New Vintage Races...

[stulec52]

I am the only one who does not know what Punky Brewster is?

Also, if you guys want close, fun, inexpensive racing, then in the UK at least go find, or start a club that run Mardave or similar cars.

Loads of fun.

We have 2 similar things over here; we race Tamiya Minis with very simple, but strict rules. silver cans, stick packs, Tamiya only parts etc.

WOrks great, guys have a ton of fun running those.

Also a class we can GT.

Basically touring cars, or F103s, running any body, although prefering GT bodies, but again silver cans, rubber tyres, close racing, but a ton of fun, also you most certainly do not need cutting edge cars, I have a TC3 for that class.

So, if it's just the supposed feeling that vintage racing had, then think about these classes.

If you want to drive the oldies, make up some rules that suit the guys that want to do it and go for it !

[WillyChang]

yeah just organise an unofficial TamiyaClub InsertYourCityHere Drive Day

Vintage Racing is good for a nostalgic demonstration perhaps... but ppl should realise the boxstock boys trying to join in with 'serious' racers won't work.

I am the only one who does not know what Punky Brewster is?

right here stu

heaps of other TV we'd watch before Punky Brewter though... like ALF, Sabrina, Mork & Mindy...

[Live Steam Mad]

OK I just uploaded Punky Brewster "Girls Will Be Boys" to YouTube, from my commercial DVD-9 (for my own personal use ), unaltered from the original, just changed from VOB to MPEG-2 PS (no recompression), 500 MB for just part 1 of 3, but YouTube's server recompressed it to Sorenson (FLV), and gave me no say in the matter (also there is a 10 minute or 1024 MB limit on the server for uploads). However I didn't get to see the confirmation screen after uploading as it took all night and my brother had used YouTube the next morning...! If anyone knows how to get around this, so that I can provide (for my own use ) videos at original quality, please let me know... Otherwise, if you want the video in original quality, then think about buying the box set DVD like I had to LOL. I got it from Amazon at a very good price. You need Series 2, it's disc 3 of 4 in the Series 2 box set. You'll need an NTSC colour decoder AND 525 line / 60 fields/sec capability in your TV to play it.

Note that I cannot condone downloading of copyright material. Usual disclaimer I'll be adding part 2 and 3 later. To find it just type in Punky Brewster Girls Will Be Boys.

Everytime I watch that race I get a thrill out of it. Brilliant stuff

BTW to see a Youtube video in high quality instead of standard quality, simply add ;-

&fmt=18

to the URL. Then use Firefox 2 and Download Helper and select the video.mp4 or video.fmv from the dropdown to the right of the animated circles... this downloads ANY video to your HDD.

Cheers,

Alistair G.

[stulec52]

"Hey Willy" thanks - ALF !

[WillyChang]

haha yea... ALF EATS CATS by the way.... Darryn reminded me, on his sadder thread VALE BOB BURBAGE

didn't really watch much TV when young, our transmission only went from 4pm-midnight

Was too busy playing outside!!

Don't forget the Knight Rider Series 4 Ep 2 either.

[chef_bikes]

Great thread

I'm old enough to have been there during the early days of 10th off road racing - (not meaning to sound like an old git but...) we used to meet up once a month in the bumpy, pot holed car park of the local greengrocer wholesalers to race SRBs. The site of a line of Scorchers, Rough Rider and Ford Rangers was just superb - all pristenly prepared and looking oh so real. I recall that one of the fundamental rules was that each car MUST conatin a driver figure, a silly sounding rule perhaps, but one that went (for me) to the core of scale racing - it looked real. The cars were all of a similar performance and it was down to the skill of the driver to get his car across the line first.

Then along came the Kyosho Optimas and the plethora of Tamiya plastic moulded blobs that, granted, performed waaaayyy better than the SRBs but in my humble opinion lost that 'real' look. Then followed the host of wallet busting hop ups, up grades and available modification parts - that was the point at which I lost interest in racing. I had no interest in watching an uber expensive, ultra hopped up plastic winged wonder hurtle around a track at an obscene speed.

So, vintage racing - yay! Keep it (looking) real (istic) and bring it on!

Chef

[Singapore_959]

It does now!!!

:o

New regs for the winter series means brushless are IN for the buugy class - so the DS is going to fly the VINTAGE flag High and FAST

(driver figure inluded btw )

I wouldn't want to do it with the Can Am Lola tho. !