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TODAY is the day!

7:30 am and I just finished cleaning and checking my track.  The Official NASTE Party Van will be leaving for Autumn Hills in an hour.  I'm ready to race!

-----------------Bill

That'll work Monte. I will start the NASTE Party Van Event Tour at Rico's in Milwaukie. I can return there after the last round at your place in Hillsboro. It is not really very far out of my way back to my place in Fairview. If anyone wants to board the van prior to Rico's round they can meet me at my house if Fairview before the van leaves for Rico's. I believe we are starting at 9:00am at Rico's, so I will be leaving my house in Fairview no later than 8:30am.   -------------------Bill

This is Victoria Saager, the NASTE Scrabble Champion for 2012, and the official recorder for the SCX Proxy here at TooBad Motorplex.

This is Rico Locati the other driver for the SCX Proxy.

Pictured on the left is the infamous Monte Saager, or to us local racers The Big Smooth. Personally I like just plain Smooth. On the right is my long time friend  Gary Gossett. Gary and I have raced slot cars together for 30 years. I met Gary through slot car collecting, and he introduced me to the PASER Club in the Portland area.

I'd like to thank everyone who was able to make it out to the open house Saturday. I had a great time, and it was good to see some racers on my track! I apologize for not updated my invitations to point out the SCX Proxy race had been added to the agenda. I hope the racers entered in the Proxy are happy with their results. I was able to snap a few photos:

This is my newly (somewhat) finished track. I have worked on this track on and off for two years to get it to this point. Now the fun can start!

Here is the field for the SCX Proxy Race.

It will live forever!!!!  Diane and I will be putting that platter out as a reminder at every event here at TooBad Motorplex!!!!

Thanks Rico, it sure has been a lot of time and work!.....................................I am sore and stiff from working underneath that thing for 3 days!!!!

I put in a good 8 hours on the track Tuesday (ok maybe there was a little playin' that took place).

Mostly what I saw during that period was from this perspective:

But the good news is all 3 lanes are functional. Today I will try to finish up the jumper wiring, and the lap counter wiring.

---------------------Bill

UPDATE:  It is not looking good for next years champion as far as the best trophy goes!!!

YES, I will be there on Saturday!!!!

Bryan stopped by last night and was the first "independent" racer to turn a wheel on the track. He ran a Scalextric Porsche in non-magnetic configuaration with stock rubber tires. Even with no "pad" built up on the track surface the car performed very well. I am VERY happy with the track's racing surface! Everything I have tried has hooked up well!!   --------------------------Bill

Dorothy, Your camera work on the photos and video just make NASTE better and more fun, thank you so much!!!!

And it's nice to actually see YOU, THE HAMMER, live in one of our videos (thanks Terry!)....................    ------------------Bill