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Several of dad's friends and us kids got into racing R/C back in the late 80s and early 90s. We had a local track that started out dirt and then we ran indoors in the winter. Everyone tired of running two types of cars so we put concrete in the dirt track. Dad ended up with a Custom Works Intimidator with the pressurized shocks for road course work. Even though it was really a dirt oval car it worked well in the class he had it in and would almost run with the lightweight pan cars. Lots of the guys were local race drivers. We spent a fortune in tires and rims since the tires would roll off the rims if they weren't glued on. We went to some regional races, but I was asked to drive another guys car there so I never had to do any prep or pay for anything other than food. His buggy was odd since it had a front monoshock. Good times. One guy had over $5k invested in one car to run in stock class.