SladeHayes
08-14-2001, 10:24 PM
I wanted to start a thread that is about either things that are gone, forgotten, or sorely missed in the sport. Most of them would be things that are from long ago...or at least a while back.
Here is my list:
Lake Whippoorwill Speedway - Oh how I miss running there. It was the coolest, and probably the fastest way to break a car there has ever been. For the people that are not aware, it was basically a big concrete ('laser poured' no less!) donut, that was terribly hard to get used to, but once you did, it was like crack. I still get upset when I think about racing there. It was the neatest track to run on, and was even better to watch races there. You always knew that nobody, either pro or novice had it all on their side. Kids that ran there once would win a big race, and people that were pro would come off of the stand in horror after destroying car after car.
The Custom Works Dominator - The idea of a 4 wheel drive dirt oval car is like a bad idea and a brilliant idea all in one. Bad because you knew that you would not have a huge draw for them, and a good one in that it was a SICK car to drive. Someone must have said 'Hmm we can go fast with 7 cells, and a 4 wheel drive car, lets put it on a dirt oval, with a chain drive, and some old yokomo parts to hold it together', to someone else must have said 'Fantastic! Lets build it!' They were evil geniuses. It like was a dirt slot car, that would leap off of the turns, with a big nasty loose chain doing all of the driving between the front and rear ends. My dad still has one, which I thought he was NUTS for buying initially, but now I would build my own oval track just to drive it on by myself. Probably the coolest car there has ever been. I only hope that there are still people out there driving them, or better yet racing them.
The Losi C4 - This was the car that was the predecessor to the Yokomo Super dogfighter and the Associated YZ-10. The c4 was this prototype chassis that they built, and had a few of for a couple of years. As I understood it, they were working on it with Yokomo, and it had really innovative things (at the time) in the design. I wanted one so bad, that I would call Losi about every two weeks to see when they were going to be shipping them. The production YZ-10 was similar, but not the c4. Very cool car.
The old (OLD) RC-10 - You all know of this (The GOLD one!), and I still love the car. It was so much fun to take apart and work on, with all of those stupid aluminum screws on the front end, the goofy little metal support tubes that held the front plate to the chassis, and the DUMB stock servo saver/steering system. The funny part of having one was when we first realized to run the batteries down the center of the chassis, and not across the middle. I have fond memories of drilling out everything, and taking the dremel to everything on there as well. The stupid 3-piece wheels, the diff that had to be torn down between races at times, the leaking shocks...all of it...what a cool car. I know that it may seem like I am bashing it a bit, but it was the neatest thing. I got so many kids in my neighborhood mad with it, because they all had hornets or grasshoppers, and had an RC-10.
Thanks for playing along.
Here is my list:
Lake Whippoorwill Speedway - Oh how I miss running there. It was the coolest, and probably the fastest way to break a car there has ever been. For the people that are not aware, it was basically a big concrete ('laser poured' no less!) donut, that was terribly hard to get used to, but once you did, it was like crack. I still get upset when I think about racing there. It was the neatest track to run on, and was even better to watch races there. You always knew that nobody, either pro or novice had it all on their side. Kids that ran there once would win a big race, and people that were pro would come off of the stand in horror after destroying car after car.
The Custom Works Dominator - The idea of a 4 wheel drive dirt oval car is like a bad idea and a brilliant idea all in one. Bad because you knew that you would not have a huge draw for them, and a good one in that it was a SICK car to drive. Someone must have said 'Hmm we can go fast with 7 cells, and a 4 wheel drive car, lets put it on a dirt oval, with a chain drive, and some old yokomo parts to hold it together', to someone else must have said 'Fantastic! Lets build it!' They were evil geniuses. It like was a dirt slot car, that would leap off of the turns, with a big nasty loose chain doing all of the driving between the front and rear ends. My dad still has one, which I thought he was NUTS for buying initially, but now I would build my own oval track just to drive it on by myself. Probably the coolest car there has ever been. I only hope that there are still people out there driving them, or better yet racing them.
The Losi C4 - This was the car that was the predecessor to the Yokomo Super dogfighter and the Associated YZ-10. The c4 was this prototype chassis that they built, and had a few of for a couple of years. As I understood it, they were working on it with Yokomo, and it had really innovative things (at the time) in the design. I wanted one so bad, that I would call Losi about every two weeks to see when they were going to be shipping them. The production YZ-10 was similar, but not the c4. Very cool car.
The old (OLD) RC-10 - You all know of this (The GOLD one!), and I still love the car. It was so much fun to take apart and work on, with all of those stupid aluminum screws on the front end, the goofy little metal support tubes that held the front plate to the chassis, and the DUMB stock servo saver/steering system. The funny part of having one was when we first realized to run the batteries down the center of the chassis, and not across the middle. I have fond memories of drilling out everything, and taking the dremel to everything on there as well. The stupid 3-piece wheels, the diff that had to be torn down between races at times, the leaking shocks...all of it...what a cool car. I know that it may seem like I am bashing it a bit, but it was the neatest thing. I got so many kids in my neighborhood mad with it, because they all had hornets or grasshoppers, and had an RC-10.
Thanks for playing along.