1986 Kyosho Off-Road Cup

[dldiaz]

The quality of this video is truly piss-poor, but, if you can stand to watch,
there is some very cool vintage Japanese 4wd racing (Kyosho & Tamiya).

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[Coelacanth]

I think I just had a seizure.

Anyway, once I recovered, it was a cool video. The most surprising thing about those 4WD Hornets, mind you, *wasn't* that they were 4WD--but that they actually had working suspensions! I wonder what kind of re-engineering was done on those suckers to make them handle the bumps so well...

[GoMachV]

Imagine any of those cars on modern tracks you'd need a lot of parts!

I have to have a closer look at those "hornets". All I see are hornet bodies.

[dldiaz]

Imagine any of those cars on modern tracks you'd need a lot of parts!

I have to have a closer look at those "hornets". All I see are hornet bodies.

I was thinking the same thing on both counts:

1) the track is very smooth, not more than a few inches of air over those "jumps".

2) I may see a hornet chassis tub in there, but totally different transmission, suspension, etc.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Yes, terrible video quality for sure, but it has me thinking of Rally cars. Is there any type of modern r/c racing that uses a touring car type track, but made with dirt and maybe even a few very tiny bumps or hazards? I think it would be a lot of fun. Mainly the high speed sweeping dirt turns and low speed curvy areas.

[markbt73]

Now that's the kind of off-road racing I like! None of this eight-feet-in-the-air motocross jumps and rock-hard surfaces. Loose, a little bumpy, more about the turns than the obstacles. Like watching a miniature version of Pikes Peak.

[Hcp22]

That’s what tracks where designed back then almost no jumps. A few bumps her and there, maybe a table-top. First in the mid 90’ tracks started to get more and bigger jumps, at least in Europe. I think you guys in US started that that trend about 5 years earlier. So a 25 years old car has a hard time to survive on a modern track without breaking down.

[Coelacanth]

What I don't like is that modern RC cars are disproportionately fast, WAY faster than the full-scale cars they're models of, and the ridiculously high & long jumps just don't look or feel "right" anymore.

[LTO_Dave]

I wish YouTube had a tracking button.

I can't believe they didn't use pit tables and just sat down in the grass. I would personally lose so many parts if I did that.

[Phin]

I wish YouTube had a tracking button.

YouTube has a different kind of tracking.

[Hcp22]

I wish YouTube had a tracking button.

I can't believe they didn't use pit tables and just sat down in the grass. I would personally lose so many parts if I did that.

I thought about that to! I had a little foldable camping table when I started in 85. But I didn’t have that many spare parts, nuts and screws, some gears and an extra set of tires and a few tools.