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The quality of this video is truly piss-poor, but, if you can stand to watch,
there is some very cool vintage Japanese 4wd racing (Kyosho & Tamiya).

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I think I just had a seizure.

Anyway, once I recovered, it was a cool video. The most surprising thing about those 4WD Hornets, mind you, *wasn't* that they were 4WD--but that they actually had working suspensions! I wonder what kind of re-engineering was done on those suckers to make them handle the bumps so well...

Imagine any of those cars on modern tracks you'd need a lot of parts!

I have to have a closer look at those "hornets". All I see are hornet bodies.

gomachv wrote:Imagine any of those cars on modern tracks you'd need a lot of parts!

I have to have a closer look at those "hornets". All I see are hornet bodies.

I was thinking the same thing on both counts:

1) the track is very smooth, not more than a few inches of air over those "jumps".

2) I may see a hornet chassis tub in there, but totally different transmission, suspension, etc.

Yes, terrible video quality for sure, but it has me thinking of Rally cars. Is there any type of modern r/c racing that uses a touring car type track, but made with dirt and maybe even a few very tiny bumps or hazards? I think it would be a lot of fun. Mainly the high speed sweeping dirt turns and low speed curvy areas.

Now that's the kind of off-road racing I like! None of this eight-feet-in-the-air motocross jumps and rock-hard surfaces. Loose, a little bumpy, more about the turns than the obstacles. Like watching a miniature version of Pikes Peak.

That’s what tracks where designed back then almost no jumps. A few bumps her and there, maybe a table-top. First in the mid 90’ tracks started to get more and bigger jumps, at least in Europe. I think you guys in US started that that trend about 5 years earlier. So a 25 years old car has a hard time to survive on a modern track without breaking down.

What I don't like is that modern RC cars are disproportionately fast, WAY faster than the full-scale cars they're models of, and the ridiculously high & long jumps just don't look or feel "right" anymore.

I wish YouTube had a tracking button.

I can't believe they didn't use pit tables and just sat down in the grass. I would personally lose so many parts if I did that.

LTO_Dave wrote:I wish YouTube had a tracking button.

YouTube has a different kind of tracking.

LTO_Dave wrote:I wish YouTube had a tracking button.

I can't believe they didn't use pit tables and just sat down in the grass. I would personally lose so many parts if I did that.

I thought about that to! I had a little foldable camping table when I started in 85. But I didn’t have that many spare parts, nuts and screws, some gears and an extra set of tires and a few tools.