The Hop-Up Revolution: The History of Grassroot Garage Engineering

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When the R/C model vehicle kit hobbyist community quickly decided that they wanted to hop-up their hobby-grade radio controlled vehicles, a grassroots engineering revolution turned into garage companies engineering hop-ups for the test of the radio control hobby community. We take a deep dive into this history of a cottage industry that became big business in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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