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While I was working on chassis 258, I threw a Hanna Econo style chassis (STR 129) into the tumbler. Once I set up the tumbler for use I like to keep it going and get as much done with it as I can. The clean up after using it takes me awhile to complete! I spent some time disassembling chassis and getting them ready to tumble. Left to right: this is the nicest, cleanest, original Hanna NASCAR chassis I have seen in a long time! Never modified or repaired, hasn't even had weight ballast attached! The middle one looks rough but functionally it seems good. Everything works as it should. I did put the Dremel to it to try and clean it up a little. We'll see how it looks after 18 or so hours in the tumbler. The one on the far right is pretty good. The side pan noses were trimmed, probably to fit a specific body.

These two will be the next up. The left chassis is a Hanna Sports Car chassis that looks pretty good. The one on the right is a really small .092" rattle chassis for the Clubman Class. It ran kind of OK when I tested it. I'm going to try a complete rebuild of this one. It looks like it has been unloved and neglected for a number of years!

And there you have it, that's what has been going on around here for the last few weeks. I will post some updated photos as I complete these chassis......

After completing the track work I shifted my attention to my ongoing projects....While I was in Georgia I got a call from Mike Naber about some used slot cars for sale. A friend of his that used to race at Pelican Park wanted to sell all his cars and stuff. Mike set up and brokered the deal. After I was back home Mike shipped the cars up to me.

The intent of this purchase was to make some cars available to newer racers. A few days ago I started taking a closer look at my purchase. I picked out the chassis that looked the worst. This one has been run hard, and repaired more than once. After doing some extensive Dremel grinding to remove excess solder and what looks like bird poop, I gave it a closer inspection. One of the hinged side pans was totally locked up. Hoping it was just corrosion or crud, I fired up my tumbler and threw the chassis in. After a good 18 hours of tumbling the chassis was all nice and shiney but, the side pan was still locked up. So over to the work bench it went....

I don't sell anything to racers I don't feel good about. This Hanna NASCAR chassis (STR 258) is rough. Multiple repairs with poor soldering. I am not great when it comes to soldering, but these were worse than mine! I used a cut off wheel in a Dremel to cut open one side of the square tubing that makes up the hinge for the side pan. Then I used a small hammer and screw driver to open up the tubing so I could slide the pan off the steel rod of the hinge. Turns out solder had wicked up into the tubing (probably during a repair) which had locked up the pan. After I got it apart, I cut off the old square tubing (which I had totally mangled getting the thing apart). The edge of the pan was then filed flat and smooth again. I cut new pieces of square tubing, reassembled everything using light oil on the steel rod inside the square tubing. The light oil is to keep the solder from wicking into the hinge joint again. After all the parts were assembled and squared up on my jig, I soldered up the side pan. After soldering I cleaned everything up with soap and water. Success, both hinges now move freely! Tomorrow STR 258 will go back into the tumbler for the final cleaning.

A couple weeks ago my workbench started getting cluttered with current projects to get finished before the next racing season. I work on this stuff in between Ebay stuff and "other" things...

Left to right: #5 Modified - broke the front nerf bar off in the last race. Need to resolder. #5 Chevell Sportsman - need to finish up the body and mount it. #7 JK Lexus - front wheels are seixed up and the axle is bent. Need to replace front end.

Left to right: #7 McLaren 1/32 on a Plafit chassis being set up for Monday Night races at Rob's track. #20 Porsche 962 on a 1/32 Sloting Plus chassis also being set up for Rob's. Revoslot Toyota being worked over for Rob's, as well as the NSR Ford GT40 MKIV.
#6 1/24 Ferrari - rebuild motor after last OSCAR Sports Car race where motor brushes went away.

Thought maybe I'd give you guys that are interested an update as to what's been going on around here. As most of you know Diane and I made a trip back to Marietta Georgia to visit my Mom. Da passed away last November and there was a lot of stuff she wanted me to take home. Actually there was way more than I was able to load into Diane's Bronco Sport!

We decided to take Scooter with us on this trip. Scooter is the little ornery one with three feet. We had to have our bigger dog (the bigger brown, nice one) put to sleep due to cancer. We spent six days on the drive to Marietta. Scooter actually did really well, even staying in the motels. He seemed to like the road! Nothing really exciting happened on the drive there, just the usual stupid drivers here and there. I guess most all the states have their own.

While we were at Mom's I went through Dad's stuff. He had a lot of stuff (must be where I get it), though most of it was not stuff I am really interested in. Lots of HAM radio stuff and diecast cars of all sorts. We spent almost two weeks with Mom. As usual I ate some of the best food I have ever had! If I lived in Georgia I would weight about 400 pounds!

After the Bronco was loaded we headed out for home. When I say l "loaded", I mean LOADED! I had to stop loading because I could not fit ANYTHING else into the car! I mean I left some coats behind because I could not wad them up into any spot in the car. From Mom's we drove up to Pennsylvania to see my son John, his wife Chrissi, my grandson Grayson, and my granddaughter Lilly. The drive back home was a pain in the ass! We came across through the northern states, which I will NEVER do again! Toll road after toll road, and all kinds of construction! But we did see a lot of country we hadn't seen before.

Once we got home the Bronco got unloaded and the track got covered......A big thanks to Kirk Smith for helping me unload, and then taking all the HAM radio stuff to a swap meet and selling it for me. My next task was finding a place for 1/24 diecast cars....lucky for me I talked Bob Nakamura into buying all the 1/24 NASCAR diecast! Sometimes you just gotta make 'em a deal they can't refuse! There were about 30 of them in total! I kept the 40 or so Danbury Mint 1/24 diecast, which meant I had to reorganize my displace cases.....again! I added four more shelves to my tall case and then moved slot cars around to make room.

The entire bottom of this case is now Danbury Mint diescast cars. If anybody is interested I would probably be willing to sell some.

June 27, 2025

Rules Updated - non-applicable rules moved to new CRSCR santioning body.

Update from one year ago:

Of the eleven people in anchor positions for the reorganization of the PASER Club, roughly half are still involved. It makes me wonder where PASER fits in. Most every racer in our area races at Rapid Raceway (me included) in the Northwest True Scale classes. There are new classes that have been developed for the 2NASTE style chassis, as well as entry level RTR classes such as Womps and Flexi type cars. Aside from the Hanna style "rattle" chassis used in the Sportsman class, and the Modified style chassis, scratchbuilt inline motor configuration chassis are being abandoned.

PASER's primary focus has always been the development and racing of scratchbuilt inline motored chassis. In the early days there were two main classes; RTR (which were the Womps), and NASCAR (which were scratchbuilt inline motor hardbody cars). Other classes came and went during racing seasons but the RTR (for new racers) and the NASCAR classes were the main ones.

OSCAR is the statewide evolution of PASER. OSCAR was formed to provide rules for inter-club races throughout Oregon. Portland, Bend, Eugene, Cottage Grove, and Roseburg were all involved in the process and racing. Currently only Portland and Bend are still actively involved in OSCAR. However Bob Hanna in Roseburg is planning to bring back his OSCAR race this September 2025. Personally, I am really looking forward to Hanna's race, and I hope we can get a bunch of Portland area racers convoying down to Roseburg!

So, am I wasting my time trying to promote and keep PASER alive? Should I just let it fade away?

This brings me to my other quandary; this NASTE website. My feeling is almost nobody looks at or reads anything here. I think the Calendar probably has some value, but that could probably be replaced by email. Although Monte has been awesome about providing the website for FREE, I do pay a fee for the NASTE.org domain. It is not a substantial amount, but it is a little bit of a pain to keep up on. I don't mind as long as people are using and enjoying this site. If they are not I'd just as soon let it die.

=======Bill

Doug Haynes was a great race promoter and organizer!

Pelican Park Speedway. Where else would you see Dale Earnhart Jr., John Wayne, Danny Sullivan, and Marilyn Monroe all in one place?

Doug Haynes was also a master modeller. There are many of builds on display at the track.

Glenn Heath (left) with one of his winning cars.

Two of the most famous Northwest racers, Bob McFarland and Jerry "Geraloose" Palfenier.

There is no doubt that Doug Haynes was the founder and driving force behind the creation of Pelican Park.

I'm not even sure, but I believe this is an old photo with Tom Street..........

The inside walls of the Pelican Park facility are covered with posters and old photos of not only past Pelican Park events, but many photos of old tracks and events from throughout the Northwest. The Northwest has a long history of racing hardbody scratchbuilt cars, and the Pelican Park track is the oldest surviving track still holding events!

Everytime I visit I see photos I had never noticed before! This red track that was originally built and used in a commercial raceway in Lake Oswego, was later purchased by Tim Barnes and set up in his basement in Fairview. NASTE races were held on this track for a couple of years. The track was eventually sold and moved to somewhere in California. It's current location or status is unknown.

This blue track was built by Larry Cockerham in Carlton. The track hosted OSCAR, PASER, and NASTE events for a few years. The track was then sold to Jeff Courtney who set the track up in the upstairs part of his shop. Jeff held NASTE races on the track and hosted the annual NASTE Halloween races. Thetrack was eventually sold to Rob and moved to Vancouver where he currently holds PASER events.

This is an early photo of Pelican Park Speedway probably taken not too long after it was moved to Eugene and set up in its current location. In this photo the track still has the original copper tubing controller hookups designed by Hugh Ellsworth. Hugh came up with thsi type of controller connections when the track was originally restored in Portland around 1988.