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Wow- Armitron... I think I still have mine somewhere. The kids were playing with my Tomy Verbot just a few nights ago. I sold my Big Trak (with trailer) to a guy in France a couple years ago. I occasionally kick myself for that one.
Toys were so much cooler then....

civilguy wrote:Wow- Armitron... I think I still have mine somewhere. The kids were playing with my Tomy Verbot just a few nights ago. I sold my Big Trak (with trailer) to a guy in France a couple years ago. I occasionally kick myself for that one.
Toys were so much cooler then....

Yup. And if you notice, its not a Radio Shack one... its an earlier TOMY Armitron before Tandy/Radio Shack bought them... This one works GEM... (My other shelf queen) Back in the 5th grade 1987 I presented a science project on robotics and their future place in the workforce. My Original (long gone) was a part of the display.

I remember the Armatron, used to do a lot of install and delivery for a guy who ran our local Tandy shop, people hated carrying big hi-fis home and all the wiring
so I got pick of the cheap stock at Christmas toy-wise to sell on, before most people apart from serious hobbyists did RC, there were a lot of Radio shack ones running round because of me, not sure wether to be proud of that one.
My Favourite was the Iron Claw? A tracked vehicle with grabber on the front, finally picked a working boxed one up a year or so ago, toys sure were cooler then, I agree.

civilguy wrote:I occasionally kick myself for that one.
Toys were so much cooler then....

I still wish I had all my Tonka's. I had a heck of a fleet growing up, played with them well into my teens and I still would today, though I'd probably have to borrow the neighbor's kid so I didn't look like such a dweeb. Ok, less of a dweeb ...

I play with big cars. Currently a Mopar a-body fanatic, but I'm fickle! The orange-red Plymouth Scamp has a built 360 in it and I'm driving it while the Plum Crazy car is getting the 400/727 combination. They are both 1972 models

just thought I would revive an old thread, had a storage sort out yesterday
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l89/purpletimbo/rc%20cars/?start=all
biggest pile is empty boxes, unearther a Marui NInja, a Tomy Intruder chassis and parts, and got my fave rave from the past out and batteried up
Enjoy
http://youtu.be/blvJGZAi-ig
Still not figured this embed thing out

RedScampi wrote:I play with big cars. Currently a Mopar a-body fanatic, but I'm fickle! The orange-red Plymouth Scamp has a built 360 in it and I'm driving it while the Plum Crazy car is getting the 400/727 combination.

Beautiful Plum Scamp! I wonder why you're going with a 400? That was kind of a gas-guzzling dog of a big block. A 340 would be much sweeter! Actually I remember reading a hot rod magazine that compared the Challenger with a 440 against the same car with a 340, and the 340 performed better at the track due to better weight distribution. The big blocks just seem to work better in the B-Bodies, it would seem. A 340 Scamp/Duster/Dart/Challenger T/A is a serious car not to be messed with.

my wife is legally blind, so my honey do list never ends. i have to go everywhere to get things.

my main hobby is building and racing real volkswagens. i just sold off my pride and joy (2001 big turbo new beetle, 400hp).
now i'm left with a 74 std beetle on blocks (engine fire 2 years ago).
i also collect and shoot military surplus rifles, although the cost of ammo has kept me from doing that much.
i had a nice collection of rare bourbon and absinthe, then i drank it all.

so rc is my main focus now, other then my wife and 2yr old boy.
i don't have the kind of time to dedicate to 1:1 cars anymore.
i race rc 1-2 times a month, thats all i have time for. i wish i could race at work. lol