Your biggest mistake

[MONSTER]

As far as my WALLET is concerned, discovering Vintage RC!!!!!

But as far as my ENJOYMENT, Im very glad I did.

[RER40]

Not that anything I could have done to stop it.....

........ but having our home burn to the ground and LOSING every last single thing we owned and not having nearly the coverage to cover the loss....

.... including all my old RCs I'd collected over the years....


still on my WANT (gotta have) LIST

my old original first and second generation JRX2 and JRXTs
and my old AE RC12i complete with CompositeCraft CF chassis

[Y'ernat Al]

........ but having our home burn to the ground and LOSING every last single thing we owned and not having nearly the coverage to cover the loss....

.... including all my old RCs I'd collected over the years....

Wow. Really sorry to read that You can build it back I'm sure. If there's a brighter side, it's working up an even more stellar collection.

As for me, I still have my first RC10 I got when I was 14. Currently in pieces, it shall live again. My regret isn't that I lost the actual car, I just managed to loose a few ounces of it in the form of aluminum drill shavings

[RER40]

Wow. Really sorry to read that You can build it back I'm sure. If there's a brighter side, it's working up an even more stellar collection.

As for me, I still have my first RC10 I got when I was 14. Currently in pieces, it shall live again. My regret isn't that I lost the actual car, I just managed to loose a few ounces of it in the form of aluminum drill shavings

Yeah, that's what I'd like to do for sure.
But with things being tight, it's going to take some doing to talk the wifey into it.

Nice cheese-job on your goldtub.

[vintage AE]

I am happy to say I still have my original RC10 gold pan and graphite from when I was a kid too. Although, I did try to sell them when I was in university for some extra money, probably for beer money, but no one wanted to by them at my LHS, thank god. Now they are in better condition then ever before

[LowClassCC]

Good* got into rc in 90

Mistake* in late 92 i sold all of my rc stuff (2 rc10's and a rc10l, all electronics, tools, parts, ect) cause i turned 16 and got a "real car".

Good* 96 picked up an rc10t with plans to get back into racing. that never happened.

Mistake* 2002 sold the 10t and all the extras i had bought because i didnt see a point in keeping it around to continue to collect dust.

Good* 2004 bought a b4 ft and electronics to get back into racing.

Great* 05 had my son and still wasnt able to get all the equipment i needed to get the ca going.

Great* 09 time has came to start racing again. i wont sell my r/c stuff again. at this point in my life i have seen the errors in my past.

[arf]

Because I raced all of my cars, and tracks and classes came and went, I always sold or traded my cars in order to invest in whatever the newest club activity was.
I most regret not keeping the following:

RC300BD (my first car bought used with a load of custom machined parts and a Ferrari body.)
Bolink California Flyer (the cool guys ran the 10L)
HPI F1 (F103 racers cried foul)
Tamiya TAO3 (Too HEAVY, I said.)
Schumacher Big Six Lotus (class didn't take off.)
Schumacher Daytona (cannibalized for a custom project.)

[Mr. ED]

well, I'm happy to say I don't have much to regret when it comes to selling cars. Only ever sold 1 namely a losi XX which ran great but I never missed anyway
...not counting the ones I bought and resold without driving that is.
Of those I would say there's only one I should have kept: an avante I got for 50 euro. I initially passed on it, but later bought it for a friend: who still has it , and still is a good friend 10 years later; so it's not a big regret.

Not buying certain cars is what I regret most, but if I had bought all of them the hobbyroom would be impossible to move around

[KvilleKrawler]

Well after just recently getting back into RC cars (spring 2008) I regret selling all the RC cars I have had since being a kid.. I sold them all to buy car audio equipment.

Grasshopper - my first hobby grade rc car.
Wild Willy
Hot Shot
Wild One
Mauri Big Bear
Kyosho Ultima
USA-1
Losi xx buggy
2 Losi xx-T fully preped graphite chassis, etc
then about 6 years ago I got back in with an Emaxx but sold it after 6 months.

Plus I regret getting rid of all the old radios I had too.

several airtronics XL2P's
Hitec Lynx 3d FM
Several futaba 2ch am pistols and sticks...

What got me back into RC this time was Rock Crawling... And now I will never get out of the hobby again.. Spent almost 5 months this winter hand making a scale Bronco trail truck... So far it's my favorite RC car I've ever owned.

[purpletimbo]

That Hitec Lynx?

[longboardnj]

.Not buying a nib Mountaineer for $300 at a local hobby shop in 1999

this was a good one... one of my mistakes too ...we could of bought 10 online then sell 2 nib later and have 8 for free i have alot of rc mistakes....my biggest is a very sad story..i had a optima mid that my dad made a very nice ,strong, thick fiberglass oval chassis for (battey off to the side).. the chassis was bigger so you could mount the bat on the side and the electronics on the chassis too (no room on the stock chassis)..being a kid wanting something else i traded with a friend.. then the friends dad cut the chassis down thin like the stock one...wish i still had that optima

[Hay Burner]

My biggest mistake was basicly giving away my first RC10 and a Schumacher CAT while I was in college. I had given them to a friend to sell for me, he was transfered and we did not keep in touch. I would really like to have them back.

[peuge73]

My biggest mistake is for me to have started RC with a schumacher top-cat, witch was a great car, but it did not fit a teenager beginner.
I think I have made all mistakes possible in the assembly (at this time, assembly books were really not good for schumacher products), in the painting, and also in the maintenance. I was too tight in the budget also...so no correction possible after. I should have choosen a more basic car to start the hobby, easier to built and cheaper also.
After 6 monthes, this car were no more a Top-Cat or a cat at all, only a Cat-astrophee.........

I wanted to buy right in the beginning the car of my dreams, but it is still on my dreams instead of been in my vintage collection!

[robsdak]

biggest mistake? waiting till i was 40 to get into the hobby. i guess i was to "busy" with life before. i got my first one in Jan.09, then the second came in March. and i just bought a AE TC4 and looking at getting my first "Gold Tub". this one is awesome, it is complete, less electronics and the body is still NIP! all for $50. i should have tomorrow afternoon.

[schmacher]

my biggest mistakes were selling my schumacher axis 2 and schumacher cougar 2 works cars. i managed to get another axis 2...i'm currently on the lookout for a cougar 2 works..in one week i lost out on two of them by $2.50...grrr lesson learned...never sell schumacher cars