WE FIND 1980'S RC TRACK BURIED IN THE WOODS

[@Livlifetaistdeth]

We need a popalong series of restoring that old track.

[@PopalongRC]

Consider it done

[@Cameron2874]

I second that 👍

[@Droidy77]

Yes!!

[@gazzap6664]

brilliant idea, perhaps they can rope in some help from the viewers.

[@budbarlang3729]

the golden age of RC those were the days , I don't race now but still collect vintage buggies and run them for fun when I time. I love watching KZbin channel like yourselves.

[@PopalongRC]

Thanks for watching Hope we can make a new golden age

[@NoProcrastinationMiniatures]

Love it! RC cars in the 80s felt super high tech

[@Marco_Vulpine]

RC-Archaeology! 😀

[@PopalongRC]

Time team

[@keithhelmke1635]

I was a regular visitor to St Albans buggy club when I worked for team losi , we ran stadium trucks there as well as buggies. Dave Foster at Schumacher was heavily involved with the club in those days.

[@PopalongRC]

A real slice of history

[@keithhelmke1635]

It was a great little club with a tarmac track and a grassy area for offroad.

[@keithhelmke1635]

Just to say how much I enjoy your channel I'm 69 now and raced from my 20 until 55 , keep up the good work lads

[@letzvisit1661]

Love to see old finds like this! Is so interesting, such a shame it’s gone but would be great to see it up and running again. Hopefully viewers somewhere will have more photos and video you could perhaps share of it back in its hey day. I wonder how many old rc tracks are out there like this unused.

[@PopalongRC]

We plan to Popalong soon

[@gazzap6664]

be great if the St Albans RC car track can be bought back to life,, I live in WGC and my son would love it. It can be a chore sometimes finding appropriate woodland or car parks locally. I will subscribe and keep watching fellas... 😁

[@PopalongRC]

Think with a little bit of work we can get a rally x track up and running

[@dg2000r]

Definitely keep us all updated on that place - I'm local and would love to see that restored!

[@PopalongRC]

Perhaps you could join the work party

[@dg2000r]

I'm in! ​@@PopalongRC

[@flyinghotdog7270]

OMG I have walked through there and never knew!!

[@PopalongRC]

Hahaha small world 🌎

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

It'd be great. Resurrecting an old track and bringing it back.

[@PopalongRC]

Let’s hope we can get something up are running

[@Sp3ktral22]

Leaf Blower!

[@PopalongRC]

Popular choice

[@adrianharrison5208]

It would be awesome to see that old race track up and running again, thats definitely something i would want to watch 👍

[@darrisbrown7516]

One of my favorite ❤️ awesome video guy's! So cool. I was a 80s rc kid and i miss the glory days! Keep up the good work 👏

[@PopalongRC]

Let’s hope this project gains a bit of momentum

[@andrewhopper8700]

Get a leaf blower on it

[@PopalongRC]

That could work

[@TimG2553]

What great project I am sure you may be able to get some community funding as it ca. be used by the public

[@dub_rider]

what a find!! defo worth running a broom and rake around the place to see what it looks like. looking forward to seeing more on this, great work guys!

[@PopalongRC]

Will pop back soon

[@leeshelton1230]

Nice find and love the idea of a Popalong pop up 🏎️

[@PopalongRC]

Hahaha

[@barrycheesemore2928]

Now that sounds like a great idea, getting that track up and running again. Fair enough it would take a lot of work, but it'd be worth it!!

[@PopalongRC]

We will see what we can do

[@gazzap6664]

The day it opens my son and I will be there,, I'm pretty sure I would not be alone. @@PopalongRC

[@alexmills7447]

That would be an ideal rally stage!

[@PopalongRC]

I was thinking the same thing

[@alexmills7447]

@@PopalongRC maintaining the original tarmac and adding a dirt/ astro section would make be awesome.

[@TidyRC]

Oh guys wot a find. Plz plz try and get it back to a usable level would b so cool. I’m sure u could get people to help. I would if I lived near

[@PopalongRC]

Will see what we can do

[@TidyRC]

@@PopalongRC 💪🏻 yeeeeesssssss! I’m gonna b really honest here, I started watching ur channel just after summer last year and I wasn’t the biggest fan as it seemed a bit technical alot of the time and a lot of tamiya too which I don’t use, however so far this year I’ve absolutely loved ur vids and am now very much a fan. 🫡

[@kanenstuff]

Need to do an Archeological did on that old track and find the treasure.

[@PopalongRC]

That is the plan

[@primovato9362]

Aye dope mates! I hope you guys can get r done properly!

[@PopalongRC]

Let’s hope so

[@allanritchie1539]

Would be nice to see it up and running again. We definitely need somewhere to practice racing on.

[@PopalongRC]

Lots of work to be done but … many hands make light work

[@CarlH-RC]

That would be awesome to see that track restored, such a shame

[@PopalongRC]

Fingers crossed

[@SonnyBurnett85]

Great you have done a video on that old track. I used to race a Manta Ray then a Cougar 2 there in the 90's. I'm sure it was run by a family with a surname of Foster than ran Models in Motion shop in Letchworth. Great times. Sadly the track got vandalised in the late 90's from memory.

[@SonnyBurnett85]

Also used to be a grass track in summer near were the pump track is now that held UK regional rounds...although don't think I ever qualified higher than the F final.

[@PopalongRC]

Let’s hope we can restore something of use

[@rcexpatshk]

Great find guys. hope you can revive that track. try reaching out to Nissan and see if they can sponsor it as they did before in the 80s. Could be mutually beneficial for them and the RC community.

[@PopalongRC]

Might reach out to some companies

[@shaunodriscoll]

That’s very cool , wish I still lived in Harpenden mid be all over it

[@PopalongRC]

Would be good

[@ian6985]

Speaking of RC c-arceology, remains can be found of a couple of other former tarmac RC tracks. Lilford (between Northampton and Peterborough) closed in the early 80's. Was in the grounds of the big house but last time I visited over 20 years ago what was left was overgrown and had sheep grazing on the site. Then there is Tibshelf in Derbyshire which sadly had to close in the 2000's. The tarmac has gone but the outline can still be made out in the grass as the hardcore base is still present. Then there is Snetterton which from Google maps what was the track looks like it's become some sort of storage area but the outline of some track markings can be seen Sadly the tarmac track I helped get built at MK was totally destroyed with the building of new flats.

[@PopalongRC]

Sad to think of all the tracks that have been demolished over the years

[@Helghast73]

What a find and great location for you lot, fingers crossed you get some good news on it 👊 So in the next vid, who will have the old leather jacket plus poet and fedora hat then 😂

[@PopalongRC]

Hahaha

[@Luke-en2tk]

There is a pub near me which used to have a track on the site and you can still see some of the remnants of it. Actually there are two, one is my old onroad club though and we moved site but the remnants were there for the old onroad track but there are plans for a housing estate on that one

[@PopalongRC]

But we already have so many housing estates

[@Luke-en2tk]

@@PopalongRC won't be happy until all the green land is gone in urban areas. We might need boats instead of cars if it continues, the water has to go somewhere. It's super easy to blame global warming though and carry on building them

[@jasonkessinger8062]

You all need to take a couple leaf blowers back there and see what is there

[@PopalongRC]

Perhaps … might have to stick with brooms don’t want to upset the locals

[@jasonkessinger8062]

either way very cool!!@@PopalongRC

[@dmcarpman]

we need more rc tracks through out the uk. and places we can bash without getting told off and you cant run that here. 1/5 scale espically been told a few times here near dartford all grumpy farts even when i stop as they get near they moan like mad.

[@PopalongRC]

Think this will be a 1/10 track at best but hopefully we can get something usable

[@philapps3805]

wish i lived nearer i would be there clearing the leaves and find the track i could do a week id stay in my campervan while clearing the track

[@PopalongRC]

Sounds like a fun adventure

[@ProTuneHD]

I dont know if you heard, but the crystal palace rc track is being demolished for housing. if you can make awareness of it or maybe even pop down it might help the locals a lot. i am a novice and dont know anything at all about it

[@PopalongRC]

Defo gonna popalong there👍

[@dalejohn3233]

I don’t want to sound like an old lady but with the council involved I wouldn’t hold your breath.

[@PopalongRC]

You have a fair point,

[@bongofury3176]

I'm planning to do an overnight stealth track build in my local playing fields. sadly it will be very obvious who did it...

[@PopalongRC]

😂

[@chaosfruitbat5970]

170 miles for me to get down there, but I'll make the effort to come and help if i'm free :)

[@PopalongRC]

Wow that is dedication

[@chuzzwade288]

What would be the perfect rc to flip a car back onto its wheels? If I’m with my mate we can sometimes use the others’ car and push it back onto its wheels. Doesn’t always work, I thought about making a sloped/shovel attachment, sometimes it’s pretty far away when it flips onto Its roof 🙁

[@bluegroovemodelsports9650]

First comment....go Popalong

[@PopalongRC]

winning Blue

[@SeaDogJak]

You always wanted your own track.......

[@PopalongRC]

Very true

[@Leon-yw5qx]

*Promo SM*

[@jessicalatex2539]

A dry spell and a leaf blower could reveal it all...

[@PopalongRC]

Might need a few shovels too