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How To Glue Tires Like A Pro
Before your car or truck’s tires stand any chance of holding the road, track, or trail, they must first have...
EXCLUSIVE- Pro-Line Pro-2 Kit [Video]
Pro-Line Racing recently debuted the first kit in the companies famed 30 years in business. So when we got our...
A-Main offers free IFMAR Worlds posters to RC Car Action readers
Do you want this IFMAR Worlds poster for your bedroom, workshop, office (or living room, if you can convince the...
PIT TIP: Stash Spare Clips With Your TX
Bend a piece of scrap lexan or plastic packaging to shape as shown, and attach it to the back of...
ZAP hopes to change the way you glue tires
Tire glues have traditionally been “thin” cyanoacrylates (CAs) that rely on their water-like consistency to wick between tire and rim...
Hobby People announces Activator-EZ “one touch” LiPo/NiMH charger
There are lots of easy-to-use charger options available, but they’re usually for NiMH OR LiPo packs–not both. Hobby People’s new...
Reader’s Ride: Judd Stauber’s Traxxas Stampede
More like “Rally Stampede!’ This highly-modified machine is totally unique and looks ready to get wild in the woods. Wondering...
Video: The Best Backyard RC Track In Australia
This video features one of the most amazing backyard tracks we’ve ever seen, from the covered pits complete with lounge...
Hank Mefford wins! Are you next?
Hank won our random drawing for a Pro-Line hat–make that two hats, it just wouldn’t be right not to send...
Busted! Vaterra takes the law into its hands with “Swift Justice” Camaro
Now that’s a cop car. Vaterra’s Swift Justice 2012 CHP Camaro LZ1 is built on the excellent V100 platform, which...
Flashback Friday: World’s Wildest T-Maxxes – November 2000
When the Traxxas T-Maxx debuted in 2000, it was the beginning of a huge boom for monster trucks and nitro...
Tech Tip – How To Set Gear Mesh [VIDEO]
Ever been out at the park or up on the drivers stand and realize your gear mesh is set wrong?...
Reader’s Ride: Jammy Weaver’s Axial SCX-10 Trail Honcho
The Axial SCX-10 is the go-to machine for scale 4X4 fun, and Jammy’s Honcho is definitely lookin’ real in this...
Pro-Line to release Pro-2, first-ever complete truck kit
Pro-Line has grown to become one of RC’s most prominent accessorey manufacturers with products for nearly every popular RC make...
Latest Pro-Line gear: EVO SC & Bulldog Gen 3 bodies, Rock Rage & Blockade SC tires, more…
Pro-Line has a whole gang of new releases hitting stores, including the EVO SC short-course body, Bulldog Gen 3 body...
2013 RC Car Action: Readers’ Choice Awards – Winners
Like Ron Burgundy, we editors and authors of Radio Control Car Action like to think we’re “kind of a big...
MIP Precision for Power Drivers
If you’ve invested in a powered driver to speed up your RC assembly and maintenance sessions, good news: the top-quality,...
Tekno RC Announces EB48.2
No one saw it coming when Tekno RC, then best-known for making electric conversions for most popular nitro vehicles, released...
Make-It Monday: Easy DIY Tool Stand
A few holes drilled in a piece of 2X4 are all you need to make a quick-and-dirty stand for your...
EASY CONTEST! Share Your Pics, Win A Pro-Line Hat!
Well, maybe you’ll win–we’ll pick a winner at random each Friday through the rest of August. To enter, all you...
RED HOT! Vaterra Glamis Fear Sand Rail
Vaterra’s beautiful Glamis Uno is now joined by another sand-slinging buggy, the Glamis Fear. Full details from Vaterra are below,...
Sneak Peek: New Tamiya Models Coming Soon – Zakspeed Turbo Capri, TRF Pro Chassis, More
Lots of interesting new stuff on the way from Tamiya, courtesy of the Coming Soon section at Tamiya.com. The M-chassis...
What Does It Take To Win? We Interview This Year’s National Champions
After four intense qualifying rounds the main events for the ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals pit the top ten qualifiers in...
Make-It Monday: Small-Parts Painting Stand
Small detail parts can be blown away by the force of a spray can, or may become stuck to the...
ROAR Off-Road Nats: Tebo, Maifield, Tessman and Phend Score Titles for Kyosho, Associated, Hot Bodies, and TLR
After all of the practice and qualifying rounds it looked as though the order for all four Modified classes were...
The Sights and Sounds of Saturday at the ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals!
With the overall starting grid yet to be decided heading into the final rounds of qualifying yesterday the on-track action...
The A-Main Grids Are Set at the ROAR National Championships!
The third round Saturday morning was wild, with big upsets coming in the three classes that were dominated on Friday...
Upsets galore in the third round! New faces at the top of the ROAR Nationals
Three of the four elite classes at this year’s ROAR Nationals were swept on Friday, with Dakotah Phend cleaning up...
Day One Interviews with the Fastest Racers at the ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals
Before everyone headed out for dinner and a good night’s sleep following Friday’s opening qualifying rounds we caught up with...
ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals – Second Round Results and Gallery
After getting the first round jitters out of the way all racers were in full battle mode for the second...
ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals – First Round Results
After two days of practice and yesterday’s final seeding round, the first qualifying heats kicked off on the sugared Silver...
EXCLUSIVE! Traxxas Telluride First-Drive Video!
The Traxxas Telluride is built for go-anywhere, do-anything fun and brings Traxxas’ proven Stampede 4X4 technology to an even...
ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals–Trackside Coverage All Weekend!
This weekend, the fastest electric off-road racers in North America will head to the Northern California town of Chico for...
TLR Announces 22 2.0, Associated goes mid-motor with Centro C4.2
Big shake-ups are on the way in 1/10 buggy racing as RC’s biggest rivals, Associated and Losi (make that Team...
Pro-Line: “Name This Tire!”
We don’t usually consider manufacturer promotions to be news-worthy, but this one seems like a lot of fun. Pro-Line has...
Novak announces multi-mode Crusher power system
“The Crusher was born out of the need to fill the gap of a single multi-functional speed control that could...
Available Now! Helicopter Aerobatics Made Easy DVD
This high-definition, one-hour DVD tells you everything you need to know to become a hotshot aerobatic pilot! World helicopter champion...
30-Second phone stand with RC flavor!
Do you have a spare shock tower, two screws, and about two inches of fuel tubing? Presto–instant phone stand. To...
Horizon Hobby picks up full-scale racing phenom Mitchell DeJong
Horizon Hobby has officially announced of their partnership with red-hot racer Mitchell DeJong (pronounced “de-young”). With TLR, Losi, Vaterra, and...
Kyosho stuns with wild-styled RageVE
“Oh yeah, I totally saw that coming,” is what exactly no one will be saying about the RageVE, the latest...
When Electronics Attack
I’m beyond spoiled to have a comfortable indoor track within a 30-minute drive from my house, and the local RC...
Cut, Trim, Sand, and Buff – Dremeling Basics
Choosing and using a rotary tool There was a time when I did not own a rotary tool. I had...
Hot Product: Pro-Line Big Joe II “Traxxas Bead” Tires…and more
Pro-Line’s Big Joe tread is a former Readers’ Choice Awards “Best Tire” winner, and the extra-gnarly design looks exceptionally tough–especially...
Test Bench: Speed Passion Reventon Stock Club Race ESC
Over the last couple of years stock racing has undergone many changes as today’s brushless motors and speed controls have...