Tamiya moved from static into radio-controlled models almost by chance. One lunchtime, Shunsaku Tamiya noticed one of his designers, Fumito Taki, driving an electric radio-controlled car around. He’d fitted a battery-electric drive to a Tamiya F1 car kit, and the result was just what the boss had been looking for. The company’s first radio-controlled model had been a Sherman tank in 1974 and, inspired by Taki’s efforts, the first car, a Porsche 934 in 1976. The scale body of the Porsche was based on a plastic kit that had received critical acclaim but not great commercial success.
Oh man! Thanks for the memories! Tamiya RC was my obsession as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. Started off racing the Tamiya LP500S Countach at my local indoors RC club (using foam tyres, stippled with quick drying liquid silicone) man that was intense fun with no quarter given or taken! Moved on to buggys and started with holiday buggy then sand scorcher, Ford Ranger and a Tamiya Rough Rider. Enjoyed that trip down memory lane! Cheers 👍👏👏👏♥️
I can't get enough of these cars too. I like to go to the basement and indulge in memories. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to finally restore and drive the cars. But many of them are almost too good to drive again because running out of spare parts.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.. Would love o have my Lamborghini still. It a great kit. Had a lot of fun, used to race real cars on the street with it. What a good score.
its not a fanboy thing, the RWD RC10 with longer front A-arms and suspension tuning is a really nice handling buggy. everyone and their brother have been near cloning it for decades. 2nd gen had the wider fronts with their stealth transmission, you'll find the B3 to be a really nice driver too. the two early Tamiya on road, definite shelf queens to auction off. it'd different if they were good old BoLink (now RJspeed) or Associated on road pan cars that you can still get parts for, really fun to drive on smooth pavement.
I'm not familiar with the RC10, but it does look like a nice bit of kit! I don't do shelf queens.... you may as well just buy a diecast model if it's gonna sit on a shelf
@@TomleyRC lol i bet, you have quite a few goodies there mate, I look forward to see you do some videos on these as you get to test them out, have a good weekend Phil 👍
For those that don't know. The Tamiya late model Black Foot. Was a combination of the Subaru Brat and the Ford F150 Ranger. I don't know if they made a re-pop Subaru Brat. But it is the same type of chassis it came with.
OMG!!! What a wonderful find seriously amazing... 95% of this collection to me is just so desirable beyond belief! ! ! Mate enjoy enjoy enjoy absolutely beautiful...
Those early Tamia model's look very flymsy...I can see why he does'nt want to use them. My personal fave is the ProCat...My second machine after my MiniStock. I bought both second hand and i used to bash the living daylight's out of them...absolutely indestructable little machine's. The good old day's before brushless this and LiPo that. Best wishes to you and your's in these challenging time's.
Thanks dude. Some of the Tamiyas are a bit cheap looking. But overall they are good. The early ones especially. I've gifted that Cat to a friend who used to race them back in the 80's/90s
Awesome collection you've got there. Definitely a lot of keepers! I just got my hands into a Tamiya Bruiser, the original from 1985 (#58048) and I'm thrilled. It's in fairly good condition and complete. I just dismantled it to clean all the plastics, electronics and oil the mechanics so I'll assembly back anytime now and looking forward to see it shining again on and off road.
Some of those Tamiya cars bring back memories of going into Beatties before the Bullring was remodelled. What a collection, what ever possessed him to get rid of them??? The Hiluz, Beatles and Wild Willy are my favorites. I have always wanted to own a Tamiya RC car, looks I will have to put a bit of OT in and add one to collection....
Awesome 👌. I have got too many projects that I have not even started as yet. 1/12 and 1/6 scale cars to build, various other smaller scale cars to build. WPL RC cars to modify and amy FG Marder Beatle to get running again oh and I forgot all about the digital scalextric I want set up the loft. I think that you have much more than me to do, not sure where you find the time.....
Brilliant, can't wait to see them running, comparing the performance to modern equivalents will be interesting. Good luck with sourcing the parts though.
Awesome, saved the best for last, Imagine that disintegrating in a gutter with the controller in Your hands! Agreed on never risking Lambo. Wow, so many, if not All I would love to rip fresh low tide sand. Great show Tomley, Yum.
Awesome mate... well done. I'm a bit jealous 😁. I do own an original Ford Ranger XLT that I have had for 15 years.. was always my favourite SRB as a kid.
@@TomleyRC yeah I ran mine initially when i bought it.. put a crack in the body..should have known better! Has been static for 10 years now. One day I will do an overhaul on it.
What an amazing collection mate! The Hilux is definitely my favorite. I have the original that my dad bought brand new. I still run it on the trails almost every weekend. They will last forever as long as you keep them moving and lubed up. It will definitely live a few more generations.
Bored? It's like the best xmas ever about 30 times in a row! What a fantastic collection you've scored there. 👍 My first RC as a kid was a Rough Rider, then later we had a Brat, and I spent years drooling over the catalogues and stuff like the Countach, Ranger and Sand Scorcher. Plus, that Hilux... I SO lusted after that thing. OMG! In fact, it's the reason I've finally ordered (just yesterday!) a TF2 - leaf springs, metal ladder chassis, Hilux body. Lovely... assuming the apocalypse doesn't stop the postie, anyway... 😱 Anyway, congrats mate! What a great stack of cars! 😍👍
The scorpion looks completely original. It has no countersunk screws and original shocks Just try if it has a differential. If not it is original. I am almost 100% certain it is though.
Bodyshell and possibly the car used to belong to graham allsop. I recognized the paint scheme and inpole stickers. Sent him the link he's had a look and said it deffi was one of his. He's an HB 1/8th team driver now. Fair to say that B 3 won a fair few races
You made a good choice for sure, to me the value of this collection is more than 5000$ The tamiya hilux 3 speed is a super super cool rc, build quality is just great. This rig on the trail is priceless. 2wd to 4 wheels drive like the real one. Hub switch. The big diamond in the gold mine. Congratulation! Lucky you!
Oh yeah that's what I'm talkin bout!!! I've probably owned about a 1/2 dozen or more of those vehicles and drooled over the rest in my day. That's an amazing collection!!!! Talk about RC nostalgia.😉
Haha I still gotta work here in pa, building flat bed trucks and dump trucks while Gov wolfe ordered all non life sustaining businesses to close we are not under that as we are life sustaining at least we are told , which I don't see how the hell a flat bed truck or a dump truck is life sustaining
Fantastic score man,I like them all. Though I'm jealous over that OG hilux. That is my dream RC. I often thought about trying to lower my bruiser a bit to make a tribute if I could,lol
@@TomleyRC that's cool,I'm just glad to hear you're actually gonna run it sometimes,even if it's just a dry run. I run all my rc's including my OG bruiser (though I don't abuse it) as just in my opinion as not everyone feels the same,they're meant to be used sometimes and enjoyed and not spend there entire life on a shelf and not get used or loved,lol.
Some really cool cars there going all the way back to the start. I remember my buddy started getting Tamiya cars in the early 80s and I think he had a Toyota pickup and a wild Willy's. I found that original RC10 at a garage sale for like 40 bucks in probably the early 90s. Gold pan and everything I mentioned before. I should probably sell some of them off I spose and I'm sure you gave a bunch to get all that even if it was a great deal. Selling the early one's should help pay for the whole thing or offset it a bit. Would be cool if some kind of RC museum could end up with them. Going to be fun to see run them again.
Great stuff! Always fun to see your videos. The HILUX is fantastic! The LAMBORGHINI was my first RC!!! It ran for many years. I wonder if my son still has it?
Lol I can't even afford to replace my good Old HPI nitro miss that beast alot! Was made redundant wee while back so taking back being outta work! Hpi and Schumacher was the best when I raced them! I remember my first Schumacher u had a yellow 3 series BMW on it star of the show that thing was! Won every race! That black Grand vitara nitro there was cool as heck loved that exhaust! I Need a new Acmos Techniplus controller when, if I get mine replaced never liked the controllers with the wheel on side never got used to them! Procats cool I had the fireblade wishbones always went on it lol miss my RCs so much!My first proper RC I started with Was the Alfa touring car from Tamiya! Still a cool shell today! Amd the Escorts wrc lol
Have to agree with you there my 1st tamiya 30 years ago was a ford ranger the blue one, I couldn't stop looking at it when it was built. The stance was superb. Definitely one of tamiya's best kits.
Thanks for sharing what a trip down memory lane, have had several of these when I was a kid rough rider with a ford body on it, A Traxxas Bullet but when you took out that Lamborghini I almost fell out my chair. Was my first proper rc might even still have it somewhere, anyway nice collection.
Tamiya moved from static into radio-controlled models almost by chance. One lunchtime, Shunsaku Tamiya noticed one of his designers, Fumito Taki, driving an electric radio-controlled car around. He’d fitted a battery-electric drive to a Tamiya F1 car kit, and the result was just what the boss had been looking for. The company’s first radio-controlled model had been a Sherman tank in 1974 and, inspired by Taki’s efforts, the first car, a Porsche 934 in 1976. The scale body of the Porsche was based on a plastic kit that had received critical acclaim but not great commercial success.
Thanks, great info)
Oh man! Thanks for the memories!
Tamiya RC was my obsession as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s.
Started off racing the Tamiya LP500S Countach at my local indoors RC club (using foam tyres, stippled with quick drying liquid silicone) man that was intense fun with no quarter given or taken!
Moved on to buggys and started with holiday buggy then sand scorcher, Ford Ranger and a Tamiya Rough Rider.
Enjoyed that trip down memory lane! Cheers 👍👏👏👏♥️
Very good, thx!
I can't get enough of these cars too. I like to go to the basement and indulge in memories. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to finally restore and drive the cars. But many of them are almost too good to drive again because running out of spare parts.
Love to have that Hyper car 👍
So awesome!
Didn't realize it was a collection built over 4 decades! Wowee!
Yeah, the guy bought the Wild Willy in '84/85 and then had been collecting on and off since
I've never been so interested in rare, vintage RCs until I watched your channel...I believe I have a mission....Thanks for sharing!
Thank you :)
Wow. That has to be one of the best collections I've seen. Nice. I was getting all excited every box.
Thanks John. I’ve cleared a fair few out now. Not kept my favourites 😎
very nice wow some great one's....
Thanks Brian
So many beauties!
Blinding find that is so awesome you are so lucky
Thanks Martin, it was a good find... but cost me a lot!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing..
Would love o have my Lamborghini still. It a great kit. Had a lot of fun, used to race real cars on the street with it. What a good score.
Yes... if only we all kept our childhood toys!
Only in my dreams
That's the golden age of 1/10th RC cars right there in your garage. What a spectacular collection!
Can't beat the RC10 brings back memories. Thanks for sharing .
No problem
awesome collection
Thanks mate
its not a fanboy thing, the RWD RC10 with longer front A-arms and suspension tuning is a really nice handling buggy. everyone and their brother have been near cloning it for decades.
2nd gen had the wider fronts with their stealth transmission, you'll find the B3 to be a really nice driver too. the two early Tamiya on road, definite shelf queens to auction off. it'd different if they were good old BoLink (now RJspeed) or Associated on road pan cars that you can still get parts for, really fun to drive on smooth pavement.
I'm not familiar with the RC10, but it does look like a nice bit of kit! I don't do shelf queens.... you may as well just buy a diecast model if it's gonna sit on a shelf
That Hilux and the F150 are awesome!
Cool little rc honda city
One of my favourites
Wow, that's a awesome load of cars there. Quite a few real gems in that lot! 😍👍
Yes, so many memories!
Awesome collection Phil, thanks for sharing mate! 👍
Cheers dude, i'm still trying to get my head around the whole thing haha. Not even checked all the extras yet! Just all the cars!
@@TomleyRC lol i bet, you have quite a few goodies there mate, I look forward to see you do some videos on these as you get to test them out, have a good weekend Phil 👍
The Lamborghini is my favorite
Wat a deal. Grate cars
For those that don't know. The Tamiya late model Black Foot. Was a combination of the Subaru Brat and the Ford F150 Ranger. I don't know if they made a re-pop Subaru Brat. But it is the same type of chassis it came with.
Yes, Tamiya were good at re using chassis' and bodies to make different rigs.
Beautiful collection😍
OMG!!! What a wonderful find seriously amazing... 95% of this collection to me is just so desirable beyond belief! ! ! Mate enjoy enjoy enjoy absolutely beautiful...
Nice collection,i like my Blazing Blazer.
I'd love a Blazer
Wow 👍👍👍
Those early Tamia model's look very flymsy...I can see why he does'nt want to use them.
My personal fave is the ProCat...My second machine after my MiniStock.
I bought both second hand and i used to bash the living daylight's out of them...absolutely indestructable little machine's.
The good old day's before brushless this and LiPo that.
Best wishes to you and your's in these challenging time's.
Thanks dude. Some of the Tamiyas are a bit cheap looking. But overall they are good. The early ones especially. I've gifted that Cat to a friend who used to race them back in the 80's/90s
the grey bumper is the original sand scorcher, nice trip down memory lane there, the procat should be fun to play with
Wow nice collection
Thanks Joe
Great find!
Great score 👍🏼
Cheers dude
Sick!!!
Thank you
Nice ☺️
Awesome collection you've got there. Definitely a lot of keepers!
I just got my hands into a Tamiya Bruiser, the original from 1985 (#58048) and I'm thrilled. It's in fairly good condition and complete. I just dismantled it to clean all the plastics, electronics and oil the mechanics so I'll assembly back anytime now and looking forward to see it shining again on and off road.
Sweet find. I want that Lamborghini Countach.
Wow what a find ,probably a hefty price of a lot there but what a awesome haul
Yes, not cheap, but worth it!
935 was my first ever tamiya ,my uncle gave it me,no rc or anything and was I only young,but 8 year old me won many a race in that car.Happy Memories.
Some of those Tamiya cars bring back memories of going into Beatties before the Bullring was remodelled. What a collection, what ever possessed him to get rid of them??? The Hiluz, Beatles and Wild Willy are my favorites. I have always wanted to own a Tamiya RC car, looks I will have to put a bit of OT in and add one to collection....
Yes, I was very shocked when he accepted my offer! He didn't need the money by the look of his house and cars!
Awesome 👌. I have got too many projects that I have not even started as yet. 1/12 and 1/6 scale cars to build, various other smaller scale cars to build. WPL RC cars to modify and amy FG Marder Beatle to get running again oh and I forgot all about the digital scalextric I want set up the loft. I think that you have much more than me to do, not sure where you find the time.....
Some other names from the 80's, apart from Tamiya that I raced.
Schumacher Cat, Mardave Meteor, Bolink Digger, Kyosho Scorpion. Ah good days ! Cheers
Yes...the best days!
Brilliant, can't wait to see them running, comparing the performance to modern equivalents will be interesting. Good luck with sourcing the parts though.
Yes, maybe I should find a similar modern one and do a head to head on speed and performance!
Wow awesome collection 💯
nice score
Ooohhh the 4tech!
Looking forward to running that
Sweet haul! My fave .. the countach... and the willy. Thanks for sharing
Thanks mate 👍🏻
Awesome, saved the best for last, Imagine that disintegrating in a gutter with the controller in Your hands! Agreed on never risking Lambo.
Wow, so many, if not All I would love to rip fresh low tide sand.
Great show Tomley, Yum.
Low tide Sand is the best!
Awesome mate... well done. I'm a bit jealous 😁. I do own an original Ford Ranger XLT that I have had for 15 years.. was always my favourite SRB as a kid.
I love the Ranger, never had one but always wanted one. So that is staying with me! Needs a tidy up though
@@TomleyRC yeah I ran mine initially when i bought it.. put a crack in the body..should have known better! Has been static for 10 years now. One day I will do an overhaul on it.
Good job cheers looks like you bought a whole hobby shop happy for you enjoy all the way from Tampa Bay Florida US.
Haha
You jammy git! Well done. 👍
Cheers dude
What an amazing collection mate! The Hilux is definitely my favorite. I have the original that my dad bought brand new. I still run it on the trails almost every weekend. They will last forever as long as you keep them moving and lubed up. It will definitely live a few more generations.
A once in a lifetime opportunity!? Only if you paid the right price for it. : )
You'll find that out soon :)
In 40 years I wonder if a similar video will be made of a big vintage traxxas collection.
haha yeah! True!
HOLY CRAP! That’s crazy that someone would give their whole RC collection away!!!!
Nice collection mate👍👍
Thanks 👍
You are the Jay Leno of RC! Good luck parting with some of them, i'm sure some of them will be difficult to let go! What a dream buy.
haha yes...
👍👍Awesome collection!!
Cheer Steve, I couldn't believe my luck when the guy messaged me!
I want one of those Sand Scorchers!
Wow awesome stuff,great buy and video.
Thanks dude
OMG that's really crazy a lot
I need a bigger Garage!
Bored? It's like the best xmas ever about 30 times in a row! What a fantastic collection you've scored there. 👍 My first RC as a kid was a Rough Rider, then later we had a Brat, and I spent years drooling over the catalogues and stuff like the Countach, Ranger and Sand Scorcher. Plus, that Hilux... I SO lusted after that thing. OMG! In fact, it's the reason I've finally ordered (just yesterday!) a TF2 - leaf springs, metal ladder chassis, Hilux body. Lovely... assuming the apocalypse doesn't stop the postie, anyway... 😱 Anyway, congrats mate! What a great stack of cars! 😍👍
Yes, quite a collection! The Hilux is not just good to look at, the engineering is awesome! I love how much metal is on it!
The scorpion looks completely original. It has no countersunk screws and original shocks Just try if it has a differential. If not it is original. I am almost 100% certain it is though.
Just checked... Original! Awesome, cheers dude, appreciate your Knowledge 😎👌
@@TomleyRC If you have any more questions regarding Kyoshos just dm me on Instagram @masonsrcworld
I love nitro cars and that zakspeed capri is priceless 👌
What a find! Thank you for sharing them with us.
The RC10b2 at 18:00 u need to take rear wing off to get body off, it just pulls up out of 2 holes that go straight down into rear shock tower!
Yes, realised that afterwards. Also wasn't aware it's a pretty rare B3 Factory Team!
Bodyshell and possibly the car used to belong to graham allsop. I recognized the paint scheme and inpole stickers. Sent him the link he's had a look and said it deffi was one of his. He's an HB 1/8th team driver now. Fair to say that B 3 won a fair few races
Congratulations on that collection, I couldn't keep my eyes off the Hilux the whole video. My dream RC lol
You made a good choice for sure, to me the value of this collection is more than 5000$
The tamiya hilux 3 speed is a super super cool rc, build quality is just great.
This rig on the trail is priceless. 2wd to 4 wheels drive like the real one. Hub switch. The big diamond in the gold mine.
Congratulation! Lucky you!
Totally agree 😎
Very nice, Toyota Hilux deffo my fav
Yes, and mine!
The motor in the HPI is a rebranded 4 pole Castle motor it's a torque monster especially in 2wd applications. It's my go-to basher motor.
Good to know! It's got some serious punch!
@@TomleyRC The esc is a rebranded Castle as well if you have the Castle Link USB adapter you can tune it for even more punch 👍🏾
Porsche 959 brushless,not a fan of carisma but I'd have it
I think it's pretty rare now, they discontinued them. I think the were about £189 new, and now go for double that second hand!
Nice Score mate! great collection
Thank you
That is where the sand scorcher and scorpion comes from ;-)
Also I'd LOVE TO BUY ANY of those RCs.love em ALL.
never been more jealous
One heck of a collection. Good find! Thanks for sharing.
If to Tamiya ever re releases that lamborghini I am getting one!
I think it would be very popular!
Oh yeah that's what I'm talkin bout!!!
I've probably owned about a 1/2 dozen or more of those vehicles and drooled over the rest in my day.
That's an amazing collection!!!! Talk about RC nostalgia.😉
Very cool, thank you for the video man brings back memories.
A car for every day of the month and more nice selection 👍🏻
Yes lol, if only I had time to run one a day haha
1978 is going back some,i was captain of the school chess team 😂👍🇬🇧
I was -1yr 😎
@@TomleyRC So it was you who beat me in the finals 😂👍🇬🇧
I’ll take that scorpion for a nice little project while we can’t leave the house. 😁
Yes, and a beautiful looking buggy!
Haha I still gotta work here in pa, building flat bed trucks and dump trucks while Gov wolfe ordered all non life sustaining businesses to close we are not under that as we are life sustaining at least we are told , which I don't see how the hell a flat bed truck or a dump truck is life sustaining
I'm so jealous.😆
😬
im as late as can be, but am i the only one drooling lol
Fantastic score man,I like them all. Though I'm jealous over that OG hilux. That is my dream RC. I often thought about trying to lower my bruiser a bit to make a tribute if I could,lol
Yes, they have always been out of reach for me, well...not top priority. Now I have one.... it's going to be fun giving it a run (in the dry!)
@@TomleyRC that's cool,I'm just glad to hear you're actually gonna run it sometimes,even if it's just a dry run. I run all my rc's including my OG bruiser (though I don't abuse it) as just in my opinion as not everyone feels the same,they're meant to be used sometimes and enjoyed and not spend there entire life on a shelf and not get used or loved,lol.
DAMN MUST BE NICE...SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE LUCK
I had the Lamborghini when i was a kid my uncle gave it too me mid 90s
Beautiful little cars
Thats rc car heaven. What a dream!
My best find of 2020!
Would be the rarest three that are my favorite three hahaha
Amazing lot
I love that ford ranger,I'm pick up truck bonkers
One of my favourites!
Awesome collection 😍 My favourite is Tamiya Toyota pickup truck 😍😍😍👍👍👍
Mine too!
Epic collection bro 👍🏻 We deffo need running vids on all of these ..............please 👍🏻👊🏻🙂
Yes, there will certainly be a few running/wrenching videos
Amazing bro, Wow!! Sonic BOOOM!!!
Hilux would be my choice, I had an original bruiser & my cousin had a blazing blazer. I recently bought a mountain rider
Blazing Blazer 😍
Some really cool cars there going all the way back to the start. I remember my buddy started getting Tamiya cars in the early 80s and I think he had a Toyota pickup and a wild Willy's. I found that original RC10 at a garage sale for like 40 bucks in probably the early 90s. Gold pan and everything I mentioned before. I should probably sell some of them off I spose and I'm sure you gave a bunch to get all that even if it was a great deal. Selling the early one's should help pay for the whole thing or offset it a bit. Would be cool if some kind of RC museum could end up with them.
Going to be fun to see run them again.
Yes, will get some of my money back selling some, but also will have some nice ons for my collection!
Great stuff! Always fun to see your videos. The HILUX is fantastic! The LAMBORGHINI was my first RC!!! It ran for many years. I wonder if my son still has it?
Some real classics
Lol I can't even afford to replace my good Old HPI nitro miss that beast alot! Was made redundant wee while back so taking back being outta work! Hpi and Schumacher was the best when I raced them! I remember my first Schumacher u had a yellow 3 series BMW on it star of the show that thing was! Won every race! That black Grand vitara nitro there was cool as heck loved that exhaust! I Need a new Acmos Techniplus controller when, if I get mine replaced never liked the controllers with the wheel on side never got used to them! Procats cool I had the fireblade wishbones always went on it lol miss my RCs so much!My first proper RC I started with Was the Alfa touring car from Tamiya! Still a cool shell today! Amd the Escorts wrc lol
Wow insane
Have to agree with you there my 1st tamiya 30 years ago was a ford ranger the blue one, I couldn't stop looking at it when it was built. The stance was superb. Definitely one of tamiya's best kits.
Thanks for sharing what a trip down memory lane, have had several of these when I was a kid rough rider with a ford body on it, A Traxxas Bullet but when you took out that Lamborghini I almost fell out my chair. Was my first proper rc might even still have it somewhere, anyway nice collection.
Glad you enjoyed it mate. Thanks for watching