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Thanks Dennis, I missed racing with you guys as well!
This virus thing, the social distancing, and self lockdown is a pretty sensitive subject here at my place. Diane does not bug me about it at all, but I know she has anxiety over it, and when I leave it makes her uncomfortable. She is so go about my slot car "habit" I don't feel like giving her any unneeded stress over my slot car activities. I figure there will be plenty of race time once this is all over. On the other hand being locked down has provided me with a lot more time for going through boxes of stuff in the shop. I really needed to clear up some space before I started into my track renovations. I am making good progress and once I'm done with the sorting and organizing I will be started on track updates.
Nice job Zack, that's a beautiful car! Awesome photo too!
Doc...Black light race....we did it 1996 through 2001 at the Halloween Races....Did a couple with a strobe light also.......results were interesting although not so good!.....
Howie.....I'd do the night race at your place again! I like the Lola T70 idea! How about vintage Le Mans?
John Gill's new Lotus sporting a Jairus Watson paint job! Pretty nice I'd say!
Thanks Zack and Howie for offering to supply loaners!
Zack, I have a body. In fact I think I have a Fusion or a Chevy. Both bodies are used and have been painted. they are both ugly and need to be re-painted and spruced up a bit. But hey, they're CHEAP....Either one ZERO $ to you!
=======Bill
I think I can come up with loaner cars. Worst case scenario we have to share a couple cars, but with Zack and Chris in our pit area I'm sure we can keep them going the distance!!!
I'll see if I can get some firm dates.
That makes two of us so far Zack.
I received a phone call today from our friends in Bend. They are in the early stages of planning a three race tournament at Tom's World huge 1/24 three lane track. Each race will be for a specific class of hardboy cars, one sportscar, one NASCAR, and one Econo Car, all per OSCAR rules. Tom's track is very challenging, and very fast with a 180 degree banked turn at the end of an extremely long straight. The infield section features a bridge and some tight turns. The local hot shoes Tom and Curt will be racing with a 20 lap handicap to help even the field. The tentative date for the first race is middle of May, depending of course on current "lock down" status. They are hoping to get five racers from outside the normal OSCAR community. I would be willing to do the driving for one car pool. Anybody interested in making the trip?
I believe the urethane tires have a longer shelf life, that's what appeals to me for the old vintage cars. I have a lot of old vintage cars that don't get run often. With urethane tires I can pull the cars off the shelf and put them on the track, even if just once every couple years, and they will run around the track fine. No sanding or doping of the tires required.
I had no idea about the 1/24 NSR tires either! Thanks Mitch!
I don't think any NSR tires are going to fit those wheels......BOSA makes a few different tires that will fit for vintage 1/24 cars.
In fact it looks like you have BOSAs on there now. There are also some narrower ones available.
Nice job Rico!................I have EVEN WIDER tires!!!!
I think that chassis will work fantastically! What motor will it use?
This box was an Ebay win, but it needs some repair work as it was damaged in shipping.
This box I bought from Terry Abbott. It is unique in style and holds a lot!
This is my newest "new" box. Zack set me up with his buddy that built this box for me. He did an outstanding job on this box and it is also one of my favorites, earning a special spot next to the track.
This was a box Goose had. I gave his son the box Goose used to pack to the races. I think he probably used this one for his RC car racing and stuff.
This is another box I have had for many years. I used it in the early 80's as my race box for racing in Wilsonville with the PASER club. It got a little refinish work a few years ago and I added the vintage slot car magazine ads.
This box is very near and dear to me. I owned a 1965 Corvette Stingray convertible when Rico's son AJ hand painted this box for me. He is an outstanding artist. This box has a special place trackside at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway!
I've got a little room left in this slot car box which is good because I still have many packed boxes to sort through.
No this does not count as a slot car box! This is the Womp bucket, cars and parts to be soon resurrected for use at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway!
I'm not sure where exactly I picked this box up, but it works well for my NASTE Odd Thursday Night 1/32 race box.
I've been asked many times; "just how many slot car boxes do you have?" Well, I'm not really sure, but here's twelve of them:
The box to the right of this opened one with cars in it belonged to Jerry Gaston. I acquired Norton Gaston's collection of cars he and his father Jerry had raced in the 1960's in Southern California. The cars in this box are a mixed assortment of cars I've picked up over the years and a few that were Goose's.
Some later model 1/32 cars as well as some vintage cars.
I've had this box for many years. It now houses some flexi type cars for use on Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway. The Flexi type cars make great loaner cars for new racers and neighbors!
With Coronavirus still in play I've been going through boxes in the shop. Boxes still unpacked from my move two years ago as well as boxes of Goose's stuff from his estate. As I empty the boxes I do my best to find a place for everything and get it all put away. Here's an updated photo of my display case:
And the best for last! Check this baby out! I'm thinking Bob built this chassis after seeing one of Parma's Scorpion chassis. The Scorpion had a similar center pivot for the rear end. But look at the innovation in Bob's design. The steel wire arms and the square tubing inside the tubing help locate and dampen the movement of the rear section. It all moves very precisely! Amazing!
Back to another early chassis. This is one of the chassis I picked from the pile in the early 80's. I distinctly remember it because I remember asking Bob about all the silicone around the stop. He said he had tried using it for dampening and to restrict the movement. He said it did not work out, but he returned to the idea in some of his later chassis, even experimenting with it up to the time he quit building. You can see this chassis was rebuilt many times in an effort to improve it.
Here is a much later chassis, looks like March of 2003. In fact I believe this chassis would still be competitive today. You can again see Bob's use of silicone to help dampen movement. I may try this chassis out in a future race!
This chassis was one of Bob' mules. It had been built and reworked many times, as evidenced by all the soldering residue and cut pieces. There was all kind of experimentation going on with this one! Evidently it didn't work out as I have not seen any other chassis with any of these innovations included.
This is a later chassis, built in early 2001. Sometime after I acquired this chassis, Bob and I were talking about chassis design and I had asked about weight and chassis thickness for hardbody cars. Bob told me .090" brass was optimum for chassis pan thickness. He said he had experimented with .105" but found it too be too heavy. I did not realize until today I actually had that experimental chassis. I noticed all the holes drilled in it and thought that was odd, so I mic'd it. This is that McFarland .105" chassis, from now on to be known as the McFarland 105!
Here is another slider style chassis. This one features a lot more mass in the front around the guide flag, as well as more in the rear behind the motor.
I do not know when Bob was using this style of chassis. It does however still utilize his built up motor and axle configuration. Still before the machined motor mounts. I think this design may predate the Sliders. I know when I attended one of his early chassis building classes in the early 1980's, we built chassis with this type of hinged side pans. The steel wire chassis rails with a 90 degree bend upwards were also used as front axle mounts, like the chassis in this photo.
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