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My buddy, who showed up Saturday, had always thought about getting into r/c, and after saturday, he has been talking about going to the Hobby Shop and getting a truck.... I told you guys this was contagious... Big Grin
My buddy got me in by giving me a great deal on the savage. I always thought they were too much money. A few thousand dollars later....
One trip to Berwyn will usually do it.
watch some rock crawling vids and you will be looking for a clodbuster.
hehe.. lots of these guys have seen what a good crawler can do. I bring mine out wuite often and crawl over curbs, other RC's, just about anyhitng I can find.
Crawling looks cool, but it also looks VERY expensive to set up a good crawler....
I'm trying to get one of my coworkers into nitro. He and I paintballed back in the day and he now has no one close by that balls so he may sell off his Armotech and get a MT. He knows how short my attention span is and wants to wait and see if I am still doing this next year, of course I told him I still would be.
do-u-maxx, you paintball? A bunch of us are heading down to the badlandz on oct. 23.
I used to have a Tippman A-5 with response trigger but the hobby got real expensive real fast. Everytime I wanted to go out and play, it cost me around $50-100 at least and thats everytime. Balls cost an arm and a leg and they just go too fast so I sold everything on ebay. I will pick it up again in the future cause its just a blast to play, but after my wife is working full time again, as for now I can just afford my SM and thats just barely.
It is fun though.
He got a used Savage, In like new condition, with extras (Glow ignitor, batterry, charger, spare parts... ) for $250 from one of the guys at MJ..
as long as your on the subject of getting the bug...

I cought it about 4 months ago. I was at my brother in-laws house and he showed me his new toy. He had bought a traxxas few months earlier. I slammed his truck around for a good 2 hours before I left his house. The next day I started to do my research on nitro trucks and concluded that the Savage was the best bang for the buck. I started looking at online hobby shops and at my LHS, but was kind of taken back by the near $400.00 price tag. So I started searching on eBay and found a guy that had one new in box listed. I just so happen to have an older laptop laying around so I made the guy an offer, laptop for Savage. Low and behold a few days later the guy responded with a yes.

Needless to say I have been bashing and replacing parts ever since, lol.





I'll post a pic of my truck when I get a chance.
the guy at work is really getting serious about getting a truck. Only problem is that he see's mine and wants to go SM before he even gets seriously driving it. I told him to slow down and see what happens after he gets a truck and to get one that can be fixed easily with stock parts until he learns how to drive, but I am not sure he's gonna listen.
I got that bug almost a year ago , and now I am trying to get rid of some bugs . I too was in paintball , I sold my Impulse , no vision 12v revy and 1/2 case Evil paint for 400 bux . Sold my full Freak Kit for 100 bux , my NOS tank and 3 Co2 with SP on/off and antisyphon for 100 bux , and bought RC cars .