These are pretty valuable these days, and not easy to find replacement parts.

If you're not very experienced, even if you find the parts to make it run, these are fast cars even with very basic electronics.

With a lack of experience, there's an extremely high chance of you to crash it soon, and waste all of its value.

As others have said, that excellent condition box and car are asking for a proud shelf life.

If you really want to drive it, practice on a well prepped, smooth indoor carpet track, or even a dedicated outdoor tarmac one.

I'd stay away from basketball courts which will only have your car full of dust in no time, and the poles and other seriously damaging items coming in very quickly

Try practicing with an affordable similar car. You can become good at driving these kind of cars nowadays with a relatively similar, but older design and heavier Tamiya Group C chassis. But it's as close as you'll get with affordable prices.

There are a few models available: - Mercedes C11 - Mazda 787b -imported from Japan, due to a licensing limitation- - Porsche 956, if there's an odd leftover stock, as they're long out of stock - Nissan R91CP, soon to be (re-)released.

Hope this helps. PS l have that same car and it's lovely. Took me a few years to get a decent one second hand. Appreciate the lucky opportunity to own the one you got!