The mid 1980's saw the rise of scale Monster Truck craze from TAMIYA especially from its dominant rival competitors from MARUI but TAMIYA push up more with lines of beautiful scale monster trucks to keep them above the R/C pyramid. One of the first R/C grade monster truck i saw was the BLACKFOOT, black red theme color with stricking Caterpillar yellow tractor like wheels make its appearance around the track more striking and tempting...very 80's especially lots of TV series and movie came out lots of truck scenes on TV back then (Hint: The Fall Guy). It was first release in the late 1986, was originally named as TAMIYA FORD F-150 RANGER BLACKFOOT. It has original authentic bodyshell design replica of FORD F-150 and decorated with real life sponsor decals especially the striking big BFGOODRICH, KC DAYLIGHTER and FORD labels around its body kit. BLACKFOOT main chassis is based on same platform use by THE FROG buggy used in 1983. However these BLACKFOOT only available between 1986 till 1982 and later re-release in later 2016 dropped the used of replica labels/decal probably due to copyright reason and did some design modification to its body front grill and remove the FORD emblem, yet it still retain THE FROG platform and overall cosmetic theme. More than 3 decades later i pick the kit and enjoy being part of classic history of R/C monter truck world, by today standard it does looks really good, technically interesting to build and fun to drive.
