RC car museum exhibition – Norway. New go from page 4!
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:55 am
Sorry to say I have been nothing but a spy on RC10talk until now finally registering. Incredible forum – high quality and smack in the butter eye of my field of interests in RC – thanks to all of you! And thanks for having me!
My first post on this forum will be a presentation of a new temporary (May through to September) museum exhibition on vintage RC cars at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. This exhibition is covering the start of RC cars in Norway in 1975 through the golden years of the eighties to about 1990. Background for the history writing in this exhibition is archive material, collection of old pictures and quite a few hours of interviews with pioneers from the old days. The display consists of text, pictures, film and of course cars (about 50) and equipment. In Norway this is quite a historic event, in a physical museum maybe also rare internationally. By profession I am a technical museum conservator and cultural historian. Last year I was part of a project making a history of science exhibition at the stately supported Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. While working on this project I came up with the idea of making a RC exhibition. After some back and forth reasoning they finally said GO! Just to make it clear, this is not something I got any pay for – just a spare time project. A friend of mine, another Norwegian known as “SHY” on several RC forums has been a great support. He is also the guy behind the web site http://www.ymr.no/historie.htm. This great site has been referred to earlier on RC10talk (http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13570), a massive contribution to the history of RC cars – unfortunately so far only in Norwegian.
I used to race back in eighties to about -92. Not the best driver, but quite mad about cars, mods and set ups. My entry to this magical world was, as for many others, Tamiya. I still enjoy the old Tamiyas, Maruis and other main stream classics, but my soul is resting in the palm of AE, Schumacher, Yokomo, PB, SG and Losi etc – 1:12 track and 1:10 OR (and of course at the bosom of the crazy universe of the mod firms). Back in 85 I was an eleven year old plague hanging over the counter at my favorite hobby shop drooling on the RC10, at that time ending up with a Tamiya… Soon heavily modified with Thorp and Hot Trick. Late 1986 I got my CAT. In my eyes (full of admiring tears) a car that topped the most heavily modified cars at the time tenfold. My obsession was cars and used all my available and unavailable resources on equipment. In the later years I’ve found some of my old stuff, been collecting, and had RC car history as a hobby. When I got the opportunity, I really enjoyed making the hobby in to an exhibition for the general public.
In the museum I’ve tried to have focus on other but my own personal interests, and made a period representative selection of things both recognizable to the general public (Grasshopper, Big Bear, Wild Willy etc) and competition. Pics? Here goes!
Best regards, David
My first post on this forum will be a presentation of a new temporary (May through to September) museum exhibition on vintage RC cars at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. This exhibition is covering the start of RC cars in Norway in 1975 through the golden years of the eighties to about 1990. Background for the history writing in this exhibition is archive material, collection of old pictures and quite a few hours of interviews with pioneers from the old days. The display consists of text, pictures, film and of course cars (about 50) and equipment. In Norway this is quite a historic event, in a physical museum maybe also rare internationally. By profession I am a technical museum conservator and cultural historian. Last year I was part of a project making a history of science exhibition at the stately supported Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. While working on this project I came up with the idea of making a RC exhibition. After some back and forth reasoning they finally said GO! Just to make it clear, this is not something I got any pay for – just a spare time project. A friend of mine, another Norwegian known as “SHY” on several RC forums has been a great support. He is also the guy behind the web site http://www.ymr.no/historie.htm. This great site has been referred to earlier on RC10talk (http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13570), a massive contribution to the history of RC cars – unfortunately so far only in Norwegian.
I used to race back in eighties to about -92. Not the best driver, but quite mad about cars, mods and set ups. My entry to this magical world was, as for many others, Tamiya. I still enjoy the old Tamiyas, Maruis and other main stream classics, but my soul is resting in the palm of AE, Schumacher, Yokomo, PB, SG and Losi etc – 1:12 track and 1:10 OR (and of course at the bosom of the crazy universe of the mod firms). Back in 85 I was an eleven year old plague hanging over the counter at my favorite hobby shop drooling on the RC10, at that time ending up with a Tamiya… Soon heavily modified with Thorp and Hot Trick. Late 1986 I got my CAT. In my eyes (full of admiring tears) a car that topped the most heavily modified cars at the time tenfold. My obsession was cars and used all my available and unavailable resources on equipment. In the later years I’ve found some of my old stuff, been collecting, and had RC car history as a hobby. When I got the opportunity, I really enjoyed making the hobby in to an exhibition for the general public.
In the museum I’ve tried to have focus on other but my own personal interests, and made a period representative selection of things both recognizable to the general public (Grasshopper, Big Bear, Wild Willy etc) and competition. Pics? Here goes!
Best regards, David
It would be great to see this is person though.