Some good ones here!
Mine was a good few years ago with my brand new Schumacher Menace .21; My first nitro. Was just breaking it in around a local car park, was out with my brother and a few mates. I was only the 2nd or 3rd tank through and starting to cruise it around a little faster. Anyone who know's about the Menace knows that it was stupidly fast; faster than anything I had ever seen before. So here I was going maybe quarter throttle and taking it easy when my mate, growing increasingly bored, asked for a shot. I let him and he was being a little too throttle happy for my liking, especially as it was just getting ran in and the car park was not the biggest. I took the controller back claiming that you had to follow the break-in procedures, but that I would show them a little bit of what it could offer.
I lined up the car on the largest straight possible and gave it a bit of welly to show what it could do. Only issue was that I wasnt aware thatI was standing at pretty much the end of that straight and would have no time to stop as it passed me going at speed.
Sure enough I didn't, smacked straight into a curb and a completely mangled the front of my brand new car. The chassis was bent, and quite a few of the front end plastic parts were broken too. Cost over