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Team
Associated makes the B3 and T3. They make serious race cars that avoid
the dreaded neon-everything disease that struck the entire R/C industry
in the late '80s and has not let go. Every other industry found the
vaccine for this disease by 1994. Lately, the color purple has joined
neon to become the dual-ailment plague of the R/C biz. Purple Fever
struck the motocross and watercraft worlds in 1994, and they were able to
get the purple monkey off their backs by 1997. Since the R/C companies
are a little slow on the uptake, they didn't notice that purple was
"cool" until 1998. Now every high end R/C car comes slathered
in purple and neon yellow, except for Team Associated's. That, and the
fact that Associated uses the blocky-letters-with-cutoff-corners font on
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This
is ROAR. They are the sanctioning body for most R/C races. ROAR stands
for Radio Operated Auto Racing, but I think it would whip a llama's ass
if it was ROOOOOAAAR! -- Rokken' Outstanding Opossum O.J./Ozzy Operated Aboriginal
Awesome Auto Racin'. |
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Team
Losi also makes good R/C race cars, like the XXX. They are really good at
stealing fast guys from Team Associated. As you can see, they have neon
disease and their logo is butt-ugly. I came up with a better one:
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Trinity
mostly makes R/C motors, batteries and accessories. Their website is
pretty cool, other than the fact that the image on their splash page is so
old that it leads me to believe that they still take Confederate bills for
their products. Trinity's site has something called TechTalk, which is the
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C.R.C.R.C.
(Columbus R/C Racing Club) is the track where I usually raced at (the rock
and roll has really cut into the R/C time), and they put together
a great racing program every week. They are an indoor off-road track in
Hilliard, Ohio. They now have a flashy logo, which made my old Wingdings
one obsolete. |
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CORCAR
is an on-road track that races during the summer on Sundays. Back in my
day, trying to catch their web page when it was actually up was a perilous journey where many men
lost their lives.
Most fell into the evil 404 cavern that is full of deadly Piranhacons. If
you happened to catch their website during a fleeting moment of up-ness, you
found out more about this well-organized track. Mega super happy update
time 2000: They now have a permanent website that is not down nine months
out of the year. Also, they race at Lowe's on Georgesville Road (Columbus,
OH) now. |
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This link
leads to esp's webpage. I figured that since they make the clodzilla, I should
honor them by typing this in the font called "ESP". It adds to
the experience, doesn't it? Of course, you can't see it unless you have
the ESP font on your computer. Clodzillas have 10 inches of axle
articulation (aka suspension travel). that's right, clown. |