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Another one ready for the track!

At the next NASTE race on February 21st at Al's, I will have some of these chassis available for sale. These chassis are ready to run as they come in the bag, and they will be $20 to club members.

Just to note; I have been running and racing my car with the original tires after just a light sanding. They work fine on my track and Monte's. My plan is to have races from time to time for anyone interested in racing thses cars.

Below is an illustration of Goose at the last race:

On January 21st Odd Thursday Night Racing returned to TooBad Motorplex. We tried a new race format with the Race Coordinator Program. For the first Vintage F1 Class race the format worked pretty well, with the finish positions aligning with the manual scoring used to check the new format. The same was not true for the second Can Am race. It appears as in the first race where the diversity of cars creates quite a spread in total laps, the format worked well. However in the Can Am Class the racing was much closer and there was little difference in each position's total laps. In the case of the second race the new format's finish positions were way different and off from the manual tally. So much for the new format!

But the racing was exciting and fast as usual! The track's surface temperature was 62.6 degrees at the start of practice, and 68.9 degrees for the start of the third race (BRM Porsches).

Vintage F1
1st Goose Gossett END  62.4 Laps First Overall + First in Division END
2nd Jeff Fields MD   61.6 - First in Division MD
3rd Bill Bostic SVD    60.3 - First in Division SVD
4th Monte Saager SVD   60.0
5th Rico Locati MND   58.5 - MND - First in Division
6th Bryan Dickerson END   57.4
7th John Morse SVD   56.0
8th Greg Petrolati SND    55.6 - First in Division SND
9th Mitch Brooks SWD    54.5 - First in Division SWD
10th John Fisher SWD 54.2
11th Al Christensen SVD  53.8

Can Am
1st Goose Gossett  61.6 laps First Overall + First in Can Am Division
2nd Rico Locati  Can Am 61.5
3rd AL Christensen  Can Am  58.9
4th Monte Saager Can Am 58.8
5th John Morse  Can Am 58.3
6th Bill Bostic  Can Am 58.1
7th Jeff Fields Can Am 58.0
8th Bryan Dickerson  Can Am 57.6
9th Greg Petrolati Can Am 57.2
10th Mitch Brooks USRRC 56.3 - First in Division USRRC
11th John Fisher  Can Am 55.4

BRM
1st Rico Locati   61.1 laps
2nd Bill Bostic    57.8
3rd John Morse    55.8
4th Al Christensen    55.6
5th Jeff Fields    53.1
6th Mitch Brooks   46.5
7th Goose Gossett  45.7

Over 50 - run at 10 volts in error
1st Goose Gossett 54.9 laps
2nd Bill Bostic    51.0
3rd John Morse    50.6
4th Rico Locati    49.9
5th Mitch Brooks    49.0
6th Al Christensen   48.3

Thanks for "NOT" sharing!

And yes, it was a lot of fun!

Excellent pictures Dorothy!

Thank you!!!

Some of you may have seen this Sportsman car at the race at Monte's Sunday. My plan is to build three more of these for IROC racing here at TooBad Motorplex. The basis of these cars is a NOS - RTR (new old stock - Ready To Run) chassis. I obtained a few of these chassis in a recent purchase. The chassis themselves appear to be Rannalli chassis, but I believe they were blems. The front of the chassis where the axle mounting holes are were cut too short. This leaves only one possible wheelbase of 3 1/2", where the chassis originally had an adjustable wheelbase with three possible postions.

I did some research and testing and so far have found a few bodies that will fit the short wheelbase chassis. The bodies include various styles of the "Sportsman" type body as pictured above. In addition some of the old Dubro and Pactra bodies or re-issues of those will fit, such as the Cheetah.

After building the four cars I need for myself, I will be left with some extra chassis. I am making these available to NASTE members for $20. They are a good running chassis and I have tested them on my track as well as on Monte's track. With the lower voltages we race at they are a lot of fun. The rear tires are not very grippy even after sanding them, but I plan to have other tire options available soon. I found a manufacturer on Ebay for the Sportsman type body I used. Their bodies are thicker and very sturdy. You can see their products here: http://stores.ebay.com/TEAM-BLUEGROOVE? … 7675.l2563 . There are other bodies available from other manufacturers easily found on the internet.

So if you're interested in one of the chassis let me know. Supplies are limited as they say! If you're interested in a chassis and a body, I can probably supply that also for the additional cost of the body (I also have a few extra bodies of various styles and brands). 
I would also consider selling cars with the bodies trimmed and mounted, ready for painting as the last finishing touch. In that configuration I'd want $40, that's track ready, you paint it.

I do not know of any tire truing machines that come with their own power supply, including the really expensive Hudy's.