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These photos are actually taken in the upstairs of the new shop. This room is almost identical in shape and size to the room I had for my slot car stuff in our house in Fairview. The biggest difference is actually; more stuff!

A lot of slot cars have passed through here in the last couple of years. These shelves have been full, twice!

I figure it's about time for an update. Here's the finished bench with the LED shop light installed.

I haven't posted in here for quite some time.......about 4 1/2 years. For some reason this section of the forum gets a lot of views! So since the last posts here so much has happened! The post just two up from this one was by our dear friend "Goose". Sadly we lost him, he passed away just a couple years ago. We have also lost one of our local slot car heroes Bob McFarland. Before Bob passed he allowed me to become the new caretaker of Checkered Flag Raceway.

Oh yeah, since those last posts in 2016 Diane and I have moved to Vancouver Washington from our place in Fairview Oregon. Too Bad Motorplex was dismantled and as far as I know is still in storage in the Corbett area of Oregon. Once we got moved up here to Vancouver we had a 28' x 30' shop built, where Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway is now housed. I have finally finished all the revisions I wanted to make to the track and we have held two OSCAR races, a PASER race, and a Northwest True Scale race on the track so far. I purchased "Goose's" entire slot car collection and am still selling off the excess. At this point in time I figure I must still have somewhere around 1,000 to 2,000 slot cars in all scales, all makes, all types, old and new.

We're over one year into this COVID 19 pandemic thing. Diane and I are good, we have both been shot, twice. We finally have most everything we wanted to do to our house done, inside and out. It's been a long process but we are finally getting into a more normal routine, well as normal as the current COVID situation will allow. This evening for some reason I was drawn to the NASTE website's Forum and I began reading some of the old posts. So here I sit typing away.

At sometime in the early 2000's, one of my local slot car heroes had a dream. He wanted to develop and manufacture a bolt together slot car chassis that could compete with the scratchbuilt brass chassis being built and raced in the Pacific Northwest. That is a tall order but Dave Naylor felt he could achieve that goal. The chassis design he came up with was a piece of art in my opinion. They always fascinated me with their precise and intricate machining work and parts design. One of the drawbacks for me at that period in time was cost. I just couldn't afford the cost of one of Dave's chassis.

Unfortunately the Tifosi Chassis never became popular. They were complicated and difficult to set up. Very few of the local racers were able to get one of the chassis up to speed. It's too bad, especially considering the time, effort, and expense Dave put into the project. But my lust and love for those chassis never ended, and as luck would have it over the last few years I have been able to pick up a few. I now consider myself an official Tifosi Chassis collector, so if you have any you want to unload, let me know.

So that brings us up to yesterday. For some reason, while I was working on my Porsche 962 Scholer chassis I decided to pull out one of my Tifosi chassis. This particular one was kind of a mess with a lot of the plates glued together. Luckily Zack had stopped by to do some testing and he gave me some great advise for tearing this particular chassis down. Out came the propane torch! Not the little one, the big one connected to map gas! After some serious heat applied I was able to separate all the different plates. Today I cleaned all the plates up using extensive amounts of Goof Off!

Here's what one of the plates/pieces looked like after I got them all separated.

These are all the plates  and pieces that were used in the construction of this one chassis.

April 24, 2021 starting grid.

Thanks Howie for holding this Porsche 962 race! As usual it was an awesome event with some outstanding pizza!

Thanks Chris!

Here's something you guys haven't seen for awhile, race results!

From Odd Thursday Night at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway!

Thanks Zack, but I had help. There weren't many racers that showed up for ALL the races. I was one of the few which is really what got me to where I finished for the season.

This is another restoration project. This Monogram Ford was in poor shape before Rob brought it back!