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There's a small mountain of deals and discounts as well. There's 4 subscription plans that make you pay up front, but the actual cost per month goes down the farther out you subscribe. Paying for cars and tracks, if you get any 3 at once it's an automatic 10% discount on the final price, and it's 20% off for 6.

Then…

Trust me; get a wheel. I've yet to hear anyone have mediocre luck at the very, absolute, ragged-edge limit of "best" using a gamepad.

Logitech's Driving Force GT is arguably the best bang for the buck, going for around $120 brand new and as little as half that used. The pedalset is a bit weak (wear socks), but the…

From what it sounds like, they had to cancel a few rounds (including the Chicago Soldier Field race I'd already got tickets for...but they were cool and refunded it) just because the crews were struggling to get all the trucks turned around in time for the next event. The drivers were tearing stuff up quicker than…

I was at the TORC race at the Oshkosh SpeedZone a few years back and got to hear Johnny Greaves' PRO4 and (at the time) Jeremy McGrath's PRO2 in person. My God, the noise those things make...It doesn't just drown out the couple thousand screaming people standing right next to you, it silences all the other trucks on…

It's just fiberglass. All the chassis are made in the USA (often by hand by the teams themselves) and vast majority of the engines come from American builders.

I believe Carl Renezeder and Robby Woods both use ProPower engines out of Sullivan, Wisconsin (formerly known as Schlieper's, if you're familiar with midwestern…

I generally tell people that to get started from nothing in hobby-grade R/C properly, figure $200-250. I hate to say it, but that's kinda the going rate for an RTR car, a base-level peak charger, and one (maybe two) batteries.

I'd be willing to bet those were drift tires...wheels sleeved with a piece of plastic PVC pipe instead of a regular rubber tire.

The Red Wedge in action: http://smg.photobucket.com/user/OTE_TheMi…

"The Franklin Flyer" Bill Prietzel's famous 1985 Bullitt Chassis "Red Wedge" open show dirt Late Model sideboarder. First full-body car to turn a sub-16 second lap around the former Hales Corners Speedway in Franklin, Wisconsin, in qualifying for the 1986 Coors Light Hales Open. This is what Formula1 would look like…

Manufacturing & metalworking is awesome, innit?

You kinda remind me of Santa Claus from Futurama's Christmas episodes, waco...

OK, here's one for ya: at 3:14, the crane grabs containers, but before dropping them on a waiting truck it holds the container up for a guy to check. So what is that guy checking and why couldn't he do it as the container's being loaded onto the truck? I know big ports can be neurotic about timetables & want to get…

As a longtime R/C racer & general model-whatever tinkerer, I'm sorely tempted to make an attempt at restoring it...or should I say, cleaning up. Sand some of the scratches out of it, recolor the wheels, etc.

I still have the first car I got after I was born: a Pontiac Fiero. Always had a bit of a soft spot for Fieros for that reason

If I told you guys I had a secondhand vintage Associated RC10 hobby-grade R/C buggy and discovered the previous owner put the slipper clutch together with wood screws instead of the 3/16" #4-40 cap screws it should've had...

I took my daily-driver '98 Chevy S10 pickup to an open-track night at a local dragstrip right after I got off work a few years back. Paid a whopping $30 to do as many passes as I wanted. Slowest thing there that night (20.040@68MPH). Had a blast. Drove home with a fistful of timeslips and some funny stories. Didn't…

Which is all exactly what makes it such an embarrassment to the rest of north American short track racing. Now, I'm all in favor of shooting guns, big trucks in mud pits, dirt bikes & 4-wheelers, hunting & fishing, and alcohol in all its gloriously varied forms, but coming to within an inch of recreating the 1992 Los…

No, that track genuinely deserves to die. And any other day of the week I'm a strong supporter of the local small-town short tracks across this country that are struggling to put together good car counts and stay standing financially. But if I hear that BG is getting leveled to make way for a Wal-Mart Superstore or…

I see a potential trackday/racecar...