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I did a bit last night on my TR-2. Finally it flows the way I thought it should. I may get the hang of this yet.

Now if I could just find my wind shield...

I don't remember ever not having some kind of set around. I do remember that there was a track in a strip mall behind our house when I was about 5 (1963). Dad had some kind of open wheel car and he and his co-workers would race at various tracks in southern California.  The first set I remember by name was a Motorrific set that let you race your Matchbox cars by dragging them around the track with a spring, very noisy.  1967 brought in an Eldon Demolition Derby set. I loved this set but by design the cars got destroyed.
Christmas of '69 brought in a Strombecker modified figure 8 with the Porsche RSK and the green Lotus both with working headlights. Oh the hours I spent on my knees running those cars.
About 1971 Mom came home from a garage sale with my first HO set. It was huge. it wound uphill around a mountain then ran downhill into a loop, but I usually set it up as a dragstrip running diagonally across entire length of the basement. The braking area was two pillows.
Dad used to take me to Hillsboro Hobbies to race on their big track. by the time I was old enough to drive myself there was only one track left, it was on SE Stark. I went a couple of times. About the third time I went it was gone.
Other than a small HO set for my daughter in Central Oregon and a large HO set for the boys here I didn't do much until they built the drag track in Vancouver.
I met Terry through a craigslist transaction and visited Monty's and Howie's tracks once each.
Somewhere I met Bill Bostic in some kind of online chat thing and the pusher man made some kind of junky out of me.

I've heard of this but never tried it.

I can however tell you a couple of horror stories about resin bodies and a food dehydrator.

Why a couple of stories you may ask? Because sometimes I'm a slow learner.

I would have to agree with Doc since we have already started the season. I think we should make a clear cut decision regarding years, pods, motors ect. before we start building cars for the next season.

Bah Humbug. Somebody had to say it. with that out of my system... Merry Christmas to all, and the best the new year has to offer. Except for whoever spilt coffee or something over my spacebar making it clunky.  Wait that may have been me, and it might have been coffee or it might have been bourbon.

I'll figure it out later.

2020 here we come.

Yes

Glad you had a good turnout. I had planned to be there, but Chris had already made other plans.

Depoe Bay this weekend for me.

Donna says he is already up and moving , in small doses.

Neither can NASCAR. I love watching them run on a road course, and yes most of the wrecks seem to happen on the right hand turns.

The red one appears to be an Eldon with different wheels/tires on the back. It is a Ferrari P3/P4, their 906 shell is very similar, the glass just differs a bit.

The other one is a Porsche 917 lexan body on what looks like an early Parma chassis.