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My Tamiya Flakpanzer Gepard tank on ebay silly money over £300 built and used like mine. There is the Cheetah unbuilt kit advertised at over £2k. If you bought it, would you build it though, or is the cost because it is unbuilt. Unbuilt of course but we're is the fun in that!
 
I had a Tamiya Thundershot. I then bought a 12 turn double motor for it and blew the gearbox to bits. It would do doughnuts spinning all 4 wheels when it had all of its teeth.
 
Looking back, it took weeks to build my tank, I was 12 at the time. Today I guess the kids just want to buy a built up kit, and you can't fiddle with the same I assume.
It's years actually since the last time I saw a kid play with a proper R/C car, I guess the xbox has taken its place. Sad really.
 
We used to have some kids play with them round here. People complained (obviously) and I guess they probably didn't maintain them properly either, it died out.
I recall my Rough Rider must have taken about a week. Proper engineering.

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Hurricane52 said:
I think I’m right in saying Sir Drummond Bone President of the U.K. Maserati Club had one (or has one). Legend has it that he turned up for a Committee meeting, parked in the Hotel’s underground car park and revved the nuts off it. This caused all the club members upstairs (no doubt in the bar) to evacuate the building in a hurry wondering what the **** was going on.

I wasn’t there, but having met him a couple of times, I can imagine him doing it. He used to race a gorgeous Maserati Barchetta and every new Maser he bought was bright banana yellow. Chances are an SM owner might have one of them? Think he even had a yellow QP...
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He used to live not far from me when in Fife. I remember the yellow cars, but that was in the 90s.
 
mjheathcote said:
Looking back, it took weeks to build my tank, I was 12 at the time. Today I guess the kids just want to buy a built up kit, and you can't fiddle with the same I assume.
It's years actually since the last time I saw a kid play with a proper R/C car, I guess the xbox has taken its place. Sad really.
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that takes me back, i remember the excitement of building the Tamiya kits and filling the aluminium shock absorbers with the oil, used to love building airfix models as well. I must admit that the boy in me made me buy an FG Marder radio control buggy several years ago and it's just mental, it literally has a 26cc pull start engine that looks like a mini strimmer engine and goes like a bat out of h-ell.
 
mjheathcote said:
There is the Cheetah unbuilt kit advertised at over £2k.
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bloomin eck 2k that's the kit I built, really brings back some happy memories just looking at the photos

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I remember the Tamiya tank kit was £135 plus radio gear. My dad told me to peel off the price sticker so my mum didn't see the price!
40 years ago. Eek.
 
mjheathcote said:
I remember the Tamiya tank kit was £135 plus radio gear. My dad told me to peel off the price sticker so my mum didn't see the price!
40 years ago. Eek.
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I bought a Tamiya Tiger 1 Panzer large scale R/C kit, 1/16th I think, around 1980, £195 or £295 not sure from Beatties on Spring Gardens in Manchester. I remember carrying it home on the bus thinking what the f*ck have I done.....

Me and my mate spent about two days assembling the tracks, about six or seven parts per link, tapping the bars with the mushroom rivet tool and a wee hammer.....

I never knew 'Panzer' was German for 'Tank' - so my Panzer Tank was in fact a Tank Tank.....

Dead Bill: Hey, you wanna play Twenty Questions?
Dead Ted: Okay! I got one!
Dead Bill: Are you a mineral?
Dead Ted: Yeah!
Dead Bill: Are you a tank?
Dead Ted: Whoa! Yeah!
 
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