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02-09-2010, 10:43 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: in the woods
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|  Retro Trans Am
I have been in RC for 20+ years and in that time I have done most all types of racing and competitions. I was always into road racing and some what into oval from the time I was in high school until I gave up on racing at the age of 27. I was convinced I did not have the reflexes for racing, but now I can see it was due to my drinking that I shook and jerked while racing. I realized this about 2 weeks ago when I took my 11 year old son to his first Tamiya Mini race. Greyson has been running crawlers since he was 5 but my rule for racing was he had to wait until he was 11 to start. Well, long story short, I took his car out to shake it down and dial it in for him and found that my shakes and jerking is gone. almost 5 years of being sober and I ran drive a touring car around a carpet track without knocking all 4 wheels off the darn thing. After that first week I took down my Team TC3 that had been collecting dust for 6 years and brought it back to life as a Retro T/A car. My first race in 6 years is tomorrow evening and I am stoked. Spending the past 2 Wednesday evenings hanging out at the track with my son has been awesome, I tend to work way to much so father son time is a welcome change. Well, enough with the talking. Here are some pictures...    I painted it black and then gave it the "flat" look offset with some red Eritex stickers. Hopefully I don't destroy it in one evening. |
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02-09-2010, 11:06 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: pasadena, tx
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SWEEEET! now just make some sick wheels for it  |
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02-09-2010, 11:19 PM
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02-09-2010, 11:34 PM
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| I'm a stupid C U N T! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In the Garage!
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02-09-2010, 11:49 PM
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02-10-2010, 12:00 AM
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| I'm a stupid C U N T! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In the Garage!
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I was more referencing a beginner class or advanced as far as skill is concerned. since you said you used to race I was wondering if you were stepping back in racing with more advanced racers, or starting over. I'm not Up on my onroad stuff so there might not even be a skill class in TA racing. Either way it looks sweet, I'd drive it. probably into a wall though  I'm throttle happy and steering stupid |
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02-10-2010, 12:03 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: in the woods
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The best local drivers run in this class, but so does some beginners.
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02-10-2010, 07:11 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Barboursville, WV
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|  Your Trans Am car looks mysteriously like a Mustang, lol. Good luck with your race and post pics...sounds like a great time!  |
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02-10-2010, 07:27 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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02-10-2010, 07:27 AM
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02-10-2010, 07:40 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: I miss Rowdy
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I was into TransAm racing last winter, ran a losi jrxsR with tekin rs pro esc and novak 21.5, it got too damn competitive and therre were sponsored drivers who took the fun right out of it. Supposedly they are putting down some more rules this year about what speedo you can run and such, to level the field back out. It was fun as hell, but keeping up with the Jones's got old quick, Good luck with you race tonight, it really is a blast! I just hope you have better sportsmanship at your track than I had at mine. |
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02-10-2010, 07:45 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Nebraska
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Looks good Gerame! I'll try not to put any bright colored marks on it tonight. LOL  | |
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02-10-2010, 07:55 AM
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and congrats on being close to the 5 year mark! keep it up, it gets greater later! trust me! | |
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02-10-2010, 08:55 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Barboursville, WV
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 Other than the 21.5 brushless and 2s lipo, are there any other restrictions? | |
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02-10-2010, 09:30 AM
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No, not really on restrictions. The rules are... you have to use the Novak ESC 21.5 brushless 2s lipo gear ratio no taller then 5:1 T/A vintage tires, wheels, and body. I think that is about it. Between the soft power of a 21.5 on 2s and the not so great traction of the spec tires, racing looks really fun. The last time I raced I ran stock TC with foam tires on a carpet track. Traction was not an issue and the cars were rocket fast. The T/A cars feel like a Sunday drive in comparison plus.....they look WAY cooler | |
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02-10-2010, 08:22 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Too cool! Vintage T/A cars is where it's at, IMO. That might actually get me into racing again. I got out of it in '94 when everyone still ran 2WD pan cars before the Touring Car revolution. Slipping and sliding in some vintage looking SCCA cars would be really fun! How about a race report when you get back? Oh, and congrats on 5 years! |
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02-11-2010, 12:25 AM
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How did the race go? I did alright, ended up 16th out of 18 people running in T/A tonight. I spent most of the night pulling off-line as not to screw up the fast guys laps. The car felt "odd" at the beginning of the night but as I became accustom to how hard I could push it I increased from 14 laps in 5 minutes to 17 laps by the end of the "B" main. The fast guys run in the 20 to 22 lap range so I have some practicing to do. In the end I really enjoyed it and loved the "guy" time with my son. We will be running again next week. One more bonus, I pitted next to the indoor crawler course so between rounds of racing I got my crawl on | |
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02-11-2010, 12:49 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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02-13-2010, 01:16 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: newport
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T/A classes are a blast. You can avoid the confusion, run the correct body  |
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02-13-2010, 02:15 PM
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