I got into it from my best mate at school. Started of with a Mardave meteor which was quickly modified to be able to take a 27x1 motor instead of the mabushi and mechanical speed control and a futaba 211b speedo was put in and it was ball raced. A new titainium chassi was made by my uncle who could get it from work, my radio gear was from the same uncle but it was 35mghz and for boats so the throttle and steering was the wrong way round so I learnt how to drive backwards LOL (maybe that explains alot). After wearing out many sets of mardave tyres monted on split rims (always thought that was a good way of mounting tyres) on the local garden centre car park my mate asked if I wanted to go with him on a friday night to RACE.
I purchased some foam tyres for the beast and off I went to Albion mill in Blackburn I was 12 years old then and I was amazed at the speed of the cars there but I tell you my modified mardave was not bad at all compaired to all the exotic stuff on show cats dogs and optimas. I often think if some of the fast lads at the mill had a go now how quick they would be names like Andy Woods (he could win with one tyre off the rim) Ian Oddie he is still racing large scale but what would he be like with a 10th there was another but I cant remember his name he had a dogfighter and it was always Andy and him racing for the win.
After a few rest periods I am still racing and loving it even more than ever and I cant see me never doing it its ace.
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