Vintage RC Cars Blog

Picture Of The Week – The (RC) Force Awakens

This week’s Picture Of The Week is of Mark Swift’s super cool Star Wars Imperial Fighter Tamiya Manta Ray. From Warrington, England, he tells us that this buggy started out as a £20 bargain buy off Facebook...

Picture Of The Week – TQ10 Takes On The Fall

This week’s Picture Of The Week comes from Ed Ernst of Berkeley Heights, NJ. Ed is a hardcore vintage collector and built this Horizon Hobby TQ10 to match the car in their ad seen in the January 1990 issue...

Picture Of The Week – Willy’s Gone Wild!

Our very first Picture Of The Week honors goes to Colin Kirkham of Westbury, Wiltshire UK. Colin painted and detailed these Willys figures himself and used Jack Osborn action figures for the bodies. He...

Track Report – Kyosho Scorpion

  Every weekend, tens of thousands of us head out to tracks around the country and throw down but few of us have ever wondered where it all began. Most vintage fanatics can follow...

Out Of The Box – Kyosho Scorpion: Part 3

When we wrapped up Part 2 of the Scorpion build, we finished the main bits of the buggy and were heading into giving it “ttomdy” to mount the electronics and finish up. The car so far...