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Godspeed, Mr Provetti.

Met him once at a large hobby show as a young lad. I worked at a hobby shop so we had a booth. Used that angle and some friends and I ended up buying bulk motor brushes from Trinity. I like to think my 14 year old business savvy conversation with him made it happen. We made a custom jig and were hand filing the brushes to unique profiles we believed helped at the time. Whether they did or not, well....

They were quite popular locally, and I even ended up selling out of state to several tracks. That's my Ernie connection.

I never got the privilege to meet Uncle Ernie but he was definitely a larger than life icon in the industry and will be greatly missed.

The fast guys at our local tracks in the 1980s ran Trinity motors.

My whole goal in life as a 12 year-old kid was to save up enough money to buy a Trinity 'Pure Gold'...
- To this day the parts-mat on my work bench is a Team Trinity mat.

I never met Mr. Provetti, though I think I saw him at 'RCX' in Pomona, CA, about 15 years ago.


R.I.P.

Meet him at the 1996 Onroad Worlds when we were pitting in the Trinity pits.

RIP

Trinity had one of the first forums on the internet, of which I was a member, as was the founder of Clodtalk, which is how I got to CT, along with many of the original CT members. This was around 1999/2000 when I bought my first Clod. And, as many of you know, RC10Talk spun off of CT. While I wouldn't go as far as thanking Ernie for this little corner of the web we all enjoy, he did play a big roll in the RC industry.

Hopefully Trinity will continue in his absence.

What was Ernie like? Seemed like a garrulous, friendly, larger-than-life kind of character. Looks like he could be intimidating if he was mad lol. I only know him through the old school RC magazine photos from old.

TokyoProf wrote: What was Ernie like?

The best way to answer that is to just say, it’s best to never meet your heroes.

TokyoProf wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:44 pm What was Ernie like? Seemed like a garrulous, friendly, larger-than-life kind of character. Looks like he could be intimidating if he was mad lol. I only know him through the old school RC magazine photos from old.

He was pretty gruff and take no prisoners on his forum in the early days. Don't know what he was like in person, but I'm guessing a very strong personality that rubbed most folks the wrong way.