Jeff Hoy, American

…over at Big Squid RC.  Go check it out.

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Tower Hobbies has the Team Associated SC18 in stock right now this very second. Remember that you’ll need to buy an appropriate battery and charger (don’t forget the charger adapter) to go with it if you don’t already have them. (See update 2) So what are you waiting for?  Get to buying fool. [Update:  I ordered mine, [...]

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Here’s some awesome news from Team AE.  They are putting out 2nd editions of their popular RC18B and RC18T, based on the new belt driven chassis that is used by the SC18 and RC18LM.  The cool thing about this though is that it’s a kit and parts are included to build either vehicle.  So you buy one [...]

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Team Associated’s stable of 1/18th scale cars has just grown by one.  Hot on the heels of their awesome looking SC18, AE has dug deep and come up with the RC18 Late Model.  It’s an RTR with a 2.4 GHz radio, built on the new SC18 belt driven chassis.  Just like the SC18 it seems that batteries and a charger are NOT [...]

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Maybe, depends who you trust.  Team Associated’s official announcement says that it’ll be available in March.  Tower Hobbies’ product page is noting late February, which isn’t far off from the official word.  But A Main Hobbies is saying they’ll have it in stock on January 17.  About 2 weeks from now. Retailers are pretty well-known for getting release [...]

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On the heels of Associated’s other new cars and trucks comes the final, official announcement of something we’ve all known about since October.  Team Associated’s SC18, a 1/18th scale short course r/c truck.  What has been announced isn’t what was advertised though, there have been some changes. As I suspected they did change over to a [...]

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Team Associated announced two new RTR packages today.  Both are based on the highly successful RC10T4 stadium truck RC10B4 off-road buggy with some changes and dubbed the RC10T4.1 RC10B4.1.  One is brushed motor powered, the other is brushless.  They both come with a new 2.4 GHz radio system as well.  MSRPs are $339.99 $329.99 for brushed [...]

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Team Associated announced to new RTR packages today.  Both are based on the highly successful RC10T4 stadium truck with some changes and dubbed the RC10T4.1.  One is brushed motor powered, the other is brushless.  They both come with a new 2.4 GHz radio system as well.  MSRPs are $339.99 for brushed and $399.99 for brushless.  [...]

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Tower Hobbies has the Duratrax Vendetta SC in stock.  So if you’re looking for some small scale short course action then whip out your credit card and get to buying.  You can get it in red, white, blue, or yellow.  For $219.99 you don’t get everything you need.  You’ll still have to provide a battery [...]

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Here’s the first video of Team Associated’s new SC18 via the folks at RC Car Action.  Looks to be a good little performer.  And I love that little backyard style track they’re running it on. This is a video that expands on the peek they gave us in the November 6th episode of The Radio [...]

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