JHarris, one of his sons and I tried our hand at getting a vintage class started for the 1st time this last Saturday April 17th, here in the Central Florida Area. The three of us brought our old Team Cars down to the local indoor track and registered them in the stock class with the other guys running mainly B4 buggy's. I used my entire 1997 electronics setup, but with a newly purchased brushed motor. I still haven't made any move towards the brushless setup yet. JHarris and his son ran the beautifully done-up bright purple and bright blue chassis, the cars drawing much attention from the others. The neat thing about the way that JHarris builds his cars is that he has the long front shocks (short truck ones?) on the front of his cars and with a long front tower in a way that makes the car look like it is running the standard shocks from the RC10, Like I am running. You almost forget they are the long front setup from the neat way it looks!
JHarris also brought out and ran his Pro Radiant in the mod 4WD class, to duke it out with the B44's.
All in all we had a great time, and I was very pleased that we had all the Team Cars in the top 4 positions during qualifying; we also had a Team car with the TQ after the 1st round of qualifiers, and a Team car with the TQ overall after qualifying was completed! How's that for the resilience of this vintage race-proven weapon against the much newer B4 buggy's!!!!!
In the end, the vintage Associated Team cars ran away with the wins!
We got the Pro Radiant a little more fine tuned and have a definite direction of things to do to it to get it perfect once again. That car is going to be a serious contender as it had tons of power, and handled the terrain very well; but a slipping rear diff robbed the car of a little power and drive-ability in the corners. This adjustment along with some more rigid frames and towers should launch this car again as a serious contender in 4WD once again!
Comments from some of the racers as well as one of the owners of the track, to the vintage cars racing along the newer B4's were very good, and one comment stood out as this one person mentioned "You guys may have the B4 guys wondering about bringing out their Dad's old vintage cars now as those cars you guys ran were beating up on their new cars".
Hopefully we will have a steady vintage group racing here in Florida soon, as the indoor track we go to has a fantastic racing surface and the facility is great and comfortable.
JHarris took some video footage of some things, maybe we can get some "stills" from it to post for everyone to enjoy. I should have asked my wife to take pictures, maybe next time.
Here is one of the cars ran by his son, one of the most beautifully prepared and looking RC10's. Check out the wing mount!:
Here is JHarris' car, another one of the most beautiful prepped and sweet looking RC10's:
His Pro Radiant; you really need to see this car running. Makes you relive the past to see it motivate around the track:
and my car; maybe next time I will have a gold chassis RC10 prepared for me to run: (I edited this post and changed the pic to show my car AS it was run, the previous pic I had here was with the tires I arrived with for practice.)
I can't wait for you all to see another of JHarris' creations, his youngest sons RC10 is going to be spectacular as I have already seen the start of it!
