fredswain wrote:
For those of us the grew up in that time, it was fun. It was what we knew. We didn't know anything else and as such didn't know that there was an easier or better way to do things. We didn't feel that 5 minute run times were terrible. We thought 6 minute run times were awesome! It's all about perspective. We didn't know that replacing brushes and cleaning motors was a chore. It's what you did. I can see how it would be tough for someone who wasn't there to fully understand what significance of this car is. I can pretty much already predict that when it's released there will be newer people that will buy it because of the hype who will end up hating the car. It won't handle as well. It will be tougher to build and will be less forgiving at the track. While that is all completely valid compared to the offerings that are available today, it's just the way things were back then. Things may have been tougher but it's what we knew and enjoyed. For many, having this car is all about temporarily reliving a time period in our lives with others that is long gone. A fun time period.
Somebody asked for opinions, I gave mine.
If you're going to take what I said out of context, I don't know what to tell you.
MelvinsArmy wrote:Is everybody excited to have a new RC10 that they can run and not be afraid of scratching and breaking, or are people more excited to have a new box to put on the shelf to collect dust as an "investment"? All this talk and concern about limited numbers begs the question.
fredswain wrote:.
I predict that when it's released there will be newer people that will buy it because of the hype who will end up hating the car. It won't handle as well. It will be tougher to build and will be less forgiving at the track. While that is all completely valid compared to the offerings that are available today,
Are you guys just discovering the rere phenom now, or what? You are predicting an obvious thing here... Been like this with tamiya rere for years now... And still it doesnt deter them from goiing on
Rcrob do you have anything positive/constructive to say or some knowledge to share or some cool vintage cars to show, please? Thank you...
Paul
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scr8p wrote:He asked why are you on this forum? With all your been there done that talk, you may be more suited to a forum that deals with more modern stuff.
Or you just think third times a charm.....
He was joking, I would hope. Otherwise it's none of his business.
I don't understand your obsession. You know they make meds for that kind of stuff.
Go pick on one of the other guys that, like me, thinks people aren't going to be as excited about these once they try to build and run them.
Lonestar wrote:
Rcrob do you have anything positive/constructive to say or some knowledge to share or some cool vintage cars to show, please? Thank you...
Paul
Paul, I haven't been negative, just talking like everyone else. You're welcome to come over and visit so you can see my old worlds and nats cars from back in the 80s if you'd like.
Lonestar wrote:
Rcrob do you have anything positive/constructive to say or some knowledge to share or some cool vintage cars to show, please? Thank you...
Paul
Paul, I haven't been negative, just talking like everyone else. You're welcome to come over and visit so you can see my old worlds and nats cars from back in the 80s if you'd like.
Then all I'm asking is you post some pics and descriptions on them on the forum to at least show us you're not just here to post stuff... I assume you are now getting the feeling that there is some resentment building towards you at the moment. So now might be time to embrace the values of this forum you basically just joined and share some vintage "content", just like most of us do
Now back to topic - on oOple Jimmy is already laying the foundations of a spec class... Do you think this could be the case in the US? Let's not even speak about western europe
Paul
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Blue Was Better - now, Blue Is Bankrupt.
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They must have you seeing something that's not there, because I don't have multiple accounts.
You'll do what you want, I don't really care. It's not like you're paying me to be here.
It's one thing to be bullied by the wanna bees living in their mom's basement, kinda pathetic to have mods doing the bullying.
Funny thing about bullying, it can be done in a passive aggressive way too, kind of like gnats flying in your face. When you mean wanna bees, you mean guys that ran the worlds, but didn't A-main?
So, back long ago when I was in middle school and bashing around with my RC10 CE and regularly reading RC Car Action, I seem to remember a how-to published on how to modify the 6-gear transmission in order to reduce internal friction. I don't really...
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here it is:
you can do it two ways, running a spacer inside the outdrive where the inner non flanged bearing went, or with a sleeve on the outside of the outdrive behind the 3/8 x 5/8 bearing.
Hi guys. Here is my Team Associated World's Car re-release. I completed the build last year (Sept. 2016). Some of you might remember seeing it. I haven't done anything to it since then, and it has only been driven a couple times. It was a really fun...
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Savox can be loud, I almost always use the same model, some make noise and others not a peep. Go figure. I saw a review online that showed Turnigy 1258 is basically identical but around $40. I may try one.
do they give full PDF archives with pictures or just rsandom pages?
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so you have to pay $20 a year for this? Or does $20 pay for life? I subscribe to the magazine now, they should give it to me for free lol
the sub is $20 per year. but once you download them you have them. It is quite a large amount to download...
Anyone remember Jeepinator(sp?) from the RCCA forums? He was a huge ae fan, and I still remember him buying the first production graphite RC10, and he had many other sweet RC10's. Man I was jealous of him. And Im also jealous of many on these...
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I think you can find info about his RC10 Graphite HERE .
who here is in the new car action vintage section? the new rc car action has the vintage nats in it and i bet some people on this site have cars in the mag. so whos in it?
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Well I'll give you a lesson the handful of dirt oval racers (myself included) have learned. The way to get the coverage you're looking for us certainly not by being negative about what you HAVE received. From any magazines side of it, we look at not...
Hey gang. Long story short-ish, I pulled my vintage clodbuster and rc10 team car out of my dad's storage and wanted to get them going again. The clod is all stock and and the rc10 qas sporting a novak 410 m5 with a speed gems onyx 14t brushed motor....
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What did you end up doing with the old Onyx Speed Gem>?
