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SC8.2e RTR – We want
One of the more baffling trends is something that never took off. With 1/8-scale electric, and nitro, topping the “cool and trendy” bits of the hobby and Short Course being hugely popular the obvious mixed-breed of ...
Hobbico / Great Planes Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy- Do you care?
There are two main distributors in the USA that keep your hobby shop stocked, and generally control the industry as most of the products sold in the US go through either one. Over the years they’ve changed a bit. They went fr...
RCJudge Scholarship
Are you smarter than an RC’er? If you are an undergraduate and can slap 700+ words together you could win $1000 towards your tuition or books via the RCJudge Scholarship. The topic is the future of RC and how technology w...
An End, A Beginning, and A New Year
So here we are again. Just you, me and about everybody on the planet online reading about RC Cars again. Over the past year the world has been pretty interesting. We’ve had natural disasters, wars, terrorist’s being...
We Rally Like You. Oh, really like Rally.
Derek is a huge WRC fan. One of the things he wants to do is sit in the woods with a BBQ, cooler of beer and watch a WRC event. We can all dream right. Since the WRC doesn’t come to the US, we can only do a scale rally. W...
Tamiya “Scorches” the Vintage World
To all those 30-somethings who used to play with toy cars when they were younger and want to pretend they are 9-years old again; Tamiya is celebrating their 30th anniversary of the Sand Scorcher with an improved re-release of t...
All About Off Road Wings – Free Article
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...
Tire Tip – Not Air Fresheners
I stopped in to visit AKA Racing and Joel Johnson was kind enough to give me some samples of their new Truggy tires. They are lighter, faster and better than the previous “truck” bead designs, but there is one thing...
