[poopers]

My first proper RC car was a Monster Beetle back in 1990. It was built by my local RC shop in Doncaster (closed down by ’92) and never worked right, found grub screws in the diff, that sort of thing. After messing around with it on the street, a neighbour who was into RC racing got me to take it along to a club meet at Rotherham Buggy Club at Rawmarsh to run in the noob class. As usual my beetle was playing up and a chap called Tony, from Tony’s Models of Sheffield, if I remember right, spent most of the meeting rebuilding my car.

That’s one of the things that got me started in rc racing, the fact there were so many people crowded around my little monster beetle belonging to someone they’d never seen before trying to help figure out why the steering wouldn’t centre, and missing their own races to rebuild a servo for me. After that my dad took everyone’s advice and bought me a Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special, and we never looked back.

Oops, I’ve gone on a bit