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Just for kicks I gutted my Thunderslot spyder and set it up to classic ll specs. What a hoot, I may just leave it that way, I could run it all day without getting bored with it.
  But I won't enter it in the SCCA proxy or probably not the GT40 either, I don't think I could stand the whining.
I may put a 3D chassis under a Revell '63 Corvette body. I love that split window.

To think I was in Central Oregon for 25 years and had no idea that anyone was racing.

Stan,  pm sent

Remember guys,

  The only reason this class exist in the first place was because we all had cars in our box and at home that wouldn't compete with the other cars we were racing.

The point was to have a class where we could race these, fly, Scalextric, Ninco, ect against each other in their stock form.

After a couple of rounds we allowed for wheel and axle changes as some of the factory ones were so horribly bad.

in doing so we accidentally created one of the closest most popular classes in the club.

In other classes such as Trams Am Bill decided to use the Black stripe motors because the Pioneer motors were dominating so badly. We decided to use the H&R motor in classic sports car for a similar reason.

We already have a rule in the club that if one car dominates a particular class too many times we can black flag it. I've never seen this rule used, But I'm always looking for another "over 50" car just in case.

Good reason

As a Foot note to the Spirit Car:
Zack's looked so good going around the track that I pulled mine down off the shelf and started fooling with it. The first thing I did was pull out the motor and hit it with the tach. 26K at 12 volts.
That was about what I was guessing.
I added some weight and found an old Scalextric/Fly motor that tested at 18.3K and put it back together and sanded the tires.
where my rattlely old 908 and Fly 917 were in the 7.3-7.4 range this now runs about 7.1 but it is smooth lap after lap.
It's not nearly as fast as the podium cars but it is pleasant to drive and looks great doing it but it also tells me my other LeMans cars need some more attention.

I have a feeling the 7th just hasn't been scheduled yet. If Al is unavailable we can probably arrange  to do it here in Tigard if you Eastern folks can find your way across the river on a Thursday afternoon.

As for Spirit, The Spirit motor is a ways out of spec for this class, I know mine is awfully hot. Other than that it looks just like a Fly car, just a very pretty Fly car.  Zack has already replaced his with a Black Stripe. That should be noted in the rules.

That sounds about right
i'm still liking my XK120 for classic one
and I have a Mark lV for classic two.

I also have a Trams am car and a Lemans car to bring Thursday. They are mediocre cars but I'm bringing them anyway.

Maybe Bill hasn't updated the rules in the website. Everything I see above is in regards to classic one.

in Classic two I think functioning pods were still allowed but they were going to move the year cut off up to exclude the GT40 and add a max track width.

now I have missed several races, perhaps I've also missed more discussion.

That is semi gloss paint.  I haven't had any more problem since I added some glue to the problem areas.

In the above post I was referring that if I didn't work so many hours I'd be downstairs wearing out the track all day.

I would have loved to host the 21st, but alas I'll probably be working all day and if the weather holds well into the evening.

Someday I'll retire and have to re-route the track for braid because we keep wearing the copper off.

Looking forward to Stan's if I can find it again.