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Thorsteenster
09-03-2010, 09:15 AM
After seeing the level of custom builds on here, and me starting with just a cab, I got to wondering what others started with. Post up with what your first truck was, stock or modded, etc.
Also, feel free to post up your start in RC period, how long you've been RC'ing, your first RC, not necessarily just the truck aspect.

rc_farmer
09-03-2010, 09:45 AM
My first truck was my scratch built terragator.

Thorsteenster
09-03-2010, 10:17 AM
Did you have prior experience in RC and/or scratch building RC's before the terragator?

firefighter30
09-03-2010, 11:01 AM
My first truck was a king hauler with a flatbed trailer that i got on ebay.

Claus
09-03-2010, 11:31 AM
Marui Big Bear, sometime in the 1980's.

Mustang
09-03-2010, 11:34 AM
First semi was a Tamiya Knight Hauler with MFU.

First R/C truck was a Tamiya Bruiser back in the day. Boy I wish I still had it!

Rogue
09-03-2010, 12:33 PM
The truck that started it all for me about 6 years ago. I bought this for $289 off the 'Bay, and was 100% turn-key with radio, batt, and charger.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i178/King-Rick/Orig.jpg

tc1cat
09-03-2010, 12:59 PM
1st semi is my military King Hauler.
1st R/C vehicle was a Tamiya Fast Attack Vehicle.
1st R/C truck was a Tamiya Bruiser and like Mustang, I wish I still had it.

Texasperry
09-03-2010, 01:07 PM
My first RC "Big Rig" was a Wedico Freightliner COE and container trailer.
I purchased it from a dealer in Jolly ole England.
I assembled it but had no way to charge the battery. Hobby shops just laughed at me when I took the battery pack and asked for help. So it sat on a shelf until my first move. Then it got packed up and stayed that way for about 15 years. One day about 6 years ago while rearranging my basement. I came across the box. I decided to google Wedico and I found PMD.
My first RC truck was Tamiya Hilux. I still have an 80's Tamiya Ford Ranger with 2 bodies and a Wild Willy. I tried RC helecopters back in the 80's as well. Decided keeping things on the ground was cheaper that letting them find the ground at high rate of speed.
Perry

CatdrvR
09-03-2010, 01:24 PM
My first truck and in progress truck is a Tamiya King Hauler. I am more in the construction side of things so never really pursued a truck really. I am currently in the process of money hoarding for a $7500 dollar Cat excavator. Should have it by end of next summer. Pretty pumped about it. Anyways, I really like the Tamiya trucks because they have such huge potential for anything. The things some of these guys come up with are just outstanding.

Dan

SonoranWraith
09-03-2010, 01:38 PM
My first RC's were Tamiya Fox and RC10 back in the 80's. Then I did nitro and electric on road Associated and HPI. Never kept any of them was always selling to get a new one. I was a military kid so I loved building static aircraft models and I had so many planes my ceiling was covered. Mom tossed them all when I was in college and I haven't built one since. RC combined with scaleness was appealing so I bought a Globe to make a k100 for my first big rig.

Espeefan
09-03-2010, 01:48 PM
I got my first hobby grade model in '2000. It was a second hand E-Maxx, which I ran a few times and then quickly sold. I found out I really liked the rock crawlers, which were still in their infancy back then. I bought a new Tamiya TXT-1 and built it up, with plenty of modifications. I can't build anything stock. Then the truck morphed into a Clod axled TXT-1, and then was disassembled. I still have everything I need to put it back together the way it was. One day I will. To remind of where it all started. I've had plenty of go fast trucks through the years and lots of scale/crawler 4x4s, but I got into the big rigs about 2004, I think. With a King Hauler. I chopped it up as soon as I opened the box. Made a day cab out of it, shaved the headlights, ect. I later bought a new Aeromax and a second hand Aeromax from Paul. But shortly after, the Wedico bug got me and I sold all my Tamiya rigs, never having actually driven one. I like to build'em more then run them, but to this day I have not driven any semis yet. My Wedico is going to be my first! If I ever finish it. The more I see these trucks - Tamiya's and Wedicos - the more I feel like selling most of my other RC models off and getting just into this end of the hobby. I would also like some heavy equipment someday too, but probably not until the Wedico Pete is finished. I also have another Wedico Pete sitting in the boxes yet. That one will be easy to build, once I figure out everything I want to do with my current one! All the little things that annoy me about the Wedicos, I will have the solutions for. :D

Stylin n profilin
09-03-2010, 02:58 PM
My First truck was a king hauler...
http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac33/Stylinpete/0916090756.jpg

CustomRCmodels
09-03-2010, 03:59 PM
My first truck was a Tamiya MB 1838LS with flatbed trailer which I purchased used and converted over to a race-truck :

http://customrcmodels.com/a0880e00.jpg

( I believe it was in 1999 , since that photo is from 2000 )

That truck was later converted to a 6x4 ,

http://customrcmodels.com/e5280a00.jpg

http://customrcmodels.com/e5380e00.jpg

and then followed by a few Globeliners and King Haulers .

http://customrcmodels.com/6915b770.jpg

http://www.customrcmodels.com/Photos/134203e0.jpg


Did get right away a few Wedico trailers ,

http://www.customrcmodels.com/Photos/14220140.jpg

http://www.customrcmodels.com/Photos/14820590.jpg

but my first Wedico truck didn’t get in to my truck-collection till last year .

My first R/C car was a Tamiya Blackfoot in 1985
Follow right away by a Clod Buster ,
And then I was hooked on the Tamiya’s
And during a business trip to Japan , I went in to a wild shopping-spree ,
since you could still find the already discontinued ( these days collector cars ) ,
and I came back home with my first Tamiya Bruiser , Wild Willy and others .
After discovering ebay , I went crazy again and within a few years I had my collecting of the first 100 Tamiya R/C cars and kits started .
To get in to a list of R/C cars I have these days would be way to long ,
But my collecting starts with kit # 1 , the 1/12 scale Tamiya Porsche ( R/C version )

http://www.customrcmodels.com/0590bc80.jpg

Besides the R/C cars I did also build and collect all the Tamiya R/C and non R/C tanks in 1/16 scale

Non R/C model-building goes back till my school age , started late 60’s …

Early / mid 70’s I started building R/C model-ships with my dad .
Since the mid 80’s I am now hooked on the R/C cars and G-scale trains
and since the 90’s on the R/C trucks and R/C flying as well.

ihbuilder
09-03-2010, 04:30 PM
first rc was a new bright CXT when they came out got at sam's but that took a tumble for the worst :( the body was very brittle . My first semi was scratch built , my first real rc
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz230/ihbuilder/IH1.jpg

when I moved in to my house I've been collecting o scale reading rr trains ( kinda slowed right now ) and various scale /brand trucks and equipment mack /international

fhhhstix
09-03-2010, 07:31 PM
Here is my first truck but not my first R/C.

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss185/brokenb4/Matalic%20Knight/100_0038.jpg

My first R/C I got in 1981 and it was a Semi a Hot Wheels car hauler so I guess you could say I have been a mini trucker for 29 years. Here are some pics and I even still have the box. My parents bought it for me after a lot of begging and the fact that it was put on sale for more than half off for a Christmas present and this was considered my main gift and I loved it that is why I still have it... This was a big deal to me as we did not have much money when I was growing up so now you can see why I have so many now I can afford it and I am making up for lost time. Any way here are the pics

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss185/brokenb4/100_0156.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss185/brokenb4/100_0159.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss185/brokenb4/100_0157.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss185/brokenb4/100_0160.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss185/brokenb4/100_0161.jpg


Travis

A32Limited
09-03-2010, 10:39 PM
My first truck was a Nikko Hummer, probably 1/16th scale.

My first full on RC car was a Stampede

And my first true truck, was Big Bird, my Globeliner, so I'm going to vote box stock Tamiya.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/1986RangerBoy/RC/IMG_3548.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b87/1986RangerBoy/RC/IMG_3648.jpg

Thorsteenster
09-03-2010, 10:57 PM
Okay, guess I might as well reply in my own thread lol.
I started back in 85'ish with a Tamiya Hornet, then a Blackfoot, and then a Super Champ. I did a little racing at the LHS, and then got a Tamiya Hilux and Kyosho Big Bear or something. I was on a long hiatus until about 6 years ago when I had a little extra time and money so I started Googling around on RC trucks and came across crawlers and scalers. I built a TLT based crawler and have been on scalers since. I forget when I saw the King Hauler for the first time, but ever since I've had it in mind to buy one one of these days and build the Pork Chop Express from Big Trouble in Little China. Currently my RC interest is varied, I have a micro heli, several scalers, starting a super class crawler and several boats in the pipeline, as well working on a Volvo build so I fit in on this forum.
:D

Lil Giants
09-04-2010, 12:23 AM
I started out with this tractor with flatbed trl in '96

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/TamiyatruckLeimloader.jpg

And later turned it into this in '99

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/protrker/trk_pup_hoe_garden.jpg

It was about '99 when I cemented my friendship with Lorenz and he got me some nifty parts from Germany to slow my trk down! The wdc hyds I got from the 1st wdc dealer for NA, Tom Vandenburg from West Virgina. Got the Stahl loader from him too in '97, that loader ran around like a race car, poor lift height... hated that thing & I just about didn't buy another rc construction model from that experience... major regret paying so much for a model that ran so poorly.

I had no prior rc experince before the king hauler.

Thorsteenster
09-04-2010, 07:46 AM
@ fhhhstix, I was 9 in 81 and have no recollection of that rig, I did have a couple Hot Wheels Steering Rigs though that got a lot of road time!
Thanks for posting, I haven't thought about those Steering Rigs in years, also remember Kay Bee Toys.

CorbettTrailers
09-04-2010, 08:47 AM
I was 6 Years Old in 81. And cruising around on my sister's mini-bike. Our family was into motorcycles then and around 84 my Dad bought us a 3 wheeler. Then from there can't count how many we've owned. Then for the winter months we had snowmobiles, Good old John Deere was one of them. But I was 13 I got my first Black Foot and I raced that at the local indoor track. My first R/C Semi Truck Truck that I've always wanted I was able to get just this year. Then a few Stock Tamiya trailers that I had to extend. Worst part is we had an old desk top computer that had all our pics on it

Snowman
09-04-2010, 11:38 AM
My first truck is the one I'm still building! Modified tamiya. Will post details of the build just as soon as I have some stuff to show.

Juganought
09-04-2010, 12:39 PM
I started out with helicopters for me and my son, but that was way too expensive( after several crashes). While playing around on the tube I saw a truck and became instantly hooked. A bit of searching, I found a set of used rails on the bay, the hole's still dont line up. I have learnt the hard way, and will never buy used stuff, unless I know the person I'm dealing with. I now have R470 Scania finished minus the cab( still to be painted). This is my second year in the hobby, and I'm loving it. I have yet to post pictures, but I'll wait till the fleet is done.....

aussierolla
09-05-2010, 05:50 AM
my first truck was stock for a whole 2 seconds then started to mod it:D also the same with my trailers

grumpygrady
09-05-2010, 09:51 AM
my first truck was a radio shack 4x4 the yellow one bought in the middle 80's, that same year we bought two tamiya boomerangs for the son and myself
still have both of those on the shelf and my first semi truck was a king hauler in the 90's that i painted up so so pretty lol and someone had to have it so i sold it and bought another one and another till i just noticed that i have none for me at this time lol
so i am going to go order a globeliner if i can and a trailer and not sell this one

rcguyfarms
09-05-2010, 10:20 AM
My first wedico started out as a project for my farm toy collection in late 2002. I found out it could become rc and the combination of my two hobbies began. Prior to that I started out with cheap grade rc's since I was 7. Then when I was 15 I moved to hobby grade fast rcs. At the first indy show I met rcfarmer and learned about the idea of rc farm equipment from him. My first tractor was ertl made rc tractor I gutted to run smoother and with better control.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b73/rcguy_18/DSC00001.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b73/rcguy_18/P8240007.jpg

GlobelinerBrad
09-05-2010, 10:52 AM
Well I've been into RC's since about 1988 I think. First hobby grade kit was a Tamiya Monster Beetle. Moved into some stadium trucks and raced a little and found out I didnt really have the coordination so just helped fund my younger brother as he had way better driving skills. Then got out of hobby for several years. Got back into it after I got married and have probably owned about a 100 rc's in one for or another. Last fall sold them all to start new hobby of John Deere lawn and garden tractors. Just recently got a Globeliner I built for a buddy.

My 1st rig was a Tamiya Aeromax that I got off Ebay. Started building a Knight Hauler for my buddy Jeff shortly after that and when he got the MFU I knew I had to have one. So I found a cheap Knight Hauler kit on Ebay and sold the Aeromax to pay for the MFU for the new Knight Hauler. Had the Knight for several years. Then I acquired a King Hauler and Globeliner. I've built/rebuilt 4 or 5 rigs for Jeff I think and a couple trailers as well.

Cossett
09-05-2010, 10:57 AM
Hi Thorsteenster,

My every first encounter with rc's was Lego back in the day -20 years ago I was into Tecnic's and always building trucks or construction equipment so every now and then I would see how many motors I could get into one vehicle :D:D now that showing my age:p:p

Cheers Cossett

fhhhstix
09-05-2010, 01:12 PM
@ fhhhstix, I was 9 in 81 and have no recollection of that rig, I did have a couple Hot Wheels Steering Rigs though that got a lot of road time!
Thanks for posting, I haven't thought about those Steering Rigs in years, also remember Kay Bee Toys.

If you talking about the truck and trailer that had a steering wheel on the top of the trailer I still have some of those.:D

ranger blue
09-11-2010, 07:11 PM
My first truck was a king hauler with a flatbed trailer


http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo85/ranger-blue/56301%20Tamiya%20King%20Hauler/DSCF0740.jpg