Lurker comes out of the shadows
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:22 pm
Hey guys (and gals)! My name is Gary and I have a problem. I'm addicted to RC cars! I really don't know why. My first car of any sort was a Tyco Turbo Hopper I got in 1987. I found a Tamiya Super Champ at a local swap meet and bought it because it looked so cool. I had great fun with it until one day I walked into a local hobby shop and saw the "real" RC cars. I was pretty poor back then but my wife was understanding and let me use all of our discretionary income one month to buy a car. The lhs guy was very helpful and steered me toward an RC10 kit, and convinced me to buy a set of bearings with it. I took it home and had a great time putting it together, even with the limited tools I had at the time. I made several trips to the local track but then they closed. At some point i had also acquired a Tamiya Frog as well but i didn't do much with it since it seemed so inferior to the RC10. Now the sad part. The local track closed, I moved on to "real" cars, thought I was too grown up to play with toys. I sold all three cars and all of my gear to a guy for a hundred measly clams. If I had only known... Anyway, fast forward to 2008 and I'm on one of my hot rod forums browsing through the for sale items. There was a guy who had a pair of Losi XXX-s sedans with radios, batteries and a charger plus spares for $125.00. At the time I justified buying them with the idea in mind of putting muscle car bodies on them and going Trans-Am racing. Anyway, one thing led to another and me and e-bay got to be real good friends. I currently have about 50 cars, mostly Tamiya, but I have two RC10T3's and 7 RC10 buggies, a couple of Losi's and some other stuff. Most of these cars need attention of some kind or another. I tend to take the most pleasure out of restoring, or at least improving old, beat up stuff. New cars, although I admire the technology just don't fascinate me as much. I'll be posting some pics of each of my cars in the appropriate forums and keep you updated as i make changes. By the way - I am in awe of what you guys do here. Some of your cars are just amazing! My stuff may seem mundane by comparison but I have to work on a budget. I have a couple full size hot rods and kids in college to deal with. :/ Here a few of my RC10's. You may recognize some from e-pay. Sorry about the pic quality. These are from the ads. It will get better I promise!