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RC car Museum

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I've been helping a friend of mine shift into his new RC centre. We have been painting and cleaning the new building most nights and weekends for the last 2 months often until 3.00am ... This builing is huge..4 floors of 3000 square foot a floor..anyway part of the shop will be an RC museum and will house the collection of some 400 rc cars including the first 100 Tamiya cars, most Kyosho cars and a few other random cars..don't worry my RC10's are going to be on display there along with the rest of my collection...we are encouraging other collectors to display their rare cars here as well...I've also picked up a few cars from my friend that he's no longer interested in..check the BST section :wink:

Now this part will blow you away he purchased the building for $NZ75,000 or in your money $US54,500.00..the down side is that the land is lease hold but he has a lease for 50 years with the land owners at $750 a year. It is in an older part of town but most of the surrounding buildings have apartments in them and a large hotel is being built on the next street over.

It looks like we are going to use one complete floor for RC racing including a offroad course so we can hire Slashes to local kids to get them into the hobby..there will also be an onroad carpet track. The shop area itself will also include an area where restorations and repairs are undertaken. We are going to build a shelf version of each car, then part out the thousands of parts we have on ebay. That's where I come into it I will be running the shop and loading the parts onto ebay as well as serving customers and ordering stock...this will be by far the biggest RC centre in New Zealand. It is in an ideal position beside the cutural museums and close to the port where the cruise ships berth.

Anyway I've included a couple of pictures of the vintage stuff stacked up (there are 3 rooms like this) and of the shop itself.
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You just have to keep showing me my old lime green TAmiya VW Golf, don't you? :oops: :oops: :oops:

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Incredible_Serious wrote:You just have to keep showing me my old lime green TAmiya VW Golf, don't you? :oops: :oops: :oops:

Alex
At least it's not buried under a whole lot of other cars.. :oops:

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That looks like a huge job but what an amazing opportunity! Good luck with your efforts! How are you advertizing the place?
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Pete,
That looks like an awesome project and will be a great hangout when you guys get it done. Please keep us posted on the progress! Yet another great reason to plan a trip to New Zealand :D

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railey72 wrote:Pete,
That looks like an awesome project and will be a great hangout when you guys get it done. Please keep us posted on the progress! Yet another great reason to plan a trip to New Zealand :D
Thanks guys we already have the support of the local RC clubs who are really excited about the prospect of indoor racing (gets cold here in the winter) yes it is a huge job but I think it will be pretty impressive when it's finished. We had a talk yesterday about whether or not I'd be able to commit the time needed between my real job and working in the shop...we've decided to employ someone to be in the shop full time..trouble is that person will need to be very clued up on rc cars both nitro and electric..then there are the planes and choppers..all of which we will need to be able to repair or at the very least give them good advise..so finding the right person will be very difficult..maybe I should post a positions vacant add on here..

And you are all welcome to visit or even lend Rc cars to the only RC museum in the Southern Hemisphere...

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I move there just to do it if you give me a job! :P :mrgreen:
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mrlexan wrote:I move there just to do it if you give me a job! :P :mrgreen:
You are hired..when can you start... :wink:

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