corvette spyder

[StealthBird]

The yellow one pictured above is what they made an r/c car out of way back in the late 1970's. It wasn't a toy car from a K-Mart or anything like that, it was actually a competitive 1/12 scale car that ran at the R.O.A.R. (Radio Operated Auto racing) national events, but was quickly outdated when a company called Associated built serious 1/12 scale R/C electric road racing cars. I just happened to find some very old R/C Modeler magazines I had stashed away, and an old Tower Hobbies catalog (anyone remember that place?), and found an ad for this Corvette Spyder, made by a company called LaTrax. It was a popular race car in r/c clubs at the time, until Associated, BoLink, Parma, and some other companies began making more professional 1/12 scale racing cars.