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Think us older guys are bad?
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:20 am
by extrememicros
Other day at my shop, a guy came in about mid to late 60's, and he asked what micro rc's I carried. Immediate thought was, Grandkids birthday...well to my surprise, not the case, him and 3 of his older buddies play with these things!!! They get together once a week and play Micro Pool he called it. They take ping pong balls and number them and put them on a pool table...and play pool!!! Your car acts as the cue ball. You are allowed to tap, slam or push the ball into the pockets. If you push, you are allowed to push until the ball strays from your car. That is your shot.
He said they'd be interested in racing so, I told him to come back monday and we'd talk racin.
He was sittin here telling me about buying Shen clones at Chuck Homiers sale and crappy clones at a local grocery store, as well as telling me how they tried to fix the steering/return spring on the junk clones to make them better...;o)
I was loving it...so now, as I sit at 29, I don't feel so bad....and I may have a few new older pimps to play with once a week...!!!
Holla
The DOC
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 11:37 am
by CaboWabo
thats awesome!
see, so we're not the "old farts" of the hobby! lol
those are gonna be good racers to have around - stable enough in life to really get in to this thing both from a hobby aspect and $$$ aspect.
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 11:42 am
by SilentWolv
Sounds like they devised a pretty fun game too. I wonder if they ever scratch?
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 1:19 pm
by payaso
Very cool.. I wish my grandpa was into these things. That would've been cool..
silla
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:29 pm
by cj
I have a Grandmother in her 60's that buys Zips for herself and her grand kids about every 3 weeks in my store at RS.
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:34 pm
by sessiz
I can't wait to bust these lil cars out 40yrs from now and whoop on some lil 10yr old grandkid of mine.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 11:38 am
by noxorc
sessiz wrote:I can't wait to bust these lil cars out 40yrs from now and whoop on some lil 10yr old grandkid of mine.
butchers don't live that long.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:29 pm
by SkyLiNEz 4-eva!
that would be off tha hook if u made a ramp-shaped bumper and hit the ball and it rolled up the car and u carried it on tha roof of tha car and then had a flipper mechanism to launch it into da air. that would b off tha shizzle
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:10 pm
by sessiz
noxorc wrote:sessiz wrote:I can't wait to bust these lil cars out 40yrs from now and whoop on some lil 10yr old grandkid of mine.
butchers don't live that long.
Who wants to live forever?
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:22 pm
by SkyLiNEz 4-eva!
maybe a person with a 1000 death wishes to himself/herslef?
new subject: i didnt know so many people from TRC were here, too!
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:49 pm
by sessiz
SkyLiNEz 4-eva! wrote:maybe a person with a 1000 death wishes to himself/herslef?
new subject: i didnt know so many people from TRC were here, too!
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:09 am
by SkyLiNEz 4-eva!
oh yeah. thanks, man. thanks a lot. that is very respectful. yeah. im gonna save that to my computer.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:03 am
by noxorc
SkyLiNEz 4-eva! wrote:oh yeah. thanks, man. thanks a lot. that is very respectful. yeah. im gonna save that to my computer.
respect. is that in the dictionary? what's it mean?
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:24 am
by sessiz
SkyLiNEz 4-eva! wrote:oh yeah. thanks, man. thanks a lot. that is very respectful. yeah. im gonna save that to my computer.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 3:13 pm
by SkyLiNEz 4-eva!
i just be kiddin pimps no need 2 worry, y'all. i wont have to bust out da dikshonarie.