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The judges for this HPI Challenge Concours were Issac Ben-Ezra, owner of Hobby Center, David Kouche of HPI and Frank McKinney of HPI. They took a long time to look at the cars that were brought up and chose their top three picks, then spent a few more minutes and chose the winner.
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Here are some of the standouts from the group of Concours challengers:
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Finalists are chosen!
We chose several cars to be "finalists", that we would pick the top three cars from. Here are some pictures of the first group of finalists.
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The Top Three Concours Challenge Finalists!
In Third Place...
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| Darren Lighty of Patterson, New Jersey (one of our long-distance racers!) went home with third place in our Concours Challenge. Darren used Parma Faskolor paints (Ash Gray and Charcoal Metallic) to paint the base coats of his car, topping off the car with Slixx decals from their NASCAR lineup. The red wheels are our #3715 3mm offset Mesh Wheels that were painted Missile Red. |
In Second Place...
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| Hailing from San Antonio, Ron Meloni was last year's defending Super Nitro RS4 winner, and decided to come out in style this year, with this great-looking 1998 season replica of the Toyota TS020 (they called it the GT-One in 1999). Ron took over 12 hours to mask off the white areas of the body, and he even had scale mirrors, windshield wiper, hood antenna and inner body to complete the scale look. Great job, and a wonderful example of what good research can accomplish for an older race car replica! |
And in First Place!
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| Kevin Mitchell of Dallas took home top honors in the Concours Challenge with this great-looking Alfa Romeo GTV body on an RS4 Nitro RTR chassis. On the outside, you could see the clean paint job and outside mirrors, but if you looked a little closer you could see working headlights and tail lights, plus a handmade windshield wiper! Looking inside the car was our #7098 Interior Set with a driver head that turned on a hidden servo! A coiled air hose provided the ventilation to the driver and turned with the helmet. Hood pins that you could actually remove (very very small body clips, basically) topped off the whole car and made Kevin's car the winner! Congratulations, Kevin! For his efforts, Kevin went home with an HPI Oval T-shirt and a brand new RS4 Rally kit. Both Ron and Darren took home new HPI Oval T-shirts as well in recognition of their efforts. |