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A while ago, a friend on the west coast sent me a crudely ripped DVD from a video that he had from when he was a kid. He's my age, so he's had it for a while. We both grew up with electric off road cars since the debut of the RC10, and he was lucky enough to have not gotten rid of a real produced video of the 1985 IFMAR World Championships, that most people didn't even know existed.
I have also been sitting on http://www.vintageRCcars.com for a while as some of you know. I have long had the intention of building a bit of a museum for vintage RC racing content—like archives, magazines, ads, videos, instruction manuals, photo gallery, product lists and part numbers, as well as potentially a discussion community for all pre-1993 race cars—not just devotion to one brand or class style. I have had ideas for this site for some time, just not the time to invest in even getting it off the ground. Plus, I didn't want to tread heavily on other sites like this one and TamyaClub.
Last week at the race track, while reminiscing over old times, cars and parts, Rob King (AscotConversion) mentioned the PDF archive of RCCAs here. I hadn't seen it before, so I went digging and had some trouble chasing all of them down on active servers. I eventually found all of them and decided to throw them up on my server that houses my other site, ApexSpeed.com. So there they sit now, with no restrictions, and no space limitations, and the rest of the site has now finally started to be built around those original ideas.
So vintageRCcars.com is now live. Sort of. Not much there, really, and no timeline to continue building. I guess it's more of an indefinite work-in-progress, more than anything else.
With that, I also decided to start to rip the DVD I had sitting around here with the coveted first off road World Champs from 1985 in Delmar, California, at what was then the Ranch Pit Shop, Delmar. They have not been permanently affixed to the new vintage website yet, but they will be tomorrow. I figured I'd give you guys a preview of the videos, though. There is some pretty neat stuff on this DVD, and eventually, I will get all of these things out there. Interviews, car shots, crazy camera shots and bad 80s clothes and music. I have some footage from some California on road races from the mid 80s, as well.
For now, though, check out the three races from the triple A-main in the Open/Unlimited Class, which eventually becomes 4wd Mod. The interviews with Jay and Gil on these clips are priceless on their own. REALLY cool stuff, and a lot more on the way.
1985 IFMAR Off Road World Championship Open A-main (A1)
1985 IFMAR Off Road World Championship Open A-main (A2)
1985 IFMAR Off Road World Championship Open A-main (A3)
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