yo BFG,
yeah those were the days man....burning the blue nitromethane that the cars ran on.....I too had a 1/8 Picco but it was insanely fast as you said....just feel shiok hearing the pitch of the engine as it spun up into the higher gear....
but became more boring after a while as it was not as nimble as the 1/10 counterparts on tight and twisty circuits.
Most of the cars I sold already...but i still had hell of a lot of spares like springs, gears, nuts and so on around chucked away somewhere....
Kept only some of the nice bodyshells I bought just in case I wanted to make a comeback as well as the electric F1s.
I also remember using the Futaba digital controllers, quite cool...can make digital adjustments to the steering and braking so on..hehe
better not type anymore otherwise I get back into the hobby and make my lady cross again...hahaha