My RC Cars
First One – 1:8 Scale Corvette
RC Cars History
Early Experimental 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 – Combine These
1965 “Bill Eccles” (Charles Eckles, actually) Prototype Cars – Combine These
1965 Howard G. McEntee RC Tonka Truck Conversion
1965 Norb Meyers Prototype Cars
1966 Spencer Murray MCS Project Cars
1977 Article in English mag may lead to earlier Tether/RC conversions
Early Commercial Cars
1965 German HEGI Porsche 904 GTS kit with electric drive and wooden chassis on a scale of 1:8
1966 NAMCO Cars and Racing Series
1967 April Car Model Magazine – 1:24 Scale RC Car
1967 July Car Model Magazine – RC Gas Propeller Cars
1967 Japanese Propo Steering 1:15 Electric Toyota
1967? 1:11 scale Nissan Silvia Need more info, anyone?
Background Historical Information
Magazine Articles About RC Cars 1964-1973