Vintage Tamiya Adverts. Clod buster, Blackfoot, Monster Beetle, Frog, SRB's and More!
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2018
- ** A Few Sound issues throughout. Volumes also levelled to save your ears!**
A Nostalgic look back at some of the first Tamiya's to hit the market. Brings back some good memories! And some Dreams!
Monster Beetle
Blackfoot
Wild Willy
Clod Buster
Boomerang
Hilux
Frog
Lunchbox
A kid I went to School with had a brand new Clodbuster, all I could afford was a second hand Lunchbox....I was in ore of his 4x4x4 truck :) - Auta a dopravní prostředky
My mom was Japanese and in late 1981 she went to visit family. When she came back she had a Rough Rider for my brother a Super Champ for my dad and i got a Wild Willys ! This was before they were released here. The instructions were in Japanese ! Im 57 and still have it !!! R.I.P. mom !
You must have been a lucky and happy boy...
The RC world just went full circle. Long live Tamiya.
Saturday afternoon in Beatties watching these,looking at the rc kits on the shelves that I couldn,t afford,Then home for tea whilst watching the Dukes of Hazzard.Memories eh?
Yeah, those were the days! They actually cost around the same as they do today...so back then that was really expensive!
Now the world blows
the 80s were the best! I enjoyed watching the lunchbox. still have mine seats on shelf. I will never forget putn that together after I got it foe Xmas. It was cold an snowy out, but I still found a clear patch in the middle of road. An when I hit that trigger it pulled a wheel an zoomed down the road! Been addicted ever since
Sounds like a young me!
Takes me back to the eighties, wish I could go back.
Me too!
Me three
The 80s were awesome in so many ways. I remember when that Technigold motor came out I desperately wanted one for my Hornet but couldn't afford it. I had to buy the red top RS540 Sprint...even that was £39 which was a huge sum in 1986!!
Tamiya were so ahead of their time.
Except when it came to replacement parts
Yea all this metal... Would be a fortune today
That hilux looks actually surprisingly capable for it's age 😮
Oh man this takes me back! I got an old Tamiya Monster Beetle hanging up in the garage as homage to when I got into R/c as a kid when my dad owned it.
Wow that first model the Toyota truck was something else! I like the way it had high, medium, and low range and shifted in and out of 4 wheel drive.
now its worth GREED money
WOW!! Talk about nostalgia. I fortunate enough to be given a new Clod Buster for Christmas when I was like 12. I am 44 now and still have that same Clod all these years later. The original body broke in a barrel roll down a hill before it was even a week old or painted for that matter. Has had a lexan Ford 350 body on it painted like Bigfoot ever since. I have upgraded radios and batteries along the way and now my 12 year old daughter is using it. Thanks for the cool video.
The music was so beautiful back then. The warm grain of the film. Such genious and creative little inventions. Even the packaging was beautiful. The narrator well spoken and mature tone. They had it ALL back then. Time to turn around!
To be back in the 70's/80's..... that would be awesome!
Yep it was certainly a magical time to grow up during the 70's and 80's. Way way better than now in 2024. And although Tamiya have come back in a big way and re released a lot of their vintage era RC cars that's about the closest we can get to those magical times. The rest of the world has gone crazy and is a noisy scary dangerous place. Good old Tamiya , I love Tamiya RC cars and have quite a few myself. Around 12. 2 Grasshopper in candy green, 2 Fox one is vintage 1986 and one is re released Nova Fox.I also have a Super Hot Shot and a Hot Shot original and a Hot Shot 2, I also have a Midnight Pumpkin and a Lunchbox in black edition, I also have a Hornet re release. I also have a Tamiya Egress black edition and an Avante black edition.its really great Tamiya have come back so strong and I love the hobby of building a beautiful model RC car that can be run too. These are cars I couldn't buy as a young kid but I brought them as an adult. I'm now 51.👌😂
Remember the red Toyota standing in the window of my local hobby store.
Couldnt afford it of course.
If tamiya do a rerelease on that one, i will pawn a kidney and get one👌👌
I wish I could go back in time....👍
Live your life so you’ll be saying that 40 yrs from now !
BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES 1ST RC I EVER OWNED WAS A SAND SCORCHER I SAY 1ST BECAUSE AS EVERYONE KNOWS YOU NEVER HAVE JUST 1 THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!
You are welcome Andrew! The 70's/80's were some of the best years!
This is awesome! Vintage Tamiya is the greatest!
Everyone who is into RCing. Should watch this video. This is how all of our addiction have started. Lol
whoaw this brings back childhood memories much in the same way as watching an A-Team episode. Thx for uploading this.
Love the A-Team!
@@TomleyRC Same here!
I remember the day like yesterday when i opened my Tamiya Super Champ on Christmas morning 1982!
Wooo hoo!
Thanks for the upload.....super memories! :--)
You are a bit older than me.....but I remember being 11, and the rich boy at School had a brand new Clod Buster, I was blown away by the 4ws!!!
One of my favorites, I have 3, 1 restored, one to be restored and one still new in the box. Even more realistic that the sand schorcher, rough rider and f 150 ranger . I like the metal roof wing and the netting in the side windows.
Everything was better in the good old days.
These are amazing. I am a big fan of retro RC Cars. These look high quality and detailed. Some awesome tech for the time.
The 80's were pretty good! 👍
Oh I remember droolling over those Tamiya and Kyosho RC cars back in the 80's as a kid, hanging out in the toystore and looking in the catalouges...'Hey mom, there is this 500 usd toy car, and...soon it's christmas'. ...NOT a chance :))) Now I have collected a handful of the vintage stuff from early 80's, found at ebay, but hardly dare to use them, better placed on the shelf))
It's nice to be able to relive your youth once in a while! Boys Toys :)
Thanks for this. It really brings me back.
The best best parts of this video is the warbly analog video sound track. so great.
Thankyou for this video! Christmas of 1989 I got a Tamiya LunchBox for Christmas. It was so much fun! By May of 1990 I had saved enough Lawn Mowing money to buy a Kysho Big Brute. I was addicted
It still blows my mind that you can still purchase a Tamiya LunchBox and not the Kysho Big Brute
Yes agree! Would love a Brute!
I do remember having to replace those plastic dog bones on the brute alot. I basically drove that truck till there was nothing left.
Look at it go!!! I love RC cars.
Thanks for putting these all together. Great work!!!!
It's so amazing how incredibly detailed the late 70s early 80s Tamiya cars were. Even scale sized shocks. I had the Rough Rider and man that was heavy as hell. Heavier than my Blackfoot. It was slow and didn't go over bumps and jumps all that well. Didn't even have a differential gear. But it was a sealed all metal chassis and everything you see on it was to scale.
That's great!! had a bullhead 4x4x4 had the clod !! Got into nitro!! bought kyosho nitro crusher Oz 21 tuned pipe . Lunch box & the midnight pumpkin was dope body clips broke evertime you had a rollover add 17 tooth pinion & wow . Blackfoot & monster Beatle stripped gears when you took off the plastic tires loved every kit I had back in the day . Now have Traxxas T Maxx 3.3 & 2.5 R !! E Maxx . Thanks for posting 👌
Tamiya has ALWAYS been good. They didnt strike me as speed demons at the time, though they could be tuned to speed but they were always so advanced, so detailed, and just plain good that you didn't really care if you were going fast or not. My father swor by them since I was a kid. Got me a tamiya grasshopper when I was young. I just remember it being the coolest thing ever in history too me at the time, I didn't even mind my dad yelling at me for driving badly the entire time I played with it.
they were never race vehicles although i won some trophies with a modded out Black foot, but what Tamiya was and is, is FUN.
I had the grasshopper which i modded up to being a hornet and a blackfoot. a freind of mine just dumped a neglected grasshopper and a clodbuster this week. i'm so excited. i feel like i'm 13 again.
We had the best childhoods...
Looked forward to the work of a hobby, a skill, a craft...
All kids do now is become potatos and potate....
While granny screams naaaaaarrrrggghhh!
The 80's/90's were awesome!
@@TomleyRC rc cars made me good at the real thing!
Now I get paid to build and paint awesome cars, trucks and bikes...
I still take the rc's for a rip once n a while, i can't forget the good times...
Keep up the good work with the videos!!
Man I wish I was born in those good times sadly I’m a 2000’s boy
How Awesome was that blast from the past 😄💥💯🇬🇧
Excellent blast from the past, used to spend hours watching those videos in beatties model shop in Nottingham in the 80s
just bbeeaauuttiiiffuulllllll!
Tamiya making scale crawlers before a lot of these rc crawlers company started
Not kind of,they did set the standard
If their customer service such as replacement parts would have been up to par they would probably be most peoples go to rather than traxxas
Cool old trucks
These brings back so many memories. Why I love collecting them today, so much simple times back then
I remember watching these advertising video’s early 80’s as a kid in the hobbyshop 🙂
Loving this one it brings back memories of growing up in the 80s
The good old days :) I remember being jealous of a kid at school who had a brand new Clod Buster. The 4WS blew my mind!
My God Phil,,,,,,, that Tamiya video of the Toyota was my favourite video when I was a kid. I played it over and over again as my dream was to own a REAL RC car/truck. I had a few different videos from Tamiya and I watched them constantly. The Grasshopper was my first real RC followed by the Avanti. Now I just stick to my Arrma's as their so much cheaper and more reliable.
Tamiya Still number 1 in the world 🌎 of RC !!
I finally know what a Tamiya lunch box is, that thing is sweet lol!
Its funny how just one modern rc can pull a hilux by itself lol
GunzNButter86 here again, and I was born in 86 and honestly I'd love to be able to find and buy atleast 2 of almost every RC car/truck/buggy/bike in this video!!!!!!!! So I would have one that I would play with and use everyday, and the other to put on the shelf for (Vintage Display)!!!!!! Just saying!!!!! Lol
That first lil truck was built better than any RC I’ve ever owned, last 20 years I guess.
That kit was like $600 even back then!
Robert NES816 , wow... yeah I want one.
@@maderastudio8493 Tamiya has a re release on their site. They're makeing all of the old kits from the 80's again.
Robert NES816 sweet! Thanks for the heads up. The wife may not be so appreciative. But I thank you.
@@maderastudio8493 😆😆
O the good old days of RC! 👍😊👍
Maybe the best?
@@brannenthompson9662 The best is today...there's so much to choose from
@@tomv3361 IMHO, not really. Everything is RTR these days, instead of kits. Tamiya isnt making high performance off roaders anymore. HPI is nearly dead. Nitros are slowly going extinct.
@@xXYannuschXx So are we going to overlook Traxxas? Or Axial? Today's RCs are really perfect. Nitro is useless for most people, kits are still around and nostalgia doesn't make those old Tamiyas any better.
@@tomv3361 Traxxas, the company that tries to patent toll every competition out of existence and has hindered innovation... Axial makes top notch crawlers, I am just not into them sadly. Todays RCs are far from perfect (apart from the 500-1k$ race cars), there are still many flaws with them. Most kits on the market (that isnt a Tamiya) are race grade RC cars that cost a fortune and aren't realy suitable for general driving. Tamiyas have always been fun to drive and just different, most RC cars these days just put a giant Brushless motor into them and call it a day. Dont get me wrong, I have Kraton 6S and plan to upgrade this thing to a TP 4070, but I just find it sad, that this seems to be the only way the hobby is going currently. I would love to see more diversity, like the days when Tamiya released so many different platforms.The RTR craze is another issue, I havent seen a single RTR that had no flaws from the factory; back when this started, most people joked that RTR stands for "Ready to Reassemble" and even now, even though RTRs dominate the market, this is still true...
In Germany we call the hobby "Modellbau" (which roughly translates to model making); Tamiya is the only company, that I know of, that still sells kits that have you cut out parts from injection molds, which makes them feel the truest to that name.
And IMHO Nitro is part of the hobby; electric starts to get boring after a while (I am not discrediting the benefits, mind you) and I want to have the sound, smell and tinkering of a combustion engine.
It seems like all of this is going away, so I really cannot say that these are the best times for RC.
I always wanted a Clod buster. That would be fun to build
It is fun.
You can still get them i think.
I have two 🤣
I loved this. I was a kid again... Thanks for compiling 😁
Awesomeness video. Brings me back to the classic days of rc fun.
The best days of RC... 👍🏎
Loved it. I Remember all of these.
I wish I had those rc cars now
The Tamiya Avante is one of my Favorite
Love the music 🎶
Thanks for posting these are great.
No problem David, glad you enjoyed it 😀👍
These remind me of my first Tamiya rc which was a Monster Beetle. It was quickly followed by a Blackfoot, then a Clod. I still the them!
I have the clod buster, lunchbox, frog, grasshopper, FAV re release and a vintage FAV mint in box. I always get excited when I see the ads 😊 one day I hope to get a sand scorcher.
Bit of a Fan then 😂🤘
Tomley RC Garage I'm a real fan of the vintage tamiya yes haha 😊
So cool. Thanks for the vid
Awe great memories.. I have these on a DVD somewhere
Thank you for this upload 😊👍🏼
Monster-X RC
Wished Tamiya would re-release ALL of them and stay that way.im hoping they do a rere of The Falcon someday.
Takes me back seeing these ads. The days of 3 TV channels and Saturdays going into Mansells models in Paignton to see what was new . I had completely forgotten those side cars !! Wonder if any of them around these days . Thankyou for the awesome upload
Well cool nostalgia 👌🏼
Also take me back to being 25 and no worries
Man I love the 80's 🏁
Yes, wish I was a little older in the 80's, but still managed to enjoy the last few years of it
@@TomleyRC I was born in the 70s so did get to enjoy a fair bit of it, great times. I still have 2 80s Tamiya cars 🏁
Wow I'm 13 and this is so Cool!!! Can't believe rc was like this
Yes, you missed the best years :)
Tomley RC Garage haha I wish I was alive :)
I remember building my Monster Beetle with my dad. When driving it around my neighborhood my friends saw how cool it was and wanted their own RC. My best friend got the Lunchbox and another friend got the original Grasshopper. With the 3 of us there was a problem because the transmitter and receiver had to have different frequency crystals. Mine was 27 mHZ so I couldn’t race my friends Grasshopper because we were on the same frequency. RC certainly has advanced big time since the 80’s.
Better then the new ones
Products in my fathers day. Well made, built to last, production that matters. Todays build, so light and awesome, throwaway materials, replace ur car in less than 5 years! (Yes thats satire.)
Damn i love it !
Ooh man,the good ole days
Takes me back to being a kid.... Both my love of rc cars and pornos!.. Great. Music! 😂 😂 😂
That's heavy pulling.
80s..the tech was like wow.. now.. tt01 and 2.. just slam all the shell there..😆
Maybe you could recreate the car pull at the beginning I mean you have enough cars? I never knew The Toyota had an actual gearbox and the transmitter had a shifter WOW I now want one but also a Sand Scorcher and a Lunchbox oh and a Willys Jeep. Bloody Tamiya Legends Videos.
haha, good idea!
My dad bought 'The Boomerang' (cause im a Aussie) for my 11th birthday back in 1988...sold it completely worn out two years later in order to buy a RC helicopter (a Hirobo Shuttle ZX)
Still got the Helicopter? 😉
Tomley RC Garage. I washed a lot of cars to save up for that, but the Shuttle eventually got sold in order to upgrade to a X-Cell .60.
Actually one of my choppers is 22 years old and still gets flown regularly 😊
Man I'm 17 and iown a re lunchbox for 3years now.
This is my first"hobby grade"rc car
It's a really cool rc monster truck
And surpriseingly capable!
Cuz me think a1980s rc car can't live that long
so far I only change the shox and the
bearings.
my second tamiya rc is tt-02B chassis
But I'm not really into it
I bought it just for the look
Probably gonna sell it:-(
Ohhh Man this Is torture mate, that clone mt left me like this 🤤😍🤤😍🤤😍 the Toyota also!! well all of them actualy 😅😁 AND here I am waiting for my brand new chassis that I ordered like 10 days ago for my old king blackfoot!! I cracked the original black one and now I'll have to fit in there the red one from the Moster Beatle/Blackfoot, since it's not going to be original anymore, (I also ordered some aftermarket oil shock absorbers and Ball bearings) I was thinking on going brushless since It still has the old silver can and the 3 speed forwards and reverse sc 😝🤣😅 (I wanna go in Jeremy mode, and put in there some more power!!!) but it just may be a little to much, maybe I'll be better of keeping it old school and just get a tamiya super stock motor instead, I dont know mate, if you have the chance I would like to read your opinion in this, maybe even just the sport tuned silver can ( I already saw your vid on that matter against the original black can sport tuned and that other unworthy cheap piece of $+#t ) and a 2s Li-Po would be fine for the truck? Anyway I hope you have a nice day and I think it's great that you uploaded this old ads, cheers mate and P.S. sorry for the bad english 😅😅
Those were the days...where you would save up for a year or longer to be able to buy a new awesome Tamiya. True RC cars!. Better than the stupid junk that's in stores now
Wow, these look *SO* cool!
I wonder if TOYATO makes cheaper version..
Wow the lunch Box and porno music I love it all
I am getting a original clod buster on Friday.
Matteos RC Movies nails videos like these today....
Wow, Tamiya was a big deal back in the day. The fact that there were ads proves that Rc hobby was something back in the day. But, still today I can't get an RC here without importing it and payin 50%+ as customs + shipping. ha ha.
Yes, back in the 80's there were no mass produced Chinese RC's flooding the market, and everywhere had hobby store had a nice stock of Tamiya!
I had a Hornet...........yeah I miss it
Made in japan...wow🤩
I want a Hi-Lux rere !
Christ I felt a bit of movement watching this.
I can`t be the only one who kinda misses the old rotary mechanical speed regulators hehe, resistor so hot you could prepare lunch on it, and if you put a hot motor in your car, after the second step it was completely uncontrollable xD
Good times :)
And that humpback hardcase tamiya battery hehehe, that`s one of the batteries I got with my hornet, my first hobbygrade RC, got it used for about 60 bucks, with charger and Acoms radio, still miss that thing..
I don't miss the speed controller getting stuck and the truck flying off at full speed in to the nearest tree 😂
Jan Christian Frodahl im still running my midnight pumpin on the old escs 😂
Oh man, this comment brought back memories
That 80s sound track....
Brings back some memories 🎧
Way better than that dubstep sounding crap that people like to put in their running videos these days.
I'm a little guilty of that on some of my videos....although I like to find music that suits the video. If it wasn't for Copyright issues...I'd smash some 80's soundtracks in all mine 😂👍
Matthew webster, ummm I’d say that is straight 70’s soundtrack.
Late 70'S jazz fusion 😎
I want one of those vintage hiluxes
Yes they are nice!
This monster truck is more real monster that now a days. The sice its more real short distance between wheels, real tall truck. Its feels easy to roll, but just like a real monster truck. I fell this was more a realistic car and the xmax like a ninko ultrabasher for kids, imposible to roll and very diferent reaction and drive than a real monster!
Yeah, not the same as todays stuff. Although the Kyosho Mad Crusher is a very nice looking monster truck.
X-Maxx FTW
6:00 might have the best bgm of all time
Nothing like some 70's/80's lift music 😜👍
LOL I forgot about mechanical speed controls and the fact electronic ones were rare and super expensive then, in fact all the stuff was super expensive compared to now, I remember in the mid 80s an equipped Hotshot was 500 bucks, now you can buy a ready to run RC that goes twice as fast for that amount
Yeah, super expensive compared to today! Although just as enjoyable back then...although I don't remember breaking as much as I do now 😂
Rex Holes mechanical speed controllers have always been a pain for me. Sometimes on full throttle it will get stuck and I have to re position it to the middle again. Have to keep that vintage feel tho
Man what I would give to have 14 rc Toyota Hiluxs to test that first one on
So great. I had the Mud Blaster. I sold it for $50 for beer money...So dumb
As I start building mine over the xmas break, I'll be looking at installing properly damped and sprung shox! Hehe, these old films (not videos) show just how poor the original shox are.
Cool old video but the sound keeps cutting out. Sure does bring back some good old memories , I still have many of these cars most are just replacements of what I had or built for others.
These were the ones I begged for Christmas as they were in my Mums mid 80's Grattons catalog in the back of the toy section, but no I got a no-name RC car which to D size cells I had to wait a few years and buy my friends second-hand Hornet which was never run and in perfect condition until I let my girlfriend have a go and boom it ends up at the bottom of the garden fish pond. Now thanks to you I want one to actually build now. A new Hornet kit is only £65ish on eBay?
I bought a few when I first got a Job, never had enough money as a kid to own one
somebody has to compile all the music and make instrumentals!!!
Beautiful 70s jazz fusion/disco stuff.
did the truck being pulled, have an engine in it ?