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It's funny thinking about it now, when I started out seeing guys with 1/5 scale all they had was bajas, raved about not having to tune an engine all day but cried when they broke after a hill climb. Biggest reason I never got into 1/5 scale sooner then I did. The first losi I saw was awesome but gutless. Funny bit is how things have progressed, now you can build A baja to take about anything of you have deep enough pockets and losi is actually fast. Good times eh ?
 
Seandonato73 said:
It's funny thinking about it now, when I started out seeing guys with 1/5 scale all they had was bajas, raved about not having to tune an engine all day but cried when they broke after a hill climb. Biggest reason I never got into 1/5 scale sooner then I did. The first losi I saw was awesome but gutless. Funny bit is how things have progressed, now you can build A baja to take about anything of you have deep enough pockets and losi is actually fast. Good times eh ?
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1/5 has come a long way ?
 
Seandonato73 said:
It's funny thinking about it now, when I started out seeing guys with 1/5 scale all they had was bajas, raved about not having to tune an engine all day but cried when they broke after a hill climb. Biggest reason I never got into 1/5 scale sooner then I did. The first losi I saw was awesome but gutless. Funny bit is how things have progressed, now you can build A baja to take about anything of you have deep enough pockets and losi is actually fast. Good times eh ?
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how long have 1/5 scale been around ?
 
Idk, I've been in rc 20 odd years. There was an abandoned road called old state road with hill climbs we used to run at. There were 2 older (at the time) guys that ran bajas there. That was around the time I got my driver's license so 17 years ago or so. The one guy eventually got a 4x4 1/5 scale buggy, I now assume it was a 5ive b. I was still into nitro 1/8 scale so I never paid much attention to what it was, just it didnt fly apart every time he ran it. I'd hazard a guess they were around before that.
 
crucialRC said:
Not what I meant. I'm saying you've spent some ? on your rig this year after months and months of Jerry rigging it. Why all of a sudden are you buying the right parts? Did you get a job or an inheritance?
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Idk, I just got sick of doing hack poop that didn't really work and didn't look good. Plus , I like shiny things ? so to me, splurging and making my rig look awesome and more durable is better than hacking it back together just to get 10 more mins of run time ? . And it's winter time, so I usually make more $$ winter time, which means more shiny thangs ?? and no, I didn't get a job or inheritance (unfortunately), I was just being really cheap
 
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crucialRC said:
Not what I meant. I'm saying you've spent some ? on your rig this year after months and months of Jerry rigging it. Why all of a sudden are you buying the right parts? Did you get a job or an inheritance?
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Naw, his allowance went up. Has to take out the trash now too!
 
Just picking on you lol...I know you've said in past that you were young. So yeah. I started working at 13 at a local (union) grocery store. And stuck with it for quite awhile. By time I was 20 or 21 I had sports cars, suvs and bought my gsxr the fam was like uhh your making too much gotta move. That's when I grew up a lil bit...not much, but some
 
Jshaff16 said:
Just picking on you lol...I know you've said in past that you were young. So yeah. I started working at 13 at a local (union) grocery store. And stuck with it for quite awhile. By time I was 20 or 21 I had sports cars, suvs and bought my gsxr the fam was like uhh your making too much gotta move. That's when I grew up a lil bit...not much, but some
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Yeah would work a job in my parents would let me. The other problem is there ain't anywhere that I would be able to anyways ?
 
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