3,976 Reply by wb0s

(6 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

Slow. Just waitin' on tires..........

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3,977 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

My interest in collections is quite diverse............

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3,978 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

Hey Mitch, I did some research trying to find that issue of Life Magazine you were talking about with the article on slot car racing. I couldn't find any slot car articles in any Life magazines. I did however find out Saturday Eveneing Post had an article about slot cars. I think the edition was December of 1963? Could that have been the magazine?

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3,979 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

Great information guys! Thanks!

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3,980 Topic by wb0s

(0 replies, posted in Modifications)

Here at TooBad Motorplex we have been installing Paul Gage urethane tires on most all of our cars. These tires seem to work very well in all conditions and temperatures. They give excellent traction and wear does not seem to be an issue even on the fairly rough TooBad track surface. One question that did come up concerned the longevity of the tires in regards to shelf life or, will they deteriorate or breakdown over time?

  Gary Goose Gosset posed that question to Paul Gage in an email, and here's the response he received from Paul:

Hi Guys, I still have the first batch of 8 year old tires I made. Bags and bags over the years, on 500 cars of my own, in boxes, out of boxes, in the deep freezer, in the desert sun. The only time I have found any decay is when the XPG's were glued on the rim with too much glue. This is with either the CA (Crazy Glue types)or Methacrylates (Nail polish) as adhesives. They soften and turn yellow, and it's only rarely, so I cannot eliminate that it was an ingredients or production issue. I have a Slot.it 962 with 8 year old XPG's glued on, ran it the other day. For anything other than a race unit I no longer glue them on, and I use the Soft (A40) tires. I use the Soft on all my shelf queens, some are in the box some in the open no problems.

My buddy Dave has his track in his heated uninsulated garage. It gets to 40 below here so when its 5 or 10 below we've popped out to the garage and run a few laps without turning on the heaters. I wish my 1:1 car's tires would be that soft at 40 below!

To this day I still come across local cars that had urethanes on them from years before they were introduced to me. From all the research I have done on the local slot car history I estimate they were making urethane here as early as '98 or '99.

Like I said the only bad tires were directly linked to me going crazy with the glue! But worry not, I'll be around for a while, you can get more! I'm also in the process of searching for an apprentice to take over when all I want to do is play with slot cars or hunt 50" musky!

The XPG casts into a mean 1/2 lb Bull Dog, if you do any fishing, tougher than the originals!

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3,981 Reply by wb0s

(1 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

I like that idea Goose!  Remind me at the next race and I'll start taking pictures!

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3,982 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

Very cool stuff Rico, and nice find! What a honey!!!

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3,983 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

That would be cool Goose! Maybe we could run them at maybe 8 or 9 volts and not do any damage? It wouldn't take much to break those mirrors and bumpers off Rico's Corvair!!! We would still have to race like gentlemen...................Ooh, not sure I have that gene in me.........

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3,984 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

Yes it did!  Too bad (no pun intended) those are so rare, we could do an IROCORVAIR!!!!

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3,985 Reply by wb0s

(93 replies, posted in NASTE)

List updated from February 5, '15 race.

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3,986 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

Rico Locati brought out his vintage Corvair for a few parade laps.

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_9198.jpg

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_9199.jpg

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3,987 Reply by wb0s

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The Goose returned to Odd Thursday Night Racing with new hardware after the devastating crash of his Monogram Chaparral at the last race.

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_9200.jpg

The view most racers saw of Goose's Strombecker Ford J.

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_9203.jpg

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3,988 Reply by wb0s

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February 5, it was an odd Odd Thursday Night of racing. It seemed like it was the first time I had tried to run a race using the new race software. I felt disorganized and like I was bumbling through the whole race. My driving wasn't much better! BUT, thanks to Amy Fields, who got us back on track with her outstanding computer skills we made it through the race! THANK YOU AMY!!!!

Goose took the win in the Classic Sports Car Class, with Mitch and Greg in a tie for second. Great run Mitch! Goose was also on the top of the podium for the Vintage F1 race with Byan Trachsel just one lap behind in the second spot. In the BRM Porsche 962 race the Goose again led the way to the finish, this time with Rico following in second. A new racer, Al Christensen brought out some great old KTM powered vintage cars for Over 50 Class. But it was the Goose's night as he won the Over 50 Class making for a clean sweep of the night! Rico was in hot pursuit with the Gold Finger Brutus Corvette, but he just couldn't quite catch that beautiful Strombecker Ford J car of Goose's!

The results:

Classic Sports Car:
1st Goose Gossett 50.0 laps
2nd tie Mitch Brooks 48.9
2nd tie Greg Petrolati 48.9
4th Rico Locati 48.7 - 9.996 Fastest Lap of the Race
5th Bryan Trachsel 47.6                                                                     
6th tie Terry Abbott 47.4
6th tie John Fisher 47.4 
8th Jeff Fields 46.1
9th Howie Howard 45.6
10th Bill Bostic 44.1
11th Amy Fields 42.3
12th Glenn Heath 42.1
13th Al Christensen 41.5

Vintage F1:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 52.3 laps - 9.539 Fastest Lap of the Race  (no trac. mag.)
2nd Bryan Trachsel 51.2
3rd Greg Petrolati 49.2
4th Cailin Dunbar 48.0
5th Bill Bostic 47.1
6th Mitch Brooks 43.9
7th Amy Fields 43.6 - 9.405 Fastest Lap of the Race (w/trac. mag.)
8th Rico Locati 43.2
9th Jeff Fields 41.5
10th Glenn Heath 40.9
11th John Fisher 40.4
12th Al Christensen 34.7

BRM Porshe 962 Class:
1st Goose Gossett 59.6 laps - 8.480 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Rico Locati 57.1
3rd Bill Bostic 55.9
4th Glenn Heath 53.1
5th Jeff Fields 48.0
6th Mitch Brooks 46.3
7th Amy Fields 43.7
8th Al Christensen 42.4

Over 50 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 50.8 laps
2nd Rico Locati 50.1 - 9.872 Fastest Lap of the Race
3rd Bill Bostic 45.3
4th Al Christensen 40.5
5th Mitch Brooks 39.7
6th Glenn Heath 35.6

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3,989 Reply by wb0s

(5 replies, posted in Cars)

Kevin Raper is at it again!  Check out his newest board car:

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/kevinboardcar.jpg

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3,990 Reply by wb0s

(5 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

Monte & Victoria, I had a great time racing at your place today! Thank you guys for another excellent event!

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3,991 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

It's a sad thing when you can't even pull out a win with an illegal motor that's a good 4,000 RPM over everybody else's!!!!

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3,992 Reply by wb0s

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We've missed you Chris, and it's very good to see you back on Odd Thursdays! Now if we could just get you to slow down a little..........maybe a little rum-in-the-coffee-pre-race-tune-up????

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3,993 Reply by wb0s

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Too bad we didn't get your Chaparral crash on video Goose!

Monte pointed out to me that the pictures I took with your Chaparral in it are the last images of the car in its perfect original condition!

So here it is again just for you!

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_9084.jpg

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3,994 Reply by wb0s

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I like the vintage controller idea Monte!  I have a few choices there!

And to be honest.......I'm really not sure how many vintage chassis I have.....if you count the scratchbuilt ones in with the production type, probably quite a few....if you separate them out, not as many..............but probably still quite a few!

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3,995 Reply by wb0s

(93 replies, posted in NASTE)

List updated from January 29, '15 race.

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3,996 Reply by wb0s

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The field for the first official Over 50 Class Race on Odd Thursday.

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3,997 Reply by wb0s

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January 29, 2015 - Odd Thursday

Tonight was the night of firsts. The first race with a new race program and the first official race for a new class. For this race we used the Race Cordinator program instead of Trackmate. Race Coordinator has some features I like over Trackmate. The new program ran without any issues, other than operator error here and there, all my fault!

First class up were the Trans Am cars. This class has become very popular, and the racing is always very close. Rico came in first just one and a half laps ahead of Goose. In the GT Class Chris Kouba won by a good margin of four and a half laps. The combination of Chris and his Slot.it Porsche 962 is tough to beat! He is just flat fast! Up next was the new Over 50 Class. The field was well represented by a diverse group of vintage slot cars. A Monogram Chaparral 2D, A Gar Vic Lotus 30, A Cox Ford GT40, a Gar Vic Grand Sport Corvette, two Classic Manta Rays, a Classic Lola, and an unidentified chassis with Revell Ferrari GTO body powered by a Strombecker motor. There were some very close battles on the track, and a wreck that resulted in damage to the Monogram Chaparral. All in all I think this new class is going to be a lot of fun! Rico won the first official Over 50 Class race. The BRM race was the last race of the evening. As usual this race was extremely exciting. Lots of wheel to wheel, door to door racing! Chris Kouba was back tonight to show us all the fast way around TooBad Motorplex with these cars! We will be racing both the BRM and Over 50 Classes at each Odd Thursday Night race. We will alternate which class we run first, but both will be run after the two 1/32 classes. This way if a racer cannot stay late he can still race both classes by racing one of the two at every other race.

.....and here's the results:

Trans Am Class:
1st Rico Locati 52.8 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 51.3
3rd Chris kouba 51.1
4th Greg Petrolati 50.7
5th Monte Saager 50.1                                                                     
6th  Bill Bostic 48.8
7th Bryan Trachsel 48.7 - 9.747 Fastest Lap of the Race 
8th Bryan Dickerson 48.5
9th Mitch Brooks 46.1
10th Jeff fields 43.9
11th John Morse 43.8

GT Class:
1st Chris Kouba 61.8 laps - 8.401 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Monte Saager 57.0
3rd Rico Locati 56.3
4th tie Goose Gossett 55.9
4th tie Bryan Trachsel  55.9
6th Bryan Dickerson 55.4
7th Greg Petrolati 49.6
8th Jeff Fields 48.2
9th tie Mitch Brooks 47.0
9th tie John Morse 47.0
11th Amy Fields 43.6
12th Bill Bostic 57.3 - DQ motor>21.5k

Over 50 Class:
1st Rico Locati 52.4 laps - 9.763 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Goose Gossett 50.2
3rd Monte Saager 49.2
4th Chris Kouba 47.0
5th Bill Bostic 46.9
6th Greg Petrolati 46.8
7th Mitch Brooks 46.4
8th Bryan Dickerson 45.8
9th John Morse 45.2

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Chris Kouba 56.6 laps - 8.371 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Goose Gossett 55.7
3rd Rico Locati 55.0
4th Bryan Dickerson 54.6
5th Bill Bostic 54.3
6th Mitch Brooks 47.7

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3,998 Reply by wb0s

(56 replies, posted in Rapid Raceway)

Howie, Thanks a lot for posting this build up. It really helps!

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3,999 Reply by wb0s

(6 replies, posted in Cars)

It looks really good Mitch!

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4,000 Reply by wb0s

(2,117 replies, posted in NASTE)

You're welcome! I learned that "push" from you!!!!

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