Jalopnik: radio control

Hummer H3 R/C Car, Just Because They Could

Wes Siler — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:15:00 EDT

Hummer UK have converted this H3 to remote control. Intended for off road use only, it can traverse 16-inch vertical walls, 40% side slopes and two feet of water, all while you stay level and dry, presumably from the comfort of a lawn chair.

The lads and ladettes over at Hummer UK are all about the crazy marketing stunts, having put the first H3 imported into the tiny island nation into a gigantic toy box. This R/C conversion was carried about by Cranfield Universty and continues the Big Boy's Toy marketing theme. It's interesting to see the vehicle being marketing solely on its recreational image, but the company does note that a diesel H3 will be available "within three years."

Radio Controlled House Leap

Davey G. Johnson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:45:00 EDT

R/C cars are wonderful implements of mayhem when used correctly (The Dead Pool, anyone?) These nutters put a launch ramp together to see if they could get a car to clear a house. We do, however, worry about the sanity of the rooftop camera man. Good job not getting whackarooed by a nitro-powered, buzzing projectile. [via Fast RC]

Porsche 959 Decals!

Davey G. Johnson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:00:00 EDT

The poor guy who created this page had no idea that one couldn't create one's own repro decals by scanning them and printing them out. It reminds us of being a youngster and finding out that 150dpi RGB images were no good for four-color, on-press printing. What's more, he's optimistic in thinking that copying a decal set by a vector artist will cost him a mere fifty samoleons. Nevertheless, the man does have a great archive of '80s-era R/C car decal sheets. Our favorite is the one from Tamiya's wonderful 959 kit. We kind of want to make our own life-size Rothmans water-slip decals and post them on every transparent surface within a three-block radius. [Vintage R/C Web]

Retrofit Your R/C Car to Run on Hydrogen!

Davey G. Johnson — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:00:00 EDT

Holy Castle Bravo test, Dr. Teller! Horizon Fuel Cell, whose H-Racer ready-to-run R/C car we told you about moons and moons ago, has come up with a fuel cell retrofit kit for Tamiya's TT-01 chassis. The kit also comes with some sort of futuristic body, but we're thinking that we'd resurrect that old '67 GTO body we stuck on our Tamiya Fox back in the '80s and go the kandy-kolor-brush-painted-by-a-preteen route. Either way, Horizon's setup allows uninterrupted, Dead Pool-style 1/10-scale hoonage for up to 70 minutes. Whoomp. – Davey G. Johnson

Fuel cell kit for Hobby R/C Cars [Gizmag]