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The UK ESC scene was very much a cottage industry, with manufacturers turning out their products from garden sheds in the early days. Nick Adams of Demon started out in 1979 and was making his early electronic, non-FET units from 1980, shifting to the Big Devil and Little Devil FET units at some poi...

I should also probably add that the Novak timeline also states 'Electronic speed controls make their first World Championship appearance at the 1985 Off-Road Worlds, with both Jay Halsey and Gil Losi Jr using them to capture world titles.' In fact, my mate Jimmy Davis (who incidentally is the guy wh...

From what i gather from speaking to Steve Dunn, fewer than 50 of these Mid conversion kits were sold before they started churning out the official Pro Radiant kits. I have been on the hunt for an original one for aaagggessssss.... so was really chuffed when this one miraculously came my way. The con...

I am about to start the strip and clean-up on this car.... but one thing i have noticed is that is also has the rather unusual front one-way wide rims as per the Maverick, prior to the later one-way hex hubs which followed on the Pro Radiant. I have checked with Steve Dunn and having seen an early A...

BITD I really wanted a SuperShot.

This is my fourth ceramic armature motor..... the others being a 20Single, 11Single and a 13Triple. SRM Scorcher modified, which like MG used the Race Prep ceramic armatures for a short while in around 1990. This one was a bit of a steal, albeit well used condition, so i couldn't really say no. It w...

I am very lucky that i still have all but a few of my original motors. I started out in around 1986 and back then in the UK anything with a Demon label was quick. My first non silver can motor was a Demon 27T standard, which was well used and i still have it, complete with motor cleaner-faded label....

This has now been sent off for testing and a tidy up by ESC guru Ian Mullaney over in the UK - it is working fine and has been treated to fresh heatshrink. The original wiring looks good so all it has had is a new Tamiya connector added and it is now ready to go back into the Penn Models-based MMS R...

When an ex-CML driver tells you he has a stripped down one off trailing arm 2wd car in his loft.... I was buying some MG motors off a guy around 18months ago and when i met up with him for the exchange he told me that he was at one time a team CML (Central Models) driver, and that he had been given ...

Mine is a pre-Sagami one which Nick stamped with his own DEMON lettering. These are pretty rare and this is the best HT i have come across so far. I also have an unused MrT Special in this same format.

These early pre-Sagami ones were Yokomo-based. Quite rare as Demon switched to the red base-plate versions December 1986 - April 1987. 270933658_10161604128106258_2513583492553680256_n.jpg Nick eventually had the tooling done with Sagami to create his own square hole base plate can design which is m...

Sagami example for reference. Beautiful motors.

I have spent quite some time trying to collect up the various Demon motor (and ESC) iterations from that period. This was just as i was starting out in RC really. My MrT is a red base plate version. 193913063_10161085045331258_6298077758941436936_n.jpg Another unusual variation is a Yokomo style Sag...

uniquenamehere wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:11 pm I agree... "vintage", and "mint" are my most hated.

Actually, I pretty much hate everything these days. I guess I'm just getting old... "get off my lawn!".

So what you're saying is, you're vintage..?