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These are some of the cars I work on. I build cars intermittently, I buy parts until I break my budget then I put it up and work on something different. That's why it can take me years to finish a car. I'm in no rush. I will also wait as long as it takes to find certain parts. Whenever I have my photo studio set up I will take pics of some of my cars.

I started in this hobby a long time ago. I was a little kid with an old Tamiya catalogue and a dream. I wanted a Subaru Brat or the Lancia Rally. To reinforce this point my classmate Danh had a Brat and even brought it into school once! Unfortunately the Lancia was out of production. Fortunately Tamiya was releasing a new truck based on the Frog platform called the Blackfoot. I ordered one sight unseen. In reality I begged my family to buy me one for Christmas/Birthday/and any other good reason I could offer, and they ordered it for me. That was the drip that became the waterfall.

I loved my first RC, but it had a flaw. It was slow. Big heavy wheels and tires, Low gearing, high center of gravity, friction, it seemed everything was working against my goal of winning a race. Any race. My lunch money was $2 a day. If I only ate $1 worth of food I could afford one pair of $5 ball bearings a week. I shoveled snow in the winter and bought a frog gearset. My mother bought me an anti roll bar after I explained to her my problem of a high center of gravity (She was impressed). I continued to upgrade it but my friends were upgrading theirs at the same pace. I needed a new car.

My next car was a Parma Pro Panther 10. That was a pan car and out of my league. Once I started to get it to go fast I realized I needed more suspension travel. Following that lesson I got an Optima Mid. That car was everything I dreamed and then some. It was quick, fast, turned great, and had an amazing suspension. By that point I was an RC nut for life. I got a new car or two each year and have done so ever since. By now I have lots and lots of cars. If you read in my blog about a car that isn't pictured, please let me know and I'll fill in the missing details.