959 was the most beautiful Porsche ever made

Now I'm 40 and pretty much dead inside ie cannot get exited about much! Looking back over these old Tamiya Rc cars has really put a smile on my face and sent me back in time 30yrs. That much so I just bought myself a Hotshot and my son Age 7 a Grasshopper (was my first car) Hopefully it will give him the same memories I had as a child, although sadly and realistically they will be aimed more towards the PS4 :-( but heres hoping. Great you can still buy some and build them. Good vid. My mate also had the 959 and I had a Bigwig both with the Technigold.

I spent hours in our local beatties watching the tamiya video in my school days... Now many years later i now run a local rc club....

oh man, i was literally sat here at 3am and thinking about beatties in southgate and looking at the tamiya 959 when i was a kid so searched it on youtube and this video came up and you went to the same shop, amazing. such a shame its gone. I was only about 11 then but dreamt of owning it.

Same experience I had recently with my 19 year old Skyline with Ta02W 4wd chassis . I think i got it in 1999 or 2000. Sadly I Dont have the original Nismo Clarion body. It was already an old chassis then. Same mechanical speed control . 19 years had to pass before I fit a 6$ ESC on it . still runs like a champ. I had broken plastic hex adapters , which i replaced with aluminum ( $1 on ebay ) . Fixed some broken plastic parts with epoxy and still runs like a champ. P.S. My ni-cd battery charged and gave me something like 30 seconds of power, enough to check servo and motor . got a new one. Im hooked again

Fantastic video, thank you for sharing! just remember the old time

Thanks for this upload. Brings back memories :) I live in Ireland but was lucky enough to grow up in Hemel Hempstead where that magazine came from :) RiKo or Richard Kohnstam was the main tamiya dealer in the UK and he had a shop in the Hemel old town. parts were easy to come by. I have a few old models sitting in my parents. I still have all of the manuals too. I need to do some digging!

I'm 47 seconds in and I'm freaked out! I was in junior school in the mid 80's and one of the kids brought in a Hornet on the last day of term!! I was blown away by the speed of the thing, it was the first time I had seen one and I wanted one so bad, there was no way on earth I would be getting one of them for Christmas, thanks a lot Santa!!!!!!

Great video. Used to go to hamleys in London when I was a kid and stand there watching the tamiya promo videos in their tv.

Same story for me and many others it seems. A kid brought a Hornet to school and I was hooked. Ended up buying one a few years later after much saving and ran it 'til it wore away! I've still got the Beatties bag and few spares. I've been back into RC for the last few years. Things have changed a lot now what with brushless motors and Lipo batteries. I just built my first Tamiya since the '80s too - "Heavy Dump Truck GF01" for my son of course ;-). Great nostalgic video.

I have two of these but miss the chance to get it back in 1980s. You talk like that boy inside you is back. I really enjoy this video. Thank you for sharing the joy.

Fantastic video, thank you for sharing!

Great video fred! My first experience of tamiya was in high school when one of my mates showed me his tamiya hornet too. It was so fast I was blown away and hooked. Unfortunately I sold my first tamiya which was the avante but luckily my brother kept his 2nd tamiya from when he was a kid which was the clod buster. He's just give it to me recently :) . It's 25 years old or there abouts and is still running strong. Loved how you rediscovered your porsche 959 and got it up and running again.

What a blast from the past I USEDTO DROOL ON THE CATALOG I WANTED IT ALL

Great video mate! - I’ve also been on the loft and digged out my old Clodbuster monster truck...so much fun

Love this video. It virtually is identical to my life as well. I still have my Tamiya 959. I doubt I will ever part with it either. Mine is also quite beat up. I think I broke and replaced the headlight bracket numerous times due to head on collisions. Thanks for the video, it is perfect. On a side note I still am fascinated by Porsche and finally purchased a 2005 911. Fabulous car!

Amazing RC man.

I had one of these, Damn thing was so quick I damaged the steering almost immediately and it took forever to get parts. I sold it on the grounds of not being able to get parts in a timely fashion in Sydney Australia. Very fond memories of the car though! I may re-indulge.

Happy memories! I had Celica version of this model. Same under the skin. I sold it a few years ago, along with the Otley Modelsport bag, very similar to yours, and its Futaba Attack controller. Must have been about the same year as you got yours. I had a Lunchbox previously and the followed it with a Kyosho Optima Mid Turbo

I like the way how the model accelarates. It look more real to me, than modern models.

Awesome nostalgia 👍

Awesome! Those were the days! I bought my first Tamiya rc car back in 89 and owned several versions. I have recently took them out for a restore and will be getting them done over the winter. I think you should restore the car. Good luck

Nice to see one of these after all this time. £200 in 88' , that's about £491 now , according to online systems available. Puts it in perspective eh ? . A lot of cash . Also the catalogue , I had one of those exact ones too .....nostalgia ... Thanks for posting and RESTORE IT.

I barely remember my first ACTUAL car but I'll never forget the smell/sight unboxing that original 959 box. After assembling it for over a week's time, took it out on its first trip and it was run down by a car.

I wanted this model so bad as a kid, my dad took me to the model shop to get a car I asked for the 959 the model shop guy put my dad off saying it would be to fast for me, I was so Pissed off and still to this day. In the end we got a vennesa lunch box and he painted it like the A Team van.

Good memories. I used to own a Hornet and a Monster Beetle but knew a guy who had a Celica with a Technigold motor. I was mad jealous of it as it was a speed demon compared to my cars lol. Also, some rich kid in a fancy estate I knew from school had a Bullhead, that thing was huge lol.

The Technigold motor itself is worth a lot these days because it is so rare and was so good.

Great video really enjoyed it. One of my best friends had one of these it was very fast but we found it kept rolling over at speed, but if you ran it with out the body on never did. I got a technigold motor for Xmas in 89 to put in my Hornet its cost £40 from beaties:) Good luck with restoration technigold motors do appear on eBay

nice and thank you for sharing the video

very informative..thanks again . I have the celica version of this car. Still facinates me :-)

Hello my old friend I've never been into radio controlled cars but did like your video and it looked like you took your time building that car glad to see it still working keep in touch ,

I still have my Toyota Gr.B Rally that I bought in 1989.

It was a good RC car. some of my friend used it, for racing I remember, it was not stabile in higher speeds, but in the low speed turning was very good.... good RC, have fun with it

brilliant video I was 17 in 1989 and badly wanted one of these cars but was doing a YTS and couldn't afford it and don't have a girlfriend to buy for me

I lived the same experience...but in Milan. Tamiya was just a world of dreams. I dreamt for long Egress or Astute. I remember hours spent on the catalogue or in front of Movo an historical model shop that was a kind of Mecca.

Tamiya still makes catalogs. I got one from the owner of my local hobby shop a couple of years ago, although, it's not as complete as yours. It only had the RC cars that were currently available at the time (2015). Those AA batteries were used to power the receiver and servos. We stopped using them when electronic speed controls became available as they could use the the cars battery to power the electronics with out the need for AA batteries.

Haha. Love it. You brought back some memories. You're a nerd, just like me. I'm getting back to RC, now in my 40's!

I also had one and the celica body as well

Haha, Beaties in Southgate was my local too :) I used to pour over the Beaties Tamiya catalogue in junior school and by the late '80s in secondary school I had got a Tamiya Terra Scorcher. By then Red Baron on the Hertford Road was the place to go. It's still a hobby shop now, but nowhere near as car-orientated as it was then.

Very collectable and very restore-able car you have there.

Great video. Have you restored the 959 or done anything else with it since you made this video?

cool video.

I BUILT A 959 KIT FOR THE INFAMOUS GANGSTER JOHN GOTTIS NEPHEW , HE HAD ME BUILD IT IN THE LATE 80s AND HE NEVER PICKED IT UP SO IT WAS MINE !!! IT WAS AWESOME !!!!! SO MUCH FUN TILL IT BROKE , I WISH I STILL HAD IT , THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES !!!

I love this car, i have also one

Mate the 959 is like a unicorn! I have heard of them but never seen one in the flesh. I wonder how many are these cars left.

My neighbor across the st had this. And a Fox. I had the Falcon and a JRx2.

I want that car now it's pretty sweet I'm 15 and I've been spending all my money on rc cars now ik the next one im buying

the porsche always was next to the toyota in the tamiya catalog - i remember well as they took out those two 1:12 models... i was shocked ;)

Awesome car, sad story I share the same. That car deserves to be fully restored. If you are interested in my services PM me and I’d be glad to do it for you. I would even restore the motor.

still have a bullhead too.. same as the clod buster

Like going for a ride in a time machine

I had this exact car. Mine unfortunately is not in the same good condition.

I got my first car when I was 8, in 1997 I still have a few now, I upload videos to my RC channel Rusty RC.

좋다

It will be re-released, mark my words!!

Great video. Thanks for posting. I do have a question. Did you marry that girl??? :-)

今度　組み立てるかな？

We (me and little brother) had this same R/C kit memories @ !!! this video very boring though.

Very nice 👍 please check out my video of a Tamiya 959 clone cheers

where is the girlfriend?

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You should have married your girlfriend!!