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Great thread, well here is my story....

First car was a Tamiya Moster Beetle bought from a family friend for £30 this was around 1990 when I was 10, had loads of fun with this and set from there, had various tamiya's, Manta Rays, Thunder Dragon, Clod Buster, just used these for fun in the garden.

I went to my local shop alot (buying fast motors and lots of resistors! Lol) Model World Ashford and heard about the racing club at the North School in Ashford , i Kent.

This was a great club ran by Clive and Terry Stockham of MRT fame, I remember being dropped off the first time and couldn't believe the speed of the buggys and the Pro 10 cars they used to race. I got the bug big time and went most Sundays.

I started in 92 with a Schumacher Cougar Club at Ashford club and had many cars during my time there, Cougar 2000, Pro cat, Kyosho Lazer Alpha, t tech pred international, Losi XX and a AE B3 and probably lots more!

My main retro memories from this time as a kid racing were:

- Clive Stockhams crazy transmitter style, people who have seen it will know what I mean, he was pretty handy so we'll let him off!

- Foam donut tyres on the buggy rims

- Predators howling around the hall!

- Wide body touring shells, 405's, Escort Cosworths, Mondeos

- A certain David Spashett coming along to a meeting with narrow touring car (proto SST on mini pins), we all
Thought that will never take off! Lol

- The fantastic range of MRT brushed speedos

- Big Velcro numbers on your cars and number crunching as each car went by on a green screen BBC computer

- Richmond Rogers and Richard Bettany visiting the club at times and being super fast

- Comm lathes and £2 a skim!

- Home made ply pit boxed

- A husband and wife race team who had matching home knitted brown tank tops! Lol

Great memories!



I then got into Basket Ball and girls and left Rc alone whilst at secondary school.

In 97 got a Hyper 7 rally x car and raced that at Kent Rally x club once and then got one of the new Schumacher SST, raced this at West Kingsdown club near Brands Hatch, had a break then worked at local model shop for a bit and got into TC as not much off road in Kent.

I raced a AE Tc3 and a Yokomo at Barham club on a Thur night and lots of familiar faces there from Ashford club.

Had another break from racing and bought a few cars for fun FG's, AE B4, Xxx etc and had a dabble with 5th bikes and did the first World Champs at Brooklands raceway in Kent, was good fun that meeting!

Moved to Maidstone and raced each week at Maritime with various TC cars and 12ths then I saw the light and went back to my roots of off road 10th.

I bought got a Cat SX and went to Faversham club and the rest is history...... Over 60 cars I'v owned and still loving it!