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sbixby@cup.portal.com (Steven W Bixby) writes...

>I good friend of mine and I were talking around the idea of both
>of us acquiring R/C monster trucks; namely, Tamiya "Clodbuster" or
>Kyosho "USA-1".

I haven't seen the models you refer to, but if they're anything like
the other monster truck kits (e.g. Tamiya Blackfoot [Bigfoot?]) then
my comments would be...

  - They're probably fine for running around on smooth surfaces and
    not-to-bumpy dirt surfaces.

  - The center-of-mass on the monster trucks is too high for high
    speed racing on dirt tracks with jumps/mogels.  You'll flip over
    a lot.

  - Monster trucks seem IMO to be more "closed-architecture" the
    availability of after-market add-ons may be limited.

I would suggest looking into one of the "stadium" type trucks like...

  Associated RC-10T
  Team Losi (don't know model name/number)
  Futaba ?x-1  (This is a new entry-level truck)

These perform better on uneven dirt surfaces, and are more open-architecture
and have many after-market modifications available.

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