[JERRY2KONE]

Unfortunately you are preaching to the chior around here. Most of our members have more than one toy and a good number of them have even more than you do. James aka lincpimp must have like 50 or more R/C's at his place. Look this hobby is not cheap by any means and you either love it, or you hate it. Alot of R/C stuff is depreciated more than 50% the moment you start running it. That is just simple economics. Resale value on just about anything is truly only 10% to 20% of its original retail value. The only way to maintain value in R/C stuff is to buy high end gear like UE, and even RCM gear which does not depreciate quite as quickly as some others. Why anyone needs more than 3 or 4 R/C's is beyond me, unless you race in several different classes or you have lots of kids to share them with. I have three vehicles myself, the wife has one, and each of my kids has one. The trick is to buy one and nothing else until you build the first one up to a point in which you are happy with it.

Then maybe at that point delve into another area and start another build project. The biggest problem in this hobby is that there are so many great vehicles to chose from and it is hard to stick with one type of vehicle, plus the amount of hopups for some is just rediculous. I would love to own a Baja 5b, and a high end crawler, and maybe even an F-1 speedster. We can all throw out some numbers to guess what that would cost. Every truck we have here in our house right now are 3906 style Maxx vehicles. One UE "Lightning" SuperMaxx, one RCM Maxx, One Integy Maxx, two stocker Maxx's, and one that I have not even decided on yet. Once we get all of them runing to a level that I am happy with, then I may pick up a 5b. Until then I have enough work to keep me busy around here with what we have already. You just need to be tough and limit yourself.