I'm 45 and the 15 hour battery charge for 8 minutes of runtime is exactly how I remember RC stuff and why I gave up on it 20+ years ago. That and stuff breaking all the time and waiting WEEKS for the model shop to get spares at insane prices. Feels medieval times now.
I'm 43, and had the 30 min charger with the manual timer knob you turned, then heard it ticking as it counted down. Had the separate power supply. This was with the genuine tamiya 1200mah. 8 to 10 mins on my boomerang, then when battery went flat msc would stick and you had to chase car down the road!!!!
I had a big brute with 6 cell nimh in 1990 and I felt it had plenty of drive time. Plus that 20 hrs charge is slow charge mode. On fast you could do same amount of juice to batt. in 15 min. And a small vehicle like a Bolink legend took a 4 cell and could run 30 min racing like that. And all machines break. Fixing it is part of the hobby.
8 minutes! I raced in the 80’s and races were 5 minutes. You aimed for the battery to last 30 seconds later to finish the lap. Mardave Meteor, then PB Mini Mustang then Optima Mid. Great days.
Absolutely love my TL01. It started off belonging to a buddy of mine that he got from his uncle. My buddy never stuck with the hobby and the car had some broken parts on it. He gave it to me to do whatever i pleased with it. I took it and gave it the full treatment. New chassis, bearings, gears, and all new electronics. One car I'm never going to get rid of!
Oh wow that’s cool, bringing back RC memories with mechanical speed controller, the little heat box thing and overnight charging for the tiniest play the next day! I can’t even remember what kit I had this in it was so long ago! 😅
When the school r/c club I started went to on road racing over 20 years we used the TL0. It was great because it was so durable. When Tamiya phased out the TL01 and went to the TT01 we knew there would be more broken cars, which there were. It is a great chassis for beginners. The Ford Lightening body was definitely the cool body back then.
I have the tamiya mini cooper,built it got the body painted by a professional and it has only ran for 5mins to see if it worked then it became a shelf queen .still looks good after all those years.my grasshopper on the other hand got built and thrashed around till it was totally broke.but it took a beating.great cars both of them.love your calendar videos.
We had Tyco Fast Traxx and Wild Thing cars when I was young and I remember having to plan your charging strategy for the weekends. Anyone who had more than a one battery lived like a king. The few minutes of fun was amazing at the time but if you ran full tilt it was drained soooo fast. I also remember having a silver Ferrari Testarosa that only ran on like 8 AAs but it was so fast.
Wow Tomley! Great video! That was my first RC combo (bought by myself) back in 2001 when I was 19 years old. I used it all I could and then sold it. Luckily, like 12 years later, I found it again on EBay and inmediately bought it. It was in the exact same condition as yours! I still drive it but very carefully! Not a shelf queen as well! Thank you for making this video. You really made my day today!
Oh my. The good old mechanical speed control. I think my first one was the midnight pumpkin. That thing was fun. Top heavy and very unstable but I had tons of fun with it. I also had the Tower Hobbies Turbo Vee boat with a mechanical speed control. Tons of fun. Thanks for the great memory.
I had that exact truck as my first proper RC, was great fun at the time. Scary to think that I have crawlers that are faster than it was out of the box.
My bro in law had the ball raced TL01b and his mate had the plastic bushes in his, he said it was night and day. We've sinced ended up with the ball raced car at our house and that's ended up with your recipe for a Banggood brushless conversion. It's a tyre melter now. Love the TL01 platform. Good video today 🙂🎅🎄
Great video, I have a TL01 that i got for xmas in 2000 as a kit as a teenager and built with my dad. Still running today but with an upgraded gearbox, bushes replaced with bearings, ESC and Sport Tuned motor, good for around 20mph. Just converted it back to its original state with a 1999 Focus WRC bodyshell and new rally wheels.
Oh them olden golden days of RC! TL01 and the TL01B were and still are my fave Tamiya chassis of all time! My TL01B with the speed gear set 2200kv brushless and 80a HW esc did standing backflips on 3s. But never brought the whole truck back always left some bits in the field! 😂👍
5.4 liter SOHC supercharged v8. I dropped a lightning engine in my pre runner. Did a Kenny Bell 2.6 liter blower, haltech ecu, 1500cc injectors, run it on race gas. With the 40 inch tires on it made 680 to the rear wheels. With my 32 inch drag radials off of my ford falcon it made 712 wheel. In a super stripped down short box single cab 2002 ford f150 with 18 inches of travel up front and 22 out back, brother the thing is a straight up unit.
I've a TL01 and they are painfully slow on a NiMH and standard silver can, I've been looking at the high speed gear set, a 17t motor and 23 pinion but i can't justify spending that money on a basic chassis
I have a TL-01 that i got used in parts back in 2017, for 25€, only had to buy a new chassis for it since it was snapped at one corner, it came with the full Carson tuning kit (bearings , dampers & speed gearing) and the original ford focus rally body and tires, both very beat up unfortunately, i thoroughly enjoy driving it!
5.4 liter supercharged V8 DOHC (i think it was dohc...i know it was ohc, i was a SS chevy guy) but yes, BA truck, BA rc truck. Thanks for the video. Im 33 and starting my small vintage collection.
Beautiful lightning. I remember getting that control getting stuck after some flip then it's off and running and you prayed it didn't get totally destroyed. . 🇺🇲👍
I've got a tlo1b chassis. Just don't have a front collision or its new chassis time oh and the servo savers are gash seems to handle brushless fairly well though your just limited in pinion sizes :)
Had two Tamiya cars growing up - One Ford Mondeo BTCC car and one Fiat 500 Abarth. I vividly remember drooling over a Mini Cooper with loads of anodized option parts and a tuned brushed motor that my friends dad had. If I remember correctly, it was absolutely undrivable 😂
That msc brings back some memories of my old tamiya baja champ i think it was the tl01b, very similar to that chassis but with wider arms. Its what started me off in hobby rc about 21 22 years ago 😂 thanks for the trip man 👊🏼🤙🏼💨💨
The TL01 F150 kit was the first rc car I ever built. I was very young and saved up like $80-$100 bucks and bought this in the kit form. Great memories… I remember putting a speed gems mod motor in minds lol
I had one.😢. Wish I still had it😢. I had aluminum suspenion arms, carbon drive shaft, trf shocks,lrp speed control, orion 19 turn motor( brushed), and bearings.😢 I wish they would bring it back!! I also had the ford lighting body painted purple.
I remember about 20 odd years ago my brother had a tamiya with a mechanical speed controller, he put a 12turn motorn in it and it stuck open on full throttle, hit a curb and disintegrated😂😂😂, i also remember him having a car light bulb with tamiya connectors to fully drain the batteries, he is who got me into rc cars but im glad we dont have those things anymore😂
I believe its 25 yrs to fall under vintage for anything mass produced. But 20 yr mark is minimum for anything that is rare, limited quantity produced. So 22 yrs, falls in both i suppose. And wow throws me back, to all the pinch fingers from pliers slipping when assembling ball joints, leaving a blood clot. Hahaha. And the runaways from mechanical speed controls stuck on full, WOW, I totally forgot about that!! Chasing them across a field, park, down the street. Lol. Ahhh memories. And OMG!! The 8 to 11 hours to charge NiCads for 10 minutes of play time. Taught us to be patient, and grateful. And when NiMH came out, oh that was the best 5 hour charges u could get 2 sessions in 1 day. Then i got older and learned about building packs and pro chargers!! 15-20 minute fast charges, multiple packs. Short life cycles of course. But that was worth it. Hahahah. Man the memories of the early days getting into the hobby and technology was basic. I learned how to hand wind motors, started modifying stock 540 Mabuchi motors, then the Mod Bell Ends came out, oh that was the best. With the Trinity motors!! Boy i can go on and on, so many memories coming back. Im so glad got to experience all that, it makes me appreciate how much technology has advanced in the hobby, and of course being an adult, can afford it, versus being 12yrs old and saving up money from birthday gifts, and christmas gifts to buy a kit, and then the hop-ups over the yr was fun. Oh i still own my TL-01, and TL-02. Lot of use, and retired them gracefully, after a good cleanup, fixup on where needed and fresh painted bodies of the original ones I tracked down few years ago. They're shelfed no along with my Vintage RC10s, and the original Juggernaut!!
The TL01 is the sleeper from the vintage Tamiya lineup. I have two in my massive collection and they are built to rip. Out of the box they are meh, but are just as capable as a mid to high end Tamiya touring car. Mine are extremely quick and handle great. One thing you must do when built to go fast is install a AVC receiver or gyro to keep the front end true. Call it cheating, but I would challenge a TRF touring car any day of the week with my TL01s 😊
I really appreciate these videos. I have some RC trucks 15 years older than this one and it's nice to see how easy it is to update them. Maybe someday I'll do that, if I can find them.lol
My first hobby grade RC was a hornet, 1986 ish i built the kit at 10 years old. ive been contemplation buying a new version one...... but dont think id have as much fun as i did at 10.
Awesome video I love converting old stuff to brushless it's almost like time travel since brushless didn't exist back then imagine if someone time traveled with a brushless motor they'd win almost every time compared to stuff at the time
Memory lane indeed, the first mod was always the speed tuned gear set, reduced acceleration but in mid 20s mph but now tomley has one go the full mod on it. Have heard rumours of tl-01s doing 80mph on 2s and would love to see a fully hopped up one. Tomley is the man to do it
What a trip down memory lane! I still own my TL01 Toyota Celica GT4 that I got for Christmas in 97. They were always that slow Phil! but in the day this was probably considered mildly quick. Watch out for the shock mounts on these, they are pretty fragile and moulded as part of the chassis so a pain in the ass to replace. Tamiya also did an off-road version of this too called the TL01-B I think it was called the Baja Champ? I always wanted one of those as a kid.
TL-01 Mustang GT. Speed Tuned gear is a must! The caris quite competitive in stock rules club racing. But you need gears, pinions obviously l, oil shocks, rear sway bar and cup tires. Does 17-18 mph with a sliver can and 2 cell lipo. 21.5 T bushlesss and Hobby Wing Just Stock bumps it up to 22 mph.
@TOMLEY Just as an FYI the sticker on the top of the car, If you use a thick coating of Mr sheen (yes the furniture polish And it has to be Mr sheen) and leave it one to soak for a minute or so the glue will wipe off there's something in it the softens glue
I was definitely one of those kids who waited for battery to charge up.....i enjoyed every minute of run time....nowadays I seem to get tired before the batteries run out! Hahaha!
💯Nice old memories, thank you for this great video. I also have another one of my first RC cars, a 1990 Dickie Porsche 911 Targa. Maybe I should put it on the road again? Great calendar, keep it up! 👍
Were? I still have original Tamiya Frog. 38 years old now! I still remember building and painting it like yesterday. That funny mech speed control with the two white ceramic resistors. Z bend steering links with ball ends at the wheels. Plastic white bushings. Lol. God was it crap. 6 min runs on those old crappy nicad. Kids today have no idea what they have.
back in good old 1986 / 87 ( was 17 in 86 ) i bought a 12 volt car battery , a car battery charger , and the those brand new at the time , old fashioned RC fast chargers made up of a square metal heatsink plate with old fashioned ceramic resistors with crocodile clips , to charge my then new tamiya hotshot battery , and my hotshot was upgraded to the new double sided suspension system front and rear 🤣 🤣 🤣 .
@@TomleyRC a quick google search says: you are correct! I have a runner which is the calsonic gt-r (painted black with yellow on the nose) Merc CLK DTM shelf queen under glass, still in a wooden crate. I thought I had another, but I do have a mugen avex nsz tamiya nitro and a porsche 959 dakar but I painted it red. Only ran it once and unfortunately broke a front A arm during a move and cheapest I found was $200 for a replacement. I'm HOPING for a re-release so that means cheap parts again.
Hi Phil, thanks for all your great videos. I'm new to RCs. In some of them you talk about upgrading and I'm sure you've how to videos. Just can't seem to find them among the review videos. Can you make a playlist of all your 'how to videos' and explication videos please. Pretty please. Fanx
It can go faster if you do a full bearing upgrade. Im betting that it has all plastic bushings everywhere.i built a tamiya ford mustang cobra svt of the same age and all the kit came with plastic and brass bushings
i have a car with a tl-01 chassis from 2000, Opel V8 Coupé (58263), i dont have the shell, and haven been hard to find, i wish tamiy would do a remake of it
30 or 25 years ago I still have couple those radio shack 4x4 buggies.. those black ones.. I think it's was called phantom black and gold. Collecting dust in a closet. And I have the monster truck that comes with camaro body and Toyota pickup truck body. I think that one was nikko or radio shack. Be cool if you fix one those up off of ebay.. or nikko Thor truck.. I'm surprised the gears ⚙️ hold up in that Tamiya truck you upgraded to brushless 😂. I also have shinsei 57 chevy bel air car collect dust on a shelf also .. that one was one my favorite cars but doesn't work anymore
no need to imagine... i too have been a kid who waited all night to have 8 minutes of runtime on the next day , which felt like 4 minutes really ... how times have changed ! now i can run my trail rig for 2 hours and who knows how many kilometers/miles (incl. messing around and back and forth and up and down ) easily with just one shorty pack 6000mAh LiPo . oh yeah , noaice and lush :o)
I haven't had a rc-car in 30 years or thereabout, back then Kyosho and Tamiya were the big 2.. Losi was coming up at the time .. But I am curious, what is the runtime of a battery on an rc-car these days, and are they as fast to charge as phones now?
Funny thing that some 15 years later Tamiya came up with same design for MF01. Some neat improvements, while keeping bombproof design. Unfortunately they ruined it with the motor postion...
Don't know about 20 years ago, but 32 years ago i got a Tamiya terra scorcher, upgraded standard rs540 motor with dynatech and mechanical speed control with electronic by acoms. That thing ripped off almost any 1/10th electric 4wd buggy on it's time...
Can remember that i took a class in building rc cars and we all build traxas 4tec and when we too them racing there was a lot of burned speed controler
I had a nikko toyota grey supra with a red rear light on the rear window and blue lights on the wheel well. 😢 Miss that thing it had a black wing carbon fiber wing i think.
We are definitely not getting tired of the intro the more Christmas type stuff the better if we can all get over the RC Duck hay we’re good😂 like I said this has become my daily habit so down with #11 & on to 12 🤔
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I'm 45 and the 15 hour battery charge for 8 minutes of runtime is exactly how I remember RC stuff and why I gave up on it 20+ years ago. That and stuff breaking all the time and waiting WEEKS for the model shop to get spares at insane prices. Feels medieval times now.
I’m only a little younger 😎👍
I'm 43, and had the 30 min charger with the manual timer knob you turned, then heard it ticking as it counted down. Had the separate power supply. This was with the genuine tamiya 1200mah. 8 to 10 mins on my boomerang, then when battery went flat msc would stick and you had to chase car down the road!!!!
Couldn't of said it better myself. Such a different hobby no a days. Glad I found my way back to it.
I had a big brute with 6 cell nimh in 1990 and I felt it had plenty of drive time. Plus that 20 hrs charge is slow charge mode. On fast you could do same amount of juice to batt. in 15 min. And a small vehicle like a Bolink legend took a 4 cell and could run 30 min racing like that. And all machines break. Fixing it is part of the hobby.
8 minutes! I raced in the 80’s and races were 5 minutes. You aimed for the battery to last 30 seconds later to finish the lap. Mardave Meteor, then PB Mini Mustang then Optima Mid. Great days.
Absolutely love my TL01. It started off belonging to a buddy of mine that he got from his uncle. My buddy never stuck with the hobby and the car had some broken parts on it. He gave it to me to do whatever i pleased with it. I took it and gave it the full treatment. New chassis, bearings, gears, and all new electronics. One car I'm never going to get rid of!
Oh wow that’s cool, bringing back RC memories with mechanical speed controller, the little heat box thing and overnight charging for the tiniest play the next day! I can’t even remember what kit I had this in it was so long ago! 😅
After waiting 15 hours for a charge you forgot to mention thoes 8 minutes were the best all day 😁
Haha
When the school r/c club I started went to on road racing over 20 years we used the TL0. It was great because it was so durable. When Tamiya phased out the TL01 and went to the TT01 we knew there would be more broken cars, which there were. It is a great chassis for beginners. The Ford Lightening body was definitely the cool body back then.
I have the tamiya mini cooper,built it got the body painted by a professional and it has only ran for 5mins to see if it worked then it became a shelf queen .still looks good after all those years.my grasshopper on the other hand got built and thrashed around till it was totally broke.but it took a beating.great cars both of them.love your calendar videos.
We had Tyco Fast Traxx and Wild Thing cars when I was young and I remember having to plan your charging strategy for the weekends. Anyone who had more than a one battery lived like a king. The few minutes of fun was amazing at the time but if you ran full tilt it was drained soooo fast. I also remember having a silver Ferrari Testarosa that only ran on like 8 AAs but it was so fast.
This might be my favorite calendar reveal so far!!! I think you got the power upgrade spot on!!!!👍👍👍
Cheers dude. Yeah, a little bit more punch, but not over the top
Wow Tomley! Great video! That was my first RC combo (bought by myself) back in 2001 when I was 19 years old. I used it all I could and then sold it. Luckily, like 12 years later, I found it again on EBay and inmediately bought it. It was in the exact same condition as yours! I still drive it but very carefully! Not a shelf queen as well! Thank you for making this video. You really made my day today!
Oh my. The good old mechanical speed control. I think my first one was the midnight pumpkin. That thing was fun. Top heavy and very unstable but I had tons of fun with it. I also had the Tower Hobbies Turbo Vee boat with a mechanical speed control. Tons of fun. Thanks for the great memory.
I had that exact truck as my first proper RC, was great fun at the time. Scary to think that I have crawlers that are faster than it was out of the box.
My bro in law had the ball raced TL01b and his mate had the plastic bushes in his, he said it was night and day. We've sinced ended up with the ball raced car at our house and that's ended up with your recipe for a Banggood brushless conversion. It's a tyre melter now. Love the TL01 platform. Good video today 🙂🎅🎄
Great video, I have a TL01 that i got for xmas in 2000 as a kit as a teenager and built with my dad. Still running today but with an upgraded gearbox, bushes replaced with bearings, ESC and Sport Tuned motor, good for around 20mph. Just converted it back to its original state with a 1999 Focus WRC bodyshell and new rally wheels.
Oh them olden golden days of RC! TL01 and the TL01B were and still are my fave Tamiya chassis of all time! My TL01B with the speed gear set 2200kv brushless and 80a HW esc did standing backflips on 3s. But never brought the whole truck back always left some bits in the field! 😂👍
I had a Kyosho Raider stadium truck. Very similar. My young self was proud of my purchase and hard work that paid for it.
5.4 liter SOHC supercharged v8. I dropped a lightning engine in my pre runner. Did a Kenny Bell 2.6 liter blower, haltech ecu, 1500cc injectors, run it on race gas. With the 40 inch tires on it made 680 to the rear wheels. With my 32 inch drag radials off of my ford falcon it made 712 wheel. In a super stripped down short box single cab 2002 ford f150 with 18 inches of travel up front and 22 out back, brother the thing is a straight up unit.
I have one it was fun to take to Ford car shows back in the day.
I've a TL01 and they are painfully slow on a NiMH and standard silver can, I've been looking at the high speed gear set, a 17t motor and 23 pinion but i can't justify spending that money on a basic chassis
Yeah, I think even in 2001 this would have been disappointing
I believe that once a car is discontinued, it’s vintage! I got the kit version that’s a shelf queen! Definitely a cool truck!
I have a TL-01 that i got used in parts back in 2017, for 25€, only had to buy a new chassis for it since it was snapped at one corner, it came with the full Carson tuning kit (bearings , dampers & speed gearing) and the original ford focus rally body and tires, both very beat up unfortunately, i thoroughly enjoy driving it!
My first build was an RC 10T. Brings back memories with the speed controller. Cool upgrade on that lightning
5.4 liter supercharged V8 DOHC (i think it was dohc...i know it was ohc, i was a SS chevy guy) but yes, BA truck, BA rc truck. Thanks for the video. Im 33 and starting my small vintage collection.
Back in the 80s we had the quick charger running off the car battery. But ran the risk of melting the battery if left on on for too long :)
Beautiful lightning. I remember getting that control getting stuck after some flip then it's off and running and you prayed it didn't get totally destroyed. . 🇺🇲👍
I've got a tlo1b chassis. Just don't have a front collision or its new chassis time oh and the servo savers are gash seems to handle brushless fairly well though your just limited in pinion sizes :)
The Nostalgia is strong, with this one!
My first hobby-grade was a TL-01 Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 Bosch.
Love this one! What fun memories this brought back. So cool to see it brand new! when they locked up full throttle was always hilarious.
Had two Tamiya cars growing up - One Ford Mondeo BTCC car and one Fiat 500 Abarth. I vividly remember drooling over a Mini Cooper with loads of anodized option parts and a tuned brushed motor that my friends dad had. If I remember correctly, it was absolutely undrivable 😂
That msc brings back some memories of my old tamiya baja champ i think it was the tl01b, very similar to that chassis but with wider arms. Its what started me off in hobby rc about 21 22 years ago 😂 thanks for the trip man 👊🏼🤙🏼💨💨
The TL01 F150 kit was the first rc car I ever built. I was very young and saved up like $80-$100 bucks and bought this in the kit form. Great memories… I remember putting a speed gems mod motor in minds lol
I had one.😢. Wish I still had it😢. I had aluminum suspenion arms, carbon drive shaft, trf shocks,lrp speed control, orion 19 turn motor( brushed), and bearings.😢 I wish they would bring it back!! I also had the ford lighting body painted purple.
I remember about 20 odd years ago my brother had a tamiya with a mechanical speed controller, he put a 12turn motorn in it and it stuck open on full throttle, hit a curb and disintegrated😂😂😂, i also remember him having a car light bulb with tamiya connectors to fully drain the batteries, he is who got me into rc cars but im glad we dont have those things anymore😂
I believe its 25 yrs to fall under vintage for anything mass produced. But 20 yr mark is minimum for anything that is rare, limited quantity produced. So 22 yrs, falls in both i suppose.
And wow throws me back, to all the pinch fingers from pliers slipping when assembling ball joints, leaving a blood clot. Hahaha. And the runaways from mechanical speed controls stuck on full, WOW, I totally forgot about that!! Chasing them across a field, park, down the street. Lol. Ahhh memories. And OMG!! The 8 to 11 hours to charge NiCads for 10 minutes of play time. Taught us to be patient, and grateful. And when NiMH came out, oh that was the best 5 hour charges u could get 2 sessions in 1 day. Then i got older and learned about building packs and pro chargers!! 15-20 minute fast charges, multiple packs. Short life cycles of course. But that was worth it. Hahahah. Man the memories of the early days getting into the hobby and technology was basic. I learned how to hand wind motors, started modifying stock 540 Mabuchi motors, then the Mod Bell Ends came out, oh that was the best. With the Trinity motors!! Boy i can go on and on, so many memories coming back.
Im so glad got to experience all that, it makes me appreciate how much technology has advanced in the hobby, and of course being an adult, can afford it, versus being 12yrs old and saving up money from birthday gifts, and christmas gifts to buy a kit, and then the hop-ups over the yr was fun.
Oh i still own my TL-01, and TL-02. Lot of use, and retired them gracefully, after a good cleanup, fixup on where needed and fresh painted bodies of the original ones I tracked down few years ago. They're shelfed no along with my Vintage RC10s, and the original Juggernaut!!
The TL01 is the sleeper from the vintage Tamiya lineup. I have two in my massive collection and they are built to rip. Out of the box they are meh, but are just as capable as a mid to high end Tamiya touring car. Mine are extremely quick and handle great. One thing you must do when built to go fast is install a AVC receiver or gyro to keep the front end true. Call it cheating, but I would challenge a TRF touring car any day of the week with my TL01s 😊
I really appreciate these videos. I have some RC trucks 15 years older than this one and it's nice to see how easy it is to update them. Maybe someday I'll do that, if I can find them.lol
Glad you enjoyed it Mark
My first hobby grade RC was a hornet, 1986 ish i built the kit at 10 years old. ive been contemplation buying a new version one...... but dont think id have as much fun as i did at 10.
Awesome video I love converting old stuff to brushless it's almost like time travel since brushless didn't exist back then imagine if someone time traveled with a brushless motor they'd win almost every time compared to stuff at the time
Immediately reminded me of Paul Walker's red f150 lightning from fast and furious 1. It had a decal saying racers edge on the doors 🥲 good old days
Memory lane indeed, the first mod was always the speed tuned gear set, reduced acceleration but in mid 20s mph but now tomley has one go the full mod on it. Have heard rumours of tl-01s doing 80mph on 2s and would love to see a fully hopped up one. Tomley is the man to do it
What a trip down memory lane! I still own my TL01 Toyota Celica GT4 that I got for Christmas in 97.
They were always that slow Phil! but in the day this was probably considered mildly quick.
Watch out for the shock mounts on these, they are pretty fragile and moulded as part of the chassis so a pain in the ass to replace.
Tamiya also did an off-road version of this too called the TL01-B I think it was called the Baja Champ? I always wanted one of those as a kid.
Yes, I’ve had a Baja Champ… also put a brushless on that haha. That was before my RUclips days though
I have a baja champ and it's still running old skool electronics. It was my 1st proper hobby grade rc
TL-01 Mustang GT. Speed Tuned gear is a must! The caris quite competitive in stock rules club racing. But you need gears, pinions obviously l, oil shocks, rear sway bar and cup tires. Does 17-18 mph with a sliver can and 2 cell lipo. 21.5 T bushlesss and Hobby Wing Just Stock bumps it up to 22 mph.
There's something about these old kits. The RS4, the Tamiya kits. Special.
Radio Shack had some great ones like this truck way back in the day. The Flashtron was a great car.
@TOMLEY Just as an FYI the sticker on the top of the car, If you use a thick coating of Mr sheen (yes the furniture polish And it has to be Mr sheen) and leave it one to soak for a minute or so the glue will wipe off there's something in it the softens glue
Isopropanol works for me too
@@djsavada718 I always use WD40, isnt it fun how there are so many ways to tackle the same problem succesfully
@@boerharms2209 yes it is 😄 will try that too. its not greasy after that?
@@djsavada718 yeah a bit, nothing a little isopropyl alcohol wont fix 😅
Easily top 3 of all the cars so far because of your upgrades of course . Seems to steer very well
Graet series 🎉 I remember my grass hopper hitting a curb head on and breaking in half. 89 was a good year.
Used to race these at the Eurocup. Good cheap fun and can take a beating.
A TL-01 was my first 'proper' RC. Used to race it with the MSC, can't remember the motor it had and an Escort WRC body! Loved that car 😢
I was definitely one of those kids who waited for battery to charge up.....i enjoyed every minute of run time....nowadays I seem to get tired before the batteries run out! Hahaha!
💯Nice old memories, thank you for this great video. I also have another one of my first RC cars, a 1990 Dickie Porsche 911 Targa. Maybe I should put it on the road again? Great calendar, keep it up! 👍
I haven't seen a Tamiya connector since the late 80's. Good ole frog!
This was my first Hobby grade RC that I bought with my own money when I was around 21.
Were? I still have original Tamiya Frog. 38 years old now! I still remember building and painting it like yesterday. That funny mech speed control with the two white ceramic resistors. Z bend steering links with ball ends at the wheels. Plastic white bushings. Lol. God was it crap. 6 min runs on those old crappy nicad. Kids today have no idea what they have.
Real memories right here, I remember my stick controller that used to eat AA batteries with my grasshopper
It's quite noticeable the difference when you put bearings in. Love that classic body too. Not a bad resto mod!
Most impeccable timing ever, went to grab a jam doughnut at exactly the same time you said "at least it can do doughnuts"
back in good old 1986 / 87 ( was 17 in 86 ) i bought a 12 volt car battery , a car battery charger , and the those brand new at the time , old fashioned RC fast chargers made up of a square metal heatsink plate with old fashioned ceramic resistors with crocodile clips , to charge my then new tamiya hotshot battery , and my hotshot was upgraded to the new double sided suspension system front and rear 🤣 🤣 🤣 .
I vividly remember rocks getting stuck in the mechanical speedcontroller on my Grasshopper. :)
Wish I got into the hobby sooner. Built my TT02 GR Yaris Rally1 and I love it!
My original Rough Rider has the mech speed controller and original radio gear. It's like new still.
Brilliant you ran it after all those years 😊
Noone going to talk about the fart @ 0:31
I have a bunch of TL-01 shelf queens....liked building them back in the day...bought a buddy one of the lightnings, don't know if he ever built it.
I have a Baja Champ, think that was a TL-01B
@@TomleyRC a quick google search says: you are correct!
I have a runner which is the calsonic gt-r (painted black with yellow on the nose)
Merc CLK DTM shelf queen under glass, still in a wooden crate.
I thought I had another, but I do have a mugen avex nsz tamiya nitro and a porsche 959 dakar but I painted it red.
Only ran it once and unfortunately broke a front A arm during a move and cheapest I found was $200 for a replacement. I'm HOPING for a re-release so that means cheap parts again.
Built this truck from a kit and put a GM racing flugmotor, bigger pinion and 8.4v battery's went like stink in 97. Still own it as a shelf queen now.😅
My first brushless car was a tl01 with a sidewinder 5700kv in it 14 years ago. Wild car!
Hey Phil loving your RC Advent Calendar mate! Keep ‘em coming! So many different vehicles from past to present. 🎉🎁👍🏼
Hi Phil, thanks for all your great videos. I'm new to RCs. In some of them you talk about upgrading and I'm sure you've how to videos. Just can't seem to find them among the review videos. Can you make a playlist of all your 'how to videos' and explication videos please. Pretty please. Fanx
Reminds me of the old days when the TT-01 kit came out cheers 🎉
It can go faster if you do a full bearing upgrade. Im betting that it has all plastic bushings everywhere.i built a tamiya ford mustang cobra svt of the same age and all the kit came with plastic and brass bushings
Very nice car. Probably undergeared like all Tamiya's and it's even more prominent when using Lipo/Brushless. Thanks for that video 😊
Mechanical speed controllers were nuts. Especially if you were running foam tires. The tire dust was awful.
Cool ride! Glad it went brushless‼️👍👍🦾🦾🤘🤘
Yes, made it much more fun
Lost for words! Removing mint vintage electroncis! BanTheHam!
Would it annoy you even more if I told you I threw them in the Bin?
it would do 3s with what you put in it? but yeah I guess you want to save the drivetrain
Yeah, I didn’t want to go to crazy
I still have my tamiya Falcon from 1985, and it was that slow. It did have oil shocks, though. I also have my 1985 ayk Bobcat. Both non runners now😢
The want is strong! When I got out of the Army in '04 I blew all my money I saved up on buying the real one ❤
Nice!
i have a car with a tl-01 chassis from 2000, Opel V8 Coupé (58263), i dont have the shell, and haven been hard to find, i wish tamiy would do a remake of it
That is fantastic I loved having my tamiya tl 01 stadium raider. Good memories 👍🏻
30 or 25 years ago I still have couple those radio shack 4x4 buggies.. those black ones.. I think it's was called phantom black and gold. Collecting dust in a closet. And I have the monster truck that comes with camaro body and Toyota pickup truck body. I think that one was nikko or radio shack. Be cool if you fix one those up off of ebay.. or nikko Thor truck.. I'm surprised the gears ⚙️ hold up in that Tamiya truck you upgraded to brushless 😂. I also have shinsei 57 chevy bel air car collect dust on a shelf also .. that one was one my favorite cars but doesn't work anymore
I wonder what it would with better tires? Awesome video
Seeing this makes me wish my I had my old rc still, the Blazing Star by tamiya
no need to imagine... i too have been a kid who waited all night to have 8 minutes of runtime on the next day , which felt like 4 minutes really ...
how times have changed ! now i can run my trail rig for 2 hours and who knows how many kilometers/miles (incl. messing around and back and forth and up and down ) easily with just one shorty pack 6000mAh LiPo . oh yeah , noaice and lush :o)
I haven't had a rc-car in 30 years or thereabout, back then Kyosho and Tamiya were the big 2.. Losi was coming up at the time .. But I am curious, what is the runtime of a battery on an rc-car these days, and are they as fast to charge as phones now?
The electronics Reminds me of my first lunchbox with the manual speed control
Nice! Love that you brought it to “life” so to speak 🙌
I remember being so excited to be able to charge my nimh packs in 25 minutes with a fast charger!!!😂🤪 awesome vintage Phil!!!🤙🏻
Funny thing that some 15 years later Tamiya came up with same design for MF01. Some neat improvements, while keeping bombproof design. Unfortunately they ruined it with the motor postion...
I would have voted for a period correct hop-up. Maybe a Novak Rooster with a Reedy 15t triple.
It’s insane you had that RC for so long & had it new in the box it was like a time capsule.
Oh yes I remember those mechanical speed controllers and huge chargers that where soo slow
Nice to see you have fun with that Lightning.
It’s just cool to see the 22 year old RC in that good shape even though just sitting there. 👍🏻
Don't know about 20 years ago, but 32 years ago i got a Tamiya terra scorcher, upgraded standard rs540 motor with dynatech and mechanical speed control with electronic by acoms.
That thing ripped off almost any 1/10th electric 4wd buggy on it's time...
Can remember that i took a class in building rc cars and we all build traxas 4tec and when we too them racing there was a lot of burned speed controler
I had a nikko toyota grey supra with a red rear light on the rear window and blue lights on the wheel well. 😢 Miss that thing it had a black wing carbon fiber wing i think.
I gotta find one of these bodies to keep my Fast and Furious builds alive. Delivery truck!
We have to have the Christmas calendar this year also!!!!!
Loved this door!
nice, classis old tamiya
We are definitely not getting tired of the intro the more Christmas type stuff the better if we can all get over the RC Duck hay we’re good😂 like I said this has become my daily habit so down with #11 & on to 12 🤔
Ah brings back memories of sticky mechanical speed controllers and long charging... oh the pain!