Alright guys! My Clod chrome edition just arrived and of course I will take some pics. I am actually taking some pics right now as I am typing here. I will post them later after for you guys of course.
since this is pretty much my introduction thread, here is a little clod story from me:
I have actually been a clod guy for a long time since I was 15 back in 1998 but I left the hobby for about 8 years. I was actually a member of this forum (I think it is this forum) and one of the forum member that I can remember from back then is "bigpoppopit." Does that screen name ring a bell to you guys here? That guy helped me out with my clod in this forum. I ended up having a super roostered clodzilla III with a grave digger body and I actually bashed the stock chevy body and ran it over with my grave digger clodzilla until that chevy clod body were in pieces. That was a wrong move but that was ten years ago, now I would die for an original stock clod.
Like I mentioned earlier, I've been away from the hobby for awile but actually kept my clodzilla in storage. I got back in the hobby two and a half years ago but not really for the clod. I got back because of the traxxas rustler vxl on youtube that caught my attention. It was going 70mph and I was like...wow. I bought one and then my RC addiction came back in. My collection started growing fast; first the rustler vxl, then bought a slash, an ERBE, savage xl, scx10 and an HPI baja 5t. Just a few months ago, I pulled my clodzilla out of the storage but not to run it, but to sell it so I can buy parts for my baja. That was another wrong move for me with my clod. After selling it, all of a sudden the clod bug bit me again. I went shopping online for a clod and realized that the super clodbuster has been discontinued. I found out about the chrome edition and good thing it was Christmas and used that as an excuse to buy one. I'm glad I bought this chrome edition as it looks plain beautiful. This clod really brings back memories from how excited I was back when I got my first hobby RC, the 1st gen clod, 12 years ago. It is just amazing that for some reason, even now after owning some of the better RC availble in the hobby today with better technology than the clod, the clod still brings a different kind of excitement to me. Maybe because I'm a big fan of real monster trucks but still, to compare a clod's performance to something like an ERBE or a baja is like night and day. But if I can only have one RC, I think it would still be the clod.
I hope the people in Tamiya feels the same way about the clod and gives us a present on clod's 25th anniversary. I hope they re-release the 1st gen red clod again. What do you guys thing of the chances of that?
. Had it for quite some time like 2 years or so. Still in its box and wrapped in the paper. As you know by now; its just a plated version of the Super Clod. Has the dual motor ESC and black plastics. Wish it would have came with the chrome ladder bars like the Bullhead; that would have been sweet. Congrats on your Clod!