I did a video of some old dirt days and my racing.... check it out:

www.snowbirdnationals.com/videos/Back_in_the_Day.wmv (http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/videos/Back_in_the_Day.wmv)

Notice how slow the cars were when it all began.

mike, that was coool! does tha bring back memeories, i think i still have some of those old tamyia cars somewhere, say hi to the family!! :thumbsup: :dude: :wave:

Great job mike!!! for those of us doing it that long, we can Appreciate the music as well ;0)

Awesome Mike!!! Really brings back the memories.
We were all skinny back then!!!
Sitting in the trophy room as I type. Of course the wife call it the computer room.

I will have the popcorn ready when I watch the concrete video.

Really Really Nice.

Kinda puts a tear in your eye! nice job Mike!!! Can't wait to see the whip picture.

Sweet video Mike. I remember we ALL used to wear our hats with a straight bill as Jeff Gordon now says "Lookin' like a DORK". lol

WOW those were the days, never raced in FL but alot of Dirt Oval back in Texas and it looked pretty much the same!

Nice flashback Mike!

wow they look like tanks back in the day. so big and slow. wish i was around back then. i would have like to see the progress these manufacturers have made since then. and all of todays top drivers when they were kids. of course some of them still act like kids lol

Rusty NutZ

Thanks guys.... it sure is amazing to see how racing has evolved.

Thats great footage !!!

We've been involved in this sport for over 20 years and now my 12 year old son does most of the driving. " Great family Fun "

Great video Mike. Seeing pictures of Danny’s track in Gibsonton and the old footage from Fast Tracks brings back a lot of good memories.

It was fun to see video of a young "Radar".

Can’t wait to see the hard top version.
:thumbsup:

Yea Sonny! Man we are so lucky most these guys are still racing and in fact ol' Wayne Toomey just got an oval car and Sam Ware is too.

man thats cool video there!!

Thats a really cool video. Neat to see what racing was like when I was barely 2 years old!! :eek: Cant wait to see the pavement video!!

Thanks for Sharing!
:cool: Mark :cool:

brings back the good old days on the dirt .. i started racing in 87.. cant wait till the next one.

What do you guys think was better back then - or better now?

Anything stand out that you wish would be like today?

the numbers of people at local tracks and a big event was a big event...

anyone rember the winter blast that had 300 plus stock entrys????

i love the racing today but it was a blast back then with all the people and familys that were at the track.

most of all i miss the weekly racing at the club tracks.. with all thats out there now the club level in my area is really down on numbers

Wow that video brought back memories of my dirt days at the First Coast Track in Jax and that was waaay back in 86. Man I'm getting old LOL. You're right there were alot of families racing which we don't see to much of now.

Can't wait for the pan cars version and in six cells.

Thanks Mike I Think Alot Of Us Needed That Video To See What We Had Then And What We Have Now And Realize That This Is A Great Hobby And A Great Sport Where There Are So Many Diffrent Ends Of The Spectrum . You Can Be A Back Yard Basher Or A WoRld Class Driver We Are Still Grown Men Playing With Toy Cars.!! God Bless America!

That was cool thanks Mike man did we wear some funky clothing back then

mike,
nice job :thumbsup:
i am sure we are all waiting on the next one
and wow were you skinny :)

alan behler

Those were the days Brock and that race will be talked about for many years to come. Run the stock main at 6:00a.m. after being up 24 hours prior then by 7:00a.m. have a mod motor slugged in for practice and let her rip.

SL

Mike: That video speaks volumes in memories and what is the right spirit of R/C racing. Can't wait for the videos of the Whip and King.

Hey mike!!!!! those were the days !! :thumbsup: thanks 4 going back in the days. :cool: :cool: :cool:



ROCK :wave:

Yea Sonny! Man we are so lucky most these guys are still racing and in fact ol' Wayne Toomey just got an oval car and Sam Ware is too.

Cool, tell those two they better be at the Birds this winter. Please give them my e-mail next time you see them. sbrown15@insightbb.com

Sure miss the large number of local racers. Most tracks pulled in more on a regular week than many of the Nats events do today. Hand counting sucked, but back then the only "Portable" computer weighed about 40lbs and was the size of a sewing machine w/o batteries. Times have changed but the spirit of things remains. Thx
Tom

Thanks everyone for your posts. As I can, all of you have as much passion for this hobby as I do.

Mike,

Way COOL video, and history...

Something I noticed and was kind of reminded of while watching it though was the issue of technology and speed.

Remember those early days (I started the summer of '85), cars were by todays standards really slow...but did we think they were SLOW then? Heck NO, they were the fastest things we'd ever driven.

Our Dirt Oval track started, and several of the guys had Hornets, Frogs and some Kyosho cars. Within a couple months, the standard became the RC10 in the 2wd class and the Yokomo 4wd car. Most ran buggy bodies when the track first opened...quickly switching to more realistic SPRINT car bodies for crowd appeal, and not much later almost EVERYONE at our track switched to the old MRP Camaro body.

Cars were pretty slow and easy to drive compared to todays standards (I already mentioned that) and we had HUGE numbers. The faster the cars got, the more SKILL it took to compete, the more MONEY it cost also..we started watching our numbers drop from a normal 70-80 racers a week to about 60. Cars picked up more speed...and a couple years later the Custom Works DOMINATOR came out...now things were REALLY fast...and we fell to about 35-40 racers.

It seemed the faster and more specialized the cars got...the more racers we lost.

Then PAN cars hit the scene about '89 or so out here...and that really split the crowd (What we had left...) Then MAN did it grow again... Until the old WIDE car got NARROWED up and became a SPECIALTY car too. Then stedily, the numbers dropped again...as speeds got faster and faster.

Most of the guys I know who have also been in this for more than 15 years have seen similar trends...but thanks to these DIE HARDS we keep going.

I too now have a 14 year old Son, who does MOST of the driving these days...I'm hoping to keep HIM in the hobby 20+ years too.

Rcthunder, I wish the gas prices were the same so that I could enjoy more tracks

swtour - I agree.... maybe we are going tooooo fast today. I wonder when the speed gets so fast our brains can't even keep up :p

Now that's the Mike Boylan I remember! The youngsters all grew up too fast. What an asset to RC racing Mike is!

Every once in a while I'll dig out old videos of the early days of Dirt Oval from SoCal or early Whipporrwill and Thundredrome for some "back in the day" memories. I'm sure Mike is in there somewhere.

Gary McAllister

Hey Gary.How about some copys or post those Thunderdrome & Whip videos.Can't wait to see Mikes,but your Thunderdrome fliks would be awesome.I was there for the 1st one,and everyone after that in Encino.Went to the Whip with Dan's sponsorship in '89.What i miss most was the big races.They we're allmost a treat back then.Now it seems like it's work.

wow. I can't believe the memories that brings back. Did we really have that many racers back then? Yeah we did. I remember a local dirt track in Jackson Mi got 60-70 racers on a TUESDAY night!
My first car was a Frog. It sucked. I can't beleive the changes that have taken place over the years. What can we do to draw all those people again???

Take away all the things that are readily avaiable to kids now. Like xbox, internet, and the list can go on and on. I grew up in a town of about 4000, and it was not uncommon to get 35-40 people on a weeknight.