NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (Page 11 of 82)

Da Goose certainly showed us the fast way around Too Bad last night but I was rather handicapped and even more disturbing he told me he dreams of beating the disabled (me) on a regular basis and that he wakes up happy.  I think it's just plain wrong   That being said I had fun last night despite my condition, thank you Bill and Diane for hosting these regular races and to all those who brought snacks.

Regards
Rico

And it ran surprisingly well.

I thought Rico's Corvair really looked cool running around the track. Made me think that it would be fun to see how many of us racers have some sort of complete 60"s made 1/24 hard plastic slot car so we could have a special race with them run at a lower voltage and have it on video to post on the Naste site & face book sites.

I picked up another vintage car today.  It's a vintage Kal Kar Ready to Run car which according to the LA Slot Car Museum is a fairly rare car.  The paint job is factory and definitely not the correct color for the 1:1 car but correct in this instance. It's in pretty decent condition with just a few cracks in the rear panel. The funky baby blue tires may be stock as well.

And the $20.00 price was certainly a bargain.

They are pretty close to the originals to me

http://lascm.com/Slot-Car-Museum/index. … ts_id=6495

Very cool stuff Rico, and nice find! What a honey!!!

Looks like the same guy to me.  A bit about Bob...

Bob Braverman was a brilliant maverick who followed his own special dreams and inspired a whole generation of motorcyclists.

Bob was always a racer. In fact, he actually paid his way through college by racing motorcycles. In the late 1950s, in Chicago, his first job was that of a toy designer, where his enthusiasm made him an early pioneer in slot-car racing.

Bob Braverman helped invent the slot car. And, he helped develop the hobby, showing thousands of excited kids how to make their slot cars faster, contributing to such magazines as Model Car Science, Car Model and Rod&Custom’s Model Car Magazine. He wrote a book on the subject called Here is Your Hobby Slot Car Racing.

Great information guys! Thanks!

Hey Mitch, I did some research trying to find that issue of Life Magazine you were talking about with the article on slot car racing. I couldn't find any slot car articles in any Life magazines. I did however find out Saturday Eveneing Post had an article about slot cars. I think the edition was December of 1963? Could that have been the magazine?

I think it was actually "Boys Life". I think it was called that. The photo was of vintage F1 cars, though I don't think they were vintage then. The caption I think was about the fun of "nerfing " your buddies off the track. I guess nothing changes very much.

February 19, 2015 Odd Thursday - We had a great turn out of racers tonight, a field of 15 for the Trans Am and GT Classes. The Trans Am race had the closest finish we have had since we started racing the class. Bryan Trachsel won by a 1/10th of a lap over Rico Locati, and Greg Petrolati finsihed third just 1/10th of a lap behind Rico. John Fisher dominated the GT Class winning by 4.2 laps! He set a new lap record and tied the track record for number of laps completed in a three minute race! Gary Goose Gossett added another win to his Strombecker Ford J's resume in the Over 50 Class.

I'd like to thank everyone who made it out to race last night. It is you racers who make the Odd Thursday Night racing such a great event! Thanks to all for bringing out the awesome snacks, and especially to Al Christensen for the totally awesome smoked salmon or-der-veez!!

Results:

Trans Am Class:
1st Bryan Trachsel 51.5 laps - Fastest Lap of the Race - 9.857
2nd Rico Locati 51.4
3rd Greg Petrolati 51.3
4th tie Monte Saager 49.8
4th tie  Bryan Dickerson 49.8                                                                     
6th  Glenn Heath 48.8
7th Goose Gossett 48.6 
8th Bill Bostic 47.8
9th Mitch Brooks 47.2
10th John Fisher 46.6
11th Amy Fields 45.7
12th Jeff Fields 44.8
13th John Morse 43.1
14th tie Victoria Saager 38.5
14th tie Al Christensen 38.5

GT Class:
1st John Fisher 61.8 laps - 8.124 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Monte Saager 57.6
3rd Rico Locati 57.4
4th Bryan Trachsel 56.6
5th Bryan Dickerson  55.7
6th Bill Bostic 55.1
7th Greg Petrolati 53.9
8th Jeff Fields 53.8
9th Goose Gossett 50.5
10th tie John Morse 49.8
10th tie Glenn Heath 49.8
12th Victoria Saager 47.6
13th tie Mitch Brooks 47.5
13th tie Amy Fields 47.5
15th Al Christensen 40.8

Over 50 Class:
1st Goose Gossett 51.4 laps - 9.825 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Bill Bostic 48.7
3rd Bryan Dickerson 46.5
4th Rico Locati 46.4
5th John Morse 45.2
6th John Fisher 44.2
7th Mitch Brooks 43.7
8th Al Christensen 39.0

Thanks Bill for a great evening of racing, thanks to other racers for sharing their goodies with me. Even though i had a dirty controller that fouled me up i still had fun racing.  And then what i felt was still my controller was i think my guide brushes, thanks to Rico for pointing that out to me, will change to new brushes and reconfigure. Big thanks to Mr Big Smooth for fixing my SCX cuda and showing me what i needed to do to correct the problem. I ran it later and it is a lot easier to drive now. Hopefully i will be a better competitor at next race. For me it is fun sharing car handling tips and having others help me with my car problems. I think that really makes a better group of racing club members when we help each other make smoother running cars, and i feel it makes it more competitive and more fun to race.