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Old 04-28-2018 | 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by mleemor60
Thank you for crudely stating the obvious so that I didn't have to. The buck toothed, big butted "ghetto queen" look just doesn't do it for me either. Though I applaud Exotek for the effort I would have much preferred to have seen the late 90's long tailed McLaren or something else from that era of "GT" racing. Hell, I don't even like the C-7 plastic pig. Performance is a big factor in selecting a particular body but it oesn't have to be the paramount reason. It also carries a fairly simple remedy. Just put an age or last year of competition(1/1 scale) on it and be done with it. So lets say that anything produced after 2010 doesn't fit the existing rules package. Will we lose competitors to this? Maybe, but wo won't lose any racers. The self imposed stars of the hobby will piss and moan and state that this line of thinking is damaging to the hobby. That would be their flaps up, wheels in the well, belly to the ground all out quest for terminal velocity at the expense of re-kitting the car upon contact with another object hobby. Not mine. I would much prefer replica's of the knock down drag out door to door nose to tail cars from the BTCC or Australian super car series.

I was so excited to find one of the Saleen S7R bodies from HPI in my stash but I wont run it until they re-issue the thing. Its one of my favorite GT cars ever.
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