Nitro Radio Controlled Cars

As a child I remember getting my first Radio Controlled Car for Christmas.  It was snowy as the dickens outside but I had to get it started and test-drive it. My father went to the garage and backed the car out into the 2-foot snowfall so we could run it around the garage.

Admittedly that is not the best place in the world but to me it was like I was sitting in Indianapolis and was running in the year’s 500-mile race.  It was an incredible feeling that I still carry with me to this day and it is a memory that I remember fondly, even though it has been nearly fifty years ago. 

In that one cold December day I became a convert to Nitro Radio Controlled Cars and RC Model cars and my father and I shared that love and hobby until the day he passed.  Today I have passed the joy of that on to my three kids and am educating my seven year-old Grand Daughter on the amount of fun you can have with these RC bundles of joy and I have a feeling that they will pass it on to their kids when the time comes.

These things are fast and furious, we can each customize our own to fir whatever we want it to be, in fact my daughter repaints her car ever week without fear and we can count on her and her car being color coordinated with some new and bizarre color scheme each and every week.  In contrast my own personal car looks like it should have been ready for the junk heap about 15 years ago.  But it’s not the beauty of the unit but how fast it is and good old dad rarely loses a race.  At least I don’t lose if I can help it.

This “hobby” has instilled a family value and a sense of right and wrong with the kids.  They have learned sportsmanship and have even figured out that there are some things that are more fun than having that Blackberry glued to their palms as they text their little fingers off. 

The sport of RC racing has done something that I had not been able to do, it actually brought the family together and we actually talk and laugh and enjoy the part of just being a family.  No cell calls, no “do I have to go” arguments, no having something more important. My family looks forward to Saturday and our day at the races.  We all make a day of it and look forward to it for the entire week and if it’s a rainy day and we can’t go, we actually are sad about it.

That has been no small feat and we owe the tightening of our family and the strengthening of the overall core family values to this sport and hobby that was started for me on that Christmas day long ago.

Nitro Radio Controlled Cars are hip, cool and a great way to bring your family together in a good way, who would have figured?