RC Cars History

Overall RC Car 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

1965 Astro Car Ford Galaxie

1966 Testors Mustang

1966 ElGi Ferrari 250 LM – NOPE, not the first!

1967 Imai Kagaku

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

Tamiya Ferrari F1 Cars

Buggy for The Girls