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Old 02-28-2013, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick Davis
I find it amusing that folks are willing to hurl criticism at Dale and the other body manufacturers for unrealistic looking bodies when the real culprit is the governing orginizations abandoning the realism requirement some years ago , we are getting what we asked for. I was at a slot race over the weekend and someone asked me about R/C and metioned that they were told they looked like giant LMP bodies which in slot terms are thingie-ized version of Peugeots , Mercs , Audi's etc - guess that's what we've sunk to.
Nobody stepped in to maintain realism. Now the genie will not go back in the bottle.

The class is what it is now, much like 1/12, and nobody is going back.

I do have a prediction for the future:
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