My Vintage Kyosho Collection

[kevcrid]

Well, I have been buying online and building a vintage Kyosho rc collection and I finally have most of the ones I wanted, I am still waiting on a turbo scorpion and a rc10talk member is painting and decaling one for me. I grew up in the 80's and always wanted these, but my parents could not afford them, so now that I can afford them I am going to buy the one's I like. Here are some photos of the one I have. If needed I could take more pics. Let me know what you think.

[DennisM]

That´s some nice buggy´s - Your new Scorpion compliments the Vanning really well.

[kevcrid]

Thanks, the vanning, scorpion and advance were built by the same person. The vanning has never been used, it's mint. The gentleman I purchased these from even tossed in a brand new max os .21 vrx for the vanning as a backup. I have two more on the way from different sellers a assault and turbo scorpion.

[rccars4sal]

Do you guys on eastern slope have any vintage rc races,, or is there a vintage club of any sorts?

[scootmike]

Nice collection!
Cool paint job on the Scorp!

[Puffdogg]

Awesome collection dude. I especially like the Vanning...stunning. I am also busy restoring a Vanning...taking forever

[kevcrid]

If you needn pictures of the vanning for reference let me know.

[kevcrid]

@rccars4sa
I don't know of any vintage rc race clubs yet, but I hope there are. I am new to the rc car racing, I always wanted them as a kid, but never had the chance. For now I am just enjoying collecting them and running them in parking lots. I need to get a clunker, so I can do some bashing!

[TM Ru22311]

Hi Kev and welcome to RC10 talk Very nice start for your collection. We have the same thing in common, always wanted a (real) RC as a child, but never got one. I just started collecting about a year ago myself. You will find lots of friendly collectors here with lots of knowledge. Are you more into buying finished (built) buggies than building/restoring yourself? If so, you are denying yourself a ton of fun!

I love the paint schemes on your buggies, very nice. That is the only part of this hobby that I don't enjoy. I would if I were any good at it, but we can't all be artists Sweet deal on finding a mint Vanning. One of these days I am going to stop building Optima's and venture into Nitro. I don't have a single Nitro buggy in my collection, but an Assault or Vanning would be my first choice.

[kevcrid]

I have mostly purchased mint Kyosho's, but I do have some that I will be rebuilding, such as the graupner kart 10, I have two of them and one needs completely rebuilt and luckily I have most of the new parts such as a frame, NOS screws, driver doll and misc. pats. I also have a assault that needs restored and a brand RC10T4 kit that I will be building soon. I will probably enjoy the collecting and building more than running them. The one thing I will not attempt at this point is painting, I have zero artistic skills and would fail miserably. If you do go Nitro, I would recommend a Advance, it's similar to a scorpion, I really like mine and I am looking for another to rebuild.

[Puffdogg]

Topnotch stuff kevcrid. The Vanning is my favorite buggy of all time. I grew up only knowing Tamiya, and like yourself and alot of other members could not afford any growing up. So when i had the money, i bought the odd car here and there. Then i discovered Kyosho and some other rare makes and my tastes changed. I ended up selling all my Tamiya cars except for the 2 childhood ones and a few vintage ones. Then set about getting those on my wishlist which i finally completed a week ago. Now for the tough part...restoring all of them.

[yellowdatsun]

Wait, wait, wait, a second here..........what's the deal with the go-kart? Is it a model, or an RC car? Or maybe one of those string-circle racer things?

[_timmy_]

RC car(t) with a 1.5cc engine, they came with a driver figure too! Search Kyosho Go Kart 10

[rhyde]

i always wanted one of those kyosho go carts when i was younger, very quirky and fun