Editing Radio-controlled car (section)

===Early commercial RC car kits===

Toy and hobby companies had been selling various motorized model vehicles for many years but interest in commercial production of radio-controlled model car kits began with hobbyists -
 
- 1965 - In the July/August 1965 issue of American Modeler magazine, Walter McEntee, called the “World’s best-known writer of radio control news” published a picture of five people with transmitters racing five cars (in a slightly snowy lot) and the caption, “West Germany’s Schuco-Hegi outfit offers Porsche Carrera 904GT racing coupe kit for multi-channel operation. Car is 22.8” long on 12.6” wheel base, uses two Monoperm electric motors. Kit has ready-made plastic body, special front suspension parts and diecast wheels. These demonstration cars were said to have Metz Mecatron 10-channel superheterodyne radio receivers".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Palmeter |first1=David |title=RCModels German Hegi Porsche 904GTS |url=https://palmeter.com/rcmodels-german-hegi-porsche-904gts/ |website=Thirteen Point Seven Billion |publisher=David Palmeter |access-date=18 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=McEntee |first1=Howard |title=Everything Under Control: McEntee on R/C |journal=American Modeler |date=July 1965 |volume=62 |issue=4 |page=44}}</ref>

- 1967 – In the March 1967 issue of Car Model magazine, an article by an experienced RC airplane hobbyist, Tom Dion of Michigan, USA, outlined how to build an RC car and announced the availability of 1:18 scale RC car and radios in component kits.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Palmeter |first1=David |title=RCModels History - NAMCO |url=https://palmeter.com/rcmodels-history/ |website=Thirteen Point Seven Billion |publisher=David Palmeter |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dion |first1=Tom |title=A Revolution in Racing: Radio Control |journal=Car Model |date=March 1967 |volume=5 |issue=8 |page=27-31}}</ref>