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Just a small reminder....

"Romeo and Juliet Choose Your Own Ending" opens tomorrow (Friday, March 22) and runs Friday-Sunday through April 7.

https://www.gallerytheater.org/

It really is a fun show.

Cars are supposed to arrive by Monday, 2/26. I'll see when I have some free time thereafter for running the race. Do you all favor the weekend for the event? Or do you prefer an evening during the week?

Absolutely i would host! Name the date!

There are 11 cars in the field. You can see the entries here: https://www.hrwforum.com/forum/proxy-ra … ild-thread

There are several threads detailing cars and results available through this forum link:https://www.hrwforum.com/forum/proxy-racing/other-proxies/3d-vintage-le-mans-proxy-2023

Yay! Thanks, Bill!

13 years old, riding with parents to Winrock Center (big shopping mall in Albuquerque, 75 miles away!), saw "Toys by Roy," the only toy store carrying slot car stuff. Was thrilled to see a Strombecker set. Parents noticed, bought a set for my birthday, and from then on it was rug racing with friends (no commercial tracks in my 7k population town, and 75 miles away was too far). Raced until college, came home one summer to find all the slot car stuff had been given away ("you weren't using it"), along with a whole bunch of comic books, including an original Captain America 3D comic with the original glasses (that I saw selling for $15K at a comic show in 1980). Pretty hard to forgive Mom for that. Slotless until around 1986 or so, when I found a Scalextric Formula 1 set for sale cheap in Santa Barbara. After that, it was buying a lot of Fleischmann stuff from Allied Model Trains in Santa Monica, until Fleischmann stopped making them, and Allied stopped selling slot stuff. Ultimately bought a bunch of Artin track from Slot Car World in Texas, built a huge 4-lane plastic track on my veranda in Palos Verdes, and then replaced the plastic with routed wood, which is what I have now.

After my play is over this weekend, I'll be back to racing as well. Looking forward to seeing you again, Monte!

I'm planning on arriving sometime on the 9th. Will you be there then?

I'd go, but play rehearsal....

Thanks, Doc!

My birthday. We went to Benihana's with my mother-in-law, and halfway through the meal she had some sort of seizure, so we spent the rest of the evening in the hospital. She was released late this afternoon (Friday) and appears to be just fine, but it's pretty worrisome for a woman who's almost 92.

And a heck of a birthday evening!

For the next three months I'll be rehearsing on Thursday nights, so I'll miss all of those races. You guys have fun without me!

Doc, you're an honorary Oregonian. We need your slot expertise!