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Originally Posted by ckissick
I had an RC model of a dune buggy in high school way back in the 70's. It had a gas engine, of course. I always ran it fast, making jumps like in the Baja 1000. It was a lot of fun.
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"Gas" (actually glow fuel) power is all but dead in everything R/C these days. I really miss it, it was a lot more fun than today's electric everything. Hat's off to the cleanliness and convenience of electric, but there is something about the smell of glow fuel, the sound, and all of that.
My youngest son and I raced R/C cars for years when he was about 8 to 14 years old. Electric cars indoors on carpet tracks in the winter, and "gas" cars outdoors in the summer.
Here are our Associated RC10's from about 20 years ago. Four wheel drive, two speed (centrifugal) transmissions, fully tunable suspensions. His was a fully class-legal 1/10 scale touring car, with a three port .12ci two cycle. Mine was a bit of an "outlaw", with a .26ci four cycle adapted from an airplane engine.
This class all but died in the five or six years we raced it. Everyone switched to electric, even for outdoor racing. Kind of a shame, really.
