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One of my favorite AE ads from 1979/80. I believe this was one of the classic ads made by Chris Chan.

--Kent

The car at the Ranch was my winning car as it was raced in 1982. Right now I have it at work getting ready to take some studio photos that I'll post sometime next week. My colors were a white car with yellow/kawasaki green/medium blue stripes. I replaced the yellow with graphite grey sometime in the...

Here are some oldies.

The holy grail of Reedy shirts...
Most of these are Reedy shirts. Mike always liked to have his own designs made for the Worlds.

Congrats on the purchase, nice signatures. That one jogged my memory. This one's an HPI shirt signed by several IFMAR World Champions. Clockwise from the top left: Masami Hirosaka Joel Johnson Mike Swauger Cliff Lett Butch Kroells Chris Doseck Brian Kinwald Tony Neisinger Kent Clausen Atsushi Hara G...

Here's my minty fresh 1985 EX-1

Here's a pic of the car in its current form on display in my office. The body is my concours winning entry from the Thunderdrome the next year, complete with moving driver helmet and almost all of the logos are painted inside the body. The only logos that aren't paint are the small Autographics &quo...

Fun article Jeff. Going way back... When I started in 1978 most people were using 1000mah GE Ni-Cd's or Saft. The GE's had a green shrink wrap on the individual cells, or white shrink on 3-cell sticks. The Saft sticks were white also. Around 1979 the Sanyo 1200 SC cells came out with the yellow/red ...

In the late 1970’s Electro Craft had an ESC that gained popularity at the NORCAL 1/12 electric racing series in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. I think Electro Craft was based nearby in San Jose. They had a fast sponsored driver named Steve Betts. As I recall they had some overheating and ...

I was digging through my R/C stuff and found instructions for the Pro Control. A few creases but still fairly intact.