Well with all the fun and frolics going on lately with the very peak of off-road racing developments, I thought it would be cool to take a brief look at one of the classics. Any readers who were around during the late eighties will remember the absolutely stunning Tamiya Holiday Buggy. Tamiya had been producing RC off-road kits for some years and the cheeky little bright sparks over in the land of the rising sun must have eaten a whole California holiday brochure when they designed this one!
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| Super scale realism makes the Holiday Buggy look good on any terrain |
This re-addition belongs to fellow ORRC contributor and Sega Rally Racing legend Ste White. He is currently taking a quantum leap back to his childhood years and collecting some really beautiful Tamiya classics. This buggy will take pride of place in his current collection that will soon include a 10th scale Land Rover Defender 90 built on the famous Tamiya CC-01 off-road chassis! We love old school Tamiya over at ORRC. I think every RC enthusiast I speak with these days would hold a misty eye for any of the eighties classics served up by arguably the worlds biggest manufacturer of off-road scale vehicles...long live Tamiya!
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| As mean as a rattle snake with a headache! |
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| Although based on the super cool desert vehicles found near Baja on the West Coast of America, the Holiday Buggy looks equally as cool in the long green stuff |
We believe that every RC fan young or old, new school or retro, racer or basher, should own at least one classic Tamiya vehicle. The company pretty much set the standard for the development of all things specialised off-road when it comes to radio control. If you look really closely at the most modern off-road buggy you can still see the strong heritage and design DNA that has permeated through every manufacturer since around 1986. Pay homage to your roots and grab a classic Tamiya soon. Even if you decide not to scratch your new found classic by thrashing it off-road...dust off a little spot on your shelf for a tiny nugget of RC history :)
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| Driver models were all the rage back in the day. This guy is even sporting some cool tattoos that Ste has added by hand! |
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| Imagine the fun the guys at Tamiya had during the 80's designing such iconic RC cars |
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Check out the deep and interesting world of Tamiya here:
www.tamiya.com
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