Ruffy's '93 Worlds car and other vintage items
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:59 pm
I was an AE, Reedy, Proline, RCPS and Novak then LRP driver seems like eons ago, and qualified for the '93 Worlds at the Nationals held in Dallas,Tx prior to them.
I still have both of my Worlds '93 RC10's (race and backup car), and just like I ran them during the World's in 1993 at Basildon, England. Came back to the USA and put them on the shelf and never ran them again. I did throw out the old used tires though and they have other tires and rims on them now. I even have another one still NIB as well in case I needed parts.
I still even have my Kyosho 4WD car I ran there, with the specially machined (swiss cheese) CF chassis and shock towers as well as all the additional blue delrin hub carriers and blue anodized parts the Kyosho factory reps brought for me to the World's. The car even sports the special ultra thin, world's race team thin lexan Lazer body and undertray to reduce weight even further.
At the hotel we all stayed at, my room was right across the hall from Brian's... and Scott and I got into a little trouble for glueing Brian's door shut one night with CA and kicker. He had to call the front desk and Management had to come pry it open. Scott did most of the damage, but I should have stopped him, but yeah it was all out of fun because he locked himself in his room.
I also remember the Francis brothers getting into a little bit of mess too, with other drivers from the ground floor, which involved a "wet toilet paper" battle from the ground floor to their room window...needless to say imagine what the side of the hotel looked like 3 or 4 stories up with all the paper stuck to it that missed.
I still have the handed out registration british envelopes (2) that have the event, my name, numbers for the cars, with the round Euro numbers (see Brian's winning Worlds Car article) with the club letters BRRCA underneath them still new like I just got them today.
I'll post pics soon of the these things for this great site.
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I just got done taking these pictures of two of the 12 cars I still own from my racing career with Associated. The body I ran at the Worlds is still in the attic in a "old bodies" box I have.
The car on the left is the car I ran at the '93 Worlds for Associated
The car shown in the next 2 pictures below is the other Worlds Car (backup)
The following images are from 1993 at the World Chamionships in Basildon, England. The tent area was huge, and every team had long pit areas assigned to them. I was pitted next to Cliff, and across from Matt Francis. Brian was across from Cliff, with J.D. Beckwith next to Brian.
Hamming it up for the camera:
My car and Cliff's car just before we started to pack for the night. Cliff was running Orange wheel stickers and I was running Neon Yellow ones in our main to add color to the event.
I still have both of my Worlds '93 RC10's (race and backup car), and just like I ran them during the World's in 1993 at Basildon, England. Came back to the USA and put them on the shelf and never ran them again. I did throw out the old used tires though and they have other tires and rims on them now. I even have another one still NIB as well in case I needed parts.
I still even have my Kyosho 4WD car I ran there, with the specially machined (swiss cheese) CF chassis and shock towers as well as all the additional blue delrin hub carriers and blue anodized parts the Kyosho factory reps brought for me to the World's. The car even sports the special ultra thin, world's race team thin lexan Lazer body and undertray to reduce weight even further.
At the hotel we all stayed at, my room was right across the hall from Brian's... and Scott and I got into a little trouble for glueing Brian's door shut one night with CA and kicker. He had to call the front desk and Management had to come pry it open. Scott did most of the damage, but I should have stopped him, but yeah it was all out of fun because he locked himself in his room.
I also remember the Francis brothers getting into a little bit of mess too, with other drivers from the ground floor, which involved a "wet toilet paper" battle from the ground floor to their room window...needless to say imagine what the side of the hotel looked like 3 or 4 stories up with all the paper stuck to it that missed.
I still have the handed out registration british envelopes (2) that have the event, my name, numbers for the cars, with the round Euro numbers (see Brian's winning Worlds Car article) with the club letters BRRCA underneath them still new like I just got them today.
I'll post pics soon of the these things for this great site.
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I just got done taking these pictures of two of the 12 cars I still own from my racing career with Associated. The body I ran at the Worlds is still in the attic in a "old bodies" box I have.
The car on the left is the car I ran at the '93 Worlds for Associated
The car shown in the next 2 pictures below is the other Worlds Car (backup)
The following images are from 1993 at the World Chamionships in Basildon, England. The tent area was huge, and every team had long pit areas assigned to them. I was pitted next to Cliff, and across from Matt Francis. Brian was across from Cliff, with J.D. Beckwith next to Brian.
Hamming it up for the camera:
My car and Cliff's car just before we started to pack for the night. Cliff was running Orange wheel stickers and I was running Neon Yellow ones in our main to add color to the event.
that what i was thinking... was hi running a graphite nose plate with a cut 10T bulkhead? 