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It was cool yesterday. The locals were wearing coats!.....about 70 degrees.......

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Hmmmmmmmmm..............."chocolate balls".....................that explains a lot!

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The wing car would work fine at Rapid Raceway, but they don't race them in any of their classes. The Parma International 32 will run fine on Monte's track, Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway, and at my TooBad Motorplex. However the motor is way more powerful than what you need for those tracks. As it is set up it would be better suited to tracks like Rapid Raceway, but again they have no classes for that particular car. Of the two cars the International 32 could be set up to run in the GT Class we race on Odd Thursday Nights as a scratchbuilt. You would have to replace the motor with something like an H&R 26k, install urethane tires, and a suitable coupe type body. As far as the wing car, if it were me I'd sell it on Ebay. It would probably bring somewhere around $20 to $25.

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Laptop........I have a flip phone!!!!

Sunny & 80 degrees!!!!

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Looks like you have a 1/24 wing car chassis and a 1/32 Parma Euro chassis. The Parma Euro chassis is a good one!

The December first race at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway concludes the first round of racing with the Trans Am Class cars in the NASTE 2017 Point Series Championship. In this first round Rico Locati has established himself in the lead with an inpressive four wins out of the first six races! Rico is followed closely by Jeff Fields who also scored a win, and trails Rico by just four points. Currently in third is Chris Kouba just another three points down. Al Christensen scored the other win in the Trans Am Round.

For the next round of six races we will be racing the Le Mans Class cars. Will anyone be able to dominate this class? Can anyone beat Chet?

Official Results NASTE Point Series Championship Race No.6 - December 1, 2016

1 Rico Locati   67.2 Laps - 8 points
2 Daniel Fritz   66.1 - 7 pts.
3 Jeff  Fields  65.2 - 6 pts.
4 Chris  Kouba  65.0 - 5 pts.
5 Mitch  Brooks  64.4 - 4 pts.
6 Al Christensen   60.9 - 3 pts.
7 Monte Saager   55.9 - 2 pts.
8 Amy Fields    51.8 - 1 pt.

Lists updated as of December 1, '16 races.

Unfortunately for me I was sick and unable to attend theDecember 1st Odd Thursday Night race at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway, so I cannot relay any of the exciting race details. From the looks of the results there was some very close racing!

Results:

GT Class
1 Rico    72.4 Laps
2 Chris    71.2
3 Al    69.2
4 Daniel    68.4
5 Monte    68.2
6 Jeff    68
7 Mitch    65
8 Amy    55.8

Trans Am Class - Official NASTE Point Series Championship Race - 2017 Season - Race No.6
1 Rico    67.2 Laps
2 Daniel    66.1
3 Jeff    65.2
4 Chris    65
5 Mitch    64.4
6 Al    60.9
7 Monte    55.9
8 Amy    51.8

BRM Class
1 Al    71.8 Laps
2 Daniel    71.6
3 Chris    71.3
4 Rico    70.5
5 Monte    69.5
6 Mitch    65.2

Over 50 Class
1 Mitch    67.4 Laps
2 Al    65.6
3 Chris    62.9
4 Rico    62
5 Monte    15.9

I'll take a look and see what I have Mike. What ohm resistor do you need in the controller? Would any other color than green work OK for you?

There are bidding programs you can download and use that will submit bids quicker than you can manually, within the last 5 seconds of the auction. I have sold popular items and watched this happen. I have had items sell with the winning bid increasing by hundreds of dollars in the last 2 or 3 seconds!

I have also won items in the last few seconds. I once saw an item I was interested in at a very low price with less than a minute to go. I put in a bid and won the item by less than a dollar over the previous bidder. I received an email from that bidder stating he was "pissed off and going to turn me in to Ebay". Evidently he didn't realize I didn't do anything wrong. Bottom line, I was willing to pay more for the item than he was. My advice is to always bid the maximum you are willing to pay for an item. If it sells for more than that have no fear, there will ALWAYS be another one listed and another opportunity! If you are just looking to get something as cheap as possible, you can sometimes get it by sniping.

By the way, what kind of controller are you looking for Mike?

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Nice track.

Here's the videos!

Racing the NEW BRM Trans Am cars at TooBad Motorplex!

https://youtu.be/c5S4bDzCO_s

https://youtu.be/mbgTjgwohcw

A short clip of our favorite BRM Porsche 962s

https://youtu.be/bZX6KZX9qKI

THANK YOU for letting us "run" your BRM Trans Am cars!!!......."Run' is quite close to "ruin" you know!

Official Results NASTE Point Series Championship Race No.5 - November 17, 2016

1 Rico Locati 54.2 laps - 14 points
2 Beau Frazier  53.7  - 13 points
3 Jeff Fields  53.4 -  12 pts.
4 Chris Kouba 53.3 - 11 pts.
5 Dan Fritz 53.0  - 10 pts.
6 Al Christensen 51.0 - 9 pts.
7 Bill Bostic  50.6 - 8 pts.
8 Terry Abbott  50.3  - 7 pts.
9 Gary Howie Howard  50.1 - 6 pts.
10 Monte Saager  49.4  - 5 pts.
11 John Morse  49.2  - 4 pts.
12 Stan Smith 48.9 - 3 pts.
13 Mitch Brooks  46.8 - 2 pts.
14 Amy Fields  46.6 - 1pt.

Oops.....my mistake. Chris won the BRM Trans Am race by one TENTH of one lap!

Lists updated as of November 17, '16 races.

Odd Thursday Night racing at TooBad Motorplex. In addition to celebrating Jeff's birthday we had some really close fun racing! We started the night off racing the GT Class with Rico winning by only half a lap. Next we raced the fifth race in the NASTE 2017 Point Series Championship. Rico finished first again, this time by only half a lap over Beau. The third race brought he Over 50 cars to the grid. Mitch continued his winning streak by finishing one lap ahead of Howie. For the fourth race of the night we raced the new BRM Trans Am cars in an IROC style format. These cars are the same per-production cars that were recently raced at the BRM 24 Hour Endurance race in Tacoma. These are beautiful cars and we appraciate Chris and Monte letting us give them a spin....and a couple tumbles....Chris won the BRM Trans Am race by one lap. Lastly we lined up our BRM Group C cars for the final race of the evening. Chris again pulled out the win over Al by one lap. It was an excellent night of racing and I'd like to thank everyone that was able to make it out!

Results:

GT
1 Rico Locati  59.8 Laps
2 Bill Bostic  59.3
3 Chris Kouba  58.0
4 Beau Frazier 55.9
5 Terry Abbott  55.1
6 Dan Fritz  54.1
7 - tieJeff Fields  54.0
7 - tie Gary Howie Howard  54.0
9 Al Christensen  53.0
10 Stan Smith 51.3
11 - tie Amy Fields 51.2
11 - tie Mitch Brooks  51.2
13 John Morse  49.6

Trans Am - Official NASTE Point Series Championship Race - 2017 Season - Race No.5
1 Rico Locati 54.2 laps - 14 points
2 Beau Frazier  53.7  - 13 points
3 Jeff Fields  53.4 -  12 pts.
4 Chris Kouba 53.3 - 11 pts.
5 Dan Fritz 53.0  - 10 pts.
6 Al Christensen 51.0 - 9 pts.
7 Bill Bostic  50.6 - 8 pts.
8 Terry Abbott  50.3  - 7 pts.
9 Gary Howie Howard  50.1 - 6 pts.
10 Monte Saager  49.4  - 5 pts.
11 John Morse  49.2  - 4 pts.
12 Stan Smith 48.9 - 3 pts.
13 Mitch Brooks  46.8 - 2 pts.
14 Amy Fields  46.6 - 1pt.

Over 50
1 Mitch Brooks    54.2 Laps
2 - tie Gary Howie Howard  53.1
2 - tie Monte Saager   53.1
4 Beau Frazier   52.4
5 Chris Kouba  51.5
6 Terry Abbott   51.2
7 John Morse  49.8
8 Bill Bostic   49.8
9 Rico Locati  49.1
10 Dan Fritz  48.3
11 Al Christensen  48.2
12 Stan Smith  41.3

BRM Trans Am IROC
1 Chris Kouba  58.0 Laps
2 Monte Saager   57.9 
3 Bill Bostic    54.8
4 Dan Fritz   54.6
5 Al Christensen  53.3
6 Rico Locati  52.7
7 Stan Smith  51.2

BRM Group C
1 Chris Kouba  59.6
2 Al Christensen  58.5
3 Bill Bostic  56.5
4 Stan Smith  56.0

We have one more race with the Trans Am cars in the 2017 NASTE Point Series Championship, then we move to the Le Mans Class. The cars will be raced according to the rules listed for the Odd Thursday Night races with the exception that front motored cars will NOT be raced in a separate division from the rear motored cars. For the Point Series Championship the Le Mans Class will NOT be separated into two divisions.

The Oregon Donors Team finished 10th. Monte's Oregon Donors II finished MUCH better, although I'm not sure of their exact finish position. After 24 + hours I was not paying much attention to verbal communications!

WE WEREN'T LAST!

Yes indeed! Thank you Monte & Victoria! The only thing that was better than the super fun racing was the awesome soup!!!!

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All from the same box of 1/24 Monogram track and stuff.......

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