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Here's a few pics of my family's micro's. We race them on our portable carpet 25'x25' micro track when weather permits........ The micro RS4 is the best selling electric kit in my shop, and we have 5 all together.
I have also included a couple pic's of our track too. These cars can also be found on our website too. Don't care much about the contest, just wanted to share some awesome micro's with you all ! My wife's truck is not quite finished yet, will send you some pic's when complete.

My son's Viper, just painted the body. It's equipped with Hpi 45 turn mod, 1100mah 6 cell pack, 3PS radio gear, and novak speedo. the chassis is all stock for now.

My Daughters New Beetle, she had to have a VW !!! the car is all stock, a RTR with a HPI 600 mah battery pack.

My NSX...............a full race IPD 140 pro limited chassis, blue and silver aluminum everywhere from various manufacturers, LRP quantum and phazer electrics, Orion big block, 6 cell saddle pack, micro servo, MX3 radio, HPI light kit and rear ball diff, GH front adjustable ball diff and shocks, TRC foams and a few other things I'm probably missing......

Thanks for looking!

James Shanley, owner
J.S.Bodies Hobbyshop and Raceway
www.jsbodies.com

 

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Hello my name Dave Jones form Ottawa Ontario, Canada. I am a local r/c car painter in my area, Bodywerx. Here are a few pictures of my wife's Pro 3 with an HPI RSX body. The car has been heavily hopped up, everything is purple. The body is painted with Metallic Pink, Silver and Teal. The graphics were borrowed from the HPI Celica and traced to create paint masks. She loves the design so much is was painted on her last car, (the one with the trophy) and her micro too.

Dave Jones
Bodywerx

 

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Hey every HPI Racer, This is my Savage 21. It has a Ofna Hyper .21 8-port engine, Hot Bodies heavy duty clutch and aluminum tuned exhaust pipe. The body is a Pro-Line Hummer body and "ADRC Racing" painted an American theme with the New York City Skyline on it. I also installed the reverse module, which works alot better than the Traxxas T-Maxx reverse mechanism. It has a HPI High Performance Air Filter. I tell you HPI you really did a awesome and well thought out truck. The competition the Traxxas T-Maxx is way far behind in the suspension department and durable parts are also a great quality of the Savage 21.

 

 

Hi, a friend of mine asked me to send you pictures of HPI bodies he got and painted over the past year. He really loves the bodies you make and he visits your web site everyday to get informations on new bodies or simply to visit the Racer's Gallery. His latest body is the Supra and he never stops to talk about how sweet this body is. Besides the Supra, Civic and Viper GTS-R he has a Celica body, but it's too much damaged to show here. Tomorrow he's supposed to get the Silvia body... I don't know which one is next, but i'm pretty sure he will have all the 200mm bodies one day.

Thank you

Martin Asnong
Montreal, Canada

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HPI guys,

Watch out my Super Nitro Viper has fangs. Thanks for making such nice bodies. I had fun painting it. I hope you like it. I am currently working on the BMW.

Roberto Marti
Atwater Village, California


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Hello HPI. I live in Nassau county of New York My name is Jason and I am 14 years old and I m crazy about Radio Controlled Cars. This is my first kit ever, but won't be my last. I bought the Kit in September of 2002 at Willis Hobbies. I think the Nitro RS4 RTR 3 is great and easy to tune and break in. The body is the Viper that came with the kit, but it has been used before the picture was taken so it dont really have that new just painted look. The kit is all stock but i hope to add a 2 speed and more. Im saving up for the Nitro MT and soon going to purchase a new body for my Nitro RS4 RTR 3. On that body i will attempt to use three colors. I will send you the picture of that body and the Nitro MT which I am saving for before i use it. LOL I can't wait until i experience an offroad Truck. HPI u are the best keep it up. I will never grow out of the RC hobby.



Hi, great kits, keep up the great work. This is my first nitro kit, well actually my first kit because I bought a used "grasshopper" back when you could still buy them new. I've had this kit for about a week and love it. This truck kick serious butt, but since I'm from way up in Toronto Canada, I'm a little frustrated with the second coming of winter that we had last week. Nothing special about the truck yet, but looking forward to my next body and my first mods.

Keep up the good work
Scott Pond
Toronto, Canada


This my RS4-3 Nitro with a Mitsubishi Eclipse designed like the one in the Fast and the Furious, it has the roof scope and all the sponsor decals as the one in the movie. Also has neon kit under the body. HPI makes really cool body covers.
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Josh Klapperich

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HPI Pro2 by: David Bowles of Indianapolis, IN


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Yo this is my Acura RSX and it's my second one. its on my RS4 Pro. it has custom light buckets, Wing mounts, exhausts, grills, roll cage and lots of other stuff i can't think of right now lol. enjoy

- Veasna Toch


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This Dodge Stratus for my micro was custom painted by Bodywerx for my micro rs4. The decals were all customs as was the paint, and the hood. There is also the option big wing to make it look even more like the really thing.

Dylan Warrick
Ottawa Ontario


these are pictures of us in canada when the snow is flying.6-8 of us run at a time.i have the white stratus.it has a big block,micro servo on end to accommodate the sevro saver and adjustable tie rods,novak 610 esc,six flat cells,ground lights and head lights,8 tooth pinion gear with a ball diff rear axle,and with the track being tight but fast i left the stock front diff in(braking power is awesome).we run on an average of 30 min's. thank you for the best bang for your buck 1/18 scale cars.

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Hi my name is Mike and im currently from Connecticut and have been into R/C since I was about 5 years old. When I was little, I always loved driving around r/c cars and racing my friends. At about at age 13 I built my 1st 1/10th scale car (the one shown here, Mitsubishi Lancer WRC) from scratch. Ever since then I built a VW Baja Beetle and and currently upgrading the rally car. I built my own r/c rally track, its 3 tracks in one, I have a big oval (the one this car is racing on in the pictures), a mini-oval with jumps, and a road course thats all 3 tracks combined. The track is completly dirt and the rally car really gets around the big oval quick, ofcourse it rips up the dirt and send it flying everywhere! Im planning on building the same type of car again, using the 2003 Mitsubishi WRC body, and race agaist my friends for a rally duel. I hope to make more additions to my car and track by the end of Summer 2003!

Mike Kalasnik
Oakville, CT


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Aaron C. Floyd
Gravel Switch, Kentucky

Thanks for looking at my pictures


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Mark Frase 29 years old

Cincinnati Ohio

This is my RS4 Nitro Skyline GT-R
it has a tuned header and exhaust nothing to special when your married and have no money but i still have fun with what i got.
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I have sent to you my PICS of my RS4 RTR 3. I am new to the sport/hobbie. I am extremely pleased with the performance and durability of my first nitro rc car. I have made a few up grades to the RTR 3 and here they are in no particular order:

3 mm Super Chassis
Swaybar Set
2 Speed Tran.
Universal Front and Rear Dogbone's
Alum. Threaded Pinions 19T and 23T
Black Alum. Exhaust Header
Adjustable Turn Buckels
Fiber Disc Brake
Subaru Impreza 2002 Body
Nissan Silvia GT Body (As Shown)

The Silvia GT Body has a black hood painted underneath with a tapered black stripe that wraps around one side, over the rear trunk lid and back down the opposite side. The red paint has a bit of black mixed in with it to darken it up. The two pitcrew members names are Gizmo (Left) and Buttons (Right), they wanted in on the shot too.
You guys ROCK, Keep up the great work !!!

Thankyou
Charles Thoerner
Dayton, Ohio

 

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Hello my name is Justin Clements, I have attached some pictures of my hpi car. The text i would like to include on the side if accepted is Car desgined and made by Justin Clements. Viper GTS Body with white to blue changing colors done with airbrush.
Justin Clements

 

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this is one of two cars that i have they are bolth HPI nitros. one is a super nitro rs4.. and this one is a nitro rs4 2.. this is like the third or fourth body that i have painted and it turned out pretty good if you ask me.. i have done pretty much everything possible to it it has the two speed trans. adj. alum shocks yellow springs up front and greens in the back, with the anti roll bars as well i have changed the front to the nitro rs4 racer specs with fully adj. front suspension. with the side and front belt tensioners. i am running the mugen seiki .15 with a adj clutch it is safe to say this car hauls butt. as well for many othier hop ups. well i hope you guys and girls like it..


My Name is Mike from Chicago
This is my Skyline GTR It was gift from my brother, and he painted it to match one of his earlier Stock Cars. This body holds a lot of personal value to me, and I'm very proud to show it off whenever I have the chance. The body itself has about 45 laps worth of racing on it. A couple of tire marks add to it's character, but that's about all the track time it'll see.

-MT
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