I have an injured spine from decades of physical work like construction, building maintenance and property management. In my time off, for many years I did a lot of hiking, backpacking, skiing and riding off-road motorcycles in the mountains and desert canyon back country of Utah and Colorado. Today I have a difficult time lifting or carrying anything weighing more than 2 or 3 pounds. I don't get to run my RC cars outside very much, but have plenty of wide open floor space in the large rooms of my apartment where I can run them.

I like collecting hobby stuff. Had fun some years ago acquiring a large amount of preowned N scale model railroad items. For a while I had a big layout on bench work I built. Got plenty of RC airplane and helicopter kits, some assembled and used, plus many new in boxes waiting to be built. A decent amount of newer and older home audio equipment.

Started thinking maybe it's time to get some spare parts for the Reflex 14 cars, but then had a better idea. A year ago I estimated the total cost of every part needed to build a complete 14B with transmitter, etc. just as they come from the factory. I began making a list of the parts, but it seemed like it would never end. I believe it would come to around $450. It's such a better deal to buy an entire ready to run kit. You get EVERY part of the car for $200 plus about $15 for your local sales tax. And soon production of these will end forever.