When I was 4 I recieved a full function big foot monster truck. Literaly for the next 4 years I thought it was the best thing ever. It had a rechargable battery and everything. Then when I was 8 I got a subscription to rc driver and asked for the origional evader St from duratrax. The next month Mom and Dad came through and It was the coolest birthday present ever.  By age ten i was changing shock oil swapping spur gears and adjusting my slipper. I thought tuning was awesome. Then I bought myself the brushed e-savage when I was twelve. I took a year break from rc and spent thousands of dollars on Airsoft stuff. Then Christmas came around and I asked for a micro t. This re established my love for Rc. Then my uncle bought a micro dt and dad got a micro highroller and we found micro rc zone and raced. Then I traded my e-savage for a slash 4x4 on RCU market. Later i decided i wanted somthing tougher faster and high performance. I bought a Zd racing truggy roller for $90 (impulse buy) Did some research and found out it had some durability issues, then traded that on the rcu market for a thunder tiger eb4 g3. I just recently got that sucker going (check out my thread on what to do with $400) and now i'm updating my old evader st. Its been a blast and I don't see my passion for tuning and tinkering ending soon.