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1992 at a makeshift BMX track.

1996 converted my Lazer ZX to a touring car with TF2 arms, own made towers and ta02 shocks.


2000, my Lazer ZX and my Kawada Alcyon Touring Car




My Optima Mid Custom, that video on youtube is of this car.

Friends Egress and OM Custom

Egress Again



My Turbo Optima Mid



1990, my pals newly built Lazer ZX

With a trophy from a race in 94.

some old school racing, im the young kid here

https://vimeo.com/90092928

Found some old pics from the mid '90's...

Me and my homeboys Futaba FXT's we got from Tower for like $50 back in the day. Still got mine...



My TA02 Promarkt Benz (still have this too but now with a Datsun 240z body) and my crazy fast Yokomo YR-4 with 2 speed. I remember getting caught running a mod motor in stock class. I had a Trinity Ruby speed gems in it and I was blowing doors on the straights. Sold chassis on the bay years ago. Stupid me.



Another TA02 with Saturn body



My Kyosho TF-2 (never liked box art) I still have this car 20 years later.

Found these while at my parents house this past month. This was just after AE sent me the right shock set (my 6036 came with gold bottom loaders) circa early 1992

here I am...my punkass in 1985ish......at the track ....pockets not tucked in, zipper not zipped up, shirt and pants are too small, definatly a skating rink comb in my back pocket and probably flooding up a storm.....thats the drivers stand and moto board behind me ...the track was right here in Michigan city Indiana... across from a baskin robbins...

I tore up my grandparents garden to build a track...









I am the one in the awesome red shirt...



plenty of issues with this pic..can you name them all?
ill start...white washed converse's...antenna is 2ft. in the air...off road dirt car on grandmas nice white davenport...

dsmith wrote:plenty of issues with this pic..can you name them all?
ill start...white washed converse's...antenna is 2ft. in the air...off road dirt car on grandmas nice white davenport...

You forgot the 80's parted, feathered hairdo.

Howdy,

Found these and couldn't resist sharing them with everyone here.

First up: Futaba FX10, pretty much a Chrismas Day marathon build with my brother.
Next is the obligatory pic of my Blackfoot "crushing" my FX10. This pic was a pretty big deal.
Parma Body
Trinity Shocks
JG front bumper
See's directional fronts w/rattle canned rears
The TRX-T Eagle, brand new, think I had 1 or 2 battery packs through it at this point.
Racing it. I like to think I'm way out front, that is why no other trucks are around.
With awesome dye job and Toyota extra cab. Look at those flames and my homemade side dams to keep dirt out (RCCA Pit Tips) If you look closely at the gear cover......The Blue Eagle transmission upgrade! Sadly, I have no pics of the LS upgrade package I added shortly after.
Then the TRX-1...Close to the end of the roll here and the pic is garbage. I like to think of this as a "spy shot" because I thought that car was the baddest thing around.

That's it man. Thanks everyone else for sharing.

Mark

My 15 minutes. I remember being so fired up over the "racing trucks" vs. "monster trucks" thing that I flipped and felt I needed to throw in my $0.02. Here it is, APR '91 RCCA, Letters................
Yeah!

Mark

a couple pics from apprx 1990 at our backyard track - when Off-Road ran on real dirt





and a couple more of my Graphite 6 gear car in 1989, guess we liked our stickers

That looks great. Real dirt for sure!! Must have been a blast.

Yes, racing on "real dirt" is fun.

I think I posted these in a different thread. I'm guessing these are 1987-1989.













There's an RC10 under there:

TRX-1-3 wrote:My 15 minutes. I remember being so fired up over the "racing trucks" vs. "monster trucks" thing that I flipped and felt I needed to throw in my $0.02. Here it is, APR '91 RCCA, Letters................

RCCA.jpg

Yeah!

Mark

I subscribed to RCCA back then and I remember reading your letter!

Diamond Dave wrote:That looks great. Real dirt for sure!! Must have been a blast.

I totally agree. Looking through these pics was awesome. I think the one thing that omst of us agree on is that racing back then was wayyyy more fun, partly because of the track atmosphere, but mostly becasuse of the dirt. BRING BACK THE LOAM!!!!!