Racer's Gallery


October 2002

Our Racer's Gallery is dedicated to all the loyal HPI car and truck fans all over the world. Whether it's a vintage Super F1 or a brand new Nitro 3, we like to honor all of our customers with a space all their own on the official HPI Racing web site!

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hi great hpi people,
just wanted to offer my toyota celica picture as a potential candidate for
your gallery. love your site and the wonderful cars you build! my car....a pro3 w/11x3 trinity/futaba + hitec electronics absolutely the best handling fastest most reliable touring car on the market! peace, mike mizzi danbury,ct

My name is Josh Sherwood and I am from El Dorado Hills CA. This is my nitro
mt and it has a motor savers air filter, hpi heat sink head, and mip cvd's.

Please include this photo of my stock HPI Super nitro, Porsche 911 Turbo. This is my first gas powered car.
Thanks
Jonathan Rall
Orting,Wa

My name is Sebastian and I am a big HPI Fan. I have two RS4's of which one of them is a Ford F-150 and the other this Lamborghini. I hope you like what you see and consider my vehicle for your rotating Gallery on your website. I would be honored if you would show my car. I also race in our local Offroad circuit with a new RS4 MT and placed 5th in my first A-Main 4-wheel fuel truck. Out of 20 that is. That means HPI is awesome and I am a Fan for life. Thank you for everything!

My name is Morgan Stejver and I live in Sweden in a little town called Vastervik.

I´m sending you some pictures of my first R/C kit ever. It´s a Viper RS4 Super Nitro painted in grape pearl and sprint white. Since I´ve never painted a model before, I think this turned out quite well.

With regards

Morgan Stejver


I send you my ford focus !
Francis Lessard

First of all let me say it was a challenge! Even with the help of the decals from the viper super kit. The red,white and blue ribbon stripes are painted and the only actual decals used are the rwb flag,number logo,mobil sponsor and mopar sponsor.I started with cutting the ribbons out and taping on the inside face up.Once in place I traced the lines with a fine marker on the outside.Removed decals and taped the marker lines with 3M tape which works great,better than masking tape.Very little if any under bleed.Use of masking tape was used after the outlining with 3M.All colors were Pactra starting with metallic red,metallic blue and pearl white backed with sprint white.Pearl white was to transparent to use by itself but helped in giving it a metallic appearence to match the other colors.Thes were then backed by indy silver then outlaw black.Silver used so black would not shade the white.The grand finally was Pactra window tint.It is a show body only,kind of figured after all the work I did not want to mess it up.The top pic shows the flag design and no the stars are not painted. I cut the stars from the sheet and applied to the top and you really don`t notice it!!!

Jackie Reed


Here is my submission for the picture page. (4 pictures attached)

Name: Mike Trejo
Town: Tinley Park, IL

Car: #17 Innovative Windows, Nissan Skyline RS4 Pro-2

Specs: *Trinity P2K 34,172 rpm,
*Front and Rear HPI Multi-Rate Springs,
*HPI "warm weather" Slicks,
*Novak T-4 ESC,
*Hitec Micro Receiver,
*Trinity 3000mah Ni-Mh Panasonic Cells.

Sponsor: Innovative Industries Inc. Morris, IL

Thank You,
Mike Trejo #17


My name is Emilio from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here are some bodies
I painted , a Toyota Supra, a Celica and a Peugeot. The supra and
Celica has already won "Best Paint" titles twice. I hope you like
them.


I finished this Porsche body yesterday and before I crushed it today in a race a send a couple of photos of it.The car is a Nitro RS42 updated with a 2 speed transmission a front belt tensioner a gear brace set and a fiber disk brake.My next goal is the.12 Novarrossi.My name is Andres Gonzalez and I'm from Chile.Here in my country there are a lot ef Hpi's lovers,we race in parking lots and in a few tracks here in Santiago.Next week there is a local competition in Viña del Mar.


NFL kicker Bryan Barker sent us pictures of his Brumos Porsche 911!

I liked this paint scheme on the Rohr Porsche team when it ran in the IMSA/WSC series so I put it on my other favorite German car the A4. All of the non-HPI decals are 2mil vinyl from my local sign/banner shop.
Greg Drake
Broomfield, Colorado


James Whitaker
Winder, Ga.

fred ramos
wicked rc

Shane Jones

Black Rock,
St. Michael,
Barbados, W.I

This is my Civic Si that won the 1st place electric street car show on Oahu!
Heres some pics...

Thanks,
Mark Osborne


I must say that HPI's bodies are the very best I've seen. I use to work in the hobby dept at Play Co. back in 1987 and I can't remember ever seeing bodies this beautiful. Your model designers have done an outstanding job of creating the realism that has re-sparked the passion. You see I have not built a model in almost ten years. I have only painted two other bodies before, and when I saw the beautiful bodies your team makes I just had to have one. All I can say is thanks. I know the pictures I am submitting are not professional quality, but I would appreciate it very much if you would review them and at least let me know what you think good or bad. I tried to make it somewhat unique, the firebird on the hood was copied from the decal set provided, scanned and exploded, then traced onto contact paper. I had trouble cutting the water based paint and keeping the color consistent so I could use it in the airbrush. Well I hope it's at least worthy of a glance.
Thank You Very Much

Brian Gerber
Oceanside CA


Here is my Rush!

Brian Simmons PA, USA

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