This is awesome guys! Glad to see your inner child is alive and well. Can't wait to see more.🤙

Nice restoration! It's like resto-modding an old car.. no need to make it a speed runner. Just get it working right and appreciate it for what it is 👍 Good stuff guys!

Loved my nitro villian. Electric backup was genius

Rides pretty smooth! What a couple of seamen👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾

"Im on a boat!" LOL felt appropriate! Love this video and I agree. I'm buying the things I couldn't have as a kid lol!

I saved up grass cutting money for a year to buy one of these in 1990. It was an early kit-build version before Ready-to-runs were made. I could'nt afford an ESC, so I wired series packs through an on/off microswitch. It was ballistic!

I am 49 now, and had one of these when it was new back in the day. I have been into RC cars and boats since I was a kid and still am. I moved away from home 25 years ago and was home to visit my parents a couple weeks ago and went into my moms basement (or as I call it, the time capsule because she has saved everything from my childhood) and found this boat with all the components in the original box preserved as I left it over 30 years ago. It's practically brand new still. I contemplated taking it back home and upgrading all of the electronics and making it brushless. So I am so excited to see what you guys do with it. I also found my clod buster that I built back then, along with a Tamara Bigwig and an RC submarine that I used to have! Please build this one up so I can see the potential!.

Such a great boat. Love the steering too! 👍

pretty cool getting that toy from your childhood you always wanted I finally got the big trak I actually had one but it disappeared on dads work bench to fix then I got my original 80s Clod Buster running led me down this rabbit hole of newer rcs and my channel good video fun to watch cant wait to see the upgrades

I had one when I was a kid. Great memories

Nice boat 🔵🔵🔵🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍🔵🔵🔵

My first boat was a Nikko Sea Hawk. I loved that thing. Now I have a Pro Boat Blackjack 24 and love it. Later on down the road I want a deep v to carve turns.

When I was a kid it as the ABC Super Hawaiin that was a dream. I remember putting it on layaway while cutting lawns. I still have till this day with a modified Huey brushed Twin Drive system. It was like a rocket ship back then at 35mph stock 45mph with twin motors. I love these vintage videos. The Villian was at the top of my list, too. Thanks for another banger, boys!

Nice video 😊😊😊

I had a buddy build one with a dual brushless VXL set up. It was entirely uncontrollably. Torque rolled very badly. Stick with the 550 brushed cans. 💯

When I was a kid I always wanted a Tamiya CC01 Pajero. They were so cheap then but I still couldn't afford one. I finally bought one a couple of years ago brand new in box kit. I paid way too much for it but I'm so glad I did.

I just picked up one a few days ago for $50 in original box and everything - still had all the trim and tools new in bag - only the downside was the plastic was very yellow. I used Retro-brite to make it white again.

A pair of 4600 kv short course truck motors (550) should make it hustle :)

I've still got my old aquacraft Rio EP that works great 👍

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I have an xray m18 and a HPI micro RS4 that I used to race years ago (I believe a but over 12 years ago.) found them maybe 2 years ago, with old electronics and motors. Would love to get a simple brushless system in them and run them at my local hobby shop that I race at. We race mini-z’s, and 1/10th scale touring indoor.

Absolutely love that boat, got one years ago in a trade, I swapped out the motors for dual speed Gem 12 turn motors and that thing ripped! Would get maybe 5 minutes of run time out of some old 5,000mah NiMH packs 🤣

When using super glue , sometimes using baking soda can help the glue keep things together.

HOLY POOP. I just threw mine out. An old timer gave it to me years ago and i never did anything with it. The hobby shop didn't seem interested in rehabing it and I held on to it for years bouncing it from storage bin to garage and back to storage bin. It's time was up!

Awsome video guys. This is what the hobby should be all about. Tapping into your inner child and having fun. So many people take it way too seriously and take things too far. Im currently in the middle of one of my childhood dreams myself. The wife got me a black edtion Tamiya Lunchbox as an early Father's day gift and we're building it together. Keep up the awsome videos guys. 👊 Also wondered where you guys are from. Your videos look alot like Indiana where im at....lol

Congrats! Some hydrogen peroxide/sunlight should brighten the hull.

Just picked one of these up my self used of for 100$ I upgraded the remote to the exact same one you did! With the zees 2s

Put your receiver in a balloon, works great for water proofing

Got my age 11 on recently with a return of the actual Taiyo 4x4 Racing Pick Up (4wd Tyco Bandit) that I sold to a friend many years ago. My second ever RC the first being the Tyco Jet Hopper which I will be getting one of soon!

I owned one of the villain ex’s for a long time, it’s a great boat for what it is but if you’re going to run it much faster than its intended it’s not at all worth the time or money, the Spartan and many other rc boats that come factory with a brushless (and are 25-30 years newer) are much more worth the time. Doesn’t mean you can’t make a video and try but in the end it’s not at all worth trying to go faster, the hull is not at all capable of that.

Wait..... You still beLIEve in Nasa??

You have the first version, the Villain IV, and i have the newer version, Villain EX. Cool boats just not really meant to go fast unfortunately.

I had one of these until last month. I traded it for a Tamiya grasshopper at a swap meet.

Shouldn't one prop go clockwise and one go anticlockwise to cancel torque steer and improve steering?

My uncle had 1 when I was a kid It seemed so fast .they had some on eBay the other day

How do u bind the gt3c with the redcat receiver I've been trying and it don't seem to work