Watch out, here's another old fart:-
Started racing in 1983 with a Tamiya Holiday Buggy, which was quickly replaced with a Tamiya Wild One. Raced at the Bolton club on the old bowling green behind the pub (Queens Head?). A very young Craig Drescher was almost unbeatable round that track. Around 1985 changed to a Tamiya Hotshot and started racing at the Bury club, then located at Radcliffe FC. Was lucky enough to receive backing from the now disappeared Bury Model Shop, and campaigned a variety of Optima's, Mid Optima's, Cat's and Dogfighter's up to 1989, when I gave up r/c racing to go and race full sized cars.
Came back in 2003 when my eldest son fancied a go. I have raced for the last three years, but have hung up my transmitter for 2007 so as to concentrate on preparing my son's car, and helping Roger & Woody with the running of Bury Metro club.
When I came back in 2003 I could not believe how fast the cars were, when I quit in 1989 we were using 1700 nicd and 27x1 motors (who remembers the classic Demon red dot motors?)
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