RC car museum exhibition – Norway. New go from page 4!

Post by **DennisM** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:23 pm

This is awesome stuff.

På hat med Team Tarmslyng

Post by **LurkingCAT** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:16 pm

drbelleville wrote:Man that is so awesome, and as stated before welcome aboard. Thanks for the writeup and pictures.

Thank you! After working on this project for over a year, I wanted to make the presentation (especially) on this forum more than just a couple of lines and a picture.

Post by **LurkingCAT** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:28 pm

DerbyDan wrote:Wow!! What a fantastic display - really nicely laid out & some real 'gems' in amongst those cars - in fact i'm sure we'd be happy to have any one of those cars within our own collections.

My personal favourite has got to be the set-up with the wooden race box & Mirage racers - kinda reminds me of the box I made with my dad, which weighed as much as the racing kit inside it!

I used my Beatties bag up until quite recently - funny to see one in a museum!

Yeah, strange how qualities of things change when objects of common use goes on display. Also VERY fond of the Mirage racers - alot to say about Swedish 1:12 cars but it will have to be later. Thank you!

Post by **LurkingCAT** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:38 pm

DennisM wrote:This is awesome stuff.

På hat med Team Tarmslyng

Nice to hear from a Nordic neighbour! Just for you other guys; Danish is very close to Norwegian and Team Tarmslyng would equal Team Volvulus (messed up bowels). Those team names…

Post by **Mr. ED** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:16 pm

Now who gave this dude the key to my basement?!
oh no, that was my dream, this stuff's real . Too cool Mr. Norway.

Post by **LurkingCAT** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:53 am

Now who gave this dude the key to my basement?!
oh no, that was my dream, this stuff's real . Too cool Mr. Norway.[/quote]

Thank you! And get your treasures upstairs!

Post by **Lonestar** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:28 am

Very nice... congrats for dedicating the time to organize all this! I'd love to visit if I were in the area... I'm not

Keep it up!

Paul

Post by **Mad Racer** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:50 am

Simple AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great display of all different makes & models. Love seeing the Tamiya Fox & modified Fox. Then the "Killer" . A rare buggy I feel. . What a great display.

Keep the cool pic's coming.

Cheers

Post by **tiger1** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:29 pm

now I wanna visit Norway

Post by **THEYTOOKMYTHUMB** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:01 pm

My mind has been officially BLOWN! I'm in overload mode right now!

I'm going to have to take a short walk and come back in a bit. Seriously.

Post by **vegasjetta** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:20 pm

Awesome collection. I am glad I can say that I have owned a few of what you display there. Is there room for more in there?

Post by **LurkingCAT** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:49 am

Thanks to all for nice comments - I'm blushing

Post by **LurkingCAT** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:19 am

Mad Racer wrote:Simple AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great display of all different makes & models. Love seeing the Tamiya Fox & modified Fox. Then the "Killer" . A rare buggy I feel. . What a great display.

Keep the cool pic's coming.

Cheers

Nice you noticed this trio, and it’s sort of a personal signature. The Fox was my first car with tolerable handling capabilities. Even though I ruled the street with this car, I soon got a full Hot Trick conversion with RC10 shocks and Thorp drive line (and as you all probably know not exactly a quantum leap in performance). Actually I was the only one known to have this version of the Fox in Norway at that time. Custom fees and trades profit made Hot Trick awfully expensive here… Since it was a one of a kind, my car got the nick name Pensel Fox, as I was called Pensel (Pensel would be brush in English – and I think I was called brush due to my home grown big wig of curly hair…). The Killer is practically a copy of the Fox sold by Maplin in the UK. In it’s own way this trio is telling both some local history and important general characteristics of the rc car game in the eighties.