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Hi

Well, i am just about divorced! while surfing the evil eBay one night i came across an original un molested Super Hornet! and well thats when the addiction took hold! with nothing better to do and well a good way to invest (wast) some hard earned money i now find my self with the following vintage RC monsters from the 80's and 90's.

in order of purchase!

Super Hornet, (with box and instruction) assembled
Grasshopper, (no box, with instruction, in process of pulldown, clean and resto)
Hornet, NIB from Japan 1985
HotShot, NIB from UK 1986 (or is it 85)
HotShot, (no box, with instruction, next on the list for resto)
Team Losi JRX2 (ordered! just waiting for it to arrive
SuperShot, (car only with electrics, no control) very bad condition. in process of resto. coming along nicely, just got body off the Bay.
SuperShot, (car and control) beautiful condition! will be pulled down and cleaned. that is all it needs.
Grasshopper NIB from the USA just waiting for it to land! 1984

other Rc cars

Team Associated TC4 drift car with 4T brushless orion! uncontrollable weapon of ankel breking capabilities!

and my favourite (runner that is) HSP 1:10 rock crawler! love the challenges of climbing stuff. and its fun if your mates dont want to come out for a run!

any how that is my story sad but true!

how long will it last? till i am again sucked in buy that of the woman!

thanks for reading if you care, im sure you have better things to do than read my story!

just thought it would be nice to be able to chat to others who like me have a soft spot for those cars we loved as youngsters!!!

Cheers

Hi and welcome on Tamiyabase!
Sounds like a serious RC addiction (like most of us) and you might be beyond the point for any woman to temper it.
Wish you lots of fun here - and with your builds...

hi and welcome to the site, you are officially part of the worlds most obsessed Tamiya owners club lol

Hola & welcome on board

I can empathise with you ... believe me though, it's no good pointing out that a collection of RC cars isn't really any different from her collection of shoes and cushions, or that spending time on RC cars is not really any less unproductive that watching soap operas

Are you sure you should be posting a list of your collection though? "Community property" & all that

... or maybe your RC collection will get named as co-respondant



On the subject of cushions though - what is it about women & cushions/throws etc on beds?

For a bloke, a bed is somewhere to sleep, and occasionally, "get lucky". Bed frame, matress, sheet, duvet & cover, pillow & case - that's all you need. But no, as soon as there's a female involved you have to have extra throws & blankets, some of which _must_ be folded in a certain way, others have to be angled at a perfect 45 degrees ... then the whole lot has be topped off with a variety of extra decorative pillows & cushions, all of which have to be perfectly arranged in shade order - a task that male colour vision simply is not up to. Look, I can barely tell the difference between blue & green, so _don't_ ask me to choose between 8 seemingly identical shades of red!

Cushions ... I mean, why? What is their function? you're not allowed to sleep on them, and what are you supposed to do with them when you do what to sleep? TBH it's easier to sleep on the sofa.


And towels! Apparently they are only for decoration. Who knew? I thought they were for drying yourself, & need hanging on the rail as spread out as possible to dry out afterwards. But no, they have to be folded in a specific way so none of the edges show. Look, don't ask a guy to fold any textile item, we simply don't have the "folding" gene.

I think I better leave it there before I get started on toliet paper

Hey there and welcome here with a bunch of like-minded Tamiya junkies!
As for the i/need/a/girlfriend...my advice is (You don't need to own a cow to have milk) Girlfriends will sooner or later want a ring, house, car, shoes, more shoes and....and she will never understand why you have to own one more vintage Tamiya that sits on the shelf and never gets used. Well that's woman for you, and we can not do without them.
Enjoy your collection,
Marius