4,476 Topic by wb0s

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It's time for NASTE to update their logo. We have had the same logo for a number of years, and although I feel it is a terrific logo sometimes a change is refreshing.

So, we are holding a contest, open to all who wish to submit an entry for a new logo. Logos must include the script NASTE as well as what it stands for, Northwest Association of Slot Track Enthusiasts.

If your logo is selected as the official NASTE logo you will receive a $25 Fantasy World Hobbies gift certificate. The gift certificate will be purchased by NASTE, and you will receive the gift certificate in email form from Fantasy World Hobbies. So draw something up and send it to us!

You can send it to us in email form at slotcars.naste.org, or you can post it here in this forum. The winning logo will be selected by a panel of four judges, made up of long time NASTE members.

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4,477 Reply by wb0s

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At the July 3rd race we discussed adding two new classes to the Odd Thursday Night Racing program. The plan is to rotate the two new 1/32 classes along with the existing two 1/32 classes. The 1/24 BRM Class will continue to be raced as the feature race at each Odd Thursday Night race.

The two new classes up for consideration are; 1/32 Vintage F1, and 1/32 Vintage Trans Am. Various rules were discussed for the Vintage F1 class including what years or styles of vintage F1s would be raced. As for the Trans Am class there are many differnet manufacturers of Trans Am cars, so one of the discussion points was how to make them all competitive without the need for a lot of modification. The overall desire seemed to be racing these two classes of cars in as close to box stock configuration as possible. With that said I would like to solicite some feedback for ideas on what rules to implement for these two classes. If you want to race these cars let me know, and let me know what types of modifications, if any, you would like to see allowed.

===========Bill

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4,478 Reply by wb0s

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It was a wild night of racing! Ten racers drifted in for the night's events. John Fisher made it back from Australia, and it was good to see John Morse back to race. We also had a new racer, a big welcome to Ed Armstrong. Goose was on a terror and nearly got the triple crown, winning two of the three classes and scoring a second place in the BRM class after a near fatal plunge through The Hole! As usual the BRM class gave us some exciting door to door, and into a couple doors, type of racing. The 1/24 BRM Porsche class is gaining in popularity. Six of the ten racers had BRMs in their stable of cars. They truly are a blast to race!

Here are the final results:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Goose Gossett 52.5 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 50.1
3rd Glenn Heath 50.0
4th John Fisher 48.7
5th Bill Bostic 47.1
6th Tracy Flood 45.9
7th Todd Flood 41.9
8th Mitch Brooks 41.2
9th John Morse 37.1
10th Ed Armstrong 36.4

GT Class:

1st Goose Gosset 61.6 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 59.7
3rd Bill Bostic 57.3
4th Tracy Flood 56.0
5th Glenn Heath 52.4
6th John Fisher 51.7
7th Mitch Brooks 49.4
8th John Morse 46.3
9th Todd Flood 41.2
10th Ed Armstrong 40.5

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Chris Kouba 60.0 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 58.0
3rd Tracy Flood 57.7
4th Bill Bostic 57.4
5th Mitch Brooks 54.9
6th John Fisher 53.1
7th Glenn Heath 50.1
8th John Morse 48.9
9th Ed Armstrong 45.7
10th Todd Flood 45.4

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4,479 Reply by wb0s

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A little bit of sneaky advertisement!
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6531.jpg

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4,480 Topic by wb0s

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Here's a couple Carrera '62 Corvettes I worked over a little:

I used the convertible body parts from a blue number 47 race version car to make this white hardtop into a convertible.  I replaced the Carrera mag wheels inserts with steel wheel inserts from a model kit.
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6512.jpg

I used the hardtop from the white Vette to make a race version hardtop. The body has been lowered onto the chassis. I replaced the full interior with a card stock tray to gain more clearance.
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6515.jpg

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4,481 Reply by wb0s

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The new anglewinder BRM Porsche chassis have some nice features, such the adjustable front axle.
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6521.jpg

Chris Kouba, the BRM Guru himself!  We locals just refer to him as The Dealer!
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6522.jpg

A completed BRM anglewinder!
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6526.jpg

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4,482 Reply by wb0s

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Here's some of the highlites from the BRM chassis clinic:

Alan from 132 Slot Cars in Tacoma sent down conversion chassis kits. Thanks Alan!

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6516.jpg

The body posts need to be shortened as shown here. Outstanding work by Chris Kouba!
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6517.jpg

This is one of the donor inline BRM Porsches.
http://www.naste.org/members/bill/IMG_6520.jpg

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4,483 Reply by wb0s

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No wonder the price is up on them this morning!!!

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4,484 Reply by wb0s

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It was a great day of racing! We always have fun racing with our northern Washington based friends. Monte did an excellent job of putting this series together! I'm looking forward to the next round up north!

We will be arranging car pools to facilitate the invasion!

===========Bill

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4,485 Reply by wb0s

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Ooops.....you are correct Rico!  Guess it's a good thing I use a computer for the scoring!!!????

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4,486 Topic by wb0s

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This is the official list of NASTE Point Series Champions:

Kerrie Skinner  1997
John Bostic       1998
John Bostic       1999
Jeff Courtney    2000
Craig Prier        2001
Craig Prier        2002
Jeff Courtney    2003
Bill Bostic          2004
Dave Smith       2005
Dave Smith       2006
Dave Smith       2007
John Bostic       2008
Bryan trachsel  2009
Bryan trachsel  2010
Monte Saager   2011
Bill Bostic          2012
Bryan Trachsel  2013
Terry Abbott     2014
Bryan Trachsel  2015
Bill Bostic        2016
Chris Kouba     2017
Al Christensen   2018

NASTE Challenge Series Champions:

Dorothy Abbott  2014
Mitch Brooks   2015

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4,487 Reply by wb0s

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List updated from June 19, '14 race.

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4,488 Reply by wb0s

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June 19, 2014 Thursday night. Tonight's Odd Thursday racing started out with a BRM clinic put on by Chris Kouba. Chris demonstrated the proper conversion steps to change an inline BRM Porsche 962 over to an anglewinder chassis. Alan from 132 Slot Cars in Tacoma sent new anglewinder conversion kits down to those of us who own BRM Porsches, and had attended his BRM Porsche race in May. The conversion is pretty straight forward, and the kits are complete with all the necessary parts. Thank you Alan!

Once the racing started it was hot and heavy as usual. First up was the Classic Sports Car Class. Goose took the win with a narrow margine of just 4/10ths of a lap over Chris Kouba in second. In the GT Class Rico Locati was first by another 4/10ths margine over Chris Kouba in second. In the BRM Porsche class Chris Kouba laid waste to that second place 4/10ths of a lap margine monkey by winning the class and beating Goose by 3/10ths of a lap! It was very close racing the entire evening!

Thanks to everyone who made it out!

Here are the final results:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Goose Gossett 51.1 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 50.7
3rd Bill Bostic 48.7
4th Rico Locati 48.4
5th Tracy Flood 47.9
6th Mitch Brooks 46.3
7th Howie Howard 45.6
8th Monte Saager 42.6
9th Jimmy Jones 40.4

GT Class:

1st Rico Locati 61.2 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 60.6
3rd Bill Bostic 59.7
4th Goose Gossett 59.0
5th Monte Saager 57.5
6th Tracy Flood 54.2
7th Howie Howard 49.9
8th Mitch Brooks 49.6
9th Jimmy Jones 46.1

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Chris Kouba 62.0 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 61.7
3rd Rico locati 59.8
4th Bill Bostic 58.1
5th Bryan Dickerson 57.3
6th Tracy Flood 55.4
7th Mitch Brooks 54.8

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4,489 Topic by wb0s

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For the 2014 season NASTE started a new division for amatuers. We called this series of races the NASTE Challenge.

Congratualtions to Dorothy Abbott on being our first ever NASTE Challenge Champion!!!

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4,490 Topic by wb0s

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Congratulations to Terry Abbott, the NASTE 2014 Point Series Champion!

Great driving this season Terry!!!!

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4,491 Topic by wb0s

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Howie at Rapid Raceway put together a parts list of components and materials to build a 1/24 hardbody chassis. You can use it as a shopping list to get everything you need to build a chassis to race at Rapid Raceway.

Check it out here:  http://www.northwesttruescaleracers.com … &t=152

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4,492 Topic by wb0s

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Anybody having a hard time with their Scholer chassis assembly instructions written in German?

Howie gave us all a tutorial on the assembly proceedure over at rapid Raceway. You can see it here: http://www.northwesttruescaleracers.com … &t=151

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4,493 Reply by wb0s

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Terry you are a great champion and it is my pleasure to have your name added to the NASTE Point Series Championship trophy for 2014. You had an outstanding run this season! Your skill and consistency is what got you to the top position. A well deserved win, congratulations!!!!!

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4,494 Reply by wb0s

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I'm hopin' you'll get tired of climbing those podium steps at some point........

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4,495 Reply by wb0s

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List updated from June 5, '14 race.

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4,496 Reply by wb0s

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Another Odd Thursday night of racing here at TooBad Motorplex on June 5th. The racing was really close tonight with a tie for first place in the GT Class, and only 1/10th of lap separating first from second in the BRM Porsche Class. Three different racers took a first, and Mitch Brooks was on the podium in the Classic Sports Car Class. Highlights included; Monte Saager running most of his heat races himself, as himself without an assigned driver, and Chris Kouba made it to the race by boat! That is definitely a first!

Here's how all the racing shook out:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Goose Gossett 53.1 laps
2nd Rico Locati 52.2
3rd Mitch Brooks 50.0
4th Terry Abbott 48.3
5th Chris Kouba 48.1
6th Bill Bostic 47.6
7th Monte Saager 47.4
8th Greg Petrolati 47.2

GT Class:

1st tie Chris Kouba 59.1 laps
1st tie Goose Gossett 59.1
3rd Rico Locati 57.1
4th Terry Abbott 56.1
5th Bill Bostic 55.1
6th Monte Saager 54.2
7th Greg Petrolati 54.1
8th Mitch Brooks 49.8

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Rico Locati 62.8 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 62.7
3rd Monte Saager 59.7
4th Chris Kouba 59.1
5th Bill Bostic 58.7
6th Mitch Brooks 53.9

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4,497 Reply by wb0s

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Thank you Rico, I had a great time too!!!

I think the Abbotts must be redecorating today with all that new hardware!!!

Congrats to Terry & Dorothy on their championships, both of which were well earned!!!!

Thanks Dorothy for posting the pics! Hairy,... butt........

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4,498 Reply by wb0s

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That was quite a come back Rico!!!  You covered all three podium positions in one evening!!!!

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4,499 Reply by wb0s

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List updated from May 29, '14 race.

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4,500 Reply by wb0s

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May 29th, and another action packed Odd Thursday evening! The Classic Sports Car Class was raced for the first time with the new motor spec rule in place. Two scratchbuilt cars set the pace for the race. Rico Locati took first place with his 1955 Frazier Nash, with Greenman Greg Petrolati just one lap back with his beautiful Ferrari (second place in it's first race - outstanding!). With the new motor spec for the class, Ninco Classic Corvettes seemed to be the out-of-the-box car for rest of the field. The Ninco Corvettes are very competitive with nothing more than a rear tire change.

The racing in the GT Class was very close. Race conditions were optimum with good grip on the track, which many evenings is not the case! Chris Kouba destroyed the competition with his super quick Slot.It Ford GT. Chris out ran the field by three full laps to take the win. Most of the GT Class was made up of Slot.It cars. Like the Ninco Classic Corvettes, the Slot.It cars perform very well at TooBad with just a little tuning and rear tire changes.

The action in the BRM Porsche Class for intense as usual! Chris Kouba brought out his new BRM Mercedes to see how it would run against the BRM Porsches. The anglewinder chassis'd Mercedes did seem to have a little advantage over the Porsches, but not a great deal. It looked like some of the advantage was the difference in motors versus chassis configuration. Chris is studying our current rules to see what he can do to include the Mercedes and still make the inline Porsche 962s competitive. Chris did take the win in the BRM Porsche Class with his inline 962 by a mere nine tenths of a lap over Rico Locati. Third place was only another seven tenths back from Rico. The BRMs provide for some very close, action packed racing on TooBad Motorplex's tight three lane course.

Here's how all the racing shook out:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Rico Locato 52.0 laps
2nd Greg Petrolati 51.3
3rd Chris Kouba 49.6
tie - 4th Goose Gossett 48.6
tie - 4th Bryan Dickerson 48.6
6th John Fisher 48.3
7th Bill Bostic 47.8
8th Monte Saager 47.7
9th Mitch Brooks 47.6
DQ Glenn Heath 53.3 (Trans Am Mustang - run for fun)


GT Class:

1st Chris Kouba 61.0 laps
2nd Bill Bostic 58.0
3rd Rico Locati 56.9
4th John Fisher 53.8
5th Bryan Dickerson 53.1
6th Goose Gossett 52.4
7th Greg Petrolati 52.3
8th Glenn Heath 48.9
9th Mitch Brooks 48.0
10th Monte Saager 47.4

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Chris Kouba 59.7 laps
2nd Rico Locati 58.8
3rd Bill Bostic 58.1
4th Goose Gossett 57.7
5th John Fisher 54.7
6th Mitch Brooks 54.1
7th Glenn Heath 51.1
DQ Mercedes #63 59.0 (non-spec pink motor & anglewinder chassis)

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