New old guy in the SE USA

[Wahrsuul]

Greetings,

When I join bike sites, I have a prepared, amusing and totally fictional intro I usually post, but since this isn't a bike site....

So, where to begin...I started in RC while stationed in Japan in the lat 80's. We had a small track out behind the base hobby shop, and ran races once in a while, and in my brief 3 year stay, I amassed a collection of 30-some-odd vehicles, and a lots of assorted parts.

After leaving Japan, I wound up in balmy Omaha, NE. I tried to back into RC there, but support was limited at best, with most of the attention being on 4-cell carpet racing. So I played around a bit in the yard, and slowly slipped out of the hobby.

Fast forward mahny years (around '02), and I'm in South Carolina. We'd just bought a house with a couple acres of land, and my son and I figure we have plenty of room to make our own track. So we looks for a some new(er) vehicles to go along with it. I happen upon a deal for an HPI RS4MT. We set it up, and decide to find the local track and see how well it runs. I'm somewhat surprised when I can't even get close to making the jumps, and wonder why. Well, seems I've been out of RC so long, that I missed all the updates in electronics. Brushless motors, LiPO batteries, 24.ghz, etc. So, my son and I opted to just stay in our yard.

More time passes, and many life changes. I got rid of a large part of my collection, and I spend the colder part of the year turning one of my old cars into a shelf queen. Not really restoring, but disassembly, cleaning, polishing, maybe a new body if the old one is ugly. While looking for parts online, I start finding out there are people still enjoying these old beauties, so I figure maybe I ought to rejoin the workld and see what's up. Maybe even find somepeople locally to "race" with.

I can't recall exactly how many cars I have, some are still packed away and have been for years, and others are scattered on different shelves out in the garage. I do know I have:

HPI RS4MT w/Bab bug body
2 Kyosho Lazer ZX
Kyoshso Optima Gold Edition
Kyosho Optima Mid
Kyosho Optima Mid Custom
Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special SE
Kyosho Maxxum
Kyosho Turbo Rocky
Kyosho Slingshot
Kyosho Double Dare
Kyosho Arctic Cat
Kyosho Double Dare
Tamiya Clod Buster
Tamiya Avante
Tamiya King Cab w/stadium body
Tamiya Monster Beetle
Tamiya Thunder Shot converted to a Terra Scorcher
AYK Viper 4x4


I think thats all of them.

[Coelacanth]

Sounds like a great collection you have there. Unbox them and take some pics, we all love RC porn. I'd love to see the Optimas, AYK Viper and the Turbo Rocky. Welcome to the forum.

[Wahrsuul]

Thanks.... Luckily, the Turbo Rocky just got cleaned/polished this past winter. It still has the dull "running" body, I just haven't gotten around to getting a replacement for it. But the rest looks great now. It's one of the few cars I didn't buy new, but traded one of mine for.

I really like the car you have for an Avatar, what is it?

[Coelacanth]

Thanks.... Luckily, the Turbo Rocky just got cleaned/polished this past winter. It still has the dull "running" body, I just haven't gotten around to getting a replacement for it. But the rest looks great now. It's one of the few cars I didn't buy new, but traded one of mine for.

I really like the car you have for an Avatar, what is it?

Click the CYANide link in my sig for a closer look...you will recognize it.

[Wahrsuul]

Ah, got it... looks good, I like the color.

Ok, how do I post pics?

[Coelacanth]

There's 2 ways to share a picture. Either you copy & paste the link to an online image, perhaps on an image-hosting site like Photobucket or Imageshack. Or, you browse and select a picture you already have saved on your hard drive, but option 2 requires that the picture be in a manageable size, not 5 million by 3 million pixels, for example.

[Wahrsuul]

The Viper pics are in the "all others" forum, though they might be a bit small. Working on some of the others.