I too sort of faded away from nitro. I went from MTs to racing, because even though I didn't care about (in fact really quite disliked..) all the uptight competition(and incessant wrenching..), I was obsessed enough with nitro engines to just want to have the chance to run different kinds and in different conditions. Plus it was getting harder and harder to find cool spots to go bash around. I guess I figured a track was a ready-made bash spot. In reality it was a place for super uptight fun-killers to take it all way too seriously..
I do miss the MTs though. I'll always be nostalgic about my first Savage and LST2 - which I got
almost fifteen years ago... (!!!)
That was also a time when I didn't have the stressful job, family, weekend house, etc etc... Now I am more into flying,and like that I can just charge up 4-5 batteries and go out for an hour and have fun. Clean fun too - no silicone oil and grease and gunk all over your hands (electric or nitro.. - I see it as a difference of degree, not of kind.. I did some minor wrenching on my MT4 G3 and mini electric buggy last weekend, and my hands were filthy afterwards..) - and car, and house, etc.. Now that I live in a house and no longer in a flat, I would definitely have to get a high power air compressor to clean them...
Anyway, I still have my nitro RC8T, with boxes and boxes of parts and tires, plus the buggy, plus the SC8. I have an %80 running LST2 which would need a fair bit of work, but afaik the 454 motor in it stills runs well enough, as does the Nosram RS.30RR from my older truck, which I sold as a roller earlier this year... And oh yeah, the DM-1.. I meant to run them all this year, and charged up all my nimh starter batteries etc.., but never got around to it.. And now it's winter.
I'll see what still works next year...
I just found myself looking into a new Arrma Kraton... But them I'm like, naa.. My Mt4 G3 still works well enough, plus I have nearly a second truck in spare parts - and I could get a new one for €300 or so instead of €500 for the Kraton... RC cars are such money pits.. I also have the Tamiya TRX801XT, which works fine, plus a whole spare kit.... I feel more like taking those out today than flying.... Hmm..
I would never have anything to do with Traxxas.