Famicomblog

After taking my broken old blue Lefty RX on an awesome tour around town last week I decided to do a little online shopping to see if there were any available as I didn`t have a complete, fully functional one. And I found one! A red one! Complete in box!

I entered a bid and long story short it arrived a couple of days later.

It is sooooo smooth.
The controller is pretty nice too. One button is all it takes.
This thing was really complete in box, even with the vintage 1972 batteries still in there.
It also came with the fuel pit refuelling station:



And the decals still haven`t been applied.
Far and away the most interesting thing though was this advertising flyer for Nintendo toys from 1972. This is awesome.
It is full color on both the front and back and has prety much all the toys that Nintendo was trying to sell back in the early 70s.
They were selling my Ultra Machine for only 1480 yen back then:
My Electro Safari SP and SP light gun were also on there:
I`m quite happy with this new acquisition, I now have a blue, gold and red Lefty RX (though only this red one is CIB).

This is the city. I live here.


And this is my car. 1972 Nintendo Lefty RX. Blue. Only turns left. Don`t ask why.

I like to cruise the streets with it. Looking for trouble in all the wrong places.
Anybody seen any trouble around here?

No? OK, good. No harm in asking.
Perhaps I should explain. This cool blue car is a 41 year old piece of Nintendo`s past: the Lefty RX!

You can read a really good write up with all the details about its history and specs over on Erik`s awesome blog here. Basically it was a remote controlled car that, as the name perhaps suggests, could only turn left.
Mine is a really beat up one that is missing everything except the car. Originally they came with a remote control and a bunch of other bits and pieces.
So mine is purely ornamental, but that is cool with me. I like ornaments.
The Lefty RX is a pretty good looking car. I`m not sure what it is modeled after, it looks like a cross between a Corvette and a Fairlady Z, but who knows?

I also like the fact that it has the old school Nintendo logo right on the hood.
This isn`t a new purchase, I actually picked this up a couple of years ago when I was living in Fukuoka and have been meaning to do a post about it ever since. They came in three colors - blue, gold and red. I also have a gold one in equally beat up condition but I kind of like the blue one better. I hope to find a red one someday to complete the set.
I took these pictures on my way to and from work today. It added a bit of fun to what are usually uneventful bike rides.
These are pretty hard to find, but they don`t seem to be too expensive, mine only cost 500 yen each (about 5$). Ones in better condition with their boxes would go for quite a bit more than that though.

Either way, this is one of my favorite old Nintendo toys. I keep these prominently displayed in my man cave, a must have item for the discerning Nintendo collector.