shahedC

$100: SLK350 R/C power-operated hardtop
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Just bought this R/C car:
1:12 model of SLK350
http://www.eurotoyshop.com/Product.a...ctSKU=DS-19013

Costs a 100 bucks with shipping, but it goes pretty fast, and has a power-operated hardtop.

It also has realistic braking (not a sudden stop, that is), and lights and a horn.

Best of all, you can shift via TouchShift !

There are also some cones that come in the box, so that I can make my own slalom...

I did get a smaller (1:18) silver model, which has opening doors, hood, and trunk/hardtop. But it is not power-operated and is for display only.
http://benzfanz.com/slk55/

shahedC

Hey... how come I can't add attachments...?

I can't seem to see other people's attached images either... but I can see signature pics and avatar pics...

Ynot

Attachments isn't allowed for awhile now, used imaged shack and post the link.

shahedC

oh ok.. but I've seen some recent threads with people talking about pictures they just posted, and other people commenting on those pictures...

I thought it was some setting in my browser or my account.. but I tried looking at the same threads using different browsers, different PCs, even logged out to view it as a guest user, but I still don't see pictures...

Ynot

if you just click on the pic icon above and post the url of the pic, the images will show, trying to attach wil not.

shahedC

ok, here goes..

the pic URL from the site:

N4PWJ

looks great i want one!

big SLK

what no AMG package?
i want one with amg

shahedC

man this thing is so fast...Speeding up with the TouchShift makes it even faster..


I knocked off a side-mirror while I drove it past my dining room chairs....


then I drove it under my living room sofa and knocked off a roll hoop...


I had to super glue the broken pieces together....

Anyway, the car is awesome.. it even has working headlights, automatic turn signals and a fake braking sound, when i hit the brakes..

Ynot

If I buy one, I doubt if I will ever play with it, my 3 year old son has about 20 remote controls cars. Fixed up 350Z, celica, trucks, vans, etc, I hardly play with it.

dsb

Dude, you would think you'd learn from the first totalled car. Now, you got to wreck another one again? Well, let's just keep the wreckless driving away from the real thing!

shahedC

Well, I was born and raised in the Third World, so I never really had a real remote control car...

by the time I was 10, I got a "Sonic Control" car, that would go either backward or forward if it "heard" a loud sound. It came with a wireless control, which made a loud (annoying) clicking sound.

Eventually, I got a remote control car but it wasn't so remote... there was a wire connecting the controller to the car...

Now I am pushing my 20s, rapidly approaching 30.. and I finally got myself a remote control car...

In the last few years, I did pick up a couple of 1:18 scale models of Mercedes and Ferrari cars, but those are in displayable boxes.

Ynot

lol...

I wasn't raised in a 3rd world country but I never got a remote control car, my parents were poor then, most of my toys were made by myself, origami became my specialty, swords and daggars were made by melting metal, homemade slingshots for hunting birds, the good ole days.

I have scales models of a lambo gallardo, porsche cgt, and other various cars, those I do play with, I take them out, open the doors, hoods, trunks, etc.

shahedC

Really? what era was this?

I was a kid in the 80s and a teenager in the 90s.. Back in the 80s, I made swords and shields out of cardboard....

Heck, I had a He-man "collection".. made of paper cutouts.. ! (I drew and colored the characters myself!)

I don't mention it around here much, but my gf was driving at the time the 230K got wrecked... (if you read my gf/wife thread, it's the same person who went with me to the dealership when I first bought it)

Obviously, it was an accident.... my insurance covered it... and fortunately, she was ok too... even the C-class is so safe! Crumple zones rock !