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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.

It was some very close racing at Al's on January 7th!

Here's the results:

Trans Am
      Monte    69 laps n/c - w/TM
1st Bryan    66.2
2nd Amy    65.5
3rd John Fisher    65.1
4th Chris    65
5th Gary    64
6th Greg    63.8
7th Bill    63.7
8th Jeff F    62.8
9th AL    61.3
10th Terry 60
11th Rico    59.5
12th Mitch 59.4

Can Am
1st Chris    USRRC 72.4 laps & First in Division
2nd Monte  Can Am 71.3 & First in Division
3rd AL  Can Am    69.3
4th Bryan Can Am 68.3
5th Bill  Can Am 66.9
6th Rico  Can Am 66.3
7th Gary  USRRC 65.3
8th Jeff F    Can Am 64.4
9th Greg USRRC 61.5
10th Mitch USRRC 60.7
11th Amy    Can Am 60.6
12th John Fisher  Can Am    59.7

BRM
1st Chris    69.4 laps
2nd AL    68.7
3rd Rico    66.9
4th Bill    63.3
5th Mitch    60

Over 50
1st AL 61.8 laps
2nd Chris    56.9
3rd Bill    56.1
4th Mitch    47.1
5th Rico    34

Al has a nice large monitor perfectly positioned for racers to keep track of their progress.

The NASTE Gravity Racer display was set up in the pit area. Four more shares were issued to new investors.

The pits at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway

We had some great racing at Al's last night! Al's new Rippin' Ridin' Raceway is smooth and very fast! It looked like everyone was getting dialed in and turning some fast lap times!

Thanks Al for a fun night of racing!

left to right Greg Petrolati's Ferrari, Chris Kouba's Ford GT40, and John Fisher's in progree McLaren.

The racers themselves in action!

Thanks Smooth!

John Fisher brought along this scratchbuilt F1 car he has been working on.

John said he couldn't locate a motor bracket so he made his own. Very nice job!

He also hand made the guide flag mount.

This is going to be a very nice car when completed!

Bryan also brought out a Go Kart he built. This is the second Go Kart Bryan has built. The first was about the size of a small 1/24 car. This one is about the size of a 1/32 car. Both are very cool!