RC Cars and Trucks

September 9, 2007 by Leave a Comment

I love RC Cars and Trucks! They are so much fun, and now they are getting so fancy – and so fast! Some of them even run on real gasoline! I posted over on Hippie Spelunker – H2 the other day about how much I love trucks, and how it all began, and why my ‘Hippie’ blog is nicknamed for a gas-guzzling monster!

And at 37 years old, I still have a very healthy love of toys – and you put trucks and toys together, and the FUN is on!!

There was this one RC pickup truck once, that was for sale one Christmas at our local grocery store, and I wanted it so badly!! There was one small hangup Mark had with buying it for me! (Men- gah!)Winking 2 What was the hangup? The bugger cost $400!! Oh my gawd!

That one was really big, but, about that same time, they came out with some that weren’t that big, but, were totally awesome! They were definitely larger than your average RC car, but, they were so freaking fast, it was unbelievable!

We were at my mom’s house on Christmas day, and we kept hearing this VERY loud noise outside! My first thought was, ‘Who on earth is doing yardwork on Christmas?!’

And then my next thought was, ‘And why in the heck is their power tool so loud?!’

But then we looked outside and couldn’t believe what we saw! Setting up the scene in your head, my mom lives across the street from my elementary school. So every Christmas, everyone is out there in the driveway with their new bikes, rollerskates, skateboards, RC cars, etc! It is lots of fun watching the parade of neighbors and seeing what everybody got from Santa!

And that is what we saw – a guy running his new RC car down the length of the school driveway (about eight houses long) in just seconds! It was so awesome!

I unashamedly nurture my love for toys. Some people think it is silly, but, I think it is good for mental health! But the weird thing is, I never looked these speed-demon RC cars up – not even once! What was I thinking?! I’m heading to the Hobby Warehouse right now to go look them up – I hope they’re not as much as that giant $400 one, because the college parking lot across the street would be perfect for them!

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My Nissan Frontier dream…

August 24, 2007 by 1 Comment


…has been rekindled. I had to drive my mother-in-law’s truck around for the last two weeks to take care of her horses. It’s a Toyota Tacoma. Granted, that’s not a Nissan, and it is not a stick shift – but, it made me start longing for a four-door Frontier again! I had kind of put that desire on the back burner, so that I could drive a minivan, and carry extra kids around. But two weeks in that truck has lit my Frontier fire again! I used to drive the kids crazy with it – every time we saw a Frontier, I would start singing that old western TV show song. Heck – I can’t even think of it right now! I’ve just always assumed that once the kids were a lot older, then I could switch from the mom-mobile – to the hott mama sexy truck! But now with our car situation being all goofy – me stuck at home – my contractor hubby in my minivan on remodeling jobs – I’m thinking, “Oh – it’s ok, I can get a Frontier now…..yeah, sure I can, it’ll work….” I even put a Frontier module on my LisaMarieMary Squidoo lens today. And …oooh! It came with all these truck accessories, I was just dying to shop! Now if only I could win a lottery!! The funny part is that I want one from the first year that they were made – they changed the body style in the second year and I don’t really like it. But ever since getting behind the wheel of my mother-in-law’s truck, I just keep remembering test-driving that Frontier quite a few years ago – and how much fun it was!

Filed Under: Trucks

Nitro, baby!

March 8, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Is that baby HOTT, or what?! I love these things – they are gas-powered nitro remote control trucks and they are BAD to the bone! They can go up to 40mph, and the off-road ones can go up and down almost any surface – climb small dirt hills, rocks, grass, gravel – you name it! These babies flip over and just keep going! Just about the only way to stop them, so it seems, is to land them belly-up – like a turtle!

There were some folks in my mom’s neighborhood with one – and they are awesome! The nitro gas makes ’em rev up really loud – even after we went back in the house from watching, we were still hearing them!

Yep – along with real trucks, I love RC Trucks, too. And I know – that is so un-hippie of me to be so in love with such gas-guzzlin’ fools, but, I just can’t help it! It just is a part of who I am. This is one case where ‘almost a hippie’ really does apply! LOL!!

Just check out the Radio Control Toy Store, and watch a video or two, and you will be just as enthralled as I am!

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