We had new neighbors down the street. Mike and J.J. Vigil, who had lived there since the 1970s had moved out of state. In their place were new Filipino neighbors, Malcolm and Douglas MacLean with their mom and step-father. Malcolm was my younger brother, Eric's age. Douglas was younger and the first one to start the Tamiya obsession in our neighborhood when he bought the Grasshopper, a 1/10 scale remote control buggy. These were the types of R/C cars that required you to build everything from boxes and bags of parts and required lots of tuning and you painted them yourself. They would take easily 6 hours to build with a father's help.
