My First Tamiya 1980s

This is my First Tamiya RC - 'Hotshot II', came in 3rd in school to have mom bought it for me. Didn't had much toys to begin with, this was awesome!! Seeing many friends of my same age already had one or few Remote Control.

Had a few friends over just to build it at the age of 12, so we figure out the manual and assigned tasks lol. Divide and conquer.

finally built it, and we play RC every chance we got, in the rain, mud, sunshine.. no matter the weather. we really had fun! I remember we had play 10 minutes or so and when and run back for a quick 3~4 hours of quick charge just to play another 10 minutes, only had 1 battery till much later.

Ran it on the roads, dirt, mud... even chase after female adults!! lol..


my friends had super sprint - my impression of it was awesome, metal parts and was it chain drive? a porsche 959, this little thing is very quick~! would always catch up and make circles around us..lol i think it was because of the motor and weight?? how much do i know for a kid?


Hope mr. Tamiya would help to bring back this amazing kit, it has some of my wonderful memories of my younger years!


cheers!