Young Scout Enthusiasts!

[Chavannigans]

Chronologically, I'm between the OP, and most of the rest of the denizens here (from the sound of it anyway).

I had never heard of scout, until I went to a friends house in High school, and saw a "weird old car" parked/rusting in the backyard. Taking a look, I found it was a Scout 800. We got some friends together, and actually got close to getting it repainted (we sanded it/prepped it, but then... paint cost money... so it didn't happen).

And I had an "older buddy" (looking back on it, he was probably my age now ), who was REALLY into rock crawling (serious stuff, king of the hammers, etc). And he said he'd run into a super cool Scout at moab a while back, it used a gyroscope and air suspension keep the vehicle flat on sidehills. Ever since then I've been "aware" of them.

Also, looked at your profile briefly OP. Turns out, I've got family from Madera, and spent a few weeks out there as a kid visiting cousins (a day or few every year or few). Small world .

Personally, while offroading is definitely a thing I was into, its not something I'm actively into atm. That said, I do value the "swiss army knife" sort of design of the scout and vehicles like it, and do actively participate in outdoor sports like mountain biking, backpacking, snowshoeing, etc. So while I'm not really going "offroading" I'm going "crappy forest roading" and "can I get out of the snow that fell while I was snowshoeing and still get home" all the time.

Here is the ZJ I bought in college, and still have, all these years later. Its got a 3in lift, 31in tires, and open diffs. Its got swaybar disconnects, and is otherwise pretty low key.

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The Jeeps been through a lot, and I've still got it. But I really, really like the idea of the EREV Traveler replacing it, as we love our PHEV Hyundai Tuscon we've had the last 3 years. More range, more space, more everything, sounds good to me .

The jeep costs me $7 to drive to the local trail system just 10 miles away (14mpg). The Tucson costs me ~$0.80 to do the same trip.

The local goods .

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We share a similar illness

I just turned 37 but I still play with toys

 

[Logan]

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We share a similar illness

I just turned 37 but I still play with toys

Late 30's here too.

The Redcat Gen8 v2 Scout is my first 1/10 scale crawler. I had a Panda Hobby Tetra X2 for a few years. I got that one during covid "for the kids", as it was 1/18 scale, and we could actually play with it inside the family room.

I will say that the 1/10 scale ones while not ideal for inside, do work a LOT better outside. They can drive up most stuff that people can reasonably walk over, and they work great to give a "something else to do" to a young kiddo. Plus with the batteries you can get 4-5 miles out of them. Good stuff.

 

[cyure]

Late 30's here too.

The Redcat Gen8 v2 Scout is my first 1/10 scale crawler. I had a Panda Hobby Tetra X2 for a few years. I got that one during covid "for the kids", as it was 1/18 scale, and we could actually play with it inside the family room.

I will say that the 1/10 scale ones while not ideal for inside, do work a LOT better outside. They can drive up most stuff that people can reasonably walk over, and they work great to give a "something else to do" to a young kiddo. Plus with the batteries you can get 4-5 miles out of them. Good stuff.

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It’s always “for the kids”. My husband and I are that way with Legos but now the kids are adults. Lately our new tradition is my husband and I get a big Lego set for Christmas and build it between Christmas and New Year. The hardest one so far was the Lego Typewriter. It’s fun to do stuff like that. Everything doesn’t always have to be so serious.

 

[Chavannigans]

Late 30's here too.

The Redcat Gen8 v2 Scout is my first 1/10 scale crawler. I had a Panda Hobby Tetra X2 for a few years. I got that one during covid "for the kids", as it was 1/18 scale, and we could actually play with it inside the family room.

I will say that the 1/10 scale ones while not ideal for inside, do work a LOT better outside. They can drive up most stuff that people can reasonably walk over, and they work great to give a "something else to do" to a young kiddo. Plus with the batteries you can get 4-5 miles out of them. Good stuff.

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Same haha.

I got a Redcat Scout “for the kids” during COVID too. But I have 4 kids and everyone was fighting over a turn with it.

Then I got a TRX4 Bronco and then they fought over the “faster one”.

Then we got a Redcat Scout Axe Edition.

Then the TRX6 for me.

We would take them to the local park and they would have hours of fun with them.

Later we got a TRX4 Sport that I installed a 2700kv Axe brushless system in and it lives in my office. I take it out on the campus mountain bike trails on lunch breaks when I am feeling overwhelmed and need a minute.


We got the 24 scale Axial Jeeps for indoors but the kids took them outside and drove them through water when I wasn’t home so they are not working until I replace their parts.

It’s a fun hobby but it gets expensive if you have destructive kiddos. We put that on pause until mine are a little older and more responsible.

All of this made me realize I technically already have two electric Scouts