There was a large contingency of us in the mid-west that were on the AE team at the time that refused to make the transition to a car that would not perform on the low grip, rough, midwest tracks. We just kept running the pan car until they made us.

The B2 only lived for about a year, then the B3 came about and was an improvement, but Gil was still at Losi and the XX and XXX platforms excelled at the time.

One year there was only 1 AE car to make the A at the nationals (I think 99?), and that was Al Horne from Michigan, not one of the guys from the "factory" team (aka the "Travel" team).