R/C cars

[PANDAemic]

I went to a meet the other day and I saw some people drifting with R/C cars. They had an AE86, S13, and MK2 and just started doing a bunch of figure 8's. Got me thinkg, "how much does it cost to make one of those and where do you start?" Has anybody ever tried building one? I'm curious.

[alms24sebring]

My friends used to have them. Good ones are $500+ I believe, then parts like bigger motor and suspension dont run cheap.

This was maybe 6 years back prices. They have offroad trucks too

[PANDAemic]

Yea, they seemed really cool! I wanted to pick up another hobby and I wanted to see if this is something reasonable. Building a car takes time so might as well build a smaller version of the same thing. Also it'd be kinda funny to have a miniature replica of your car sitting in the real thing.

[alms24sebring]

They can be fun. The offroad ones might be a little more fun than the low roadracing cars if Im honest. Depends on what your looking for. Also they make gas powered helicopters and boats too

[Ajax]

I tried getting back into RC cars a few years back. I stored them at my sister/brother-in-law's house for a bit and some things were damaged by flooding. Once I get my own house, I will restart this hobby with an old-school Alfa Romeo- I don't care for the "drifting RC" stuff.

[PANDAemic]

always liked rc cars. I could never afford them...

[alms24sebring]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82193796/

slot cars can still be fun

[PANDAemic]

only if I had this...


I remember as a kid I had a bunch of Tyco R/C's those were the best... Looking at the modern crazy R/C's they have now it makes me wonder if kids in the next few years will have less and less attention spans.