Scottish Elises

How many of you remember these from the eighties? Just bought one for my dads christmas cause there back in production. Wish I had someone like me to buy me gifts To Make it worse Im stuck in northern Norway and charlenes wrapped it so cant even look at it before christmas

ooh I wanted them as a kid and never got one

must stay strong and get real toy car fixed

How cool is that!!! I had one with an rs540 technigold motor, sanyo matched cell battery pack and bfo spikey tyres!

I remember building it on my 14th birthday on the kitchen worktop all day, reading the manual as to how to drive it, how to take racing lines and had an hour of fun until I drove it into the garden pond lol!

It dried out

£130 quid and you get the complete kit, try and tell me your not tempted
Admitedly only over night charger and 1hr batt but good for a start!

Ooh, believe me I'm tepted... Is that including the radio gear and servos too?

Fast chargers are cheap, but trash your expensive battery - having said that, I'd be quite happy to build one though, powered of a 12v source rather than the mains.... For race meetings

Yeah evrything you need, also the fast chargers have 12v fag socket, like you say be good fun at meets

This thread is pointless without links on where to buy one

Still have several RC cars in the attic.. Might bring one along to a meat if I can get it working again....

Was lucky enough to build a Sand Scorcher waaaay back in 1980. It was discarded many moons ago

But I have a Hotshot from ~20yrs years back... dusted it down and ran it a bit a couple years ago. Took out the front drive shafts to improve it's handling. Great fun


/geeky kit building and r/c fanatic childhood faction

Was the Tamiya Hornet for me.



recently, reluctantly gave to a friend's son. Excellent fun.

Still got a 1:5 scale DTM Merc C class in the shed downstairs. 23cc strimmer engine - bloody hilarious; only problem is finding a bit of tarmac big enough for it!

My Kyosho Ultima happily scalped those things

My first car was a Lancia 037 which was basically a Tamiya Frog.

It got me into it big time!!............. and I raced all over the UK in 10th scale electric off road 2wd and 4wd as a fully sponsored "driver" and gave up as it started to look like European level.

The costs just to travel were making karting in Scotland look cheap so go into racing TKM for a couple of years before real cars, birds, and booze took over and I gave up.

Andy, I will raise your rear engined 2wd Ultima to a mid engined Optima Mid, 4wd, Schumacher Pro-Cat , then a Yokomo Works 93 Dogfighter followed by a carbon tubbed, inboard mounted suspension Tenth Technology Predator.

Sorry for the epic geekyness, but hey -ho.

Back to the main point though, those retro cars are cool!

dlogan wrote:My first car was a Lancia 037 which was basically a Tamiya Frog.

It got me into it big time!!............. and I raced all over the UK in 10th scale electric off road 2wd and 4wd as a fully sponsored "driver" and gave up as it started to look like European level.

The costs just to travel were making karting in Scotland look cheap so go into racing TKM for a couple of years before real cars, birds, and booze took over and I gave up.

Andy, I will raise your rear engined 2wd Ultima to a mid engined Optima Mid, 4wd, Schumacher Pro-Cat , then a Yokomo Works 93 Dogfighter followed by a carbon tubbed, inboard mounted suspension Tenth Technology Predator.

Sorry for the epic geekyness, but hey -ho.

Back to the main point though, those retro cars are cool!

You're more of a saddo than I realised...

caligarinet wrote:Was the Tamiya Hornet for me.



recently, reluctantly gave to a friend's son. Excellent fun.

I had the bigfoot monstertruck and put one of my mates model RC helicopter electric motors in it for a try
Think the battery lasted about 5 mins, but it was rapid