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Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:58 pm
by Bongo Fury
Actually Mr. Lex, I greatly enjoyed the thread from last year, pictures and stories, I'm sure many others did as well. Please all, do continue that.

Sean, I was thinking more of the audio & video, chance to put mugs with the screen names, see the cars, closeups and running, hear some stories as they happen. It was a great thread, anything that adds to it would be awesome.

I know, I know....when car sales/economy pick up I plan on avoiding the whole coverage subject, I'll bring my own camera to add to the Losi team. :mrgreen:

Oh, btw, my Team Driver (ok, my son) was born in 1994, is he legal??? :wink:

Cheers!

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:57 am
by Orange
What are the popular car choices besides the RC10 for this race?

Is there a list of the rules somewhere? Just wondering what is and isn't allowed on the cars or be done to the cars.

Thanks

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 12:57 pm
by civilguy
Rules are to be the same as last year. Here's the thread: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=5291&start=0

The idea is pre-1994 kits with modern electronics/electrics allowed. There are motor limits- 27t brushed, 17.5 brushless and you can use modern tires/wheels.

As far as what is "popular", the RC10 was the big draw in the buggy class. There were a couple Losi buggys too. I may run a Traxxas Rad2 this year just to be different. ;)

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:07 pm
by badhoopty
Orange wrote:Just wondering what is and isn't allowed on the cars or be done to the cars.

Thanks
the rules were pretty loose & the 2 lead buggies were pretty much stock worlds car setups iirc.

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:52 am
by Brandon G
Any new updates on this race?

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:48 am
by civilguy
I am interested too-- RCHR still has Labor Day listed. Erich posted 6 weeks ago that it's Sept 18-20. I'd like to see that Erich and Mark & John are communicating and that things are moving forward. I understand this event takes a ton of effort to put together and RCHR is gracious enough to host it, but I wouldn't expect them to do the legwork to pull in sponsors, etc. Plus if the planning and coordination isn't happening now or very soon I don't see how it would happen anywhere near as successfully as last year. Just my thoughts.... I really want to go and I truly want this to be a great event. I'm just not confident. :(

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:51 pm
by markt311
Hopefully it does happen, maybe someone out near RCHR can go ask some questions and get us online guys that want to go some concrete info.

Thanks
Mark

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:44 pm
by tecnica2001
I just posted a heads up to Mark(RCHR) on the RCtech forums, as far as I knew, the VONATs are still on.... :wink:

Re: 2009 Vintage Off Road Nationals !!!! -- Tentatively Schedule

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:08 am
by civilguy
tecnica2001 wrote:I just posted a heads up to Mark(RCHR) on the RCtech forums, as far as I knew, the VONATs are still on.... :wink:
Hey Freddie- I am sure that Mark is on board and RCHR is totally willing to host the race... no doubts there. It's just the organization of the races, sponsors, prizes, etc. that I am concerned about-- and as far as I know that's not on RCHR's shoulders (nor should it be). I know what it takes to get our local trophy races off the ground and those are small potatoes compared to this event. A big red flag for me is that Erich posts a date change six weeks ago and RCHR still has different dates on their site-- it's a bit worrisome. The guys who need to get airfare will want to be watching for deals. We're only 3-1/2 months out now.

It will still be a fun weekend even if it is more of a club race than what it was last year. I was just hoping to see some hype by now-- it seems like the first one was talked about forever. :D