- All righty, what do we have on the bench today?
A box that I got from Ebay.
You guys have already read the video title
so you know what's in here.
This is the first time I am seeing it.
And a lot of people ask me where I get my RC products
and all over the world.
Actually mostly I start with Google,
and I try to find what I'm looking for
and that usually leads me to the right spot.
But a lot of places I do and I scour
over the last eight years,
because there's really neat things that show up there
is Ebay.
Not a sponsored video, just trying to help out some folks.
There's lots of different Ebays all around the world.
If you check them out and look for RC products
and different types of toys and things like that,
you can find some really good finds.
That's where I found the vintage Tonka Winnebago
that we did a giveaway on a short time ago.
But, I don't want to take up any more time,
just blathering along here.
Let's actually see what's in the box.
Want to be careful when cutting with a razor.
Oh yeah, it's repackaged again.
Now Ebay is hit or miss, right?
You can, I've been burned on Ebay so many times.
But if you do your research and try to figure out,
you know,
if you're getting a good product...
You guys will be figuring it out with me today.
I got one.
But, being 36 bucks U.S. is what I paid.
A lot of people don't know,
you may have seen that
I was actually
had a video that was an update video about my shop.
I'm painting the shop floor right now.
Now, I've been wanting to do that for a long time
because of dust and it just looks a heck of a lot better
when it is completed.
But my buddy, Everett, the fifth scale boss,
is actually into smaller cars as well.
Not recently, but in his past days, he actually was into
small racing, carpet racing, and he still has
a huge carpet racing track.
So we thought when the shop floor was painted,
we could always take it out and see if we could
check out some of these mini cars.
Now this is the first time I'm opening this.
It was sold as-is, I already know.
But check it out.
"XMODS Racing Tour is headed for your neighborhood."
Cool, man.
My first XMODS.
I see it's been repackaged on the inside.
Very cool.
Super Street, upgrade it now.
I wonder how old this is.
XMODS.
xmodsrc.com
I guess I'll start there.
As far as I know, XMODS aren't made anymore.
Please don't take my word for that because I really
haven't looked enough.
But this is a used vehicle.
And I do have other small vehicles like this, so
I'm interested to see.
Owner's manual.
No dates on here at all.
Guess my 90-day warranty is over.
(laughs)
All right, what do we have?
Spare parts,
Oh, body kit parts, I ended up getting a Nissan Skyline.
I was pretty excited to get, get it through the auction.
Just extra parts here, thanks for doing a good job
packaging it up,
to the Ebay guy that sent it to me.
Whole bunch of little motors here.
They actually didn't have a battery for it.
So they don't know if it works.
I had to take it as-is like I said, but,
why not take a risk?
Sometimes it pays off.
Aha.
Come on out.
What are you stuck on?
I don't want to pull the front bumper off.
Nissan Skyline.
Man that looks awesome.
Now this is brand new for me,
and people are always asking me, you know,
what's a good RC starter, you know?
I know these are different type of hobby grade.
Just for racing.
But I'm excited to learn more about this.
Now I do have a different car as well.
I actually ended up getting in Hong Kong
at the first store we visited.
Here is the radio for it.
Wow, crystal and all, good.
Wa ha ha ha ha.
Everybody else, if you guys have experience with XMODS,
please post it up.
If you have videos about your XMODS, anything like that,
post it in the comments section below.
I want to learn more, I'm right on the edge, right?
I can see that this is busted right here.
That's okay, I can glue that back into place.
Yeah, I'd love to know your experiences
or what you know about it.
I know it's an older tech.
But still I think it will be fun for some ripping around.
Especially if we have a few friends in our area,
that actually have
cars like this.
Look at that, you think that's on purpose?
(laughs)
It must be because,
no it can't be.
Well maybe it is, who knows?
Normally when you bend something like that, it snaps.
But I don't see any issue there.
Right there.
There we go.
Then the front comes out, got it.
So the motor's in there right now.
What the heck, does it have,
what is that?
It has lights.
Awesome.
(laughs)
Here's a look inside the car.
What a tiny little guy.
Okay so I must have AAA batteries around here.
Do I have a nine volt though?
Hmmm.
Of course I do.
(laughs)
Okay so,
moment of truth, my friends.
Nice power.
Now where is the on / off switch on this little fellow?
See a gear back there.
Motor to the pinion gear in the back.
And on and off on the bottom.
Here we go, one two three,
Does it do anything?
Oh no.
Nooo.
(laughs)
Oh, look at this.
I see a wire right here.
Oh I bet you I just need a soldering job.
Let me just make sure and confirm what I'm seeing.
Yes, popped off.
Well darn, I don't have my soldering iron here.
I actually have it back at the shop right now
because I was doing some extra stuff.
I won't be able to test it, but
you guys can tune in next time to see it.
Unfortunately, sorry about that, guys.
Still, with the XMODS, I'm excited.
It looks like everything's on there.
Very interesting about how this wheel floats around.
I'll have to have a look at that.
But this one does, too.
Tighten everything up, that's a little bit too loose.
But I'll get in there and have a look.
Here's the little car that
Luke and I ended up picking up on our second day
of being in Hong Kong.
Just to rip around in the hotel rooms and
up and down the halls there while we were waiting for the
scale invasion event that we attended.
Check it out, this thing is very powerful.
I got it at the first RC store that we stopped at
on our searching for RC stores.
And you know, it's an excellent little rig.
2.4 gigahertz, two cell lipo battery that's in there.
Actually has quite a bit of running time on there.
Great all-wheel drive, the suspension is pretty good,
and you know, it is what it is, a fast little ripper.
So when I was thinking about that and looking at that car,
and that got me looking on Ebay looking at XMODS
and all the things that people have been doing
with those over the years, and wow like,
really really cool.
Even though this is the older system with the crystal,
you know and it's kind of old technology,
I still think it's important to go back and have a look
at where we have come from in the RC hobby
to really appreciate where the technology
has its history.
So why not do a little bit of upgrading?
Hopefully I can tighten up this car.
It takes double, or triple As, so I,
you know I got a bazillion of those laying around.
Might as well have some fun with it.
Got that carpet track,
the shop is almost painted up,
and, you know, we're excited to get this going
and really kind of check out something new.
So guys if you have any comments about XMODS
or little cars like this, or cars that you want to suggest
that we look at that are smaller for the race track,
go ahead, post it up in the comments section below.
Of course, be a subscriber or a part
of the notification squad so you can keep up-to-date
on what we're doing with the carpet racing track
and how it's all gonna come together.
I'll be showing you guys, I know we'll be getting friends
out there that have these cars and we'll be having
a good time during these winter months.
Why not go inside and have some fun
with the hobby of RC?
Okay guys, thanks for tuning in.
Til next time, bye.