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I'm Dave and I have been racing off-road since 1985. I got into RC's back in 1980 after buying my first car it was a Tamiya Sand ????, it was made of cast aluminum, the suspension was just like a VW, and it was completely water proof, I wish I could remember the name. Anyway, I had Tamiya Hornets, Grasshoppers, A Road Worrier ( like an F1) and a few more,
   In 1982 I put the RC cars away and started flying RC plains, My first plane was a MEN Trainer .40, then a Falcon 56 .40, A Super Sportster .60, A Super Chaos .60 and 2 Super Hots .60.
   I got back into RC cars in 1985 and that's when I got my first real off-road race buggy, a RC10. It took me about 25 hours to put it together, seemed like 3 weeks. I was amazed how the suspension felt and I stayed up half the night just pushing on the chassis, because it was cool. I found a local indoor track where people raced these things and then I was hooked.
   In1995 I got my first nitro, it was a RC10GT ST pull-start with a Dynamite engine , man that was the coolest thing I had ever seen I started racing it at a local clay oval track and found out very quickly  that I was not competitive, I found out what I had to do, so I spent some money on a new engine, non-pull start setup and some gears and became very competitive and fell in love with this hobby. I'm 45 years old and still fell like a kid.

WARNING: This hobby can be hazardous to a relationship.