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February 8, 2021 4:30 pm

Cool Zack!

February 8, 2021 12:03 pm

That looks great Rico!

January 22, 2021 2:18 pm

John lives in Clackamas by Kaiser Hospital. It's a small track, just something he can use mostly for testing. Four curves and two straights, one of which is about 13 feet. It is a simple track very similar to the one I had in the late '90s.

January 22, 2021 11:03 am

John Gill and I routed out a 4' X 16' 3 lane track yesterday.

January 18, 2021 9:39 am

Rob stopped by yesterday for a little track testing and to show me a couple of his newest restorations. Anyone who collects vintage 1/24 slot cars has them. The old half destroyed cars that were either put together by someone with poor building skills, or cars that were abused. Rob took two more of his "junkers" and turned them into the beauties you see here! He then put them through their paces on the track.

January 14, 2021 9:51 am

There is a lot to look at when visiting Rob's track. He has some really cool displays!

January 14, 2021 9:48 am

This seems like a good time to show some photos of Rob's home track set up. He has a nice space over a large machine shop just a bit north of Vancouver. His track is plastic sectional Eldon 1/24 track. This track is a blast to run on, nostalgic for sure!

Rob scratch built this really cool pit area building.

There are some really nice detail items Rob also scratch built like these signs.

Rob is the master at restoration work! Check out this cool art Rob created using an old cardboard box logo!

January 14, 2021 9:36 am

These vintage Porsche 904 cars by Monogram are sometimes overlooked. Rob did an awesome job on this build.

January 14, 2021 9:34 am

Rob dropped by the shop with some of his newest builds. Here's a 1/32 Slot.it McLaren, his first 1/32 build.

Rob built this 1/24 Monogram Ferrari from a NOS body kit and a used chassis.

January 8, 2021 9:24 pm

You're welcome Rico, and thanks for the positive feedback!

January 1, 2021 6:12 pm

Thanks Mitch & me too!

January 1, 2021 11:11 am

Mitch58 wrote:

Nice, is this oscar/pacer specs?

Yes Mitch. Beau built it for the PASER/OSCAR Clubman Class. Although on Beau's build he used wheels and tires closer to True Scale specs. the Clubman class does allow shorter wheel/tire combinations.

January 1, 2021 10:08 am

A short video of the practice session on December 31, 2020.

Beau's Clubman Corvette and Howie's Sportsman car in action through the new section of the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9p7Yh4Iuts

January 1, 2021 9:21 am

Beau and Howie stopped by yesterday to run a couple laps. Check out this Corvette Beau built for the Clubman Class as raced by PASER & OSCAR. Beau turned the fastest lap of the day with this car at 4.99 seconds.

January 1, 2021 9:17 am

Nice job Mitch, that looks fantastic!

December 28, 2020 4:09 pm

I have a Scaleauto blue ball bearing motor.........

December 22, 2020 6:35 pm

Thanks Doc!

My plan is to have the track available after Christmas to those that would like to come over and run some laps. I'm looking at small groups no large race crowds. If you'd like to come by and get some laps in shoot me an email or give me a call and we'll set up a day and time.

This offer is open to anyone interested in running on the newly reconfigured track.

December 22, 2020 9:14 am

The initial testing at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway has gone well. On Thursday of last week, Chris Kouba stopped by for some test laps with BRM 1/24 Group C cars and some miscellaneous 1/32 cars. The track was unprepped as far as any traction compound. We cleaned the surface off using a rag and a citrus cleaner. I was surprised at how well the cars worked on urethane or rubber tires after just a few laps. it seemed to rack about 5 to 10 laps to get the cars to hook up. Here are some initial test results from that session:

1/32: Thunderslot Lola T70 w/rubber tires 6.04 sec. - Chris
1/32 Revoslot Toyota w/rubber tires 6.16 sec. - Chris
1/24 BRM Porsche 962 w/shore 30 stock rubber tires 6.23 sec. - Chris
1/24 Revell Cheetah 36D sidewinder w/urethane tires (NASTE Over 50 Class) 7.57 sec. - Bill

In this first testing there was only one issue with the track. One of the LED power indicator lights burned out on the blue lane's controller hook up. I replaced the LED the next day.

Yesterday a few guys that race in the PASER and OSCAR events stopped by. For this test session I prepped the track by spraying it with the usual traction compound solution. Ted, John, Stuart, and Bob Nak ran a bunch of laps with PASER/OSCAR spec cars giving the track a thorough shake down. All the cars run in this session were heavy hardbody 1/24 cars. There were no issues with the track during this session. Here are some results from this session:

Fastest lap 1/24 hardbody NASCAR 4.479 sec. - John
Laps in the 4.7 sec. range were routinely made by all drivers, John, Bob Nak, Stuart, and Ted.

This test session indicated the course reconfiguration increased average lap times by just about a full second. Here's a little video of this test session (new camera - I couldn't figure out how to get it off of the black & white setting. Found out today it was set to record in night vision....).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKi4yqMftc

I want thank everyone that helped me get the track reconstruction to this point, Beau, Howie, John, and Diane! Thank you all!

December 18, 2020 6:38 am

Now that I can't argue with!

December 17, 2020 10:09 am

"Decorated"?.................for Christmas????

December 16, 2020 10:47 pm

Thanks Doc, I really appreciate it!

You're absolutely right! I'll make that swap!

December 16, 2020 10:17 pm

Searching for some oddball slot car stuff tonight and a somewhat familiar photo popped up. When I clicked on it I was taken to some pages from the old NASTE website. On those pages were some photos I had thought were long lost. The pages include old photos from early NASTE tracks, Rapid Raceway, Checkered Flag Raceway, Electron Raceway, Mineral Springs Raceway, Autumn Hills, Beaverton Slot Car Club, Al Blanchard's HORO HO track, TooBad Motorplex six lane 1/24 and the routed HO track, Jeff Courtney's NASTE 3 five lane 1/24 track, Glenn Gregorio's Blacklight Blacktop Carrera track, Hawksbill Station, and Butterdish Raceway. The photos are from 1997 to around 2008 or so. Enjoy!

http://www.naste.org/naste_site/

http://www.naste.org/naste_site/pictures.htm

http://www.naste.org/naste_site/pictures2.htm

http://www.naste.org/naste_site/pictures3.htm

http://www.naste.org/naste_site/pictures4.htm

http://www.naste.org/naste_site/pictures5.htm