Radio Race Car 1985 World Championship

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Radio Race Car 1985 World Championship

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Radio Race Car September/October 1985
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Re: Radio Race Car 1985 World Championship

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Nice article terry.....and to think I was just a young'n when this was taking place :D
Old school racing all the way!

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DAMN, I can't get over how young Jay and Gil are in those pics.

Gil is working for Kyosho now and has GREY HAIR!

Great find.



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Re: Radio Race Car 1985 World Championship

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i love vintage racing.. even if you had a scratch built giloppy car held together by epoxy and random balsa wood supports, you really did have a good chance to compete and win. and look at the variety of cars there, i mean i know they are mostly some of the same models/brands.. but now you goto a 2wd race, and you see b4's, xxx's, maybe a kyosho and possibly a tamiya... this is in the US of course. my track 98% of the people run b4's.

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Funny you say that Mikedealer I always wanted to go to my club and race something old against all the current cars and see exactly how far I can get. Surely to some extent your driving capabilities would have to be extremely high before you have run your car to its full potiential and need a car that was more tunable.

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I was only 5 years old when this was happening :shock: Cheers Terry!

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This my Dog Fighter is the clone of Herbert Hanss's concours winner car. His car was the 1st. place of C-main in that race and was one of my most favorite modified Yokomo when I was boy. Herb used be a driver of CRP, and won lots of concourses in 1980s. I love his cars.

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These are from my archive...

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I have that Trinity shirt in long sleeve that Eric Soderquist and Gil are wearing. Too cool. Great photos!


I used to love the CRP/Scorpions from those photos. Vince Ito was doing many of the cartoon drawings in the race ads and t-shirts back in the day. He was a mainstay in any concours event at any race he went to. It's too bad that concours isn't done more often anymore.



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Keep the race pics coming guys (Tak thank you!!!!) this is what I love 8) 8) 8)

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Not RC10 I admit but a fair collection of buggies all the same, bought a FA Kyosho Motorbike and all the fliers were still inside
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Man, dig all the tube socks in that first pic! LOL! YOu know where this hobby has gone horribly wrong... no one does concours like that anymore. That's when this was truely a hobby... now its just about toys and not modeling anymore. :(

Just my two pennys as an ex-magazine guy who just got his hobby back in the past few months.

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Erich Reichert wrote:Man, dig all the tube socks in that first pic! LOL! YOu know where this hobby has gone horribly wrong... no one does concours like that anymore. That's when this was truely a hobby... now its just about toys and not modeling anymore. :(

Just my two pennys as an ex-magazine guy who just got his hobby back in the past few months.

You may be right Erich. The end of the golden age of R/C racing is directly paralleled with the demise of the Concours competition at larger races. Racing now is all about the newest CNC'd part, injected molded composite or one-race tire. Unfortunately, the fun of the hobby has all but been sucked from the life of R/C racing. Threads on various racing forums discuss how to bring back old racers and bring in new racers to the fold, yet everyone overlooks the simple factor of FUN.

At least we have all figured out that the old stuff still holds a lot of fun memories for us.

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I love Vince Ito's illustration too. He had done also DJ of that IFMAR race. I think he is one of the special person of the 80's RC scene except for a-main drivers.

These photos are from Gene Husting's DVDs. So, he has the rights.
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Team Japan!
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Modified class. The big guy standing at the control line would be Gary kyes.
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Modified class. The big guy standing at the control line would be Gary kyes.
Modified class. The big guy standing at the control line would be Gary kyes.
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Stock class, left side is Jammin's winner car.
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Stock class, left side is Jammin's winner car.
Stock class, left side is Jammin's winner car.
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Roger Curtis and his creative, RC10 4WD
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Roger Curtis and his creative, RC10 4WD
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These are also from Husting DVD. 1985 ROAR Nationals.
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Open class. Eustace moore had changed his 4X car from Rough rider to RC10 around this race.
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Open class. Eustace moore had changed his 4X car from Rough rider to RC10 around this race.
Open class. Eustace moore had changed his 4X car from Rough rider to RC10 around this race.
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