I always did dig the old Trackers; primarily cause they used the same body shell as the Kyosho USA-1. I have a Kyosho QRC series Wild Dodge Ram, and the Tracker seems to share the stock wheels, so this is as close as I can get to seeing a 1990's style Chevy body on truck similar in size to mine.
You guys are my Vintage Heroes, that is a very rare and awesome truck, and yet, you still run it and have fun with it, Thanks Harry😁 and off course Ari for this great channel👍
I bought one of these when I was about 13. It was more than half the price of the much cooler USA-1 and when I was about 13 years old, it was also the most expensive thing I'd ever bought with my own money. Still remember the feeling. Had lots of fun with it and just took it down from the attic to see if I can fix it up to shape to drive with my nephew who just got a car of his own. :)
It actually reminds me a lot of my Traxxas Bigfoot with the stance and the way it runs plus they both had 550 motors . Harry needs to do a video showing his collection I’m sure that would be cool .
I remember the nitro version as well. Kyosho had cool 1 page ads for these trucks in Rc car action where the truck was "tracking" its way through a jungle of tall grass
I have a 1996 Kyosho product catalog. The car is described as a popular beginners monster truck, easy to assemble. The car "runs like a racingtruck while it looks like a monster truck". Mabuchi RS 550 SH motor, gear ratio 15:1. Rotary speedo.
I got this when I was 15 so release date more close to 1993. I put a pink monster motor on it. The Transmission had ended up with stripped gears inside of it so I ended up changing it to a transmission from an Ultima that was belt drive. It was my 1st kit amongst friends with lunch boxes, black foots, midnight pumpkins and I felt like I was right there with them all! I advanced up to a Clod Buster.
I remember these they definitely didn’t sell well at the hobby shop I worked at compared to the equivalent Traxxas Stampede we maybe sold the 2 Inital kits before replacing it with something else which is funny because we did sell a bunch of the Outrage buggies (Kyosho in general). It definitely was a good looking truck though our customer demographic was mostly racers (mostly on road) at the time or that new individual looking for a first RC car but even they usually went for something more race oriented like a RC10 or some sort of Touring Car like a TA02
@@gfyracing7632 Join a clod buster group on facebook. Ebay is a start to see what prices parts are selling for. Then see what people who can help out with parts on facebook groups are asking. I go on to the facebook groups all the time and ask if anyone has whatever specific part it is I'm looking for .
That´s a beauty. The Tracker Harry has is the first one, then there was a Tracker ll and Nitro Tracker (only counting the older ones). It´s a great truck, i have several Tracker and Hi Rider Corvette ll.
I think it might have hit around '94... but I will confirm. You're right though - cool truck, but largely ignored. Kyosho used to buy full-page, color ads in the back of Car Action, but nobody cared. It was dark days for Kyosho in those years... outside of the Lasers and Infernos, of course. This truck....it was like they tried to fill a void in the market by combining the Outlaw and the Big Brute. The Great Planes/Tower Hobbies overlords must have demanded a new direction or something. Kyosho seemed to be suffering an identity crisis in the mid-90's.... until they struck gold with the Mini-Z's..... AND THEN Jared Tebo came along, and they found themselves again....
Tracker was super common in EU in the 1990is just as USA-1 and the Corvette Truck, i had the Corvette monter truck. Corvette had a totally different chassie tho.
My first "real" RC was the Nitro Tracker. Still have it. Haven't used it in years. Although the chassis is way below the body I always liked the narrower wheel track width. It was tippy though.
I got into RC and racing October 1996. At that time this Kyosho would have been in direct competition with the Traxxas Stampede. That is tough competition. Knowing Kyosho this one would have been much more expensive than the Stampede. And the Traxxas could be bought RTR. (The kit would only save you about $5) Just my guess as to why you don't see much about this on-line.
That's what happened. Went into the hobby store to buy the Kyosho Tracker (1998?), because I already had the Outrage ST that I raced with. Walked out with the Traxxas Stampede. Hobby store said it was even more fun then the Tracker. Would have liked to have bought the Tracker also (looks great), could not afford both as an early teen making minimum wage part time. lol
Even though I run a Tamiya Zahhak... for the debate between nimh and lipo, I go for lipo batteries for more power and constant voltage. But my name is not Ari, my name is Nick. So I respect the use of nimh batteries on Rc Retro channel.
Yeah no argument on how superior Lipo is. I do have Lipo's. I run some traxxas bashers... not on my channel and I have my Super Astute set up with a brushless combo and Lipo. I'm not against it. Just try to keep simple and old school.. Thanks for the comment.
coincidental... I happened to have got mine right before the new year. I decided to build a Tamiya Bruiser first, and do some restoration vids before I built the Javelin. Either way the RC Retro Javelin build overview vid will be out next week. Things like this will happen from time to time especially with all the new rerelease coming out.
I had them both, first i got the Tracker, that were stolen from me later that year 97? And so i got the nitro tracker for Christmas, still have the boxes + the nitro tracker
I have 2. There strong truck. I been abusing since 1996. It handles brushless no problems. I just got a new old one. Thay are strong strong . By the way beside shocks blowing out. Never broke a part.
Hmmm 🤔 clearly its not.. oh wait, you must have been skipping through the video cause i clearly said it was on loan from my some guy named “friend” lol....
@@tallguygaming409 hey Harry I heard there is kind of a nightmare situation with the nickel metal hydrides you have to make sure they have enough power before they dump on you I've heard of people losing races because they didn't get a right amount of energy put into the battery and they fell short of the finish line and then they got passed by someone else who ended up dumping after they passed them so that's why I think you guys should think about using lipos I'm sorry I'm a broken record but I believe in him more than nims I do have a couple of names and I will be using them that they're 3600 and they're very heavy and if I use it in a hornet or a grasshopper they're possibly going to fall out of the belly because they're so heavy cuz the those things that hold the battery in the doors are known for letting those type of batteries drop so I'm always going to have to put duct tape to make sure they don't fall outbecause getting shapeways stuff is expensive to fix that problem.
@@bradkalman2353 Order the AMPRO Battery retainer door from Shapeways. It fixes that problem. I also responded to your LIPO question in another comment you posted for this video. Thanks for your comments and support.
Again brad we will not be using lipos at all and ever. We font have a problem and we all want to run nimhs. Thanks for the comments but you might as well not bring this up anymore
Brad, I only own 4 rc cars that I run brushless/Lipo in. 1- Traxxas E-revo 2.0. 2- Traxxas Mercedes AMG TRX-6. 3- Super Astute 4- Stealth converted King Cab. However, I'm in the process of swapping out the brushless set up in the king cab for brushed so I can run it on the track and in a race class. Also, I plan on selling both my Traxxas RC's. As for the Super Astute, I'm not sure about keeping the brushless set up in it. Cars that run on Brushless and Lipo are way to fast and hard to control on a track the size of the port royal raceway. I understand you can run brushed motors with Lipo but again thats not our thing. The name of the channel is RC-Retro. "Retro" as in we try to keep it old school. Plus our rules of the race classes all state "brushed motors" and "Nimh". I really appreciate your comments and support. Your are a loyal fan and watch every video and I'm super happy you enjoy the channel. However, you've asked about LIPO in other videos as well. I just wanted to give you an honest answer rather than just saying "NO."
@@RCRetro well I'm sorry you guys get bent out of shape towders me doing that I would just like to see you guys do those things and I'm sorry that I keep asking because I feel there's no progression in the hobby even with the retro stuff if you don't try other things this is how I feel about it and people who race usually race with lipo even with retro cars. I will admit I do have some nihms I will be using them they're 3600 mah but that's what I used to use when I was first got into the hobby that nightcats that's all I had available to me if I'm giving these particular types of matters that you like to use I will still have them and still use them but when it comes to me spending money on them I will be buying them anymore this is just my opinion just like I hate shelf queens and you know my opinion it's all up to you what you want to do I just feel to me that's a waste of money to do as and I do love watching the channel but I have to ask this have you ever watched my channel?
We race for fun not tryn to be competitive at all. Its all to hang out and have a laugh or 2. No need for more power the track cant handle adding lipo also we all own a bunch of nimhs not lookn to spend a fortune gettn new batterys for no reason. All our nimhs last long enuff and even longer then our 6 min races. We like doing old school stuff on the channel so we race on dirt like back in the day with brushed motors and nimh batts. Like this truck a couple of us have am radio systems in some of our cars. If you have a channel id like to see it but if i go on it to watch and most likely its a rc channel if i keep askn for you to play basketball im sure you will say thats not what my channels about.
I always did dig the old Trackers; primarily cause they used the same body shell as the Kyosho USA-1.
I have a Kyosho QRC series Wild Dodge Ram, and the Tracker seems to share the stock wheels, so this is as close as I can get to seeing a 1990's style Chevy body on truck similar in size to mine.
You guys are my Vintage Heroes, that is a very rare and awesome truck, and yet, you still run it and have fun with it, Thanks Harry😁 and off course Ari for this great channel👍
Glad you enjoyed the video and can provide you with great vintage RC content while at the same time having fun...
You know im running it if i own it buddy
Excellent running footage!! Can clearly see how the car performs. Pretty cool truck that handles quite well even with the silver can.
Yeah she gets it done on the track
I bought one of these when I was about 13. It was more than half the price of the much cooler USA-1 and when I was about 13 years old, it was also the most expensive thing I'd ever bought with my own money. Still remember the feeling. Had lots of fun with it and just took it down from the attic to see if I can fix it up to shape to drive with my nephew who just got a car of his own. :)
It actually reminds me a lot of my Traxxas Bigfoot with the stance and the way it runs plus they both had 550 motors . Harry needs to do a video showing his collection I’m sure that would be cool .
Ari hates all my cars he is upset just usimg one for a video hahaha
I remember the nitro version as well. Kyosho had cool 1 page ads for these trucks in Rc car action where the truck was "tracking" its way through a jungle of tall grass
Really? I’d love to see that addition. I’ll have to do some digging through the digital RC car action archives. Thanks for the comment..
Hi!! Just want to say reallly enjoy your videos!!! Thanks man for all you do!! Must cost a lot ! It’s appreciated!
I have a 1996 Kyosho product catalog. The car is described as a popular beginners monster truck, easy to assemble. The car "runs like a racingtruck while it looks like a monster truck". Mabuchi RS 550 SH motor, gear ratio 15:1. Rotary speedo.
naaaaaahhhh, big-brute ruled 2wd monster truck kyosho. tracker needs the 360st long can kyosho motor. nice video. good day.
I got this when I was 15 so release date more close to 1993. I put a pink monster motor on it. The Transmission had ended up with stripped gears inside of it so I ended up changing it to a transmission from an Ultima that was belt drive. It was my 1st kit amongst friends with lunch boxes, black foots, midnight pumpkins and I felt like I was right there with them all! I advanced up to a Clod Buster.
Very cool truck, always wanted one as a kid, in the middle of restoring one now.
Really cool post it up in the facebook group so we can all see.
Where are you getting the parts
If you are running vintage, ya gotta go Nimh! Looking forward to seeing the Javelin. Cant get enough vintage buggy content!!
Nimh for the win!
Can't wait for that Javelin video!
cool video man. i have one of these in unassembled kit form... gonna do an unboxing and build video soon
Nice thats awesome
The Tamiya Blackfoot and Beetle were also buggy chassis trucks. ;)
I had this when I was a kid. God I miss that thing. Awesome video 👌
I remember these they definitely didn’t sell well at the hobby shop I worked at compared to the equivalent Traxxas Stampede we maybe sold the 2 Inital kits before replacing it with something else which is funny because we did sell a bunch of the Outrage buggies (Kyosho in general). It definitely was a good looking truck though our customer demographic was mostly racers (mostly on road) at the time or that new individual looking for a first RC car but even they usually went for something more race oriented like a RC10 or some sort of Touring Car like a TA02
Yeah i feel this truck screams old school and has class. Love the way it looks
I still have my stock Clodbuster. Just need to fix it and get it running again.
Love the Clod. So many parts and after market parts are out there to help you get up and running.
Where would you suggest looking for aftermarket parts for the Clod?
@@gfyracing7632 Join a clod buster group on facebook. Ebay is a start to see what prices parts are selling for. Then see what people who can help out with parts on facebook groups are asking. I go on to the facebook groups all the time and ask if anyone has whatever specific part it is I'm looking for .
That´s a beauty. The Tracker Harry has is the first one, then there was a Tracker ll and Nitro Tracker (only counting the older ones). It´s a great truck, i have several Tracker and Hi Rider Corvette ll.
Yeah it kimda went down hill from the first one haha
@@tallguygaming409 LOL....
I think it might have hit around '94... but I will confirm. You're right though - cool truck, but largely ignored. Kyosho used to buy full-page, color ads in the back of Car Action, but nobody cared. It was dark days for Kyosho in those years... outside of the Lasers and Infernos, of course. This truck....it was like they tried to fill a void in the market by combining the Outlaw and the Big Brute. The Great Planes/Tower Hobbies overlords must have demanded a new direction or something. Kyosho seemed to be suffering an identity crisis in the mid-90's.... until they struck gold with the Mini-Z's..... AND THEN Jared Tebo came along, and they found themselves again....
Wow! I had a tracker! It was my first "real" rc car. And my first Kyosho :)
Tracker was super common in EU in the 1990is just as USA-1 and the Corvette Truck, i had the Corvette monter truck. Corvette had a totally different chassie tho.
Yes the hi rider vette was diff. The hi rider 2 was the same as tracker thou wasnt it?
My first "real" RC was the Nitro Tracker. Still have it. Haven't used it in years. Although the chassis is way below the body I always liked the narrower wheel track width. It was tippy though.
I got into RC and racing October 1996. At that time this Kyosho would have been in direct competition with the Traxxas Stampede. That is tough competition. Knowing Kyosho this one would have been much more expensive than the Stampede. And the Traxxas could be bought RTR. (The kit would only save you about $5) Just my guess as to why you don't see much about this on-line.
Yeah very little of these you see
That's what happened. Went into the hobby store to buy the Kyosho Tracker (1998?), because I already had the Outrage ST that I raced with. Walked out with the Traxxas Stampede. Hobby store said it was even more fun then the Tracker. Would have liked to have bought the Tracker also (looks great), could not afford both as an early teen making minimum wage part time. lol
Now phil buys everything... still no tracker thou
@@tallguygaming409 exactly! No Tracker still
Hi I recently received one of these to fix do you know what turn the motor is?
Need it. Great truck!
Cant have mine haha get your own
Gives me an idea to find a buggy and big tires that fit!
Well this has diff shock towers and shocks and body mounts
Even though I run a Tamiya Zahhak... for the debate between nimh and lipo, I go for lipo batteries for more power and constant voltage. But my name is not Ari, my name is Nick. So I respect the use of nimh batteries on Rc Retro channel.
Yeah no argument on how superior Lipo is. I do have Lipo's. I run some traxxas bashers... not on my channel and I have my Super Astute set up with a brushless combo and Lipo. I'm not against it. Just try to keep simple and old school.. Thanks for the comment.
Did Kyosho send out a bunch of Javelin kits to the RC Channels because they all seem to be building them at the same time?
I didnt get one haha
coincidental... I happened to have got mine right before the new year. I decided to build a Tamiya Bruiser first, and do some restoration vids before I built the Javelin. Either way the RC Retro Javelin build overview vid will be out next week. Things like this will happen from time to time especially with all the new rerelease coming out.
I had them both, first i got the Tracker, that were stolen from me later that year 97? And so i got the nitro tracker for Christmas, still have the boxes + the nitro tracker
Great monster truck 👍😄👍~~~
Thanks for the comment. Yeah its pretty cool. We had fun with it.
It is a overlooked gem
Omg those light bars go for that much i thought those were like 20 bucks not 80
Yeah theres a reason i dont have light bars and rear bumper. Its more then i paid for truck haha
i still have mine. got as a gift from tower hobbies as a kid.
Thanks for the awesome content!
I dont have it 😭
I watch your video ☺️
I hope someday this car comes to my house 😛
I just sold my spare last week 🤦♂️
looks SO good. Much want
I have 2. There strong truck. I been abusing since 1996. It handles brushless no problems. I just got a new old one. Thay are strong strong . By the way beside shocks blowing out. Never broke a part.
I think I remember this.
Harry seems to have more vehicles than you you need to catch up. Lol
I may have more runners cause all mine are runners but he has some in box and ones that sit on a shelf
You know they have a newer version type of this that is 2wd wheel drive just want to let you know.
Yeah its not good looks ugly
Sick truck is it yours?
Hmmm 🤔 clearly its not.. oh wait, you must have been skipping through the video cause i clearly said it was on loan from my some guy named “friend” lol....
@@RCRetro i hate your friends
I wonder if you told people its a stick old school radio thats not really common in America anymore..... wait you didnt 🤦♂️
I'm hoping you guys will start using lipo soon to have races with those. can't imagine how much longer run time you get with them it's quite amazing.
Its never gunna happen stop sayn lipo. Ill see you in next video where u say lipo again 🤦♂️
Our races are 6 min long no need for lipo at all.
@@tallguygaming409 hey Harry I heard there is kind of a nightmare situation with the nickel metal hydrides you have to make sure they have enough power before they dump on you I've heard of people losing races because they didn't get a right amount of energy put into the battery and they fell short of the finish line and then they got passed by someone else who ended up dumping after they passed them so that's why I think you guys should think about using lipos I'm sorry I'm a broken record but I believe in him more than nims I do have a couple of names and I will be using them that they're 3600 and they're very heavy and if I use it in a hornet or a grasshopper they're possibly going to fall out of the belly because they're so heavy cuz the those things that hold the battery in the doors are known for letting those type of batteries drop so I'm always going to have to put duct tape to make sure they don't fall outbecause getting shapeways stuff is expensive to fix that problem.
@@bradkalman2353 Order the AMPRO Battery retainer door from Shapeways. It fixes that problem. I also responded to your LIPO question in another comment you posted for this video. Thanks for your comments and support.
Again brad we will not be using lipos at all and ever. We font have a problem and we all want to run nimhs. Thanks for the comments but you might as well not bring this up anymore
OMG a tamiya esc in a Kyosho....get it out of there....lol..
Haha it was layn around 🤷🏻♂️
Please run lipo in the javelin and brushless motor it.
It wont happen stop askn
Brad, I only own 4 rc cars that I run brushless/Lipo in. 1- Traxxas E-revo 2.0. 2- Traxxas Mercedes AMG TRX-6. 3- Super Astute 4- Stealth converted King Cab. However, I'm in the process of swapping out the brushless set up in the king cab for brushed so I can run it on the track and in a race class. Also, I plan on selling both my Traxxas RC's. As for the Super Astute, I'm not sure about keeping the brushless set up in it. Cars that run on Brushless and Lipo are way to fast and hard to control on a track the size of the port royal raceway. I understand you can run brushed motors with Lipo but again thats not our thing. The name of the channel is RC-Retro. "Retro" as in we try to keep it old school. Plus our rules of the race classes all state "brushed motors" and "Nimh". I really appreciate your comments and support. Your are a loyal fan and watch every video and I'm super happy you enjoy the channel. However, you've asked about LIPO in other videos as well. I just wanted to give you an honest answer rather than just saying "NO."
@@RCRetro well I'm sorry you guys get bent out of shape towders me doing that I would just like to see you guys do those things and I'm sorry that I keep asking because I feel there's no progression in the hobby even with the retro stuff if you don't try other things this is how I feel about it and people who race usually race with lipo even with retro cars. I will admit I do have some nihms I will be using them they're 3600 mah but that's what I used to use when I was first got into the hobby that nightcats that's all I had available to me if I'm giving these particular types of matters that you like to use I will still have them and still use them but when it comes to me spending money on them I will be buying them anymore this is just my opinion just like I hate shelf queens and you know my opinion it's all up to you what you want to do I just feel to me that's a waste of money to do as and I do love watching the channel but I have to ask this have you ever watched my channel?
We race for fun not tryn to be competitive at all. Its all to hang out and have a laugh or 2. No need for more power the track cant handle adding lipo also we all own a bunch of nimhs not lookn to spend a fortune gettn new batterys for no reason. All our nimhs last long enuff and even longer then our 6 min races. We like doing old school stuff on the channel so we race on dirt like back in the day with brushed motors and nimh batts. Like this truck a couple of us have am radio systems in some of our cars. If you have a channel id like to see it but if i go on it to watch and most likely its a rc channel if i keep askn for you to play basketball im sure you will say thats not what my channels about.
@@tallguygaming409 I do have a channel Harry it's my name just press put that in and there I will be I like racing on dirt too.