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Viper Alarm – Please Stand Back

Remember when Viper made car alarms that talked? Yeah, when people maybe thought that your car talking was scary and wouldn’t steal your Alpine. The Viper RC speed control doesn’t talk to you, but it will power any ...

RC Babble Live! Join us every Monday at 5:30pm PST (8:30pm EST) for a live show.

“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 ...

Video Review Losi 8IGHT Gas Buggy – Gas Pains

Issue #17 Features our review of the Losi 8IGHT Gas Buggy. In VRC_016 we dyno’d the Dynamite .31 engine and got a good result, but that’s where track testing and dyno curves don’t always add up. We spent 3 ful...

Pro-Line Protrac Kit for Slash 4×4!

Those of you who raced a Traxxas Slash when the class started know that the Pro-Line Protrac kit made the Slash able to handle big power, improve rear traction and add rough track stability. Well, it seems that Pro-Line has Tar...

Ready. Set. Action. AE FT B4.1 Worlds Edition.

Another Wednesday in the books. It’s garbage day here at the VRC main office (doesn’t it feel like every day is garbage day?). What did we do today? We took our new 10mm fish-eye lens and hit the track for a photo s...

West Coast Large Scale Nationals at Glen Helen!

Like’em real big and juicy? The 1/5 scale race scene has been growing every year and the 2012 West Coast Large Scale Nationals (We’ll ignore the oxymoron of being West Coast and National) is set to go down on Novemb...

Tamiya KongHead Review – VRC Magazine – Video Review

If you are a fan of the Human Centipede movie, you’ll love the new Tamiya KingHead 6×6 truck. 3 transmissions lined up and delivering and taking power. The full review of Tamiya KingHead 6×6 is featured in VRC_...

AKA EVO Truggy Tires – MT beads are gone

Monster Trucks have been around in RC since the early days. Midnight Pumpkin, Big Brute, and Clod Buster all defined what monster truck tires were – which eventually poured over into Truggy tire design. The T-Maxx made ra...