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Originally Posted by jimmy
You'd be amazed at what still goes on to this day mate  |
Oh, I know - but nothing like back in the day, when you'd start off with a kit RC10 for example (or whatever), and by the time you got done, you had a lot of leftover stock parts. The racing end of the hobby could hardly exist without the aftermarket, and anybody that raced made a lot of their own little custom parts. It was really a necessity.
If you remember the original JRX2 ads of the era, they were advertising the fact that it was the only "full out racer, straight from the box, no upgrades needed." Not that we didn't customize them too.
I sort of miss those days, when you'd go to the track and peruse the pits to see what others had done "non-stock" to their cars, and you'd stop by the hobby shop to see what new aftermarket bits and pieces were hanging on the wall. It was an era when racers were more self-reliant, and you couldn't just get by with a box-built car. I often wonder if half the chaps today could handle it.