RC off road racing - classic cars -

The Iconic RC Revival is one of the UK's best race meets. 2wd and 4wd cars from as far back as the 1970's, this is an opportunity to dust of those legendary RC cars from the golden era of RC and race them against like minded people.
Carl races his Tamiya Hotshot in the 4WD 1977-85 class. It was not without incident.
This event took place at Broxtowe model car clubs outdoor astro track with a bit of grass on the side.
Over 120 drivers took to the track each day with the 2wd on saturday and the 4wd on sunday.
The weather was kind for us on sunday which made for some great racing, whereas for most tyre selection and car setup was the topic of conversation, the popalong car was stock out the box all the way... with the exception of a team powers motor to replace the stock silver can.

[@marklister8155]

Big up the Hotshot!! Awesome 👌 👏 👍

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Mark I’m glad I can say I have raced my Hotshot but not sure how many more times it will see the track … hahaha

[@androsborsato]

The bumper did it's job!

[@extec101]

just love the exocage of those kyosho javelins.

[@PopalongRC]

They do look soooo goood

[@kydawg1684]

Great video with great chill music for race footage. Looked like a fantastic time.

[@PopalongRC]

Great weekend

[@Dabber422]

Awesome!!!

[@PopalongRC]

It certainly is … cheers buddy . Thanks for watching

[@brannmitchell4602]

I had a HotSnot back in the day. Hop up parts, bearings, shocks, 360T motor, and it was pretty nice. Buddy had a Kyosho Optima with a 480G motor, and it was still able to take him at the local track. Uh, local track was a school yard we converted, lol.

[@PopalongRC]

That is proper old school

[@GusMoya]

Amazing!!!

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Gustavo

[@idwurks]

Great video guys - cool vibe, great music

[@dirtybeard2088]

What a video

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers beard

[@wayneyates700]

I chuckled when I saw you tape the front bumper,, my bumper had both sides broken and a large pull tie holding the remaining center part on for years until I remembered to actually ordered a spare. Funny thing the spare was only £12.00 🤣🤣 fantastic seeing the older buggies rip round 👍👍

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Wayne, honestly it is well worth having a go 👍

[@oliverstoys8411]

Very entertaining video 👍🏻

[@PopalongRC]

Thank you very much

[@c.k.hobbyshop3351]

Very cool 😎

[@PopalongRC]

Thank you C K hobby shop thanks for watching

[@sam97eck]

Great video 👍🏻👍🏻

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Sam thanks for watching

[@lo2713]

Cracking video, couldnt see my car in your vid 😭 hopefully you’ll be at more of the big vintage events 👍

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Log Thanks for watching See you trackside next year then

[@lo2713]

@@PopalongRC you sure will, i’ll try and photo bomb next time 😂

[@joski9030]

Those old cars and the track reminds me of going with my dad as a kid.👍🏻

[@PopalongRC]

Yes me too, almost had a tear in my eye, such great memories as a kid👍

[@joski9030]

@@PopalongRC I did my old man’s gone now unfortunately. Subbed👍🏻

[@barrycheesemore2928]

Wow, that looked like a barrel load of fun!!

[@PopalongRC]

Great event

[@RCBirds]

Awesome event. Thanks for the presentation 👍

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers bird thanks for watching

[@paulus842000]

Looks like a good humble day out having a great time ❤️

[@PopalongRC]

Super fun Might have to try 2wd next year

[@chrisgiles5389]

Tip top my Tomy Intruder in there too :)

[@PopalongRC]

That was running well Chris .

[@Moggmodels23]

Just watched your video it's alsome mate 👍👌

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Mogg appreciate you watching and commenting

[@Moggmodels23]

@@PopalongRC thanks mate 👍👌

[@malsmith2012]

Great video lads! Looks like a fun day out... 😃

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Mal it really was a blast

[@johnskii]

Well done lads, good video and coverage of the event! I regrettably missed this year's Iconic RC and do need to get involved next year

[@PopalongRC]

Cheers Johnski see you next year

[@Luke-en2tk]

That looked great fun guys, I started racing with a Tamiya Manta Ray indoors and it kept breaking. Tamiya plastics don't tend to flex much so only ran it for a few weeks before buying a second hand Kyosho Lazer ZX off one of the club guys. I ran the Lazer for quite a while which got upgraded to a ZXR and won lots of races at club level with it. After that it was the Schumacher Cat 2000 which was a game changer at the time, what a car that was.

[@PopalongRC]

There is a massive difference in the drivability of the cars from the 1980s The hobby evolved a lot during that time .

[@Luke-en2tk]

@@PopalongRC yeah I started racing in 1996

[@fencer39]

Thanks for sharing guys !.......still looks like a good day out

[@PopalongRC]

Thanks Si, it was definitely fun👍

[@getonitnow]

Were the cars limited to motor turn size? Or was it just like open class racing

[@chowettgoes]

Great vid of the day. Can you remember the name of the on site shop?

[@PopalongRC]

Racecraft R/C

[@leehurst6922]

Any ballraces in the hotshot?

[@PopalongRC]

Yeah we did ball race it but we do that for all our Tamiya builds …