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voo2doo

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Fed up today seeing all my fifth scale cars sitting there doing nowt:( so I took one of my Leopards out to thrash.
The weather was cold but dry so I took it down to the original stomping ground.It has jumps,straights and berms and is a great place to really test a car.The ground was a bit boggy but I thought ,what the hell,and let rip!:cool2:
Anyway I came off the top of a hill and when the buggy landed, the front tyres dug in and sent the car into a barrel roll.It ended up clipping the top of a very small fence and by some bizarre chance the shell must have bent inwards and knocked the power switch off!:helpsmilie::no: Luckily it landed on its roof and was reving its guts out! If it had of landed on its feet it would have never been found again,it was pointing at the River Dee:boat: which is a pretty decent size river and was at high tide with some amazing currents(alot of people have lost their lives to these under currents).
So to top it all I forgot to tighten the fuel cap and this resulted in half a tank being deposited all over the car:blush: Oh well,it'll give me something to do:clown:
J.
 
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that was lucky voo, you wanna get an air bag off a car and strap it to the roof and fire it with a spare channel just incase you end up in the river:boat:
last time i was at the beach with my fg bug it disapeared and i found it upside down in a river about a foot deep, quick clean up and about 10 pulls and she was away again:clown:
 
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Originally Posted by atom3624
One would hazard a guess that you lost control ?

No mate i made one for ten bob,they are just glorified relays , but unfortunately it doesn't have a big red light on it!(extra 5p).
J.
 
Trebor said:
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Originally Posted by atom3624
One would hazard a guess that you lost control ?

No mate i made one for ten bob,they are just glorified relays , but unfortunately it doesn't have a big red light on it!(extra 5p).
J.
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Yep,no kill switch(relay) fitted........hold my hands up.
J.
 
Close call for sure Voo.

Had it fallen into the river, would you have gone after it? ;)

Did the car do the super duper cartwheel/backflip. LOL



Chris
 
Trebor said:
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM...............................

Originally Posted by atom3624
One would hazard a guess that you lost control ?

No mate i made one for ten bob,they are just glorified relays , but unfortunately it doesn't have a big red light on it!(extra 5p).
J.
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:nono::nono::nono: james, you guna get a switch on it now :clown:
 
well voo you are a lucky bugger aren't you and now that you have to fix it:hammer: this will give some other fellow Gasser a chance to scoop a deal from eBay :lol:
 
Dam lucky there mate, I can't believe how far the go when they start rolling. Maybe you should stay in and polish some of your trucks like Trebor instead of going and getting all dirty:clown::clown::clown:.
Matt.
 
Funny how things turn around.......there you were laughing at that poor bloke on the youtube vid you posted on the cleaning thread.........:clown::clown:
 
The damage.........do you really want to hear?....................here goes, there was a quarter inch scratch to the side of the shell!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! ha ha. I'll just have to buy a new shell now :(
Well today the engine came out and the radio gear as well,jet washed,re-oiled,polished and put back on its shelf.......nice and shiney! Apart from the scratch ;)
J.
 
voo2doo said:
Fed up today seeing all my fifth scale cars sitting there doing nowt:( so I took one of my Leopards out for a swim.
The weather was cold but dry so I took it down to the original stomping ground.It has jumps,straights, berms,diving board (only at the deep end mind) and is a great place to really test a car.The ground was a bit boggy due to it sitting at the bottom of the river deebut I thought ,what the hell,and let rip!:cool2:
Anyway I came off the top of a hill and when the buggy landed, the front tyres dug in and sent the car into a barrel roll followed by a double axle triple salco.It ended up clipping the top of a very small fence and by some bizarre chance a crabshell must have bent inwards and knocked the power switch off!:helpsmilie::no: Luckily it landed on its roof and was reving its guts out! If it had of landed on its feet it would have never been found again,it was pointing at the Irish Sea:boat: which is a pretty decent size sea and was at high tide with some amazing currents(alot of people have lost their lives to these under currents).
So to top it all I forgot to tighten the fuel cap and this resulted in half the seagull and rare Welsh penguin population being wiped out in the slick:blush: Oh well, 1000hrs community service cleaning the beach up will give me something to do :clown:
J.
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:clown::clown::clown::clown:
 
voo2doo said:
The damage.........do you really want to hear?....................here goes, there was a quarter inch scratch to the side of the shell!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! ha ha. I'll just have to buy a new shell now :(
Well today the engine came out and the radio gear as well,jet washed,re-oiled,polished and put back on its shelf.......nice and shiney! Apart from the scratch ;)
J.
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:clown::clown::clown: if that had been mine it would have been totaled :clown::clown::clown: glad all is well with it mate :cool2:
 
Feckin' hell Andy,I'm still crying laughing at that.....you velly funny guy!
J.

Just the luck of the draw Charlie.I have more chance of winning the lottery than getting away with one of them again!.
 
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