RC Bashers

How many of you can say you still have the FIRST radio controlled toy you had? And who's had it for 30+ years?

LOL- well I am one of them people. In about '79 or so, one of my aunts boyfriends gave me & my dad a couple RC cars. I got the Ferrari & my dad got a Corvette. They are about 1/24 scale & were Motora-Wave brand made in Japan.

I decided to dig it out of the store room the other day. I put batteries in it & the motor does still work. Only problem I have is the controller is long gone, & I have no idea what frequency it runs off of. I tried all of my 27mhz's & the one 49 I have, but no luck. Anybody know how to tell what it might be? I'm wondering if the 75 on the hood might be the indication.

i cant help with the freq part. or show my very first rc but i can honestly say thats pretty cool old vintage one.

Thats a oldie for sure. Wish I still had osme of mine from younger days, nice thing the ones i had are available now days, cept for a couple.

Nice sticker to

I still have some parts from my 85 Nikko. We had a thread going with pics of all our first RC but i think with 79, you got us all beat. Your RC is as old as I am.

hmm, i cant think of anything besides a scanner, i have one. but probably a little to far away to pick it up

I think one reason I was able to hang on to it all this time is the scale. Its the same as the model kits I started building about the same time. That, & my family is notorious for never getting rid of anything. Matter of fact, my dad actually still has his Corvette that I mentioned, last time I checked.

Tried a search on the net at all? way back then they might not of been on the normal freq. 75 range would take awhile with so many numbers....maybe even pop it open if you want and see if theirs anything stamped.

http://www.retrothing.com/2007/02/sears_radio_con.html

Found something! I had tried searching over the last couple days, but tonite an image search for "rc ferrari" turned up a pic of the car. Man, seeing that new one w/ the box brings back memories!

Ask that guy what the freq. is

I just posted the question at the bottom of that page in thier comment section.

Nice old school ride. I wish I hadn't sold off my original HotShot and Frog's. Would have been fun to restore them and kit them with lipo's and Bl power.lol l8r,w.

thats cool!! and to boot it was from sears, man i remember staring at the jcpennys and sears christmas catalogs for hrs telling mom n dad thats whats on my x-mas wish list.

i even tried tricking them one year telling them on page such an such and circled the hot model modeling the lingerie...........lol...........needless to say that was a big negative ghost rider.......lol........