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I had an old Raider back in the '80s that I had no idea how to use, and it was tremendous fun. It had two gear ratios in it, changable by switching the plastic gears around, and when I melted the high speed one I switched to the low speed one until I melted it. I installed better shocks, I knew they were better because they were metal instead of plastic  , and filled them with 30w oil because the guy at the hobby shop said I should. I put an electronic speed controller on it when I broke the wires off the original three speed plastic one, and never got the steering adjusted correctly so it always wanted to turn to the right. It had a Fox body Mustang shell, badly painted metallic red with black windows and haphazardly arranged decals.  I had a Futaba controller of some sort and two crystals that's probably still in my mom's basement, and honestly probably still works. My little gak box is probably long gone, but it had an extra battery and a charger, a string of incandescent bulbs with a plug for discharging batteries, a little bottle of shock oil, an assortment of little tools, a spare motor, a set of tires, a bunch of screws, some super glue, a roll of electrical tape and some zip ties. I used to run that little car around a track at a local hobby shop ("ANYONE ON CHANNEL FOUR?") and it didn't have the balls to make the jump they had built there and land on the opposite ramp. Instead it would fly off the one ramp only to crash into the edge of the other and plop onto the ground. That was funny, but I only did it occasionally for fear of breaking the car, which I never seriously did. It was a tough little bastard. Maybe I sould get another one...
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