TexMexSu

Lets see how old some of you are........


Anybody race in NIROCC? (Northern Illinois Radio Operated Car Club)
SSRCCC? (South Suburban Radio Control Car Club)
JOROCC? (Joliet Off Road Operated Car Club)

Metrofast? Radio Active? Thunderdome? Midwest?

Any of the shopping mall races?

The track at the Suzuki shop in Aurora?

Bill Jacobs Chevy in Joliet on Friday nights? (Moody Sprint cars with vaccuformed bodies)

Anybody race with a resistor? (long before ESC's)

SCR batteries? Novak servos?

silentassassin

i ran at nirocc,,,,,both locations
metrofast
thunderdome............ride the chicken wire
friday nites running sprints at jacobs with roy moody
jorroc was a blast with don meade



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TexMexSu

NIROCC was nice, utilized the "Heart of America" format.
Kinda low key racing.

SSRCCC was the opposite.....run by racers that wanted to race. 4 or 5-8 minute qualifiers and the mains.

Metrofast......fast carpet oval racing.

Thunderdome......FAST dirt oval that broke things!

Bill Jacobs......oval racing on concrete sliding around with chassis that were, well, rather vintage. Capping hard tires with inner tubes and vacuum cleaner belts. Lotsa fun!

Don, Todd, Jim Dieter....JORROC was a mixed breed of racers.

Kinda find some photos of that here.............

silentassassin

Jacobs was crazy. Piano wire chassis!!!!

slots

iTrader: (5)

Used to drive 3 hrs to get to NIROCC races.

Yes, my first 1/12 car was a 12i with a resistor esc. Ran with SC's - even before SCR's.

TexMexSu

WOW, you had the current stuff............my first was a 12E!

AreCee

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1988 for me.

Mundellin, Arlington Heights and Lily Lake.

Rainman71

I know this thread is a little dated but ya'll bringing back old memories for me. . Anybody hit up the mid week fun runs at the Mercedes facility back in the late 70's.

TakAchance

First car was an RC10 gold pan with resistor. Charger was a dial with 15 minute timer. Futaba Magnum Jr was the hot radio (that I was too poor to afford.). Next car was a 10th scale Parma pan car and ran oval indoors in the winter. Every cent of my paper route $$ went into those cars.

Thanks for the memories.

Lone Drifter

You might have missed a few , Leisure hours parking lot , Lemont Dirt Burners, AJ in DeKalb. Hobby town in Mc Henry ( the old car dealer barn), The track that was in Oswego along Rt 71. Yes I used to race at Radio Active every Friday

Man Im Old

TRUGGYRACER1

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I used to run metrofast, won many trophys there, and had 2 sponsors ryden decal and quaterflash motors, miss them old days

TexMexSu

I ran Metrofast a lot on Friday nights.

Got a bunch of plaques here somewhere still.

Got to dig them up sometime.

TexMexSu

Lots of fun back then.

Here is one of my Moody wire cars and the track.....

Rcracer1966

I ran with Nirocc in 92 ish in Naperville at a school in the Gym on Carpet Oval, was some of the most fun I have ever had! 10L Nascar bodys and ran Stock and Mod.

Rcracer1966

Ran at GEM RC racway as well.