggy. It will be the ball diff slipping, they’re notorious for it. Good find and good price

Hi Phil, Beatties in Nottingham city center back in the mid 80's as a 16 year old lad, gazing at at new models on display and catalogs of colourful pictures - just a boyhood dreams but never had the cash to buy. I have a tamiya Ford Focus from 2001 ( broken car only for 20 GBP 2 years ago ) snapped boby in 3 places, so I has converted it to a kamtecmodels 3 wheeled reliant robin, new body and all electronic / Lipo 7.4v plus about 30 other custom / RTR / rollers - all low budget RC Cars from WLTOYS to one off projects under 300 GBP. Dave in Nottinghamshire ( Daves outdoors adventure ) from a few years ago. My place looks like your old garage workshop. be safe

Having fond flashbacks of going to Beatties in the 90s to buy Milliput for my WH40k figures now.

Those mechanical speed controllers..... That was the #1 replacement part we sold at Colpar Hobbies back in the day. Thank goodness for the old Novak T2 or T4 and Rooster escs. Have never had a Tamiya chassis car. Really on the fence about getting one.

Nice find.

I used to have the tamiya bear hawk. The memories of build the tamiya cars.

Enjoyed this video tom, brings memories on my first tamiya blitzer beetle

As long as it makes you smile it is money well spent. I had a Tamaya grasshopper with the same speed controller. I spent many days chasing it across the gravel pit. Even had one catch on fire. But I love that car would’ve been in the 1980s sometime. Like 85 I think

Got my 1st & 2nd Beatties bags back in 1985 purchased a Tamiya Vanessa Lunchbox and a Clod buster from Beatties in Liverpool. No ready to run in them days all kit, paint, build and electrics.

So cool, and thanks for the mini road trip.

My first RC car was a Tamiya Sand Scorcher haha, then progressed from there. Used to race at a place in Cheltenham called Dowty Rotol. Good times, late 80's 😎

Never would have thought ...THE MADCAP...my first Serious RC. Im on the hunt now! Thanks Tomley.

Man, I used to live in Beatties. It was near the Cinema in Notts city centre. Got a lot of Scalextric cars etc, happy times !!

Amazing find. I always wanted the Madcap. Closest I ever got was the mini Madcap. I don't think I'd want a vintage car, unless it was in the condition of this one. I would pick up re-re in a heartbeat.

Very nostalgic for Daddy! Thanks Phil for making me feel old!🤣

It's funny how Tamiya was the first for so many, mine was a hornet set up like yours with mechanical speed control, and mine was bought from a kid also.

That looks fun! I had a Nikko Avenger as my 1st rc car. Pretty sweet!

Good Memories! My brother had this I had the Black Phantom! I think Mine is still In My Mums Attic..

Oh god.. those mechanical speed controllers.. always fun seeing someone running after their car because it got stuck.

Muy buenas tarde Mr saludos desde panama siempre viendo tus videos puro relax

Great video,great car but all I thought through out the entire thing was the randomness of your playlist 😂👍✌️.

Wow 30 years old and still works

Don't know this car but totally understand the first car thing. Still got mine. Totally remember my naivety when it came to RC.

HI PHIL YOU CAN'T BEAT RELIVING YOUR CHILDHOOD MY FRIEND 🇬🇧✌🏼👍🏼