Glenn you are hitting on all cylinders this past weeks I can remember this buggy in the tamiya catalog and on the shelves back on the day tv manufacturer were very secretive back then no teasers or behind the scenes looks like they do now
WOW..... I'll say it again backwards, WOW I knew of the 211x/411x, actually I think I may have posted drewl in the Tamiya Club 411x thread 5 years ago, but to see a NIB serial 001 211x just blows my mind, Great job, BEST Episode yet , congrats Glenn
Wow Glen.. Wasn’t expecting that.. thank you to Dave as well for a very well presented video... I mean how do even have something like that in your possession???. Mad🤪🤪🤪🤪
Good morning Glen!!! You really seem to out do yourself!!! How can this be????? Know that you really are the best and loved by your viewers as David came to you to show off this special car. Thanks buddy for this!!
Now that's what I'm talking about!!!! Great video!!! Bringing guests on, great idea!!! History and technical information along with having fun with these cars makes for a great show!!! Cheers I enjoyed that!!! Oh and I bought my Super Astute back in 1993 when I was 14 and I knew nothing about this!! Very cool!! Cheers!
The golden age of rc mid 80s late 90s was technical one upping by manufacturing I remember seeing so many ways to build off road buggies for the public there is a rare buggy it was front wheel drive with y shaped rear end I think it came from yokomo so much crazy innovation back then from all manufacturers it was like a arms race it was not uncommon to see 200-300 dollar kits back in the 80-90s love your review's and unique cars you find
Thanks for this great video Glenn! What I heared about the 404x is that most drivers actually preferred the Top Force Evo. It was a faster and better handling car. In 92/93 Tamiya started to shift more towards on road cars and the Trf offroad development came to a stop. As the touring cars craze that Tamiya started they decided to develop the 411x, which initially was a Tamiya Usa project. This car was refined into the Trf414 which won the 2002 and 2004 Worlds with Surikarn and Marc Reinhard. Tamiya went on to win the 2008, 2010 and 2012 Worlds as well.
Now your talking!. I was getting a bit jaded seeing the same old cars but this is another level. A part of history of our great hobby. Lucky man to own this model .
WOW! I never knew something like that existed as I've only ever run Tamiyas for fun - I did have a go at racing a Manta Ray at a local indoor club - that was a lot of fun it has to be said!. Thanks, Glen and Dave.
There was a TRF 414X that was a twin belt carbon and aluminum touring car chassis that they sold a small number of that went into production as the TA04.
I can't find the words...the astute, my favorite 2wd buggy with the kyosho triumpf! David's trf 211, pure envy. The trf 411 looks like a dream. I didn't know either of them and call myself Tamiya addicted.... Well, after all, i once had the original avante astute egress optima lazer Triumph. What sang Barbara again? Memories...
Mind Boggling Glenn!!!! 😲😳 I was Racing for Team Associated at that time... I'm fighting to remember if I had come across one of those TRF 211Xs ..... How incredibly rare and precious!! Was that KIT NUMBER ONE - unbuilt!!!??? 😲😁 Über COOL!!!! 😎 Carmine ✈🚂🚙
As usual, great video! I always thought that the TRF414X touring car was the first TRF model made. I remember reading in Radio Control Car Action magazine about the Tamiya factory team racing "heavily modified Astutes and Manta Rays" at an IFMAR Worlds race in the early 90's; cars that would eventually become the DynaStorm and the Top Force; but I never knew they actually had a TRF designation. Very cool buggy, and apparently even rarer than the rarest of production RC car models, the Hirobo Jealousy (also a super cool buggy!)
I remember seeing the astute on the front cover of the model magazine, I bought it at release. Weak spot was the rear hubs, the toe in / out attachment would snap, the solution was fitting madcap rear hubs. Wish I still had it !
Wow!!! That was awesome, I didn't know either of those cars had been made. The shocks on the 411 looked like hi caps just anodised in blue not grey??? What about Jamie Booths prototype Egress, wasn't TRF behind it's development???????
The first TRF car was the Avanti Long Wheel Base, pree the Egress consisted of a motor and Carbon frame, Ti screws and some new plastics like swing arms, also think they updated gearbox parts too FYI.
The 411x was used by Spanish driver Danny Vega long after tamiya abandoned it. As far as I know Ellis stafford, Lee Wright and Alan harman raced 411x cars for a short time.
Hey got a question for you as a kid friends had a 1/10 scale mid night pumpkin another’s friend had a 1/10 lunch box both had polycarbonate body’s I cannot find any them this day I was wondering what happened to those models they were really cool back in late 80s early 90s
I love this sort of stuff! I consider myself a Tamiya man with pretty good knowledge, l am a member of the Tamiyaclub too so learn a lot from that club but its times like this l feel like a novice again lol! So much info especially from the 1990s tamiya timeline that keeps popping up and surprising me!! Great stuff!
@@TAMIYALegends there are many rare cars out there. Try finding a Ryuz. It was made by graunpner. Look for a m1 striker buggy which was a remade carbon fibre Tomy intruder. Look for a Nikko brat which is rare but they did option parts 1 and 2 for the Nikko making it into a full blown racer. All mega rare. How many more do you want?
PuS is a swedish guy, Peter, that used to race Tamiya back in the 90s. He managed to source the 211 and 411 parts to build those buggies. Another swedish guy, Magnus, have a 211X as well. A clip from swedish magazine that I uploaded to Tamiyaclub can be found here www.tamiyaclub.com/article.asp?id=257. I thought of buying Magnus 211X, but the price was 2500 euros.
Tamiyabase seems too mention this was produced at the same time as the trf211 tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/93005 Another prototype TRF, from Tamiya. This 4WD TRF was developed at the same time as the TRF211X Prototype, and displayed at an Tamiya expo some time in 1992. Also those prototype was allegedly produced in very low numbers, 100 pieces are the guestimate. TRF did not return with a 4WD buggy until the 49401 TRF501X was released in 2006. last 4wd trf buggy is the 503 it seems, late 2014. tamiyabase.com/index.php?option=com_joodb&view=article&joobase=21&id=172&Itemid=1063 Also a few more trf chassis tamiyabase.com/chassis/255-trf201-xr#all-trf-chassis Would be neat seeing Tamiya do something with the db02 chassis theres only 1 model using it the leonis ? they kind of have a higher end db01rrr variant though last released in 2015.
I was 12 to when I got my first Tamiya a hornet and raced a little. I am Tamiya lover to and people poo poo me for it. They are so ingnorent of them these days as well a the old kyoshos. It is sad and kyosho is my second favorite hobby car company, my first is Tamiya.
Tamiya just don't care about racing anymore unless it's the TCS. I really don't think we'll see another TRF buggy or even modern race buggy from Tamiya unless the whole of RC racing completely changes from what it is currently.
Wow never seen or heard of those cars. I always felt Tamiya never really got into hard core racing, in the beginning in the 1970’s the little rivalry with Kyosho, I always felt, as David, Tamiya was a back yard fun buggy. I think that hurt Tamiya a little bit because they never seemed to be a name in the racing circuits.
I am speechless. Very cool. Thank you Glen and David. 👍
Thank you for watching my friend 🤩👊🏻
Glenn you are hitting on all cylinders this past weeks I can remember this buggy in the tamiya catalog and on the shelves back on the day tv manufacturer were very secretive back then no teasers or behind the scenes looks like they do now
Thanks Michael 😊👊🏻
Thanks Glen, love the special guest thing. Always enjoy the history lessons.
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
Bravo mate brilliant content.
Thanks Matt 😊👊🏻
WOW..... I'll say it again backwards, WOW
I knew of the 211x/411x, actually I think I may have posted drewl in the Tamiya Club 411x thread 5 years ago, but to see a NIB serial 001 211x just blows my mind,
Great job, BEST Episode yet , congrats Glenn
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
Wow Glen.. Wasn’t expecting that.. thank you to Dave as well for a very well presented video... I mean how do even have something like that in your possession???. Mad🤪🤪🤪🤪
Cheers Darren 🤩🤩🤩
Fantastic video Glen keep up the good work with your enthusiasm to the brand
Thanks Chris 😊👊🏻
Good morning Glen!!! You really seem to out do yourself!!! How can this be????? Know that you really are the best and loved by your viewers as David came to you to show off this special car. Thanks buddy for this!!
Thanks Chris 😊😊😊
Great video, very interesting to learn a little TRF history.
Thanks to you both.
Thanks Craig 😎👊🏻
Now that's what I'm talking about!!!! Great video!!! Bringing guests on, great idea!!! History and technical information along with having fun with these cars makes for a great show!!! Cheers I enjoyed that!!! Oh and I bought my Super Astute back in 1993 when I was 14 and I knew nothing about this!! Very cool!! Cheers!
Excellent Hugo, thanks for watching my friend 🤩🤩🤩
Wow my head just exploded. Thanks Glen always filling us with the good tamiya knowledge 👌✔✔👍👍👍
Thanks for watching Brett 😊👊🏻
Really cool. Never heard of the 411. Thank You for sharing!!!
Thanks Stefan 😊👊🏻
The golden age of rc mid 80s late 90s was technical one upping by manufacturing I remember seeing so many ways to build off road buggies for the public there is a rare buggy it was front wheel drive with y shaped rear end I think it came from yokomo so much crazy innovation back then from all manufacturers it was like a arms race it was not uncommon to see 200-300 dollar kits back in the 80-90s love your review's and unique cars you find
Yeah I think that car was called something like the Orb 🤔🤷🏼♂️
Extremely interesting video, my friend! So cool.
Thanks my friend 😊👊🏻
Wow how rare and bloody awesome 👌 saw that tc01 video the other day, was so cool.
Yeah I love the way he made that video 🤩🤩🤩
Really intereting, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Rob 😊👊🏻
Awesome , great video mate ......................
Thanks Scott 🤩👊🏻
Just awesome. The stickers with the drivers names is a great touch I thought. +1 sub for David! 🙂👍
Cheers Mick 😊😊😊
Thanks for this great video Glenn!
What I heared about the 404x is that most drivers actually preferred the Top Force Evo. It was a faster and better handling car.
In 92/93 Tamiya started to shift more towards on road cars and the Trf offroad development came to a stop.
As the touring cars craze that Tamiya started they decided to develop the 411x, which initially was a Tamiya Usa project. This car was refined into the Trf414 which won the 2002 and 2004 Worlds with Surikarn and Marc Reinhard. Tamiya went on to win the 2008, 2010 and 2012 Worlds as well.
Now your talking!. I was getting a bit jaded seeing the same old cars but this is another level. A part of history of our great hobby. Lucky man to own this model .
The history and the dark little corners of Tamiya are always interesting. Keep it up Glenn.
They certainly are Matt 😎👊🏻
WOW! I never knew something like that existed as I've only ever run Tamiyas for fun - I did have a go at racing a Manta Ray at a local indoor club - that was a lot of fun it has to be said!. Thanks, Glen and Dave.
Thanks buddy 🤩👊🏻
Wowwww wow, David !!!!! A pleasure to see you here 👍 Vincent Auto Rcm 😉
One of your best videos Glenn and you didn’t have to build or drive anything! Well done. Always knew my dyna storm was special.
Thanks George 🤩👊🏻
Love hearing about the old kits. Keep the videos coming!!!!
Do you have any interest in the on-road TRF’s like the TRF416?
Yes I love em all lol 😂
I’ve had a couple of the TRF on road chassis’s 😊😊😊
Thanks for watching buddy 👊🏻
Great Video Glenn enjoyed that 👍
Jenny Etherington
Thanks Jenny 😊👊🏻
Hey, could you show the body shell behind your right shoulder. The paint job looks awesome.
There was a TRF 414X that was a twin belt carbon and aluminum touring car chassis that they sold a small number of that went into production as the TA04.
Excellent information Steven 😊👊🏻
wow glenn mate fantastic show and tell from both of you ive subbed to him👍🤟🇬🇧😊😎👊
Sweet thanks Leon 😊👊🏻
That is one Rare RC .. so cool. Dunno how I missed this video.. thank you for sharing this with us. Those hot pink wheels.. love em 😁
Very very interesting! Super video as always, fab content! Would ❤️ a TRF, any TRF would do.....
Paul Robinson
Thanks buddy 😎👊🏻
Wow !!! Many many thanks for this video 😍
Thanks buddy 😊😊😊
Wow, cool buggies. The 411X reminds me a lot of the Kyosho Optima Mid. Twin deck, mid motor, single belt drive. Cool stuff.
Really enjoyed this, love a bit of TRF genealogy!
Fantastic looking at the 211x and hearing about the 411x 👊
Thanks Duncan 🤩👊🏻
I can't find the words...the astute, my favorite 2wd buggy with the kyosho triumpf! David's trf 211, pure envy. The trf 411 looks like a dream. I didn't know either of them and call myself Tamiya addicted.... Well, after all, i once had the original avante astute egress optima lazer Triumph. What sang Barbara again? Memories...
Thanks for watching and commenting my friend 🤩👊🏻
Mind Boggling Glenn!!!! 😲😳
I was Racing for Team Associated at that time... I'm fighting to remember if I had come across one of those TRF 211Xs .....
How incredibly rare and precious!! Was that KIT NUMBER ONE - unbuilt!!!??? 😲😁 Über COOL!!!! 😎
Carmine ✈🚂🚙
Yeah such a cool car to own my friend 🤩🤩🤩
“...it’s not Glenn, but it is Glenn’s Belgian Cousin!..”
Fantastic that a few enthusiasts have looked after original kits like that.
Simo ST
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment my friend 😊👊🏻
As usual, great video! I always thought that the TRF414X touring car was the first TRF model made. I remember reading in Radio Control Car Action magazine about the Tamiya factory team racing "heavily modified Astutes and Manta Rays" at an IFMAR Worlds race in the early 90's; cars that would eventually become the DynaStorm and the Top Force; but I never knew they actually had a TRF designation. Very cool buggy, and apparently even rarer than the rarest of production RC car models, the Hirobo Jealousy (also a super cool buggy!)
Thanks for watching and commenting my friend 😊👊🏻
That was just pure gold ❤️
Thanks buddy 😊😊😊
Great video and that's awesome,cool RC
Thanks buddy 😊👊🏻
I remember seeing the astute on the front cover of the model magazine, I bought it at release. Weak spot was the rear hubs, the toe in / out attachment would snap, the solution was fitting madcap rear hubs. Wish I still had it !
Thanks for watching Peter 😊👊🏻
Great vid Glenn, didn't know any of that. I think the 501x was the first off road TRF after the TRF211x. The 201x came out after that.
Thanks for watching buddy 😎👊🏻
Wow!!! That was awesome, I didn't know either of those cars had been made. The shocks on the 411 looked like hi caps just anodised in blue not grey??? What about Jamie Booths prototype Egress, wasn't TRF behind it's development???????
Arnold Applewhite
Yeah I guess they were, don’t know much about that car tbh 🤷🏼♂️
The first TRF car was the Avanti Long Wheel Base, pree the Egress consisted of a motor and Carbon frame, Ti screws and some new plastics like swing arms, also think they updated gearbox parts too FYI.
Excellent thanks for the information 😊
Cool that the first of those is in Belgium! Belgium ftw! At least in this case... ^^
Thanks for watching my friend 😊👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends no problem, I love your vids! Keep up the great work!
Pretty cool video I'm searching for a TRF TGX mk1 on road chassis 😎
I didn’t know they did that chassis as a TRF, very cool my friend 🤩👊🏻
Well...., that was a lesson learned! Thx for that!
Thanks for watching buddy 🤩👊🏻
The 411x was used by Spanish driver Danny Vega long after tamiya abandoned it. As far as I know Ellis stafford, Lee Wright and Alan harman raced 411x cars for a short time.
Absolutely fantastic information Adrian 😊😊😊
Wow very interesting stuff. Black hole sun is a great website and rc toy memories great vintage info as well.
Cheers Wade 😊👊🏻
All is forgiven for reviewing that non-Tamiya thing a couple of weeks ago :)
Don Sambandaraksa
Lol 🤪👊🏻
Awesome 👍👍
Thanks buddy 😊👊🏻
More please
Nicholas Tory
Thanks for watching Nicholas 😊👊🏻
TAMIYA Legends this one was a real treat. Thanks!!
A db-03 is a very good idea my friend. I loved my db-01 with all the hop ups. I want a db-01 rr or rrr, but who doesnt....=)
Subbed to David’s channel btw
Hey got a question for you as a kid friends had a 1/10 scale mid night pumpkin another’s friend had a 1/10 lunch box both had polycarbonate body’s I cannot find any them this day I was wondering what happened to those models they were really cool back in late 80s early 90s
Hmmm 🤔 interesting both those trucks were 1/12 scale. I know a company called Parma made the polycarbonate shells for them 🤷🏼♂️
I love this sort of stuff! I consider myself a Tamiya man with pretty good knowledge, l am a member of the Tamiyaclub too so learn a lot from that club but its times like this l feel like a novice again lol! So much info especially from the 1990s tamiya timeline that keeps popping up and surprising me!! Great stuff!
Thanks buddy glad you enjoyed it 😊👊🏻
Quite interesting stuff bud, I always thought the 404X was but it’s a road type. 🤔
Luke’s Vintage Rc Car Restos
Yeah only just heard about that one 🤓👊🏻
There can only be one winner for the rarest car.. The dds mantis. Not many made
Hey 👋🏻
Well I’ve not heard of that so had to Google it 😅. Wow what a thing Adrian 😍😍😍
Thanks so much for making me aware of it’s existence 😎👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends there are many rare cars out there. Try finding a Ryuz. It was made by graunpner. Look for a m1 striker buggy which was a remade carbon fibre Tomy intruder. Look for a Nikko brat which is rare but they did option parts 1 and 2 for the Nikko making it into a full blown racer. All mega rare. How many more do you want?
See the link supplied. Its in French I believe but you can click on certain parts and see some incredible cars. Hope you enjoy.
Love the super rare stuff, but not holding my breath on TRF returning any time soon. I'd settle for a Madcap Evo on a DN01 chassis
very very cool, but i would have a hard time resisting putting it together.
Sound garden black hole sun?:)
Dunno 🤷🏼♂️
@@TAMIYALegends it's the title of a song that may have been black hole Sun's name inspiration,lol stuck in my head now!:)
James Cunliffe
Lol I didn’t know 🤩👊🏻
Do you think Dyna Storm is better performing than the Super Astute?
They are making a trf 421 now or it is the last trf of late.
Nom im waiting to see them be build by the Legend 😁👍
If you manage to get your hands on those 🤔
Oh gosh yes that would be a dream come true my friend 😎👊🏻
411 looked like a prototype that made from TA04/414/414M which they cancelled and ended up producing DF03 but my timeline maybe off
I've seen this car on David's channel. He has some seriously rare stuff.
He certainly does 🤩🤩🤩
Such a rare car, so cool.
What about the trf 414??
Yep only found out about that yesterday 😎👊🏻
My dad has the trf 414 and 415
Tim Steere
Sweet 😊😊😊
Will you do eny tamiya trf 420 touring cars?
Tim Steere
Yeah I’m hoping to get hold of one 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I keep thinking you have to put those parts back in the box they way you found them.
Lol 😂 yes absolutely my friend 😎👊🏻
PuS is a swedish guy, Peter, that used to race Tamiya back in the 90s. He managed to source the 211 and 411 parts to build those buggies. Another swedish guy, Magnus, have a 211X as well. A clip from swedish magazine that I uploaded to Tamiyaclub can be found here www.tamiyaclub.com/article.asp?id=257. I thought of buying Magnus 211X, but the price was 2500 euros.
So the astute was the first TFR car cool. 👍🏻
Jorge Macomb
Technically it was Jorge 🤩👊🏻
I have heard of both.
Tamiyabase seems too mention this was produced at the same time as the trf211
tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/93005
Another prototype TRF, from Tamiya. This 4WD TRF was developed at the same time as the TRF211X Prototype, and displayed at an Tamiya expo some time in 1992.
Also those prototype was allegedly produced in very low numbers, 100 pieces are the guestimate. TRF did not return with a 4WD buggy until the 49401 TRF501X was released in 2006.
last 4wd trf buggy is the 503 it seems, late 2014.
tamiyabase.com/index.php?option=com_joodb&view=article&joobase=21&id=172&Itemid=1063
Also a few more trf chassis tamiyabase.com/chassis/255-trf201-xr#all-trf-chassis
Would be neat seeing Tamiya do something with the db02 chassis theres only 1 model using it the leonis ?
they kind of have a higher end db01rrr variant though last released in 2015.
Excellent thanks for the links my friend 😎👊🏻
Awesome 😎 I’ll be Sure to Check out David’s Channel & Support him. UA-cam is a difficult platform 😎
what about 404x?
Never heard of it, I’ll google it now 🤓👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends you do that :)
Have a talk to PUs = Peter Utas he would know all about the 411X
Odd-Arne Bjørklund
Oh wow I had no idea PUS was Peter 🤩🤩🤩
TAMIYA Legends yeah, should be him if my memory is still working as it should 🤪
ask Jamie Booth he would know about all this
I knew it!!! 🤴
Lol yes you did my friend 🤩👊🏻
It mid 80 s they were monster truck than the newer version
Thanks for watching Bruce 👊🏻
I was 12 to when I got my first Tamiya a hornet and raced a little. I am Tamiya lover to and people poo poo me for it. They are so ingnorent of them these days as well a the old kyoshos. It is sad and kyosho is my second favorite hobby car company, my first is Tamiya.
Brad Kalman
We will keep spreading the Tamiya love my friend 😊👊🏻
Hey Glenn watch my videos please I'm going to be running my grasshopper soon I just put a video up of what it looks like now please watch my videos.
Tamiya just don't care about racing anymore unless it's the TCS. I really don't think we'll see another TRF buggy or even modern race buggy from Tamiya unless the whole of RC racing completely changes from what it is currently.
Yeah that’s quite sad really 😬😬😬
1st!! Looking to this.
Excellent 🤩🤩🤩
Wow never seen or heard of those cars. I always felt Tamiya never really got into hard core racing, in the beginning in the 1970’s the little rivalry with Kyosho, I always felt, as David, Tamiya was a back yard fun buggy. I think that hurt Tamiya a little bit because they never seemed to be a name in the racing circuits.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment 😊👊🏻
😯😦😧😮😲😍👍🏽
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
HAA I WAS RIGHT :D
Yep you called this one my friend 🤩🤩🤩
@Chris McRoy 211x and 411x :D
Well if it is, it won't make you rich.
😎😎😎😎😎
Thanks for watching 😎👊🏻
Awesome 👍