Vintage Tamiya Adverts. Clod buster, Blackfoot, Monster Beetle, Frog, SRB's and More! 

You must have been a lucky and happy boy...

Yeah, those were the days! They actually cost around the same as they do today...so back then that was really expensive!

Now the world blows

the 80s were the best! I enjoyed watching the lunchbox. still have mine seats on shelf. I will never forget putn that together after I got it foe Xmas. It was cold an snowy out, but I still found a clear patch in the middle of road. An when I hit that trigger it pulled a wheel an zoomed down the road! Been addicted ever since

Sounds like a young me!

Except when it came to replacement parts

Yea all this metal... Would be a fortune today

Me too!

Me three

now its worth GREED money

To be back in the 70's/80's..... that would be awesome!

Yep it was certainly a magical time to grow up during the 70's and 80's. Way way better than now in 2024. And although Tamiya have come back in a big way and re released a lot of their vintage era RC cars that's about the closest we can get to those magical times. The rest of the world has gone crazy and is a noisy scary dangerous place. Good old Tamiya , I love Tamiya RC cars and have quite a few myself. Around 12. 2 Grasshopper in candy green, 2 Fox one is vintage 1986 and one is re released Nova Fox.I also have a Super Hot Shot and a Hot Shot original and a Hot Shot 2, I also have a Midnight Pumpkin and a Lunchbox in black edition, I also have a Hornet re release. I also have a Tamiya Egress black edition and an Avante black edition.its really great Tamiya have come back so strong and I love the hobby of building a beautiful model RC car that can be run too. These are cars I couldn't buy as a young kid but I brought them as an adult. I'm now 51.👌😂

You are welcome Andrew! The 70's/80's were some of the best years!

Love the A-Team!

@@TomleyRC Same here!

Live your life so you’ll be saying that 40 yrs from now !

It still blows my mind that you can still purchase a Tamiya LunchBox and not the Kysho Big Brute

Yes agree! Would love a Brute!

I do remember having to replace those plastic dog bones on the brute alot. I basically drove that truck till there was nothing left.

The 80's were pretty good! 👍

You are a bit older than me.....but I remember being 11, and the rich boy at School had a brand new Clod Buster, I was blown away by the 4ws!!!

One of my favorites, I have 3, 1 restored, one to be restored and one still new in the box. Even more realistic that the sand schorcher, rough rider and f 150 ranger . I like the metal roof wing and the netting in the side windows.

It's nice to be able to relive your youth once in a while! Boys Toys :)

Not kind of,they did set the standard

If their customer service such as replacement parts would have been up to par they would probably be most peoples go to rather than traxxas

they were never race vehicles although i won some trophies with a modded out Black foot, but what Tamiya was and is, is FUN. I had the grasshopper which i modded up to being a hornet and a blackfoot. a freind of mine just dumped a neglected grasshopper and a clodbuster this week. i'm so excited. i feel like i'm 13 again.

The good old days :) I remember being jealous of a kid at school who had a brand new Clod Buster. The 4WS blew my mind!

That kit was like $600 even back then!

Robert NES816 , wow... yeah I want one.

@@maderastudio8493 Tamiya has a re release on their site. They're makeing all of the old kits from the 80's again.

Robert NES816 sweet! Thanks for the heads up. The wife may not be so appreciative. But I thank you.

@@maderastudio8493 😆😆

No problem David, glad you enjoyed it 😀👍

The 80's/90's were awesome!

@@TomleyRC rc cars made me good at the real thing! Now I get paid to build and paint awesome cars, trucks and bikes... I still take the rc's for a rip once n a while, i can't forget the good times... Keep up the good work with the videos!!

Man I wish I was born in those good times sadly I’m a 2000’s boy

The best days of RC... 👍🏎

Maybe the best?

@@brannenthompson9662 The best is today...there's so much to choose from

@@tomv3361 IMHO, not really. Everything is RTR these days, instead of kits. Tamiya isnt making high performance off roaders anymore. HPI is nearly dead. Nitros are slowly going extinct.

@@xXYannuschXx So are we going to overlook Traxxas? Or Axial? Today's RCs are really perfect. Nitro is useless for most people, kits are still around and nostalgia doesn't make those old Tamiyas any better.

@@tomv3361 Traxxas, the company that tries to patent toll every competition out of existence and has hindered innovation... Axial makes top notch crawlers, I am just not into them sadly. Todays RCs are far from perfect (apart from the 500-1k$ race cars), there are still many flaws with them. Most kits on the market (that isnt a Tamiya) are race grade RC cars that cost a fortune and aren't realy suitable for general driving. Tamiyas have always been fun to drive and just different, most RC cars these days just put a giant Brushless motor into them and call it a day. Dont get me wrong, I have Kraton 6S and plan to upgrade this thing to a TP 4070, but I just find it sad, that this seems to be the only way the hobby is going currently. I would love to see more diversity, like the days when Tamiya released so many different platforms.The RTR craze is another issue, I havent seen a single RTR that had no flaws from the factory; back when this started, most people joked that RTR stands for "Ready to Reassemble" and even now, even though RTRs dominate the market, this is still true... In Germany we call the hobby "Modellbau" (which roughly translates to model making); Tamiya is the only company, that I know of, that still sells kits that have you cut out parts from injection molds, which makes them feel the truest to that name. And IMHO Nitro is part of the hobby; electric starts to get boring after a while (I am not discrediting the benefits, mind you) and I want to have the sound, smell and tinkering of a combustion engine. It seems like all of this is going away, so I really cannot say that these are the best times for RC.

It is fun. You can still get them i think. I have two 🤣

Monster-X RC

Bit of a Fan then 😂🤘

Tomley RC Garage I'm a real fan of the vintage tamiya yes haha 😊

Yes, wish I was a little older in the 80's, but still managed to enjoy the last few years of it

@@TomleyRC I was born in the 70s so did get to enjoy a fair bit of it, great times. I still have 2 80s Tamiya cars 🏁

haha, good idea!

Yes, you missed the best years :)

Tomley RC Garage haha I wish I was alive :)

Still got the Helicopter? 😉

Tomley RC Garage. I washed a lot of cars to save up for that, but the Shuttle eventually got sold in order to upgrade to a X-Cell .60. Actually one of my choppers is 22 years old and still gets flown regularly 😊

Yes they are nice!

And that humpback hardcase tamiya battery hehehe, that`s one of the batteries I got with my hornet, my first hobbygrade RC, got it used for about 60 bucks, with charger and Acoms radio, still miss that thing..

I don't miss the speed controller getting stuck and the truck flying off at full speed in to the nearest tree 😂

Jan Christian Frodahl im still running my midnight pumpin on the old escs 😂

Oh man, this comment brought back memories

Cheers dude :)

Brings back some memories 🎧

Way better than that dubstep sounding crap that people like to put in their running videos these days.

I'm a little guilty of that on some of my videos....although I like to find music that suits the video. If it wasn't for Copyright issues...I'd smash some 80's soundtracks in all mine 😂👍

Matthew webster, ummm I’d say that is straight 70’s soundtrack.

Late 70'S jazz fusion 😎

Nothing like some 70's/80's lift music 😜👍

Yes, back in the 80's there were no mass produced Chinese RC's flooding the market, and everywhere had hobby store had a nice stock of Tamiya!

Yeah, not the same as todays stuff. Although the Kyosho Mad Crusher is a very nice looking monster truck.

X-Maxx FTW

I bought a few when I first got a Job, never had enough money as a kid to own one

Cool, 20€ is a good deal! Thanks for watching :)