Ivan “Ironman” Stewart has been my favorite driver since I first discovered off road racing in the 80’s…

DELUXrc recently sent us a link to his Facebook page full of his RC photos. This is the first…

Off Road Action reader Paul Kobierski just sent in these cool pictures of his three vintage R/C’s…

While checking out bringatrailer.com today I saw this beautiful 1979 Toyota 4×4 that’s for sale on eBay…

The first General Tire sponsored race vehicle was this Desert Rat 1980 Toyota 7s race truck.  After contacting them for sponsorship General Tire started supplying them with tires that were built in their “hand built” shop with heavier sidewalls.  The tire at the time was the Grabber AP and the program ended when Continental bought [...]

While looking through some YouTube videos of vintage RC cars I came across the Blazing Blazer I posted earlier.  And I just found these videos of the original Tamiya Toyota Hilux 4×4.  These are model # 58028 released by Tamiya in Nov 1981. Original Tamiya video showing multiple RC trucks pulling a real truck and [...]

My first truck was a 1983 Toyota 4wd long bed. I cringe every time I see this picture hanging in my friends house of a smashed ’83 short bed. Their family owned an insurance appraisal company and they were called to write up this truck. The driver was on an icy highway and lost control [...]