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Got into San Francisco yesterday. Things didn't start out well. I screwed up our reservation to start with. We arrived on the wrong day. A day late, NOT good! It costs $50.00 per day for our CAR to stay here!!! We had dinner at Applebees and tried a Corona Rita. The first margarita drinks were really lame, so we got talked into trying the Corona Ritas, which are basically a margarita with an upside down bottle of Corona beer in it. I am now absolutely sure beer does not belong in margaritas!!!! This morning we road the cable car. The first half of the trip was great! Then to come back we had to stand in line for about an hour! This place has more weird people than Portland could even imagine!!! As a matter of fact there are way more people here than Portland could even hold! Too damn many people for me! San Francisco is not for me, I do not like this place!

I'm experimenting with a new technique, which if it pans out, I plan to score big time on that stack of tires Monte has on his track!!!

We just pulled into a motel at Fort Bragg Calif. We saw LOTS of REALLY BIG trees today!!! Even drove right through one! Eureka was a let down, and Hwy 1 is REALLY twisty on the north end from Hwy 101 to Fort Bragg!!!! I was wishing I was on a motorcycle the whole way!!!

Fiber!!!!

We're in Crescent City this morning. Visited the Oregon Caves yesterday. There was SNOW at the caves! The 90 minute tour of the caves was awesome! We also stopped at The Trees of Mystery on Hwy 101. I had been there with my parents about 55 years ago. It looked pretty much the same from the parking lot, except Paul Bunyan's right arm was broken off! Evidently a very large limb from one of the older trees had broken off and on it's way to the ground it dismembered poor Paul. Sunny and nice this morning. Ready for more adventure!

COOL & FUN!!!!

Great video Dorothy!!! Looks like it's making the rounds through the HO internet world!!!

Odd Thursday Night Racing on April 2nd even! We had eleven racers on had for off cycle even race date. Gary Goose Gossett made a clean sweep of the evening finishing first in every race! Highlights included Monte Saager posting a second place finish with his Ninco AC Cobra in the Classic Sports Car Class. This is an all time high placing for a Ninco Cobra, probably in ANY class! Jimmy Jones was well on his way to a top three finish, but mechanical problems kept him out of the top three. Mitch Brooks posted a fourth place finish in the classic Sports Car Class, with John Morse only one tenth of a lap behind him in fifth. The racing was extremely close in the classic sports car race.

The Goose finished first in the Vintage F1 Class, but Jeff Fields was just one tenth of a lap behind him. In the BRM Porsche 962 Class the Goose killed us all winning by over four and a half laps! Al Christensen was on the podium in third. The Goose had a new car for the Over 50 Class, a Classic Manta Ray. The Classic Manta Rays seem to be awfully popular! Al Christensen had a second place finish in the Over 50 Class. Al seems to have his KTM powered Cheetah pretty well sorted out now! It was a fun filled evening with lots of racing, on the track as well as on the bench! Thanks to all who made it out!

The results:

Classic Sports Car:
1st Goose Gossett 52.1 laps
2nd Monte Saager 51.1 - New Official Lap Time Class Record = 9.928
3rd Greg Petrolati 49.7
4th Mitch Brooks 49.5
5th John Morse 49.4                                                                     
6th John Fisher 46.0
7th Amy Fields 43.7 
8th Jimmy Jones 43.6 - 9.504 Fastest Lap of the Race
9th Jeff Fields 42.9
10th Bill Bostic 42.8
11th Al Christensen 41.6

Vintage F1:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 53.8 laps  - New Official Lap Time Class Record = 9.343
2nd Jeff Fields 53.7 - 9.205 Fastest Lap of the Race
3rd Greg Petrolati 51.4 - First in Scratchbuilt Class
4th John Fisher 50.7
5th Monte Saager 47.4 - First in Cartrix Class
6th Bill Bostic 46.6
7th Amy Fields 46.4 - First in Modern F1 Class
8th Mitch Brooks 46.2
9th John Morse 44.2
10th Al Christensen 42.9
11th Jimmy Jones 41.8

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Goose Gossett 61.9 laps - 8.404 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Bill Bostic 57.2
3rd Al Christensen 52.2
4th Jeff Fields 51.1
5th Amy Fields 50.1
6th John Morse 50.0
7th Mitch brooks 49.3

Over 50 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 52.7 laps - Class Record - 9.880 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Al Christensen 50.1
3rd John Morse 47.9
4th Bill Bostic 43.3
5th Mitch Brooks 37.6

Great news!!!!

Update: turns out the Radioshack chassis is not one of my builds. I recognize the chassis but don't remember exactly who built it. The same goes for the Legends car. I did end up with a couple old 1/24 chassis with 36D motors and a very nice complete 1/32 Monogram brass chassis. There was also an old 1/24 model kit body which I think is an Allard? It is in pretty bad shape, but possibly restorable. All in all not a great deal on my end, but that's the way it goes sometimes!

I really don't remember..............It was a LONG time ago!.........................

I probably gave it away to one of the high school boys when we first started NASTE.