Punky Brewster goes R/C

[Mr. ED]

that frog is sitting in a glass display case at "granbury hobbies" which is the shop in my town. the driver of the car in the show was chris alec. sound familiar to anyone??? he's the "alec" in "alec & lane manufacturing", or a&l mnfg. he owns granbury hobbies now. i just found this out this week actually. i knew about the frog, but not about a&l until he told me. he also makes bodies for team losi and jammin products. he's got a ton of photos of him and halsey and losi jr. all racing together. he still speaks to both losi's, and halsey quite regularly. he does'nt brag much, so you kinda gotta pry info from him. oh yeah, one more thing, he told me that when he moved to texas a few years ago, he threw away "hundreds of those damn trailing arm kits"!!!! anyway, i think its pretty cool, and he has tons of cool stories. his shop has a lot of vintage pics, and trophies, and pretty much just like a time warp.

You should invite him over to the forum. His old buddy Darryl Lane hangs around here sometimes too.
He didn't throw away everything and still regularly sells of a couple things on the bay and here.

Edit: now, if you get us a picture of that frog, that'd be almost as nice as the late-version-punky picture

[vruland74]

i'll try to take a pic of the frog next time i go to the shop, maybe this weekend. i told him about this site, so we'll see if he shows up.

[Wyattriot77]

Hey while your scoring pictures of the frog, Could you post some pics of the shop and any other cool stuff he might have in it?? Like vintage pics and such??

Thanks!!

p.s. ask him how it was to drive that infernal contraption on the show....lol

[vruland74]

i'll get pics of whatever he lets me get. there's a lot of magazines, photos, and some other cars. TONS of trophies. im not very good at taking pics, but i'll do the best i can.

[Wyattriot77]

Bump!

Any luck on the pics??

[Charlie don't surf]

No one mentioned that richmond was the kid from A Christmas Story "oh my god I shot my eye out!"

[mrlexan]

No one mentioned that richmond was the kid from A Christmas Story "oh my god I shot my eye out!"

I mentioned it, top post of page two.

[Charlie don't surf]

oops, but now I know we are the two coolest people here

[Bormac]

As dorky as it may seem I remember watching that episode of Punky Brewster when I was a young teenager. Back in those days those cars were the fresh thing on the street and like most neighbourhoods ours had a collection of kids that owned cars like the Hornet,Frog,Hot Shot etc....then i turned up with my Optima . Yep those were the days.
I remember seeing punky on a TV show a few years back,I still can't get over just how hot she is now days. I remember thinking that the role she played in Punky just had me wanted to punch her in the face,but now im sure like everyone else there's something else i'd prefer to do to her- Ha Ha aha

[rc10DS fan]

anyone have a recent pic of da brewster??