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08-05-2007, 10:11 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: creepin through the gates!
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|  So who actually started this hobby anyway?
Does anyone know who really started this whole crawling thing to begin with?
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08-05-2007, 10:13 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Provo
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a bunch of guys with manginas
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08-05-2007, 10:19 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Dallas, Oregon
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i'm not sure if i'm correct or not but i think ORCRC was the first??
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08-05-2007, 10:21 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: In the saddle...
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Heck, I remember Mudcow's rigs being cool. But I "crawled" my first Clod the day I got it. The hobby isn't new, the organization of this (well this is the second isn't it?) website in 2004 marked the start of a movement. I still miss the scrolling banner along the side. 2004, that was Dirk's Nitro X-Factor, no TLT's yet, (until Playswithtoys and the CSC1), cut clod tires, Mag Mayhems, Juggernauts, cantilevers, Savage shocks, scale and 2.2 didn't exist as such, etc. The hot tire package? Narrowed Jumbo Kongs, cut and siped Clod tires, someone even inflated LST's... Last edited by radishkid; 08-05-2007 at 10:26 PM. |
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08-05-2007, 10:40 PM
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| Winner of the '07 RCC dumbass award! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Up on a Mountain, out in the Woods
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I would have to say I am ONE OF the first... I had my maxx converted for crawling back in july 2000! If anyone remembers, in 03' I had jumbo kongs on top of the dump bump ridein wheelies. Then I took it over for some potato salad action. Couldn't make the climb, so I had to drive it off in shame! Then in 04' Everyone and their mother had one.... but mine was not shiny and cool looking. Can't wait to go back to Moab with The WheelChair's!!! |
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08-05-2007, 10:45 PM
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| ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: In tha Bush of Louisiana
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i don't know who did it but their a fart smeller oooppss a smart feller this hobby is kicka____  |
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08-05-2007, 10:59 PM
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| RCC Addict   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The other Crawler State
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I thought the crawling craze started with the trials trucks in the South West from what I have gathered over the years. I found this site in July 2004 from jason's sig line on Pirate. Before that I was trying to make a RS4 MT do what a 1:1 wheeler would do with low gearing back in 2003. I would yard sale that thing all over the ground a lot.  In 2004, not to long after I found this site, I built my first TLT. "Lil Bitch" was the build thread on the old RCC forum, it is my avatar to this day, and rest is history for me. I would like to know for sure were it started myself. |
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08-05-2007, 11:18 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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Frankenstunk (NMRCRC) was the first one to use a TLT based crawler in our crew.It was game over from there.I've been into R/C's since I was a kid but never knew about the "crawler" side of the wall until Dec '05..Thanks to whoever started it.
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08-05-2007, 11:53 PM
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| 20K Club  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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It isn't possible to say who started it. I, like many of you, crawled Toys r' us RC's even when we were little. We have a pictures some where of me crawling in my mom's land scaping with a RC that only turned if you were backing up! and I was in 3 grade.
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08-06-2007, 12:09 AM
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| Gettin’ back on the horse Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hoonsville
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Who is to say who started and when??? Who's to say it didnt start in the 80's with just some extreme use of the first 4wd r/c s? Plus i think everyone seems to be forgetting about bruisers... Plus that idea had to come from somewhere???? Right? We can all just say we are following in others footsteps and be happy we have such a growing industry. |
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08-06-2007, 12:26 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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Only ones that went mainstream with it and had tons of pictures online and the first crawler business were the Aussie's. Plain and simple. The Aussie's were the leaders in the crawling technology up 'till mid 2004, then the US poo-poo heads took over.
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08-06-2007, 08:34 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FLAGSTAFF
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Al Gore ......just like the internet!
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08-06-2007, 08:40 AM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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I remember a bunch of us years ago on RCMT that were "bashing" with our Clods and XCs. I didn't have a digital (or video) camera then. RCMT is where I saw JK's "The Distance" video. Of course on RCMT we were driving over rocks, logs, etc...but none of us called it crawling. |
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08-06-2007, 08:49 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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I dont have any idea, but whoever did needs to burn! This hobby is (in the words of frankyrizzo) humping my wallet into submission!
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08-06-2007, 09:32 AM
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| I lost my vendor privileges Join Date: May 2006 Location: TOP OF THE HILL
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dont know but its got ahold of me.  |
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08-06-2007, 10:29 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vegas
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I give the credit to Steve Slayden with his rock crawler Revo. That got me hooked!!  Or maybe that a$$clown Kevin Hetmanski and his overly tarded truck builds. It's a toss up really. |
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08-06-2007, 12:34 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Torrance, CA.
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What about in the early 90's when ESP and Bennet based trucks ruled the market. <- Had a Bennet based clod back in the day. |
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08-06-2007, 12:47 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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Ok, I will come clean. It was me. I went back in a time machine to australia and gave MudCow all of his ideas, then came back to the future so I could have cooler crawlers now. You should have seen us in 2007 before I went back in time. Our crawlers all looked like http://cgi.ebay.com/Rock-Crawler-Whe...QQcmdZViewItem |
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08-06-2007, 01:02 PM
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| Dirt Addict   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stumblin' thru the parking lot of an invisible 7-Eleven
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I remember finding Matt Verrochi's Project Clod 4-link after cruising around on RCMT around 1999. He wasn't "crawling" as Jason mentioned but driving over logs and such. He did up servo mounts and was using the high torque FMAs. His work inspired me to build my original plate-chassis Rokclod in 2000. Can't seem to find his pages online any more.....too bad. At the time there were a number of guys building cool tubers and wire frame rigs but mostly for racing and bashing. Jay | |
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08-06-2007, 01:52 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Provo
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actually i think nylint is really what started it all with there super amazing rock crawlers  |
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