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The obvious choices for cars to race in a Trans Am class would be those produced by Scalextric and Pioneer. These cars come with 18k motors. In addition SCX has the Trans Am Cuda wnd it also comes with an 18k motor. Carrera makes Mustangs that could be elligible, but they have motors rated at 21k and up. And as most know, the Carrera cars are not competitive in the group with Scalextric, Pioneer, and SCX, at least in "stock" configuration. If the class is limited to Scalextric, Pioneer, and SCX cars the field should be pretty even as far as motor performance.

Some suggestions I have received as to class rules so far include:

Chassis - Stock manufactured chassis only.
              - OK to enlarge body mount screw holes to allow body float.
              - OK to may trim off up to 1/16" around chassis perimeter for body float.
              - OK to cut off body bumpers and valance from chassis and glue onto body in stock position.
             
Body - Stock body, same manufacture as chassis only.
         - OK to remove stock spoilers.
         - No flaring of body fender wells or enlarging of wheel opening.

Tires & Wheels - OK to run any tire or wheel as long as they are not wider then 8mm.
                         -  Tires can not protrude past body, meaning wheelbase width cannot exceed body width.       

Gears, Axles, Axle Bushings - OK to use after market parts.

Guide Flag - OK to use Nova adapter for stock chassis flag mount repalecemnt or repair.

Interior -  Stock interior, same munufacturer as body only.
             - OK to sand bottom of interior for body float, floor boards must remain in stock location, no chopping or sectioning.

Motors - Stock 18000 rpm motors.

Comments or additional suggestions???

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

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!

The body posts need to be shortened as shown here. Outstanding work by Chris Kouba!

This is one of the donor inline BRM Porsches.

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

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