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Rules for the Late Modified class: For chassis, tires, motor, tracking etc. follow the Early Modified rules. Any 1/25 or 1/24 plastic kit ( hard body ) from 1960 to present or an approved Modified kit. No convertibles or chopped tops. Can narrow body to fit the Early Modified chassis. Body height to be minimum of 1.550" from the bottom of chassis to the highest part of the roof. Numbers on each side. Kit motor up front with radiator. No fenders, hood optional. No windows. Front screen is optional. Full drivers tray to fill the inside of cab.

Rules can be added or modified as needed.

Note: picture coming.

Ok, here goes: It all started about 1955/6. My friend ( Tony ) and I were into models, mostly building custom cars out of AMT kits. Then I got a few straight 1/24th. plastic track and we started building drag slot cars. I went to the '62 World's Fair in Seattle. Saw the AMT slot car display there and saw the "Cat" from AMT ( Bud Anderson ). The fever grew. Tony and I built a real Go Kart together. Then in Sept. '64 I joined the Air Force rather than be drafted. I wound up stationed at Ellsworth AFB in S. Dakota a few miles from Rapid City. A year later my parents got my draft notice!! While stationed there I ran into another guy ( nicknamed OJ ) who wanted to mess with slot cars. So we did home stuff. There were two huge commercial tracks in Rapid City at that time but we never raced there, after all there were girls in Rapid too!!! But we still messed with slot cars at home. Then we got out of the service in Sept. '68 and moved with our new wives to Portland, Oregon................to be continued. While in Portland we got into Harleys, big time, but still messed with slot cars at home. One day ( probably about 1976/7 or so ) we decided to see if there was a local track we could find. We went to a hobby shop in north Portland and the owner said he knew of one in Wilsonville. Somehow we wound up at Wilsonville at a barn! Lee Dundas's track. I don't remember if we raced there or not  that day, but there was a race going on, but we took our home built 1/32nd. scale cars there. I only remember Gearloose that day. We decided that Wilsonville was too far to go, so we never went back, well OJ didn't! Then along about the mid 80's or so I went to a hobby shop to get supplies for my model building stuff and on the door was an advertisement for a commercial slot car track called Slot Car Central. I waited two years before I went to check it out as I knew I would get hooked. Well a friend at work ( Warn Industries ) said: "lets go check out Slot Car Central", so we did and I got hooked and he never went back! I raced there every Wednesday night. Then Slot Car Central announced it was closing up. Before it closed I was racing there and a guy ( Greg Virges ) came up and invited me to race where he did. Low and behold it was at Lee Dundas's track at his barn in Wilsonville!! So I started racing with PACER/OSCAR guys, I think this was in the mid 90's or so. Then I wanted to build my own track in my new shop. My track was named after Rapid City called Rapid Raceway, BTW: the neon sign that says: Welcome race fans is from Slot Car Central! My first race was held on Nov. 15th. 2002 and was still racing with OSCAR/PACER. Then I wanted to go into making slot cars more real looking so I started North West True Scale class of cars and that is where it is today and is going well and I hope it continues. My dream: to live to be a 100 yrs. old and still have all my friends and still racing True Scale slot cars!! Well my dream has more to it than that..........but that is a different story......

Points for the 2024 season after three races: 4 times through at 4 minute heats.

1st. race at Rapid Raceway on Nov. 11, '23.
2nd. race at Redline Raceway on Jan. 6, '24.
3rd. race at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on March 23, '24.

Al/Meat......................20+18=38+15=53 points.
Howie........................19+17=36+16=52
Bob/Nak....................18+20=38+18=56
Gearloose..................17
Bart..........................16
Bill............................15+12=27+17=44
Doug.........................14
Tim/Tiny....................13+16=29+12=41
Marty........................12
Skidmark...................11+13=24+11=35
John..........................19+14=33
Rob...........................15+8=23
Hershe.......................14
Capt. Kirk...................20
Zack..........................19
Beau..........................13
Kealah........................10
Scott E.........................9

Are you going to put up speed bumps for more confusion for this trigger finger guy?

Project Classic NASCAR continues. Beings I am going to make Bob's Classic NASCAR race in Sept. I better finish this car. It needs all the running gear from motor to guide flag. I will have to get this car on the track and see if I can get it to run ok as it has the BIG true scale size tires/wheels! At any rate it should be a fun car. I thought I had a picture of the chassis, guess not. I will send Bill a picture to add to this page. I made the motor mount out of aluminum when I still had access to a mill at work.

Bill will install a picture when he gets time. Thanks Bill.

Results of the Beau Frazier Memorial race held at Rapid Raceway on 5-6-'23. 3 times through at 4 min. heats.

1.....Zack...........................563.8 laps..............................4.758 fast time.
2.....Marty..........................549.3.....................................4.852
3.....Al................................543.3.....................................4.563
4.....Bart............................542.4.....................................4.709
5.....Howie.........................540.7.....................................4.913
6.....Rico............................537.2.....................................4.882
7.....Bob............................535.4.....................................4.693
8.....Terry...........................531.8.....................................4.899
9.....Bill..............................506.4.....................................5.118
10...Phil.............................476.9.....................................5.085
11...Doug..........................476.2.....................................5.272
12...Dave..........................474.4.....................................5.222
13...Hersch.......................472.5.....................................5.278
14...Bar Dog.....................459.3.....................................5.201

Thanks to all who participated in this special event. Beau's two cousins ( Barry Smith and wife Brenda and Phil Perdue, alias: Bar Dog ) came up from California and Beau's sister ( Harmony and husband Michael Breen ) came over from Long Beach, Washington. Harmony and Michael provided the pizza, thus no entry fees for this event. It was truly a fun event! Phil Perdue provided the special 1st. place trophy that Zack is holding on the podium. Pictures coming as soon as Bill finds the time.

Podium finishers: First Place (center) Zack, Second Place (left) Marty, Third Place (right) Al.

Results of the Early Modified race held on 5-4-'23. Small turnout so we skipped the red lane and ran on the other three. Fun race, the BS session lasted 'till almost 10:00pm!

                                Laps                      Fast time

1.....Bob....................273.........................4.828
2.....Howie................268.........................4.801
3.....Bill......................265........................5.036
4.....Al.......................264.........................4.902
5.....Rico....................220........................5.009
6.....Hersch...............119.........................4.761

Front row L-R: Bill, Rico, Hersch. 2nd. row L-R: Bob, Al, Howie.

Final points for the 2023 season after 10 races in order:

1.....Howie..................................177 pts.
2.....Al.........................................157
3.....Marty...................................125
4.....Bill.......................................123
5.....Terry....................................119
6.....Gearloose............................112
7.....Bart.....................................107
8.....Doug...................................101
9.....Rico.....................................100
10...Zack....................................95
11...Bob.....................................94
12...Hersch.................................81
13...Mitch....................................77
14...Tim.......................................49
15...Craig....................................38
16...Dennis..................................36
17...Matt......................................30
18...John......................................17
19...Scott.....................................12
20...Frank.....................................1
21...Steve.....................................1
22...Timba.....................................1

Thank you to all who took part in this yrs. points series.

Back to the Classic NASCAR project. I am using a Hanna chassis #104 that has been in a LOT of races. I am installing Indy car Pro Slot rear tires for the front as they are a 1/8th. axle as the rules say 1/8th. axles only. I will trim down the tires to about .900" on the tire truer, rules say .850 minimum diameter. I will cut them to .500" width that the rules call for. I will have to cut the front axle housing  by .140" on each end to get down the the maximum tracking, which is 3.250". Also the pans will have to be trimmed to make room for the tires after the axle cut.

Picture coming as soon as Bill has time.