So what was everyone's first truck?

[Espeefan]

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.

[Stylin n profilin]

My First truck was a king hauler...

[CustomRCmodels]

My first truck was a Tamiya MB 1838LS with flatbed trailer which I purchased used and converted over to a race-truck :



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

That truck was later converted to a 6x4 ,





and then followed by a few Globeliners and King Haulers .






Did get right away a few Wedico trailers ,





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 )



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]

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


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