rc cars

just wondering if someone else races rc cars buggys of trucks

It's been a while but I used to race 1/8th scale buggies for Mugen. Been almost 10 years though but had a blast when I did it. Even travelled a bit with the mugen team to races in south Carolina and vegas.

I couldn't imagine paying for rc cars and golf haha. Both are extremely expensive hobbies


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Expensive!! You're not kidding. I ran 1/10th scale mod. oval, 4 cell oval, and 1/4 scale gas oval for about 5yrs back in the late 90's, and I can tell you for a fact, that it is much cheaper to run a regular car at the local track each week than RC's. I ran a sportsman car on half of the budget I had for running rc's. I did travel a bit with the rc racing, but cost was rediculous.
As with ay other racing you just have to keep spending to keep up, and just spend a little more to go a little faster. Golf is by far much cheaper.
All that said, it was a blast. The guys I traveled with were some of the greatest people you could ever meet. You always had a good time at the races as well when you went out to party a little afterwards.
Like anything, It's ok in moderation!!

Have fun and Live Life!!

Totally agree....my brother in law has five buggies and truggies, since he has owned and raced them for roughly the same amount of money we raced a front wheel drive car and a top level go kart.

My golf fees are 250 dollars a year and i mainly used grade a recycled balls

Yup, I've had RC cars since I was 12. Ya, that was 1983. I had the Grasshopper then Frog and then a Hotshot, which I still have and I also had one of the first gold tub AE 1/10 scale buggies. I always had one, but started racing 10 years ago. I finally quit 4 years ago because it was getting to expensive to compete every weekend and keep up with all my hobbies.
I still have two Revo to's bash around, an AE 1/10 GT2 (when they still raced 1/10scale) and a Crawler. But the money sunk into these damn things is amazing!!
Golf is cheaper!!

Just out of curiosity I checked the price of a new AE RC10 chassis, ouch they were $359.00 on sale.
I will just keep playing golf. Those were good times though.

WOW!!!! The Grasshopper and The Frog.... those were my brother and myselfs first cars.....we thought were something with those... after those we went to the gold tub RC10 and then the Losi JrX2 for a while then we got into carpet cars...I still have a couple nitro buggys around here and a Losi XXtcr

I have a couple of RC10s that are at least 20 years old.

I run on road cars in the winter (12th scale and World GT). I used to run buggy and truggy in the summer but it got too expensive. It is far less to run on road pan cars and they are silly fast.

Me too, used to run offroad electric and gas, then got into electric sedans/pan cars. Next ran nitro 1/10 sedans and 1/8th scale. Managed to place in the top 40 at the Nats in sedan and top 20 at the Nats in 1/8th scale 6 or 7 years ago. Had sponsors, etc., but got married and had some children, so just didn't have the time to put into it any more. Golf is time consuming as well, but not nearly as bad as RC Racing was, especially when you have sponsors and need to keep up with the competition. I have to say sometimes, golf may be even more challenging! Currently trying to get rid of all my old cars (memories....), of course to use the funds for more golf crap! LOL!

I use to have several, but transitioned over to RC Planes. I started with a RC10 and a Kyosho (I think) in Camp Casey, Korea in 1994. I did recently see a Traxxis Slash 4X4 that I would really love to get. Have any experience with that one?

YOU AIN'T KIDDIN', r.c. stuff has gotten out of control! A bunch of us who race full size cars in the summer used to run the Dirt Runners indoor series in north Jersey in the winter.

Some of the guys, like my son went for a bunch of classes, some were sick fast. They ran one class ( modified turing 4 wheel drive ) 2 rules- had to have a 1/10 scale turing car body and a 6 cell limit. He started out with a Losi XXX-S , an 8 turn motor, 6 sets of batteries with a.h. numbers 3000 points higher than most people knew existed ( and cell matched to 3 decimal places ). We ran on a flat carpet oval about 2/3 the size of a basket ball 1/2 court and twice he ran 100+ laps in a 4 minute race! The club stopped running the class for safety reasons and because the guys running in the class were tired of dropping 4 tires, a set of motor brushes, ball diff with rings and a spur gear in the trash every time the car was run. Not to mention cutting the commutator after each run (3 cuts and the armature is junk). After 6 charging cycles the batteries began to " fall off " so he sold them and built new. I on the other hand, stayed with 2 " spec " classes until the club made both classes "brushless" Now I have to buy brushless motors, they need a brushless type speed control. The new batteries I need to make all this new stuff fast can't be charged on my chargers. SCREW THIS - I think I'm going to work on my I.M.C.A. modified this winter! WAIT A MINUTE! I just remembered, I have a box of chain saw engines I got at an auction. I have a 2 acre back yard! I can weld up a bunch of 1/3 scale modifieds and sprint cars! Invite the guys over! My wife will kill me.