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The Official FB page for Yeovil Model Cars. THE Model Car Specialists serving Yeovil since 1993!

About 25 years ago I moved to the Yeovil area and opened my Hi-Fi shop in the town. I had been racing karts for 18 years but decided to give up the sport as any injuries might curtail the running of my new business.
After a few months I met a chap that I used ot race with and he told me that he had taken up model car racing. He had been involved in a bad kart crash and was unable to race anymore. As he lived in London he visited the, now rebuilt, Chrystal Palace model racing car circuit and had been bitten by the 1/8 bug!
He invited me down to the Menbdip circuit to meet up and also to see this new sport. That was it... I was also bitten by the bug and within a couple of months I had bought my own 1/8 car and started racing.

It was obvious from the start that I was not going to achieve the success that I had in karting, but nevertheless I loved this new form of sport/pastime.

One thing that I was good at was preparing and tuning engines, and it was not long before I was re-building and tuning motors for my colleagues at Mendip. I approached OPS for engines and spares and they were happy to supply me.
It just sort of snowballed from there really. I started to stock complete race cars and spares above my hi-fi shop in Yeovil...and the rest is, as they say, history!

Tags: Recreation & Fitness