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As an older RC enthusiast, I can’t help but look back and reminisce about the childhood memories of when it all started for me. When I really think back at how it started, I was reading my dad’s Model Airplane News magazines and stumbled on the Tamiya ads showing their RC cars. Before RC, I […]

Traxxas makes a wide range of upgrade parts for the Slash 4×4 short course truck, and one that caught our eye in particular is their Low-CG Conversion Kit, made especially for the Slash 4×4. Lowering the center of gravity of a vehicle can make a huge improvement for stability, handling, and overall weight distribution, which […]

The El Camino is a muscle car legend. Decades before the term was coined, it championed the concept of the crossover vehicle. Launched originally in 1959 as a response to Ford’s similar Ranchero, the El Camino was essentially a two-door station wagon (think Chevy Nomad) with the roof chopped off behind the front seats, forming […]

It can be said that Axial singlehandedly launched and guided the scale RC crawler movement to the phenomenon that it is today. Sure, RC crawling existed before Axial’s momentous push, but at the time, no other major manufacturer paid much attention to the fledgling movement. By releasing the first bonafide dyed in the wool scale […]

What do you get when you mix extreme sports star Travis Pastrana, Traxxas and P1 Panther SuperStock boats together? You get an all out extreme sports extravaganza called Travis Pastrana’s P1 Offshore Invitational Powered By Traxxas. Legendary freestyle motocross innovator, X-Games champion, and Nitro Circus founder Travis Pastrana has a new passion – high-power offshore […]

My first Midnight Pumpkin was one of Tamiya’s QD (Quick Drive) versions of the retro monster truck, which was the company’s attempt at making a ready to run, toy-grade RC back in 1990. Even though it was more toy than serious RC, it still was a Tamiya product so overall design and build quality – […]