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RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 4:01 pm
by GoMachV
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Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 4:12 pm
by 1911Colt
Godspeed, Mr Provetti.

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:37 pm
by RCveteran
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.

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:04 pm
by duckhead
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. :(

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:46 pm
by dldiaz
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.

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:35 am
by V12
Meet him at the 1996 Onroad Worlds when we were pitting in the Trinity pits.

RIP

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:20 am
by Halgar
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.

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:44 pm
by TokyoProf
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.

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:14 pm
by GoMachV
TokyoProf wrote: What was Ernie like?
The best way to answer that is to just say, it’s best to never meet your heroes.

Re: RIP Ernie Provetti (Trinity)

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:45 am
by Halgar
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.