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The Long Beach GP marked the soft launch of this new Datsun 510 kit from HPI. a great case of the tail wagging the dog. HPI marketing manager Rodney Wills told me an interesting fact about these two Hankook drift cars: the liveries were designed as RC cars first… it was only after the models were mocked up that the liveries were applied to the real life Hankook drift cars…. This is a great rendition on a Trans Am theme. I have to give my respect to any company that pays this much attention to automotive style. The attention to detail with this RC car is pretty staggering… I'll let Mike outline it in more detail in a separate post…. … He builds RC drift replicas like the new, rebuilt 2009 Hankook RX7. Mike Garrett swung by the HPI booth and we chatted for a while with a young chap named Marc Marquez…. It's obvious to me that the good people at HPI "get it" if they are producing kits like this. While the other companies had mainstream motorsports RC cars on display, it was HPI who were showing cool underground machines like the Weld JZX100. Of these three companies, it was pretty obvious to me that HPI had the best handle on the new school, youth automotive space. My favourite booth, by far, was a fairly sizable RC car display called the Radio Control Motorsports Experience (RCME), which had separate sections for HPI, Tamiya and Kyosho. It was a chance to cool off a bit and see what types of displays were on offer. By 10:00 Saturday morning, the sun was already pretty harsh and burning so I decided to duck inside LBGP's own micro SEMA show: the Lifestyle Expo. It seemed like someone would crank up the temperature each day of our stay in Long Beach. I just had to give him a call to make sure we write about different things!… Anyway here goes…. I spent a good portion of Saturday tooling around the Long Beach GP with Mike Garrett… it was great to catch up with him, but also not so good for Speedhunting as we ended up photographing very similar elements that day.
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