Terry I remember all that, as a pre-teen it was a little daunting at frist but you soon got used to it. The CAT was a great example though ...... only certain people could actually build / maintain one .... my dad used to make a few quid at every meeting by arranging to build a CAT for somebody.
To put things into prospective though as I was always expected to look after my own cars I ran Kyosho as all you really had to do was shake the box a bit and out popped a perfectly build car! I also remember the guys running CATs at my club back then spent far more time working on their cars than racing.
We all know how good the CAT was and if somebody showed up with one that you didn't know it was easy to see if they were going to be good or not .... if the car made the second corner without something falling off you had a race on!!!!
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