Originally Posted by vafactor

I fondly remember the days when we had pancar body shells that at least hinted at the look of real group c racecars. Not only the bodies, but also the replica decal sets could be had. Much of what drew me to the hobby was the fun of building up a car that looked like a Miller High Life 962 porsche, an AMG mercedes, a Texaco Havoline 962, a Castrol jaguar, or a GTP nissan. I've had all of those at one time or another. One of my most vivid memories of Cleveland was the year when there was a guy who brought an absolutely incredible looking KreepyKrawly 962 that was all done in paint (no decals). His car was just awesome looking. Incredible workmanship and creativity. Nowadays nobody (including me) does realistic looking paint jobs. That's too bad. Once you've seen one car that's been painted up with the new trend of fluorescent flames or tribal graphix, that style of body all look the same. I long for the days when the RC grid took on the look of real racing.........just shrunk to scale. I'd gladly return to doing up realistic looking cars.........if only I could find the decal sets (and preferably some semi-realistic looking bodies to go along with them).