Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Ooh, Extra! The RC versions do some stuff that appears to defy physics. Enjoy flying that nimble bird!
Hey David, you sound overwhelmed. Don’t forget to give yourself a little time to rest over the holidays and be sure to communicate with your wife about how you’re feeling. Sometimes things stack up, but take it one thing at a time and before you know it, you’ll be dug out. If you need help with the wrenching, I’m sure any Autopian in your area would be happy to help out.
Great idea with the K5! I’m rather partial myself…. If you need any inspiration here’s mine!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3956QMZG7ni3JjuZ8
When I was sixteen and taking lessons, I got to log an hour in a Christen Eagle, doing loops and rolls. A snap roll was scary fast in a biplane. I can only imagine how nimble the Extra must be to fly.
I love the Galaxie in front of the J10. He could drop the Galaxie and J10 off at my place no problem. Then find me a good divorce lawyer.
I think that David is on the right track, shipping his Jeep pickup back to Michigan.
I recently listed my son’s previous college beater car for sale: a 1998 Plymouth neon. This is a California/Arizona car with zero rust. When we got the car ready for daily driver status a couple of years ago, we fixed a HUGE amount of stuff and preemptively replaced all of the maintenance items so that the car would be rock solid reliable…and it has been. My neon-loving friends east of the Mississippi all think that it’s a great car for the price, seeing as these things rusted away years ago in their local environment.
The problem is that, so far, nobody wants to come out to southern California to pick up the car! I can’t sell it locally because we built it in a configuration that will not pass California smog check, and it would be very difficult to put it back into a smog legal config. Sigh.
I live in the Northeast now and my mechanic is memorized by the underside of my ’09 Outback that lived most of it’s life in California. “Not a spec of rust,” he always says.
I’m not sure where it came from and can’t get it out of my mind, but I think what the RC truck really needs is a Buick Roadmaster body.
I really want to encourage the BMW 850 purchase, but I also think it’s a bad idea unless you have the willingness and a place where you can do major repairs yourself that may leave the car disassembled for weeks at a time.
100 year old house? You’re moving too?
That also caught my eye.
I think the TRX deserves a haja buggy body! You may have to scale it up a bit, but after seeing a Beetle Limousine, I think it can be done!
About that stunt flying, once the lessons are done is there still an instructor flying with you? Do not want to see your last byline in Pilot Debrief.
David says goodbye….What????? Oh, to a rusty Jeep. Whew, you scared me, he’s not saying goodbye to The Autopian, thank Goodness. Mercedes, be safe in that plane.
We must insist that all of the Tracy collection sales are monitored on the Autopian.
Unsupervised sales are fine.
It’s when he starts buying MORE that we may need to intervene.