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I had no idea about the 1/24 NSR tires either! Thanks Mitch!

Nice job Rico!................I have EVEN WIDER tires!!!!

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 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 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!

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!

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!

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.

I have some of those cars. I'll see what I can find out today.

I have just two words for you Mitch:

POND & RUN!

Another beautiful and well constructed car Zack!