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Bryan & Sherry - Thanks for hosting the race Saturday! It was an excellent time. The food was delicious and the racing was awesome! The new timing & lap counting system worked flawlessly. The cars you prepare are always fun to race!

A big thanks to Dorothy for all the snacks and snapping the photos!!!

I agree Tracy!  We may have to look into building some or something similar???

The results and photos of the proxy cars are here: http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/porta … amp;page=2

Our beloved Hammer was out in her full Halloween driving suit. Here she is trying to bribe Tracy with her delicious candies to move over and let her by. Most everybody let her by anyway. It was hard to ignor the Hammer II coming up behind you!...Very intimidating!!!

There were two extraordinarily and incredibly engineered cars at this years NASTE Halloween Race. One of which was this one built by Carl. This Cat In The Hat entry had a separate motor driving the front propeller, as well as another motor driving that rear chopper spinner thing, in addition to the motor powering the car. Carl finished 13th with this behemoth.

This was the other engineering marvel. John built this coffin car and added the skeleton to the lid. The Barbie head was motorized and rotated 360 degrees while the car was in motion. It was awesome!!! Alas Barbie suffered a break down just before the end of the race, probably due to stress. John finished out the race in his back-up invisible car, in 15th.

Here's John and Carl wirin' up to the driver's station, while Victoria gives me her parade wave in the background. Please ignor that fast moving individual off to the right, that's just Flyin' Bryan.....

The Rico Weener, what more can I say? Other than it was big and finished 3rd!

Mitch Brooks decorated his '55 Chevy for the Halloween race and finsihed 10th with it.

Bryan Trachsel consistantly builds some of the fastest NASTE Halloween cars. He succeeded again this year capturing first place with his skeleton driven go-cart!

Another terrific NASTE Halloween Race!!!! Can't wait until next year!!!

This was a common expression worn by racers throughout the night:

Rico's Red Green Van was back this year, this time drivin by June to a 9th place finish. It hauled this year!

Perry brought out this chop, channelled, sectioned, and burnt(?) pumkin thingie.....He finished 16th with it.

Yes, yes, yes!!!!

Man, did we have snacks or what????!!!!!!

AND we ate 'em ALL!!!!!!!!!

Odd Thursday - October 23rd.

At this Odd Thursday we ran the 13th and final round of the 2014 IPS Proxy. We had 15 drivers in attendance with 23 cars entered. We ran two rounds of 2 minute heats. Cars were raced in random order, and drivers were placed on teams of three (one for each lane), and the driver teams were rotated as well. All the drivers had at least 20 minutes of racing time with various cars. The results are posted on the Slot Cars illustrated website under the IPS Proxy info.

After the IPS Proxy race concluded, we raced one round of three minute heats for the BRM Porsches. As usual, it was a barn burner! The Goose was the only one to make it out of the barn alive and took the win!

BRM Porsche results:
1st Goose Gossett 58.5 laps
2nd Rico Locati 56.9
3rd Chris Kouba 56.7
4th Bill Bostic 53.8
5th John Kouba 50.3

Who could ask for anything more????

Thanks Bryan!!!!