This ain’t no conversion kit! Tekno RC has been a leading developer of 1/8-scale nitro-to-electric conversion kits since back when people got yelled at for running nitro on indoor tracks. Pick any kit manufacturer out the...
Wow. How things can change over the years. Seems like only yesterday I was sporting my first RC Car. There it sat under the Christmas tree in all of its glory. It was a “slightly used” tub of gold. My RC10 came decked out w...
Hobby Fragmentation The other day I was talking to a manufacturer who I hadn’t spoken with in a long time. It was a quick “Hey, what’s up?” call to reintroduce him to what we call “a magazine.” His reply to my askin...
Wings are often thought of as cosmetic, and in the full-size-car-consumer world, they mostly are—as can be seen by the wing size sported by most punk kids on their tuner cars. But in this hobby, they serve a much more specifi...
Not everything we review has to be new, and this latest entry is actually very old. After walking around my local hobby shop looking for something worthy of a product review, I remembered one of the most important tools our hob...
TAMIYA TRF419XR The latest iteration of Tamiya’s high-end Touring chassis got some minor tweaks focused on increasing corner speed and steering response. A mature class like this doesn’t require many updates but spe...
“We’ll do it live!” We have no script, no ideas, and just babble about RC cars every Monday at 5:30pm. Derek, Jeff, Peter and some special guests get together, drink a beer, and discuss over 30 years of being ...
Today we drove out to Pro-Line and spent the afternoon testing their new transmission for the Slash/Stampede. The PL test track is world-class and getting to run bone stock Slashes back to back to feel the performance differenc...