This video completely sums up why RC went nuts during the first lockdown. Every middle-aged man was buying either the RC car they always wanted or getting another on of what they used to have. My local park was buzzing to the sound of freshly built Tamiya's and other stuff most evenings for a long time, especially Lunchboxes. Lots have continued the hobby too!
Guilty as charged😎 I have designed and built RC aircraft for 20 years...but never owned an RC car. Covid hits and I'm stuck here at my brother's place with a nephew who was climbing the walls....so I bought a pair of Bezgar 1's and the two of us had an absolute blast. Car I HAD to have? The 1/6th scale nascar replicas I used to see in the stores 15 or so yrs ago. 3 feet long and 20mph! Right in the middle of the pandemic I scored one on ebay new in the box....and it's AWESOME lol. You may now count me as a RC car enthusiast (3 Tamiyas, 2 Redcat Blackouts, and 2 Kyoshi American Muscle hot rods).
Started to buy my first RC-Crawler - Traxxas Chevy Blazer - in the first Covid-months and pimped it up with so many additional items, electronics and gadgets that I don´t event want to make it dirty anymore. Had to buy some more to do the job :)
As a kid I bought my first Tamiya from Beatties. We had one in Lakeside Essex, I remember going in there with my late father and seeing the newly released Tamiya Mini Racing (M-03 chassis?) I begged my dad for one and he told me if I could save the money he would take me there to buy it. The next day I got a job as a paper boy earning £10 a week. 13 weeks later my Dad kept to his promise and drove me to Beatties and I still remember the joy I had handing over the money and buying my first Tamiya RC. I spent all weekend building it in my bedroom and had endless fun with it. I lost my dad 2 years after that but still remember the valuable lesson he taught me of if you want something enough, you have to work hard for it. ❤️ Great video Phil, brought back floods of memories 🙂
As a child in the 70s my Dad would pull up outside a Beatties shop in London (Central London area) on a Sunday night when they had their rubbish out ready for collection in the morning. Rummaging through the boxes he would often find complete trains, carriages, train track and small train set accessories that were either in near perfect condition or would require small repairs!
YOUR GOING TO JUST DISPLAY IT!!! I love to revisit things i grew up with at least once a year or so kinda remind myself where ive come from and how far ive come :)
It amazes me how powerful our imaginations were as kids. My first car was a Tamiya Hornet and I swear it was the best handling, fastest and coolest RC ever. I recently acquired a new one and it was almost comical the way it drove. Shows how far RC cars have came in 30 odd years. Enough rambling from me, that was a really good video. Sparked off some nostalgia for me too 😁
yes Keith Couldn't agree more , also things looked way bigger especially buildings and distances lol - KIDS lol :-) now 47 and man thats slow and small he he he
Same here.. The Hornet was a rocket back in the day although i never thought much of the handling with all that bouncing🤣🤣 .When it was re released i had to get one and couldn't believe how slow it was but it didn't diminish my memory of it and since built and restored some originals.. My original Hornet still survives, along with the original chassis from the 80's which broke in half pretty early on in it's life and i basically sewed back together with cotton and superglue and it held up for the rest of its life.. A composite material before i knew what one was🤣🤣
Yeah it is funny how memory works. I recently picked up an original Tamiya Blackfoot from the late 80's. I remember it being a super fast monster truck, a friend had one and I was so jealous. However, although very nostalgic, it is more cool driving around then actual monster truck performance.
@@TomleyRC i had a madcap and the standard 540 motor was slow even as a 10yr old in 1990 i couldn't make it quicker never had enough pocket money but then i was given a tornado 13 double motor and when i tried that out it was unbelievably quick but then burnt the mechanical speed controller out in 5mins lol. I did get a schumacher storm club 10 in 92 93 that was hell of a step up in technology but now tech is even better today. I sent pics of the traxxas link software up dates on my xrt to my mate and he said he wants to go back to simpler times lol
@@TomleyRC up until the solder started melting off of it I got too cheap to buy the right resistors so I used to run up to RadioShack and grab a bunch of random ceramic resistors
It’s funny but for some reason my local hobby shops are selling tamiya switch lubricant. The gel that tamiya sold to help the blade slide smoothly on an msc. Why would anyone need that these days?
For me, it was a Tamiya Striker. Plastic galore with front friction dampers. It handled terribly & slow , but almost every evening after school it would be "blasted" for 10 mins, then a full strip down & clean just for the hell of it. Fantastic memories!! Great content & keep up the nostalgia 👍
Oh man, so many memories of old RC cars in the late 80's and early 90's. This is the first video that TH-cam has recommended of yours. Awesome to see you get your hands on that Madcap! The first RC car in my house was a Tamiya Frog, which belonged to my younger brother. He eventually bought a Kyosho Nitro Brute which was crazy fast in a straight line but couldn't corner at all. If I recall, my first RC vehicle was a Kyosho Blizzard. At the time I was enthralled with monster trucks, but more specifically, car-crushing tanks that had car bodies, like the Bigfoot FasTrax. I found a van body and put it on the Blizzard to make a monster tank. Unfortunately, it was really slow so I ended up selling it at some point. My older brother bought a Tamiya Subaru Brat and had a lot of fun with it. Later he bought a Traxxas Sledgehammer, when it was first introduced. That truck was a ton of fun. The saddest story was my brother trading his Kyosho Nitro Brute to a friend for an RC-10, then he kept trading down until he was left with a few random RC car parts. He went from a $400 (1992 money) gas-powered monster truck to maybe $40 in parts in a matter of months.
Being a Nottingham lad, I have very fond memories of Beatties. I could have spent all day in there, looking at the Hornby stuff, the Scalextric and the Meccano. I wonder what happened to them?
While clearing out my parents loft I came across my old beatties bag.... Inside a Tamiya Madcap. I remember saving up birthday and Christmas money and having to settle for this as I didn't have enough money for the Avante. Great memories of blasting around in the street..... Although I always lost races to my mates Tamiya porsche 959...... The best news is it still bloody works.
Wow! So nostalgic. At the time, being 10 I couldn’t afford this. Ended up with the grasshopper super g. The best thing about these old models, was the joy of receiving a box of pieces. Every cog and gear had to be assembled. Putting oil in the shock etc. It really helped understand the car completely. Especially as calls to the tamiya parts hotline were a regular thing! None of this rtr stuff. Patience and skill required before use. Excellent thanks
A MadCap! That is a gem, a piece of RC history! Congrats, sir, awsome find! I feared those mechanical speed controllers, because sometimes, when the battery voltage dropped, you suddenly found yourself with a runaway car and you had to run after it, praying to be able to catch it in one piece. Those were good times.
Wow that takes me back seeing that old speed controller my first car was the apache rwd I'm 48 in December and took up the rc car and a number of other things rc again 4 years ago and it still makes me smile like a kid it's just fun I've just upgraded my FTX Carnage to brushless motor 3s and put bigger wider wheels which has improved the handling no end which has now made me think about going more power lol nice find you got there !!
You've made me more of a believer in tamiya and it's potential nostalgia. Seeing what you had to say and how you presented it was great. 17mph is rubbish but when you see it through kids eyes that's blasting down the road 💨👍
Me and u and u grew up pretty much the same with real cars and R/C cars. Sweet. It’s crazy with the mechanical speed controller u could bend and scratch more material where the arrow goes side to side. Lol
@@TomleyRC hell yea so much better then now especially the small things that count. And more freedom do h remember Tec Toys?? Or Don’t if it was there a place called Radio Shack. It’s been gone for years now but was hi tech invenation everything electronics
Brings back loads of memories Phil, my friend had a madcap,whilst I had Bearhawk, Falcon, Grasshopper and a Lunchbox we had some fun times and now I'm back into it thanks mate, love seeing old cars from 90s 👍
Yes… we had a small group of about 4 of us with RCs. We’d take them over the local school playground in the evenings. No internet to waste countless hrs on!
@@Bandito071i had the slow charger plug in the wall one would take hours for 30mins fun then got given a pro tech fast charger 30min quick charge and everyone fighting over it at after school rc club haha
Just found this video. Beatties bag brings back memories. I had to sell a lot of my old ( from my childhood days ) RC cars, needed the money when covid hit. My bag had the Yellow Lunchbox with spares & random Tamiya Cossie / other spares as well, Controllers etc. Probs worth a lot more since then Daniel.
What a coincidence. I was recently feeling so nostalgic for Beatties that I bought 2 of these canvas bags! I use them as my pit bags at the racing club. Man, I miss Beatties!!!
Blimey, that brings back memories, i got a tamiya hornet for christmas when i was about12, it was bought from beaties in liverpool, had the same bag, the bag is still in my mums house. Beaties was heaven to a kid in the 80's & 90's. R/c cars, tanks, boats, model railways, model kits etc. It was in st johns market.
Yes, still smiling. The good old times. Charging over night for a short run. Capacities much lower but higher prices than todays batteries. ESCs which cost more thqn the kit. Ball bearings expensive and just only from Tamiya. No after-markets or internet. I don't know how we survived this era. I know granpa is talking about war times😁😁😁
Yeah cost of spares or electronics was ridiculous and had to travel to get them, with no guarantee of what you were after would be in stock🤣🤣.. One thing i was fortunate enough to have was my mates farther was an electrical engineer and between him and my farther they cobbled together a way for me to charge my 8 AA transmitter batteries and the cars nicad pack in 10-15 minutes using a regular car 12v battery charger but whatever you do don't forget to switch it off🤣🤣💥😳
I have had mine for 30 years. Still have a Beaties bag too. Recently rebuild diff, oil filled shocks, ESC and an original Technigold 540 motor transforms it into something really usable.
As long as it makes you smile it is money well spent. I had a Tamaya grasshopper with the same speed controller. I spent many days chasing it across the gravel pit. Even had one catch on fire. But I love that car would’ve been in the 1980s sometime. Like 85 I think
Last Year i bought a Madcap 100% MINT condition - and now its sitting on the shelf looking pretty as yes you just hardly see any and i did pay silly money but hey you dont take it with you so enjoy whilst you can i always say thanks for sharing this Nostalgic Memory with us all Tomley :-)
My first Tamiya was the Blackfoot, I saw a guy running one at a hobby shop with a clear body on it and I was mesmerized how I could see all the inner workings through the body. Then xmas morning Santa left me one with a Futaba stick radio and fast charger. Oh it was glorious.
Wow this takes me back. I had a Avante 2001 in the late 80s or early 90s ( can’t remember exactly) bought by my parents for a birthday present from Beatties model shop in Swindon (Wiltshire). Loved that thing. Even tho a C clip popped off the steering first test drive and it crashed into a tree😄. Cheers for a blast from the past.
Made my day, this has Phil! You know I still use those old radios, and I got 2 of those original Beatties bags! Awesome find, mate, glad you got those memories back!
I had a graupner stick transmitter in about the same era 91-92 probably. Stillworks fine. Whenever I buy an rc lot and there's a graupner transmitter in there, I keep it. I built2 ofthem into 2,4ghz and use them very regurarly. Great looking and feeling. Nowadays the 4AA versions are a lot lighter of course. But I don't mind 🙂
I was 10 years old when I received my first radio controlled car. It was given to me by one of my older brothers friends after my brother sadly took his own life. The car i received was a Striker. 20 years after and I was racing RC cars. I'm 42 this year.
Wow, I still have my entry level Tamiya from 1992 - very, very similar. I replaced the speed controller with an electronic one years later, then replaced the stock motor with a Slot Machine - which was honestly a bit too fast. Four wheeling in the dirt was always way much more fun than being on pavement and going at max speed.
Nice one. My first Rc story is the same but the other way round. I swapped my first Rc, a Nikko F10 Rhino, for a Nintendo Game Boy and a ton of games approx 92/93. Finally got another Nikko Rhino last year for the collection. Fantastic nostalgia! 👍
Never had the Madcap, but had a scorcher and a couple blasters. Then I got given a Grasshopper, and did every upgrade I could to it. I still have my old Futaba square box steering wheel. One of the first ones to come out. Love the memories, have fun.
My first was a red Nikko turbo aero. Back in the 80's nobody knew what turbo was, just that it made everything faster. Dad noticed that even though I would leave my bikes and baseball mitts in the rain I always took care of my car so the next Christmas he got me a Super Lobo. My God that thing was fast! It was the best one RadioShack sold. It must have cost a small fortune.
Those mechanical speed controllers..... That was the #1 replacement part we sold at Colpar Hobbies back in the day. Thank goodness for the old Novak T2 or T4 and Rooster escs. Have never had a Tamiya chassis car. Really on the fence about getting one.
Brings back memories seeing the Beatties bag, we had one in St Enoch Square in Glasgow City Centre and i can remember getting the Tamiya Escort rs Cosworth for Christmas back in the mid 90's.
I had endless fun with my Madcap back in the day, brilliant budget buggy. It will be the ball diff slipping, they’re notorious for it. Good find and good price
Great Vid for a bit of nostalgia and to see you get your first Tamiya back (almost), my first hobby grade rc was a Clodbuster back in the early 90’s which I recently re built, love the channel, great work, would like to see more retro reviews on stuff we had back in the day 👍
Wow this brings back memories, must have been around the time i got my first RC the Tamiya Celica GT Four, with that very radio, still have it and really must give it a restoration. The bag also brings back memories. So good you were able to find one in such great condition
@@TomleyRC I know I haven't sent that email yet, reason being I lost a lot of my photos off my phone and one was the screenshot I took of Your address!🙈
Amazing find. I always wanted the Madcap. Closest I ever got was the mini Madcap. I don't think I'd want a vintage car, unless it was in the condition of this one. I would pick up re-re in a heartbeat.
Well that was fun! I remember spending hours staring at the MadCap in RC Car Action wishing I could get one. Never got one myself but I'm glad that you could find one and tap into your youth!
I remember going into Beatties in Southend-On-Sea in the 1990s. Where I bought a discounted LGB garden trainset. They also had a shop at Thurrock Lakeside as well. Where they had a LGB trainset running around the top of the walls. So South Essex was well served.
Great video and love the madcap and in the beatties bag aswell…I bought a mega-drive aswell for £179.99!!! Had it ordered for when they released it, what a wonderful bag of memories really enjoyed the trip down memory lane it’s what it’s all about 👍
I still have two cars over 40 years from rc car, it was a Team Associated rigs. I rebuilt mine now has a Traxxas body, lol. I still enjoy my old cars. I have two many I am stopping to buy more rigs, yeah right. I will just build better rigs and now I am into clawling with the wife, my wife loves using her new Element Enduro Gatekeeper. I bought else and cheaper one and I am changing costly on my rig. I have ejoyed watching you! Thanks!
I am about 2 or 3 years older than you and my first car was the Hornet and getting the rerelease just brought back so many memories.....my first 4wd was the Hotshot 2 and I'm praying they rerelease it one day! Amazing video!
Was just reminiscing with my Sister a few weeks ago.....and fir the life of me, I couldn't recall the name of the model/RC shop in Swindon, back in the 80's.......BEATTIES...! 😆 Bought many an Airfix model from there, and used to drool over the Grasshopper....! 🤪🤷🏼♂️
Beatties in Broadmead was my local one as well. Remember getting my Playstation 1 there, back in 1995, if memory serves me correct. Also remember almost bumping into Michaela Strachan outside. Random memories of childhood. 😂 It was gutting when Beatties closed for good though. 😔
I remember going to Beatties in Ealing back in 87 when I was 12, and I fell in love with the lunch box, couldn’t ever afford it, had a second had Road Runner and Pumpkin instead, but I finally got a lunch box last year!! 😀
Reminds me a LOT of the Murai ninja I grew up with! I have bought 3 since lol. Spent hundreds of dollars on these relics but looking at them just makes me happy 😊
Hi Tomley This was my first RC as well, I have some spares for the Madcap, i some arms, chassis and some shocks without springs. Let me know if interested, if not enjoy the madcap, good buy for the price. I remember paying £70 for mine with 2 batteries, 2 chargers, the same radio unit and the quick charger with the bag, worn tyres but all back in 1991. It’s a shame Tamiya never revised it..
The Mad Cap was my first tamiya rc too. Got it in 92/93 2nd hand. I have no idea what happened to it 🤷♂️ Happy memories. But it broke alot and it was never fast. Thanks for the nostalgia 👍
Reminds me of my old Bear Hawk, which had the exact same Techniplus. Same battery, same speed controller... actually probably a few other parts in common with the Madcap? Looks enough like the Bear Hawk that I'm expecting so, anyway. Thanks for the nostalgia!
We all thought that our cars were really fast 30yrs ago, even if they look slow by today's standards, just the nostalgia of these icons keeps the flame burning within 🔥❤️ we were lucky to have been part of the Golden age of tamiya ❤️
Hi Phil, Beatties in Nottingham city center back in the mid 80's as a 16 year old lad, gazing at at new models on display and catalogs of colourful pictures - just a boyhood dreams but never had the cash to buy. I have a tamiya Ford Focus from 2001 ( broken car only for 20 GBP 2 years ago ) snapped boby in 3 places, so I has converted it to a kamtecmodels 3 wheeled reliant robin, new body and all electronic / Lipo 7.4v plus about 30 other custom / RTR / rollers - all low budget RC Cars from WLTOYS to one off projects under 300 GBP. Dave in Nottinghamshire ( Daves outdoors adventure ) from a few years ago. My place looks like your old garage workshop. be safe
compared to the competition (Tyco/RadioShack), Tamiya/kyosho models were stupid fast in their day. additionally, I can appreciate the re-releases still have the mounting points for mechanical speed controllers, it's amazing how much room is available with modern electronics. I still have (most of) my 1st "hobby grade" RC, Blackfoot; it's in dire need of a long overdue refresh.
This is great :-) The mechanical speed controller. I had forgotten all about them. awesome. Still got a crusty old tube of Tammy speed controller Grease:))
This video completely sums up why RC went nuts during the first lockdown. Every middle-aged man was buying either the RC car they always wanted or getting another on of what they used to have. My local park was buzzing to the sound of freshly built Tamiya's and other stuff most evenings for a long time, especially Lunchboxes. Lots have continued the hobby too!
Guilty as charged😎 I have designed and built RC aircraft for 20 years...but never owned an RC car. Covid hits and I'm stuck here at my brother's place with a nephew who was climbing the walls....so I bought a pair of Bezgar 1's and the two of us had an absolute blast. Car I HAD to have? The 1/6th scale nascar replicas I used to see in the stores 15 or so yrs ago. 3 feet long and 20mph! Right in the middle of the pandemic I scored one on ebay new in the box....and it's AWESOME lol. You may now count me as a RC car enthusiast (3 Tamiyas, 2 Redcat Blackouts, and 2 Kyoshi American Muscle hot rods).
Hear hear!!
Yes, 💯
Started to buy my first RC-Crawler - Traxxas Chevy Blazer - in the first Covid-months and pimped it up with so many additional items, electronics and gadgets that I don´t event want to make it dirty anymore. Had to buy some more to do the job :)
My dream garage involves a Mercedes sprinter 4x4 painted to look like to lunchbox.
(Donations appreciated 🤣🤣)
As a kid I bought my first Tamiya from Beatties. We had one in Lakeside Essex, I remember going in there with my late father and seeing the newly released Tamiya Mini Racing (M-03 chassis?) I begged my dad for one and he told me if I could save the money he would take me there to buy it. The next day I got a job as a paper boy earning £10 a week. 13 weeks later my Dad kept to his promise and drove me to Beatties and I still remember the joy I had handing over the money and buying my first Tamiya RC. I spent all weekend building it in my bedroom and had endless fun with it. I lost my dad 2 years after that but still remember the valuable lesson he taught me of if you want something enough, you have to work hard for it. ❤️ Great video Phil, brought back floods of memories 🙂
Awesome story! I used to go to Lakeside all the time. I’m from Kent originally 👌
Beatties, Techniplus, Tamiya Madcap, Mechanical Speed controller - so much much nostalgia
As a child in the 70s my Dad would pull up outside a Beatties shop in London (Central London area) on a Sunday night when they had their rubbish out ready for collection in the morning. Rummaging through the boxes he would often find complete trains, carriages, train track and small train set accessories that were either in near perfect condition or would require small repairs!
Nice!
YOUR GOING TO JUST DISPLAY IT!!! I love to revisit things i grew up with at least once a year or so kinda remind myself where ive come from and how far ive come :)
It amazes me how powerful our imaginations were as kids. My first car was a Tamiya Hornet and I swear it was the best handling, fastest and coolest RC ever. I recently acquired a new one and it was almost comical the way it drove. Shows how far RC cars have came in 30 odd years.
Enough rambling from me, that was a really good video. Sparked off some nostalgia for me too 😁
Yes, it was a bit underwhelming when I drove it. But just looking at it brings back some memories 👌
yes Keith Couldn't agree more , also things looked way bigger especially buildings and distances lol - KIDS lol :-) now 47 and man thats slow and small he he he
Same here.. The Hornet was a rocket back in the day although i never thought much of the handling with all that bouncing🤣🤣 .When it was re released i had to get one and couldn't believe how slow it was but it didn't diminish my memory of it and since built and restored some originals.. My original Hornet still survives, along with the original chassis from the 80's which broke in half pretty early on in it's life and i basically sewed back together with cotton and superglue and it held up for the rest of its life.. A composite material before i knew what one was🤣🤣
Yeah it is funny how memory works. I recently picked up an original Tamiya Blackfoot from the late 80's. I remember it being a super fast monster truck, a friend had one and I was so jealous. However, although very nostalgic, it is more cool driving around then actual monster truck performance.
@@TomleyRC i had a madcap and the standard 540 motor was slow even as a 10yr old in 1990 i couldn't make it quicker never had enough pocket money but then i was given a tornado 13 double motor and when i tried that out it was unbelievably quick but then burnt the mechanical speed controller out in 5mins lol.
I did get a schumacher storm club 10 in 92 93 that was hell of a step up in technology but now tech is even better today. I sent pics of the traxxas link software up dates on my xrt to my mate and he said he wants to go back to simpler times lol
I received a Tamiya Hornet for my 12th birthday in 1987. It's still at Mum and Dad' s place somewhere. Getting nostalgic for vintage RC now!
That mechanical speed controller is so flipping cool. As a sort of kid who's only been in this hobby since around 2012 this stuff is so cool to see.
It's also very durable I remember putting like War freaking a6l nicad packs on one
Yes.. you could pretty much throw anything at one!
@@TomleyRC up until the solder started melting off of it I got too cheap to buy the right resistors so I used to run up to RadioShack and grab a bunch of random ceramic resistors
It’s funny but for some reason my local hobby shops are selling tamiya switch lubricant. The gel that tamiya sold to help the blade slide smoothly on an msc. Why would anyone need that these days?
For me, it was a Tamiya Striker.
Plastic galore with front friction dampers. It handled terribly & slow , but almost every evening after school it would be "blasted" for 10 mins, then a full strip down & clean just for the hell of it.
Fantastic memories!!
Great content & keep up the nostalgia 👍
Oh man, so many memories of old RC cars in the late 80's and early 90's. This is the first video that TH-cam has recommended of yours. Awesome to see you get your hands on that Madcap!
The first RC car in my house was a Tamiya Frog, which belonged to my younger brother. He eventually bought a Kyosho Nitro Brute which was crazy fast in a straight line but couldn't corner at all.
If I recall, my first RC vehicle was a Kyosho Blizzard. At the time I was enthralled with monster trucks, but more specifically, car-crushing tanks that had car bodies, like the Bigfoot FasTrax. I found a van body and put it on the Blizzard to make a monster tank. Unfortunately, it was really slow so I ended up selling it at some point.
My older brother bought a Tamiya Subaru Brat and had a lot of fun with it. Later he bought a Traxxas Sledgehammer, when it was first introduced. That truck was a ton of fun.
The saddest story was my brother trading his Kyosho Nitro Brute to a friend for an RC-10, then he kept trading down until he was left with a few random RC car parts. He went from a $400 (1992 money) gas-powered monster truck to maybe $40 in parts in a matter of months.
Nice trip down memory lane there 👌
The Frog was great. Lost mine after it went bananas at Highcliffe chalet park and sailed off the top.
That Beatties bag takes me back to the shop in banbury... before the town turned into Poland
Being a Nottingham lad, I have very fond memories of Beatties. I could have spent all day in there, looking at the Hornby stuff, the Scalextric and the Meccano. I wonder what happened to them?
While clearing out my parents loft I came across my old beatties bag.... Inside a Tamiya Madcap.
I remember saving up birthday and Christmas money and having to settle for this as I didn't have enough money for the Avante.
Great memories of blasting around in the street..... Although I always lost races to my mates Tamiya porsche 959......
The best news is it still bloody works.
Wow! So nostalgic. At the time, being 10 I couldn’t afford this. Ended up with the grasshopper super g. The best thing about these old models, was the joy of receiving a box of pieces. Every cog and gear had to be assembled. Putting oil in the shock etc. It really helped understand the car completely. Especially as calls to the tamiya parts hotline were a regular thing! None of this rtr stuff. Patience and skill required before use. Excellent thanks
A MadCap! That is a gem, a piece of RC history! Congrats, sir, awsome find! I feared those mechanical speed controllers, because sometimes, when the battery voltage dropped, you suddenly found yourself with a runaway car and you had to run after it, praying to be able to catch it in one piece. Those were good times.
Haha yes my dirt thrasher used to go off on one 😅
Wow that takes me back seeing that old speed controller my first car was the apache rwd I'm 48 in December and took up the rc car and a number of other things rc again 4 years ago and it still makes me smile like a kid it's just fun I've just upgraded my FTX Carnage to brushless motor 3s and put bigger wider wheels which has improved the handling no end which has now made me think about going more power lol nice find you got there !!
You've made me more of a believer in tamiya and it's potential nostalgia.
Seeing what you had to say and how you presented it was great. 17mph is rubbish but when you see it through kids eyes that's blasting down the road 💨👍
Yes… back in the day that was quick!
@@TomleyRC yeah i believe now the wltoys in stock form have "decent speed"
When ur 10-13years old 17mph was hallin @$$ haha.. Beat ur buddys on bikes luvit
Remember that it is a scale speed of 170mph...
@@BlackSeaRC i hope we all remeber 10th scale 17x10=170🤯.. When my 1/18 does 40x18=720😱🤪.. Haha so much fun
Me and u and u grew up pretty much the same with real cars and R/C cars. Sweet. It’s crazy with the mechanical speed controller u could bend and scratch more material where the arrow goes side to side. Lol
Yea… those were the days!
@@TomleyRC hell yea so much better then now especially the small things that count. And more freedom do h remember Tec Toys?? Or Don’t if it was there a place called Radio Shack. It’s been gone for years now but was hi tech invenation everything electronics
This is brilliant…. Exactly what I had as my first car… the madcap… in a Beatties bag… with an Acoms Techniplus 2 radio!!! Wicked!!!
Brings back loads of memories Phil, my friend had a madcap,whilst I had Bearhawk, Falcon, Grasshopper and a Lunchbox we had some fun times and now I'm back into it thanks mate, love seeing old cars from 90s 👍
Yes… we had a small group of about 4 of us with RCs. We’d take them over the local school playground in the evenings. No internet to waste countless hrs on!
I had the wild willy and the fox, waiting for those damn NiCads to recharge was the most painful thing in the world.
@@Bandito071i had the slow charger plug in the wall one would take hours for 30mins fun then got given a pro tech fast charger 30min quick charge and everyone fighting over it at after school rc club haha
Just found this video. Beatties bag brings back memories. I had to sell a lot of my old ( from my childhood days ) RC cars, needed the money when covid hit. My bag had the Yellow Lunchbox with spares & random Tamiya Cossie / other spares as well, Controllers etc. Probs worth a lot more since then Daniel.
Nice one mate. It’s nice to have a physical memory of where it all started. Stoked for you.
Yes, it was a good few years ago, but remember it like yesterday!
Some fantastic nostalgia there. What a great find and in such good condition after all this time. Love the drive montage!! 🤘😎
Cheers dude. Us oldies are easily pleased 😅
@@TomleyRC dude, 30yrs ago. Sounds so crazy to say it and also have been there to see it 😳
I had my first rc car at 1995, Tamiya tl01 Ford Escort WRC. Exact same mechanical speed control. Good old days. Thank you for nostalgia.❤️
What a coincidence. I was recently feeling so nostalgic for Beatties that I bought 2 of these canvas bags! I use them as my pit bags at the racing club.
Man, I miss Beatties!!!
You are certainly the coolest person at the club then!
@@TomleyRC Ha!
Blimey, that brings back memories, i got a tamiya hornet for christmas when i was about12, it was bought from beaties in liverpool, had the same bag, the bag is still in my mums house. Beaties was heaven to a kid in the 80's & 90's. R/c cars, tanks, boats, model railways, model kits etc. It was in st johns market.
Looks nice!! I really like Tamiya RC cars. I miss all the ones I have had.
It was really nice to meet you today.
My first Tamiya was a TL-01 Mercedes CLK-GTR. Such a fun car.
Thanks for stopping for a chat.
@@TomleyRC Your welcome, it was good to chat with you. if I see you about again I will always come says Hi.
Yes, still smiling. The good old times. Charging over night for a short run. Capacities much lower but higher prices than todays batteries. ESCs which cost more thqn the kit. Ball bearings expensive and just only from Tamiya. No after-markets or internet. I don't know how we survived this era. I know granpa is talking about war times😁😁😁
Yes… and if you had a quick charger, you were the man!
And we had to drive our cars uphill both ways.
Yeah cost of spares or electronics was ridiculous and had to travel to get them, with no guarantee of what you were after would be in stock🤣🤣.. One thing i was fortunate enough to have was my mates farther was an electrical engineer and between him and my farther they cobbled together a way for me to charge my 8 AA transmitter batteries and the cars nicad pack in 10-15 minutes using a regular car 12v battery charger but whatever you do don't forget to switch it off🤣🤣💥😳
I have had mine for 30 years. Still have a Beaties bag too. Recently rebuild diff, oil filled shocks, ESC and an original Technigold 540 motor transforms it into something really usable.
Nice! The Technigolds are hard to find in decent condition 👌
As long as it makes you smile it is money well spent. I had a Tamaya grasshopper with the same speed controller. I spent many days chasing it across the gravel pit. Even had one catch on fire. But I love that car would’ve been in the 1980s sometime. Like 85 I think
If it want smoking then you weren’t driving it hard enough haha
Last Year i bought a Madcap 100% MINT condition - and now its sitting on the shelf looking pretty as yes you just hardly see any and i did pay silly money but hey you dont take it with you so enjoy whilst you can i always say thanks for sharing this Nostalgic Memory with us all Tomley :-)
My first Tamiya was the Blackfoot, I saw a guy running one at a hobby shop with a clear body on it and I was mesmerized how I could see all the inner workings through the body. Then xmas morning Santa left me one with a Futaba stick radio and fast charger. Oh it was glorious.
Nice! I love the Blackfoot
I remember the mechanical speed controller. Had one on my first RC. The Tamiya Thundershot. Loved that car. It's the car on your bag 😜
nice back to the old time with this vintage rc buggy🤗
Wow this takes me back. I had a Avante 2001 in the late 80s or early 90s ( can’t remember exactly) bought by my parents for a birthday present from Beatties model shop in Swindon (Wiltshire). Loved that thing. Even tho a C clip popped off the steering first test drive and it crashed into a tree😄. Cheers for a blast from the past.
Never would have thought ...THE MADCAP...my first Serious RC. Im on the hunt now! Thanks Tomley.
No worries Mike 😎
Made my day, this has Phil! You know I still use those old radios, and I got 2 of those original Beatties bags! Awesome find, mate, glad you got those memories back!
Yes, I nearly mentioned you in the video haha.. you are a little older than me, those nasty pistol grips 😅
@@TomleyRC 😅🤝👍
I had a graupner stick transmitter in about the same era 91-92 probably. Stillworks fine. Whenever I buy an rc lot and there's a graupner transmitter in there, I keep it. I built2 ofthem into 2,4ghz and use them very regurarly. Great looking and feeling. Nowadays the 4AA versions are a lot lighter of course. But I don't mind 🙂
Oh wow. I had this exact Madcap. The memories. Makes me want to get one for my son.
I was 10 years old when I received my first radio controlled car. It was given to me by one of my older brothers friends after my brother sadly took his own life. The car i received was a Striker. 20 years after and I was racing RC cars. I'm 42 this year.
Wow, I still have my entry level Tamiya from 1992 - very, very similar. I replaced the speed controller with an electronic one years later, then replaced the stock motor with a Slot Machine - which was honestly a bit too fast. Four wheeling in the dirt was always way much more fun than being on pavement and going at max speed.
Wow I remember those speed controllers and receivers. Those were the days. Great find👍🏼👍🏼
Happy, Happy, Happy just fantastic!
That radio is my all time favourite. It was so nice to use. 😁
What a great memory awsome find !! Great deal
Nice one. My first Rc story is the same but the other way round. I swapped my first Rc, a Nikko F10 Rhino, for a Nintendo Game Boy and a ton of games approx 92/93. Finally got another Nikko Rhino last year for the collection. Fantastic nostalgia! 👍
Nikko Rhino! Awesome.. I think Traxxas copied the Rhino back in the day
@@TomleyRC It’s a great vintage buggy. Not as refined as a Tamiya but I got it for xmas 87 or 88 and bashed the hell out of it! 💪
NOSTALGIA!!!! I kept my old Tamiya Lunchbox in the exact same bag in the late 80s
Nothing like reliving your childhood where you can. Awesome vintage RC 👍
Never had the Madcap, but had a scorcher and a couple blasters. Then I got given a Grasshopper, and did every upgrade I could to it. I still have my old Futaba square box steering wheel. One of the first ones to come out.
Love the memories, have fun.
My first was a red Nikko turbo aero. Back in the 80's nobody knew what turbo was, just that it made everything faster. Dad noticed that even though I would leave my bikes and baseball mitts in the rain I always took care of my car so the next Christmas he got me a Super Lobo. My God that thing was fast! It was the best one RadioShack sold. It must have cost a small fortune.
Used to love going in my local Beatties! Bringing back happy memories ☺️
Those mechanical speed controllers.....
That was the #1 replacement part we sold at Colpar Hobbies back in the day.
Thank goodness for the old Novak T2 or T4 and Rooster escs. Have never had a Tamiya chassis car. Really on the fence about getting one.
Brings back memories seeing the Beatties bag, we had one in St Enoch Square in Glasgow City Centre and i can remember getting the Tamiya Escort rs Cosworth for Christmas back in the mid 90's.
I had endless fun with my Madcap back in the day, brilliant budget buggy. It will be the ball diff slipping, they’re notorious for it. Good find and good price
I ❤ your collection of digital LCD wrist-watches! 😊😉
I was 11 or 12 in 92. Miss the 90’s. Love the channel.
Same age as me… best days!
That looks fun! I had a Nikko Avenger as my 1st rc car. Pretty sweet!
Nice 👌
Crazy hearing all these people talk about how popular rc was when they were kids, I’m a kid and don’t know anybody who drives rc at my school
Beatties ! I remember those shops. My favourite place as a kid. Usually full of Tamiya goodies. You know you’re old when you remember Beatties lol 🤪👌🏼
Good to see old skool tamiya joining the stable 👍 gotta see some track footage in the future.
I have a few more Tamiya videos planned 👌
Great Vid for a bit of nostalgia and to see you get your first Tamiya back (almost), my first hobby grade rc was a Clodbuster back in the early 90’s which I recently re built, love the channel, great work, would like to see more retro reviews on stuff we had back in the day 👍
Wow this brings back memories, must have been around the time i got my first RC the Tamiya Celica GT Four, with that very radio, still have it and really must give it a restoration. The bag also brings back memories. So good you were able to find one in such great condition
Very nostalgic for Daddy! Thanks Phil for making me feel old!🤣
Haha
@@TomleyRC I know I haven't sent that email yet, reason being I lost a lot of my photos off my phone and one was the screenshot I took of Your address!🙈
Amazing find. I always wanted the Madcap. Closest I ever got was the mini Madcap. I don't think I'd want a vintage car, unless it was in the condition of this one. I would pick up re-re in a heartbeat.
Can't beat a bit of nostalgia whether it's rc cars, biscuit tins or a Raleigh Chopper 😁
Used to love going to Beatties.. I had a blue bag for my Hornet 😊 brings back a lot of memories 👍😃👍 Pete
Enjoyed this video tom, brings memories on my first tamiya blitzer beetle
Oh god.. those mechanical speed controllers.. always fun seeing someone running after their car because it got stuck.
Haha.. and then followed by the smoke!
Look’s CooL👍👍👍👍
I also have my first RC (re-bought) on the shelf for memories, The red Nikko Chipmunk.
Nice!
Well that was fun! I remember spending hours staring at the MadCap in RC Car Action wishing I could get one. Never got one myself but I'm glad that you could find one and tap into your youth!
Yes, some good memories 👌
I remember going into Beatties in Southend-On-Sea in the 1990s. Where I bought a discounted LGB garden trainset. They also had a shop at Thurrock Lakeside as well. Where they had a LGB trainset running around the top of the walls. So South Essex was well served.
Great video and love the madcap and in the beatties bag aswell…I bought a mega-drive aswell for £179.99!!! Had it ordered for when they released it, what a wonderful bag of memories really enjoyed the trip down memory lane it’s what it’s all about 👍
I still have two cars over 40 years from rc car, it was a Team Associated rigs. I rebuilt mine now has a Traxxas body, lol. I still enjoy my old cars. I have two many I am stopping to buy more rigs, yeah right. I will just build better rigs and now I am into clawling with the wife, my wife loves using her new Element Enduro Gatekeeper. I bought else and cheaper one and I am changing costly on my rig. I have ejoyed watching you! Thanks!
I am about 2 or 3 years older than you and my first car was the Hornet and getting the rerelease just brought back so many memories.....my first 4wd was the Hotshot 2 and I'm praying they rerelease it one day! Amazing video!
Tamiya knew we would all want to own the cars we had as kids.. I’m glad they still make them 👌 (well most of them!)
Was just reminiscing with my Sister a few weeks ago.....and fir the life of me, I couldn't recall the name of the model/RC shop in Swindon, back in the 80's.......BEATTIES...! 😆
Bought many an Airfix model from there, and used to drool over the Grasshopper....! 🤪🤷🏼♂️
That bag brings back so many memories going Beatties in Bristol and looking at all sorts I wanted but was never allowed 😂
Yes, gazing at all the RCs and wishing for one!
Beatties in Broadmead was my local one as well. Remember getting my Playstation 1 there, back in 1995, if memory serves me correct. Also remember almost bumping into Michaela Strachan outside. Random memories of childhood. 😂 It was gutting when Beatties closed for good though. 😔
Mannnnn, I remember going to Beatties as a kid, walking up t he stairs to the RC dept and being in awe. Memories................ very fond ones.
Yes, those were certainly the days!
I remember going to Beatties in Ealing back in 87 when I was 12, and I fell in love with the lunch box, couldn’t ever afford it, had a second had Road Runner and Pumpkin instead, but I finally got a lunch box last year!! 😀
Madcap is to Astute as Vanquish is to Avante, Lovely car, and pleased to hear the TTTE theme on your road trip playlist :)
I'd just like to appreciate the deliberate montage of songs that some percentage of the commenters are guaranteed to hate.
haha... most of that music was straight off the Radio. They were playing random songs for 1hr. Had to share :)
So cool, and thanks for the mini road trip.
No probs haha
Reminds me a LOT of the Murai ninja I grew up with! I have bought 3 since lol. Spent hundreds of dollars on these relics but looking at them just makes me happy 😊
Hi Tomley This was my first RC as well, I have some spares for the Madcap, i some arms, chassis and some shocks without springs. Let me know if interested, if not enjoy the madcap, good buy for the price. I remember paying £70 for mine with 2 batteries, 2 chargers, the same radio unit and the quick charger with the bag, worn tyres but all back in 1991. It’s a shame Tamiya never revised it..
The Mad Cap was my first tamiya rc too. Got it in 92/93 2nd hand. I have no idea what happened to it 🤷♂️
Happy memories. But it broke alot and it was never fast.
Thanks for the nostalgia 👍
Nice! I think it was a popular choice back then
Reminds me of my old Bear Hawk, which had the exact same Techniplus. Same battery, same speed controller... actually probably a few other parts in common with the Madcap? Looks enough like the Bear Hawk that I'm expecting so, anyway.
Thanks for the nostalgia!
Absolutely love old rigs on old tec, as weird as it sounds it makes me feel funny lol
Tamiya Hornet 🐝 for me, late 80’s! Mad fast 50 kph 😎 Mega fun..
Lucky Guy. Madcap was my 2nd Tamiya, First was a Hornet. I hope they re-re this one day.
I really hope they do a re-re. I’d buy 2… one to do a brushless build and one for the shelf
Nice rc car👍
😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
My all time favourite ever rc ever ever ever and I never had one. This is the year for me
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We all thought that our cars were really fast 30yrs ago, even if they look slow by today's standards, just the nostalgia of these icons keeps the flame burning within 🔥❤️ we were lucky to have been part of the Golden age of tamiya ❤️
Yes I agree… 80s and early 90’s were the best years for Tamiya
Haha luvit tomley and the ride.. Had me rollin bro.. U ride dirty over their also.. Perfect thnx
Haha… 🤣
That’s awesome my first car/buggy was a radio shack , golden arrow, I think I’m gonna look for one now, thanks, great video 👍🏻
Hi Phil, Beatties in Nottingham city center back in the mid 80's as a 16 year old lad, gazing at at new models on display and catalogs of colourful pictures - just a boyhood dreams but never had the cash to buy. I have a tamiya Ford Focus from 2001 ( broken car only for 20 GBP 2 years ago ) snapped boby in 3 places, so I has converted it to a kamtecmodels 3 wheeled reliant robin, new body and all electronic / Lipo 7.4v plus about 30 other custom / RTR / rollers - all low budget RC Cars from WLTOYS to one off projects under 300 GBP. Dave in Nottinghamshire ( Daves outdoors adventure ) from a few years ago. My place looks like your old garage workshop. be safe
Some good memories. I have the Kamtec 3 wheeler as well 👌
compared to the competition (Tyco/RadioShack), Tamiya/kyosho models were stupid fast in their day. additionally, I can appreciate the re-releases still have the mounting points for mechanical speed controllers, it's amazing how much room is available with modern electronics. I still have (most of) my 1st "hobby grade" RC, Blackfoot; it's in dire need of a long overdue refresh.
Yes, Tamiya know that we all want the stuff we couldn’t afford as kids 😅
Man, I used to live in Beatties. It was near the Cinema in Notts city centre. Got a lot of Scalextric cars etc, happy times !!
Good times 👌
That manual speed control.....a blast from the past right there!
You got It in the Bag Mate!
Yummy Stuff.
This is great :-) The mechanical speed controller. I had forgotten all about them. awesome. Still got a crusty old tube of Tammy speed controller Grease:))
I feel your memory
Still have my super hornet , black foot and quick drive beetle!