History and Valuation of Tamiya Collectables

Vintage Tamiya Toyota 4x4 Pick Up Bruiser RC truck box art featuring a blue monster truck with Hog Heaven decals.
Vintage Tamiya Toyota 4x4 Pick Up Bruiser RC truck box art featuring a blue monster truck with Hog Heaven decals.

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My "One of a Kind" acquisition, published in Car Action Magazine 2/94. With a hand written note from the seller the "Bruised Banana". I began collecting back in the late 1970's when I purchased my first R/C Car. It was a Jeroby on-road 1/12 scale car with a built in four cell batter, wiper type speed control and a basic 2 channel Radio. I paid $200us, that is about $920 today for a very simple, moderate quality model that ran for about 8 minutes before needed a recharge. Since then I have collected more than 50 cars, trucks, boats and my favorites, Helicopters.

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Acquired my first Tamiya Kit, a new Blackfoot and I was impressed with the quality and engineering of the kit back in the early 1980's, and supplied parts and kits since then