Well, before that, I had wired up my own phone extension in my room, and connected some discarded car speakers to a discarded stereo receiver so I could have bigger sound in my room than what I got from my little nightstand radio. Didn't seem prodigious to me, though; just "doing stuff."Oh, well then, it looks like you were a prodigy.

I knew good and well house power would be too much for the RC car. We were just hoping for more than a puff of smoke as it went, that's all.
