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Points for the season of 2022:

Classic NASCAR after 1 race:

Zack...........30.
Bob.............29
Gearloose.....28
Howie..........27
Al...............26
Bart............25
Matt...........24
Terry...........23
Mitch..........22
John...........21
Rico............20

Back when I was getting ready to order braid for Rapid, I suggested to Bad Bob about using steel braid, he said: "No, never use steel braid, someone will sneak magnets in their car"!! So magnets will  do no good here. But Bill's car ( Bad Bob's chassis ) was like a magnet car!

I was wondering where you were Mr. Bell, not like you to miss a race. Hope to see you at Rapid on the 23rd.

Ok, I am back.

The way I see it is: Chris asked first for the cars, then Matt wanted them. I would like to do this: Sell one to Chris and one to Matt, but first I have to get a hold of Chris to see if he is still interested. Stay tuned!

Some one had a few fireworks in my driveway, I can see the residue on the pavement!

I went to the Fruit stand not far from the house to buy a gallon of milk for the grand kids yesterday. When one of them started pouring milk into a bowl of cereal he said: "oh crap, this milk is sour". Sure enough it was mighty chunky! Took it back and there was a sign on the outdoor refrigerators stating, "sorry, no milk is available, all the milk in these outdoor refrigerators is no good". They must have discovered after I bought my milk that the milk had gone sour. Beings they are closed on Sunday, I imagine the hot temps all day Sunday was too much for the units outdoors. A lot of milk inventory went to hell.

Sorry Bob, I screwed up the times on this race.

Ok, finally finished the Classic NASCAR. It is not perfect, when I clear coated it the paint wrinkled in a few spots, I have to tell my self: "Self, it is a slot car, it will get beat up, so get over it"! I mounted the body with home made pins. I soldered brass angle to the pans and bent it to contour with the body and taped the body in place and drilled the mounting holes and used .040" piano wire and bent it to fit the holes. Bill will post the pictures for me when he gets time. As always: Thanks Bill !!

Looking forward to the new season that hopefully will not be interrupted by some kind of pandemic! I am almost done with my Classic NASCAR. Bill and I are currently trying to get my email back which went away for some reason last weekend. So if anybody has emailed me lately and no answer back, that is the reason.

Very interesting history. I didn't move to Portland 'till late in '68. Moved from Rapid City, SD. Even as small as Rapid City was compared to Portland, they still had two huge commercial tracks. I never raced at either one, but I remember them. I do remember Petite Karts though. By the time a buddy of mine was interested in getting back into slot cars ( in the '70's ) there were no tracks left. We went to a bicycle shop to buy some slot car parts, I believe it was in N. Portland and asked if there was any slot racing around and he mentioned Dundas. We drove to the Dundas track in Willsonville, watched the race ( I remember Gearloose ) but we thought it was too far away to race. Years later while at Slot Car Central, ( who was closing down ) Greg Vergis come over to where I was playing with a slot car and I was invited by him to a track in Willsonville, I was shocked that it was the same track in the barn that I visited years before. That is how I got involved with PACER/OSCAR.