I would say that the SPA's date cutoff makes sense. Let's say for argument that the Tipo continued to be modified up to today. Would it still be allowed into the SPA as a vintage pattern with no retracts or pipe? Say today's Tipo is carbon fiber structure, pounds lighter, full electric, and can do 3D hovers? Would that still be competitive against a Daddy Rabbit? I could say no tuned pipe on it, so that's legal, and no gear. So I think this is why you need to have something to frame the models in the SPA. Remember it was supposed to be what the weekend modeler could afford, not the high end pattern guys. A Tipo of today could be put into the high end as in my extreme example, but still be a Tipo.

Make sense? or am I whacked?