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JConcepts Ellipse 1/8 Buggy Tire

From JConcepts: The Ellipse, named after the center bar built into the tread, is a compliment to successful tires such as the Dirt Webs and Bar Codes. The “Web” style tire was built to compete on smooth high-grip indoor and outdoor surfaces which require a finely detailed connected bar pattern. The center section of the […]

This Is the Most-Viewed RC Car Video On YouTube [VIDEO]

If you do a search for “RC Car” on YouTube, and sort the results by views, the video below comes out on top as the most watched with 119 MILLION views. And it’s only been up for a year! Second highest view count? That would this Dude Perfect/Traxxas collab with 67M views, which has had […]

Clod Buster Clone Built Out Of LEGOs [VIDEO]

LEGOs are a blast to play with. You can pretty much make anything your mind can come up with. You can also replicate things like RC cars. One of the coolest builds we’ve come across is this Tamiya Clod Buster clone built mostly out of LEGOs and it’s awesome. Take a look at the video […]

Dynamite RC 7.4V 3200mAh Li-Ion Receiver Pack

From Dynamite RC: Specs: Application: Receiver pack Battery Balance Connector: JST-XH Battery Type: Li-Ion Battery Voltage: 7.4V Capacity: 3200 mAh Cell Configuration: 2S1P Connector Type: JST-XH Hard Case: No Height: 0.77 in (19.5mm) Length: 2.76 in (70mm) Number of Cells: 2 Watt Hours: 23.68 watt hours Width: 1.5 in (38mm) #DYNB0510 – $$29.99 Visit DynamiteRC.com […]

Old-School Monster Mopar Replica [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Scott Lempert is a machine when it comes to custom scale builds. He sends in so many awesome projects we could practically give him a tenured position in Reader’s Rides! Just in time for Halloween, his latest build is a retro-themed monster truck patterned […]

Tailpipe January 2019 – “Spot the ‘Shop'”

Here’s all the changes we made to the Tailpipe photo: 1. Longer sideburns 2. Car Action logo on van 3. Truck behind arm has vanished 4. Grew a mustache 5. Added a wristwatch 6. Tube of grease is now a tube of Pringles 7. Hat cord disappeared 8. Added a skull ring 9. Pliers added […]

TESTED: TLR 22T 4.0

When it comes to racing, the top class to run is 2WD electric buggy; it is the F1 of the electric world and, therefore, the class that everyone gravitates to. Since race days are so long, there’s always room for a second premier class, and since the late ’80s, that has been stadium truck. The […]

HPI Savage XS FLUX El Camino SS

From HPI Racing: The El Camino is one of the most iconic cars of all time. With its muscle car front end and and pick-up truck rear, it looks perfectly at home on the Savage XS. Finished off with matching red colored springs for that extra flair to really make this truck stand out from […]

Is This The Most-Modded Truck of All Time? [VIDEO]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Meet Superman. This unlimited class nitro puller is built by Zeek Heard of No Limit RC and (loosely!) based on HPI Savage parts. It sits on a 3/16-inch thick laser-cut aircraft aluminum chassis stretched to 48 inches long, and it weighs 33 pounds (40 […]

TF2 Toyota Trifecta — Three Amazing Reader Builds using RC4WD’s Scaler

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Everyone knows RC4WD as the purveyor of fine scale tune-up and dress-up items for our favorite trail rigs. In fact, probably 8 out of 10 Reader’s Ride submissions we get in the scale crawler genre feature at least one part from the RC4WD catalogue. […]

Tamiya CC-01 Baja VeeDub with V-8 Muscle – RC Project

When it comes to Baja Bugs, you either think they’re awesome or you’re wrong. I’m definitely not in the “wrong” group, and was happy when the opportunity came to finally build a Baja Bug of my own that wasn’t just a short-course truck dressed up in a Beetle body. The easiest way to get down […]

Ironman Tribute Truck [READER’S RIDE]

Builder Bill Isnor tells us he’s been into RC for about four years, and for his Ivan “Ironman” Stewart tribute Toyota, he chose a Brazin Scale RC 10.2 chassis with a raw-steel finish sitting on a set of Vanquish Currie F9 axles. He chose a Tekin ROC412 3100Kv motor and a Castle Mamba Max Pro […]