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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.
With this Coronavirus thing going on I've been spending a lot of time in the shop going through boxes and trying to get things put away and organized. I think I have found most of the chassis I have that Bob McFarland built. I first started collecting Bob's chassis when I attended one of the races at Lee Dundas' in Wilsonville in the early 1908's. In addition to this particular race up in the attic of his barn, Lee held a swap meet where guys could sell some of the stuff they were no longer using. Bob had brought out quite a few of his "no longer current" chassis to sell. The later ones went really quickly as I remember. At the end of it all there was still a little pile of chassis left over. I have always felt that all of Bob's chassis were works of art, and his ingenuity just fascinated me! So I bought the remaining pile from him. After that I would pick them up whenever he would part with one, or somebody else would be selling one. So here's some old Bad Bob stuff for you guys to check out.
I was away from slot car racing with the PASER group from 1989 or so until right around 1995. Somewhere in that time frame they were racing their NASCAR class using this type of rattle chassis. I remember Larry Cockerham calling them sliders as the side pans would move for and aft. I don't know who came up with these but, it wouldn't surprise me if it was Bob! You can see by the rear axle and motor bracket this is one of Bob's older designs. Before the use of the machined motor and axle brackets Bob would fabricate his own set up using a brass sheet motor plate and steel rod to locate the axle bearing. Bob had a special metal block machined to serve as a jig to perfectly align the motor output shaft with the rear axle centerline.
Rico, I took a look at one of the cars in the Sears Marx road race set I have. The motor clip or strap looks similar to the ones on the Cox 1/24 cars with the magnesium chassis. The one for the Marx chassis is more squared off in design. Now that I know exactly what it looks like I just have to find one! I know if nothing else, somewhere I have a complete chassis that was part of my stuff before I got Goose's stuff. I'll look some more tomorrow. Emptied four boxes today!
I have some of those cars. I'll see what I can find out today.
I'm makin' "empty" boxes..............
Speaking of my wife she keeps talking about digging in the garden, never about planting anything, just digging. A large hole? I'm unsure of her motives so I keep putting it off.
I have just two words for you Mitch:
POND & RUN!
Tom - extra pinion press yes.
Zack - What tech tools are you looking for? I have some of the tech inspection tools they use for Flexi racing.
Another beautiful and well constructed car Zack!
My nibbler is a hand tool similar to the one in Zack's video. Although mine is much older I'm sure. Hell, Zack may not have even been born when I bought mine!
What type of tech tools are you looking for?
I do have one Stan, but it was mine before I got Goose's stuff. Goose did not have one, or I haven't found it yet, so i don't have an extra. Sorry.
Have you ever started a project and about half way through wished you hadn't started in the first place?
Today I started sorting through some of the slot car related tools I have run across. I had a pretty good assortment of tools that got boxed up for our move here to Vancouver. I have finally found some of those boxes and have added to the stack with tools I got from Goose's stuff. So, if you have tools you want or tools you are looking for send me your list and I'll help you fill what I can. I have extras of most all hand tools used in the slot car hobby! I also have some very cool old vintage wheel wrenches (for nuts on threaded axles) with the old school logos on them (i.e. Cox, K&B etc.).
"I kept thinking throughout that "I need to make Goose proud of this one"."
Mission accomplished Zack!
I am cancelling the third race of the series originally scheduled for April 18th here at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway. I will work with Howie and Bob to get this race rescheduled at a later date. Everybody stay safe and stay healthy!
Good job on the design Al! Ending up with all the lanes exactly the same is quite an accomplishment! My old TooBad track was close with only 3/4" between the outside and inside lane. It came out accidentally because I did no pre- planning of that track! It was strictly a build as I went kind of deal. I think that it was only three lanes helped. The Checkered Flag track has such different radius curves it would be difficult to make it any closer, but the lanes are pretty equal at the end and at near the halfway point.
The course revision I have planned probably won't change the equality in length between the lanes. It will only add about 10 feet to the overall lap length. My main goal is to reduce wear and tear on the "dead man" curve at the end of the banked curve section. I'm hoping this revision may also improve the flow of the course as a side benefit. We'll see..........
It's the seclusion............
I don't always think....but when I do...........
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