RC Cars History
Early Experimental Radio Controlled Model Cars
1930s and 1940s – There were RC AIRPLANES back then, why can I not find any RC car history?
1954 Ford Industrial Arts Award RC Car Winner
1954 Howard G. McEntee Porsche 356 RC Car from his 1954 “Radio-Control Handbook”
1955 Ford Motor Company RC Car
1956 Ford Industrial Arts Award – Second RC Car Winner
Musciano Book Pg 156/7
Early 1960s Bill Johnson Experimental Car
1964 Rod & Custom Models Big “T”
1964 Dr. Hans Feldmann – An Early German RC Car Pioneer
1965 Charles Eckles Prototype Cars
1965 Howard G. McEntee RC Tonka Truck Conversion
1965 Norb Meyers Prototype Cars (Need to add Ra/Car catalog pix)
1966 Spencer Murray MCS Project Cars
1967 Car Model – Propeller Cars, No Throttle
1978 Article in English mag may lead to earlier Tether/RC conversions
Early Commercial Radio Controlled Model Car Kits
1965 German HEGI Porsche 904 GTS kit with electric drive and wooden chassis on a scale of 1:8
1966 NAMCO Car Kits and Racing Series
Early Commercial Radio Controlled Ready-To-Run Model Cars
1955 Radicon Radio Control Bus
1956 Radicon Radio Control Oldsmobile
1966 ElGi Ferrari 250 LM – NOPE, not the first!
1967 1:24 scale Maserati 3700GT RC ProConMini by Nichimo from Japan
1967 July Car Model Magazine – RC Gas Propeller Cars
1967 Japanese Proportional Steering 1:15 Electric Toyota
1967? Aristocraft 1:11 scale Nissan Silvia
Background Historical Information
Radio-controlled car – Wikipedia I have been updating the ‘History’ section
Magazine Articles About RC Cars 1964-1973
Midwest Series – First Regional Championship Series
Possible very early RC car information: Model Airplane News
My RC Cars
First One – 1:8 Scale Corvette