dight1

The name says it all.

How did you get started into rc's?
Do you read any rc magazines? if so please specify.

I got started by my brother he told me about them then i told my dad then we all talked then for my b-day i got one.

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i found my dad's and grandpaw's old kyosho ultima's out in the shed and asked my dad if i could get them out and fix them so he got em out and we went on towerhobbies and he ordered everything for his to get running and a few batterys and found some old batterys and chargers and started running them then my brother got an evader for his bday and them my dad bought a used tmaxx then my friend got into r/c and him and his dad got warheads and he got an evader so then i new i had to get a nitro so then i got a tmaxx 3.3 for my bday and then my dad got a warhead and gave them tmaxx to my brother for his bday then i saved up and bought a team losi xxx bk2 buggies with a nice setup that i am now trying to sell..good enough lol ....and yea i read rc car action and rc driver..and towerhobbies speedmart..

BRUSHLESS BASHER

My parents freinds own a hobby shop, and they brought an E-Maxx to a family vacation and my dad and I decided to buy one. As for magazines I read RCCA and just subscribed to RC Driver.

Danju

i was at a national park and was driving around with my off-road wal-mart toy (i was 10 or 11)...boy, that was mighty fun. it was soo slow, and that thing couldnt even run on dirt. but somehow that got me addicted to RC cars. at that time, i didnt even know there was such thing as gas rc cars...so later i got a electric rusty and now ive got my wicked revo 3.3....

calvino

I got started in the whole RC craze with a New Bright PT Cruser. It was a street only, no proportional controls but it did have neat features like headlights, turnsignals that operated when you turned the car... I got it at a thrift store for $5.00, all it had was the car, radio and single NICAD battery. No charger but my dad was able to "jumpstart" it back to life. It has seen may runnings, crashes... and has even stared in a commercial that was shot in a class that my dad teaches, and no it will not be on the air. I now have an Assocated RC10 in need of some things but all in all that is my RC experence. As of now, I am building my own airplane out of scrap styrafoam lying around. I have to say once the RC bug has bitten, it has lasting effects. I also have a little nitro RC experence with bashing Danju's revo and rusty, really fun. I am planning on purchasing a Savage X 4.6...

rcdudegermy10

my friend had an old radio shack car, and I liked it so I got one too...I liked the hobby so much and had fun so I got a real hobby grade rc car, a duratrax evader, and that opened a whole new world for me...

btw, I read xtreme rc car magazine...www.rc411.com

Krawlin

I got started in RC in about 2002. I found this magazine at my local Wal+Mart, and It had all kinds of RC stuff, and then it just took off from there. I got my first truck the Christmas of 2002. It was a Monster GT. And then it was a quest to see just how deep my pockets really were. Now I own 4 vehicles, and soon to own more.

Exist

I've dabbled on and off with my friends trucks/cars, and owned a DuraTrax Thunder Quake for a few months. I sold that off (my friend destroyed it twenty min. after I sold it to him... ) I forgot about them for awhile after that but last week I went out and got me a Jato 3.3. Figuring its time for me to pick it back up.

ssj2

Before I was a teenager, I always used to watch my dad run his old Tamiya Thunderdragon. I was intrigued and inspired. Then, I went up to my cousin's house for a family gathering and was looking around his garage only to find 3 trucks sitting there. I immediately went and asked him to fire one up and right when he started driving the one (an XTM Mammoth MT), I knew I would get into the hobby. Now, here I am, working on bein in the hobby for almost 3 years. It's been a long, hard road, but it's smooth sailing with the Revo, no doubt about that.

PiccoLow

A friend in the military had a 4tec and that got me interested in the options out there in RC. Then I ran across t-maxx and Savvy's and was hooked.

I don't subscribe to mag's....I read enough for college to make my eyes bleed.

KillerJato

A friend got me into electric rc way back when and then i got into nitro myself and still love every second of it. I read RC CAR.

LSTVega28

I read XRC and I got into this hobby from my best friend,

weez440

when i was about 10 years old for christmas i got a radio shack special it was a tyco it had a yellow 79 ford body on it. well it was slow but had fun then i was about 14 and i got a tyco exterminator or something had that for a couple years. got out of it then i bought a new ford truck in 2004 and thought wouldn't it be cool to get a remote control truck and have a body on it to make it look like my brand new one. well had the t-maxx for about a year and a half and almost got out of it because it was a pos then i got a revo and savage now i am hooked.

jarett 92

i got into it by old radio shack r/c's. man they were fun. but this is 10x better lol. i read RC driver and it is awesome. i love the 'how to's' and do it yourself's.

c_hochhalter

i started with the old radioshack cars when i was like 7 and they were so cool at the time and i bet i got like 20 of those things than i stopped and saved up for ever and bought my first real rc early this summer a revo 3.3 and i love it ive only had it for like 2 months but im already addicted

dight1

rc's are fuuuun. I like the trucks. im planning on gettin the savy soon enough.

arisking

My dad had a sweet Tamiya RC car back when I was little, 3 piece aluminum rims, fast motor the works, and he figured I needed one so I got a Kyosho Outrage. Then I drove it for a few years. Now I gots a HPI Savage and he likes that I finally got a nitro. He's a pretty awesome dad and he appreciates what I do just not how much money I spend. He's always got questions and gets excited when I get new parts. As for magazines I read RC Driver and are subscribed to it through my grandma!!!

-Josh-

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My friend about 9 years back had a nice t-maxx .15 and eversince then I wanted a model just like it. I eventually bought a stampede then had 8 other cars after that. I read RCCA. Or RCdriver

ttoks

jeez i don't even remember when i got my first rc car, my uncle made it out of an old boat electric engine with a diff off of some old on road car (it doesn't even have a diff housing), home made chassis and steering servo is held on by zip ties lol, i'll post up a few pics of it, and heres the fun part, it still runs.

-edit got some pics of it

IOWAREVO

Love the truck ttoks! That's the speed control on the back right? Coil with slider arm on the back.

My 1st RC if you can call it that was a COX tether car. Both my boys got into RCs. Oldest an electric Blackfoot (RC10 glory days), youngest a REVO. The Nitro got me hooked completely thou. I am basically the mechanic & hop-up king, his driving reflexes are better thou....go figure LOL. We read RC Car Action been meaning to pick up a copy of Xtreme RC.

spikeitaudi

Back about 25 years ago or so I had a RC Tank that was connect via wire to a remote. It was like a 1/12 scale tank. Was so much fun. Was out of it till about 3 years ago when I bought a RC Tyco Hovercraft. Then my Brother-in-law who use to race back in the day and I started talked and he ended up getting a TMAXX and I get a Revo. And the rest is history.

ttoks

yep, thats the speed control, in the middle is stop, to the right is revers and the left is forward, it is awesome fun lol, and that engine is way to fast for a car with no suspension, i don't have a radio for it though, i'v been wanting to fix it up and put new servos and a new receiver in it for a while but never found one that's suitable

and it'b by no means big, i put it up beside my revo before, it looks like a 1/18 or smaller lol.

Nathan9492

me and a mate were sniffing Nitro fuel, and i asked what it was for and he showed me his car, from that day i was hooked..



Na j/k i just saw a video of one and was hooked

NitroDemon18

RC Car Action.

Kdog3.3

I used to get tyco rc cars for my birthday and they always broke then i gratuated to radioshack zip zaps then i saw real rc cars online but my mom wouldnt let me get one until i was 13 because she thought the fuel would explode in my face so then i saw rc driver on the magazine stand at the grocery store and that kept me occupied for a few months and then i finally got a tmaxx 2.5 for my birthday which i still have today. fried the motor in 4 months so now it has the 3.3. I subscribe to rc driver and rc car action[8D]