New UK member - Midlands based

Forum rules, site questions/comments, new member introductions.

Moderators: scr8p, klavy69

Post Reply
User avatar
dinglem
Approved Member
Posts: 1374
Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:45 am
Location: Lichfield, UK
Has thanked: 243 times
Been thanked: 626 times

New UK member - Midlands based

Post by dinglem »

Hi all,

I have been meaning to sign up on here for a while, and have been browsing for a while.

My name is Martin Dingle, and I used to race during the late 80's and early 90's. Bit of fun initially when I was in my early teens, with a Tamiya Bigwig and a Mardave Meteor to thrash around in the street, but I then started going to my local indoor club (Perry Common Buggy Club) and started racing the Meteor indoors on carpet - I was hooked.

Over the next few years I went through a few other cars and also joined The Three Tuns club which was outdoors based on grass (with a bit of mud at times), and progressed to a CAT XL and eventually onto a pair of Optima Mid Turbo's. I developed pretty well with those before eventually buying a Yokomo 870c. Then things began to get a little more serious as I started to get tempted into the Radio Race Car National Series. I entered a few rounds in the late 80's and averaged around the B-Finals with the odd hit up into the top 10.

By early '91 I had a YZ10 Works car, heavily modified, as well as an awesome Graphite RC10 which was also very heavily modified, and I was a regular A-Finalist with those, gaining sponsorship from MG motors and getting my hands on selected batteries from Central Models (CML) who also provided us with some trick parts for the cars. My father built and modified the cars - I just raced.

We had a Shinwa Motor Dresser to set the motors up, and also a matching Shinwa Rolling Road to set the cars themselves up with.

I came 3rd overall in the RadioRaceCar national series that season, with a few overall race wins and FTD's.

I then went off to Uni, discovered beer and boobs and that was the end of my racing days.... until now. Last week I got chatting to a few friends and there was mention of the old cars, so over the past couple of days a bit of rummaging around in the loft has unearthed all of my old kit. I will try to post up some details of the Yokomo and the RC10 in the correct sections below, and hopefully i'll be able to work out how to upload pictures too.

I look forward to chatting and browsing, and hopefully you can remind me of what I have actually got as the details are very very hazy.

Cheers Mart
CAT SWB&XL, Meteor (x3), RC10 custom, RC10 Graphite, Goldpan, 870c (x2), Works 91, Samurai, Pro Radiant (x2), Mini Mustang&Maxima, Mid Turbo, TOP Hybrid , Coyote, Hot Trick Optima, Supercharge, Brimod, 'Rory Cull' Hotshot, SRB.

User avatar
jwscab
Super Member
Posts: 6479
Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:42 am
Location: Chalfont, PA
Has thanked: 10 times
Been thanked: 434 times

Re: New UK member - Midlands based

Post by jwscab »

great story, welcome aboard! Everyone loves pic, so get some posted of your racing machines!

RBT84
Regular Member
Posts: 0
Joined: Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:32 am
Location: England

Re: New UK member - Midlands based

Post by RBT84 »

Welcome, I'm also Midlands based (Tamworth)

User avatar
Trackingz
Approved Member
Posts: 126
Joined: Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:20 am
Location: UK
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: New UK member - Midlands based

Post by Trackingz »

Hi Martin cool RC history i used to do the radio race cars not quite A finals but great meeting used to run a losi xx and yokomo 92/93
looking forward to seeing some pics of your old buggies
james
Gloucestershire
Formerly known as veeza

User avatar
dinglem
Approved Member
Posts: 1374
Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:45 am
Location: Lichfield, UK
Has thanked: 243 times
Been thanked: 626 times

Re: New UK member - Midlands based

Post by dinglem »

RBT84 wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:12 am Welcome, I'm also Midlands based (Tamworth)
Sorry - only just seen these replies!

Tamworth is only down the road from me. Where did you used to race??? Did you ever make it to the 3 Tuns?

I'll stick a few shots of my cars here although there are a few threads running on them by now....
14812963_307314139654663_2125839188_oA.jpg
14825697_307314092988001_2001749332_n.jpg
14799817_307284249657652_1026825311_oA.jpg
14858822_307284106324333_1110432770_oA.jpg
14808857_307284112990999_1538646758_oA.jpg
CAT SWB&XL, Meteor (x3), RC10 custom, RC10 Graphite, Goldpan, 870c (x2), Works 91, Samurai, Pro Radiant (x2), Mini Mustang&Maxima, Mid Turbo, TOP Hybrid , Coyote, Hot Trick Optima, Supercharge, Brimod, 'Rory Cull' Hotshot, SRB.

Post Reply

Create an account or sign in to join the discussion

You need to be a member in order to post a reply

Create an account

Not a member? register to join our community
Members can start their own topics & subscribe to topics
It’s free and only takes a minute

Register

Sign in

  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post
  • What are these old 12s based on...
    by j.costick » » in Associated On-Road Forum
    8 Replies
    1172 Views
    Last post by j.costick
  • M-05 based MiniClod
    by gumbajv » » in Tamiya Forum
    26 Replies
    3195 Views
    Last post by gumbajv
  • M-05 based VW singlecab
    by gumbajv » » in Tamiya Forum
    0 Replies
    589 Views
    Last post by gumbajv
  • New SCT XXX Based
    by slotcarrod » » in 21st Century Modern
    22 Replies
    1817 Views
    Last post by Coelacanth
  • Checkpoint Yokomo based
    by V12 » » in Vintage Electronics
    0 Replies
    673 Views
    Last post by V12
  • Any idea what this truck is and what it is based off of?
    by vwlvr1980 » » in RC10 Truck Forum
    6 Replies
    1086 Views
    Last post by vintage-tman
  • New Optima-based Build
    by ROH73 » » in Kyosho Forum
    45 Replies
    7168 Views
    Last post by ROH73
  • T2 #6132 Body - what was it based off of?
    by teman » » in RC10 Truck Forum
    15 Replies
    1290 Views
    Last post by teman

Return to “RC10Talk Welcome Center”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 15 guests