Totally not heli related...

[rovpilot26]

Buuuutttttt....

Does anyone do 1/8 scale buggies?

I raced nitro buggies for a long time and then got out of it...

I am in the process of converting a Jammin X1 CR pro buggy to electric...

So far it is looking to be a promising endeavour...

[Wazzer]

I used to race 1/10th electric buggies converted to on road use.
I raced indoors on carpet with foam tires it was awsome i loved it allot.
I wish we had brushless motors and Lipos back then!

The sad part is that when you are 16 "toy RC cars" dont get you the girls!

I sold all my kit and built an awsome Kit car instead.

http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=108211&stc=1&d=1249006613


She really helped with the Girls!!

I am now classed as an adult (kind of) and married so i can afford to play with toys again.
I have a 1/8th savage truck thay i muck about with every now and again and its great fun.

Cant beat the thrill of flying Helis though.

Ben

[rovpilot26]

Nice ride...

I ran back in the day of the frog and grasshopper with mechanical ESC...

I also have an Xray T2'008 that is a fun car for onroad... Different driving technique... Loving BL for sure!

Did I mention nice ride? :noteworthy:thumbup:

[Wazzer]

LOL
you can imagine the reaction i used to get with that car at school!

I bought it really cheap, it was already built but a real Dog

I spent almost a year stripping it down and rebuilding, had it resprayed as well.

It is a VW beetle re-body job and as such had the old 1300 air cooled flat four in the back.
I ran it using some ultra short Beach buggy exhaust system that made it really loud not like a 1300 at all. It was really light as well so acceleration was pretty brisk if not fast.
I liked the 1300 engine as it made insurance cheap for a firts car.

You can imagine how impatient i was to get my license when i hit 17.
I passed my driving test exactlly 2 weeks after my test which is as fast as my instructor could teach me.

The picture isnt my actual car, i had a two tone silver red paint job but its almost exactly the same otherwise. Sadly i dont have any picturs of my actual car.

Cheers

Ben

[rovpilot26]

Just the same it is righteous! :noteworthy

The beetle with a twist... :clappp

[kahn10]

15TH BIRTHDAY...LUNCHTIME:sit and get drivers license in beetle..have short argument about the possibility that perhaps someone had been driving without a license maybe..

15TH BIRTHDAY...EVENING:deystroy both sides and back of beetle by hitting(if i remember correctly) bank,bank,bridge...bank.did i mention it was my parents v dub

15TH BIRTHDAY...LATE EVENING:decide beetles are blot on the landscape while attempting to create story explaining 3 sides of beetle that didn't involve it being my fault

15TH BIRTHDAY...2 MINUTES LEFT...give up and decide to hate beetles passionately for the rest of my life.......

[Mikej]

They let you drive at 15 in NZ ????????

[kahn10]

yeah bro...so when you sit your license on your 15th birthday apparently its not the go to drive one handed smoking a ciggy and listening to the stereo.apparently it gives the impression you've perhaps been driving for a little while....heh heh heh:smokin: