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Title: RC Cars
Post by: videoholic on January 02, 2006, 04:49:08 PM

Been having fun with my new car.

Can\'t quite do this yet, but it\'s pretty cool.

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/sports_humor/RC_House_Jump/

Mine does close to 50 mph.  Although I doubt if I\'ve gotten it past 40 yet.  Little boogers are cool as shit.

Title: RC Cars
Post by: Paul2 on January 03, 2006, 12:31:51 AM

Cute.

Title: RC Cars
Post by: videoholic on January 03, 2006, 04:57:13 AM

a car going 70 miles an hour jumping a house and still running is cute? right......

Title: RC Cars
Post by: Knotter8 on January 03, 2006, 06:17:59 AM

Heh, back in the 80\'s I remember this rc car i had, battery powered not gas.

It was however the fastest non gas powered RC car of that time ; up to 38km/h.

So, one day it picked up quite some extra speed becuz of a wind gust. Then....all of a sudden it flipped over about 1 meter in mid air !

Nothing was broken, but when i inspected the rc car i noticed what caused it to flip over ; a 12 cm long solid steel nail :eek:

which went right through the plastic housing of the wheel axis and it missed the gearbox by a few cm\'s :eek:  I had to use a pair of pliers to pull out the nail.

It was odd, becuz the plastic was purely punctured, no cracks. This confirms, my rc car was doing some nifty speeding :thepimp:

Title: RC Cars
Post by: (e) on January 03, 2006, 04:10:41 PM

I\'ve got a couple actually - mostly simple ones from Toys R\' Us, etc. Luckily they are cheap- so I dont care if they break. :)

They are actually really fun. We use to take them out on all kinds of terrain.

Nothing like driving a remote control car off a 100 foot cliff, only to watch it explode in a thousand pieces. :smokin:

Title: RC Cars
Post by: Titan on January 03, 2006, 05:07:13 PM

Anyone remember the Mutator? It came out like 10 years ago and you can change the height of the front and rear wheels and make it a low rider, or back high, front low, the possiblities were imense. It was pretty cool and was quite quick (for a car from Toys R Us). I may just have to take it out again and drive it. I don\'t even know where it is anymore.

Title: RC Cars
Post by: (e) on January 03, 2006, 05:11:25 PM

I was actually just looking for all of mine a minute ago. I found them all in a giant box.

The only thing is I dont have the recharger for the batteries. Probably the most important part :laughing:

Title: RC Cars
Post by: Titan on January 03, 2006, 05:18:33 PM

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Originally posted by (e)
I was actually just looking for all of mine a minute ago. I found them all in a giant box.

The only thing is I dont have the recharger for the batteries. Probably the most important part :laughing:

Finding a replacement charger shouldn\'t be too hard. eBay is your friend. Plus I\'m sure any hobby store has chargers that will work with your car.

Title: RC Cars
Post by: (e) on January 03, 2006, 05:22:36 PM

...Or I could not waste my money on frivolous things.

;)

Title: RC Cars
Post by: videoholic on January 03, 2006, 06:26:37 PM

My car is pretty darn fun.  Haven\'t taken any pictures of it yet.  THere are a lot of aftermarket parts for it too.  I bought an aluminum control arm for the front.  Looks nice.  I need to buy a couple shock supports, some longer shocks and some big pimpin wheels.  

For now though, the thing hauls ass.  Just wish I could drive it here at home.  I have to take it out to my property to run it.

Title: RC Cars
Post by: Luke on January 03, 2006, 07:22:14 PM

Your a dork.

Title: RC Cars
Post by: videoholic on January 03, 2006, 07:35:05 PM

I\'ll take that as a compliment.  Cause gas cars are really fun.

So how\'s your hunter doing?

Title: RC Cars
Post by: Luke on January 03, 2006, 07:40:08 PM

Don\'t know. I ditched him at 26.


My Paladin is doing fine though. Almost level 50 and climbing the PvP ranks... Well, as much as a Paladin can.