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Haha, trash talking RC owners. Saweeet!

68keyblr said:

The gas cars are a hoot! Especially the nitro moster trucks...very fun.

I raced a modified class 1/10 electric...blew the doors off of the gas cars. I used to love to line up next to the gas cars in the parking lot for a little drag race. They always thought it was a joke until they ate my shorts

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Interesting. I wonder how long before that statement holds true for full sized cars?

I have some old touring cars, an HPI RS4 (the old one with a rear gearbox) and a Tamiya TA02-FF (FWD). I tried the drifting thing with some home meade tires and it was fun for a while, but I got bored.

Back before I was even a teenager I was into the stadium trucks. I raced a Traxxas Hawk in stock class and actually won against a bunch of Losi and Associated trucks with much better equip. I had an off-brand motor, Dynamite and Duramax batteries, no peak charger, a semi-offbrand truck(with bushings, not bearings!), and a basic Futaba radio. Then I stepped up to a Traxxas LS-2, but lost interest in racing.

I also used to have a Traxxas Nitro Hawk, but That was back before nitro was widely accepted. There were no tracks around here that would allow gas R/C. I got rid of it because of the relatively high maintenance. I still have all of the R/C cars except the nitro.

BTW-like any hobby, R/C cars are definitely NOT cheap.