Hello.
I'm Steve.
I am 35 right now. Birthday is April 16 if you would like to send a card, or a set of JRX2 sliders....
This is the first time I have clikcked the chit-chat forum here.
I love RC. Started with Nikko's, Radio Shacks, etc, when I was but a youngster. Always amazed with RC.
We had a camper in the poconos, and one summer there was a hobby shop that put up a tent at some county fair up there. We spent some time there, and I left with some kind of Tamiya / MRC catalog, that listed out their cars, and also I disticntly remember had track layouts in the back of it. I also remember for the rest of that week, maybe summer, I obsessed on the Fox in that catalog, and on what the best track layout might be that I could cut into my back yard.
That xmas, samta left me a Fox, a Charger, a battery, a futaba magnum, everything I would need to get that car going. How did he know???
Built it immediately. As you might have read in the Tamiya post where I just found a sweet Fox for next to nothing, I vividly remember building that car on a table next to the fridge in the kitchen. Dad helped.
A day or two later, I accidentally (remember I was 9 or 10) overcharged the 6 cell hump pack while it was in the car. The pack melted. The car melted. I was heartbroken. Another vivid memory.
Peeled the battery out of the car. I'm sure my parents were just happy the house didn't burn down. We figured out that just the lower chassis was damaged. Local hobby shop in Red Bank had the chassis, and a new battery, and I was back in business. Since I built the car myself, fixing it was no problem.
Raced that one around for years. Had a local hobby shop within bike distance, that had races every weekend. The Fox front end was a crash course in suspension tuning and roll control.
Who the hell decided to put one shock across both arms, it's like they wanted the car to sway in turns. Anyway, maybe I'm just bitter. We ran Foams, Onroad, I guess the original "bomber" class.
One day Charlie, the owner, mechanic, salesman, secratary, and hair dresser at Parlor Hobbies (was in the back of a beauty parlor, hence the name!) had a JRX2 up on the top shelf, brand new, just in. This was late 1989 / early 1990. Like the Fox, this car was now possessing 95% of my thought cycle. Thanks to a catholic Confirmation party, and saving up money, the dream of owning that car came to be in spring of 1990.
Charlie converted the car with Foams, repositioned shocks, and an IROC camaro body. I kicked ass with that car, but soon for some reason stopped racing.
So here I am. 10 years ago or so ago I started again picking up JRX2 parts. I now own an almost mint JRX2 buggy, two JRXT trucks, and thanks to this place a JRX2 Advanced Racing Pan conversion, something that I would have loved to have back at Parlorr Hobbies in the early 90's. Didn't even know it existed until I saw the thread here. And that's where I ended up buying one. Even without B/S/T access...... lolol
I like this place. I have been visiting for I dont know how long, just recently joined due to the motivation of "having to own" that pan car, and I find myself in a community of like minded lunatics.
I said I love RC, and I mean it. I fly rc. I have rc boats. I have rc cars. But lately I find myself happier tinkering and staring at the old stuff. I am also blessed with a little girl, 8 years old, who loves whatever daddy does, and is my rc buddy whenever and wherever.
That is the best reward of any of what I wrote above.
So here I am, and hello.
We all have periods in our lives we look back on and wish we had done things just a little bit differently. I guess thats where the experience we get with age comes from.
