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I don't know about Monte's old car, Mine won the last race handily after running mid pack for most of the proxy.  But during the Covid lockdown I found it and fussed with it out of shear boredom. It is now NSR smooth and quiet, despite the heavier body it is still capable of running down into the 5s all day long.  With the 25K motor it only qualifies for our open class where I'd rather run a Thunderslot. It's not even legal for the proxy I built it for.
  As for running 80 laps at Al's, I could never do it but a better driver might.  I'll try to remember to find it, clean it, oil it, and bring it.  It might be a fun diversion to see just who can get the most laps out of it in three minutes.

Yeah like I said this was for fun while the glue is setting up on my other body, I've seen these race on videos, what you CAN see of them anyway. Most of the time their fingers never move. I'm not sure where the fun is in that, this BTW the way is nothing like that, it is just a bit faster than my other 4" Flexi and my "Howie" spec Can Am car, but it is very easy to drive right at the limit. I can see where some of the more competitive guys could be sucked in by this "Dark Side".

I may even be able to get a bit lower.

I have both Lolas, Coupe & Spyder, the McLaren and the Elva. Out of the box they all run very similar. The blue Lola Spyder is the only one I've done much tinkering with .
   I've added and removed weight a dozen times. I've copied and altered what Chris Walker posted online. Last Thursday It ran several 6.1s including a 6.10.
  I imagine that with similar tuning they are all capable of the same performance.

Well now, Actually we now have a few Slot its and a couple of NSRs capable of Thunderslot times, though most but not all have come off of the same workbench.

The other way to look at it is for the new racer rather than spending $50 on a Slot It and another $30 to make it run like a Thunderslot they can just spend $79.99 on a Thunderslot and be ahead of the game.

  And while a Slot It and an NSR can be made to run that speed a Thunderslot is much easier(shall we say effortless) to drive that fast, this is also in the new racers favor.

I'll also say that at the moment my fastest Thunderslot is faster and smoother than it has ever been, yet there are three non Thunderslot Porsche 997s in a proxy box downstairs that are faster.   Go figure.

Okay, let's run these cars Sunday afternoon we can plan to start 2ish but I'll have the track open by one if somebody wants to just run some cars around.
These are some of the fastest, smoothest cars I even seen in a proxy. A few of them were hard to stop after they completed their qualification laps.
  I spent couple of hours working on my fastest Thunderslot and it might have qualified 3rd.

Great Photos Bill.

It is, I'm think perhaps Sunday afternoon if there is any interest.

You haven't driven my Thunderslot Lola lately. Solid 5.6s on  my track all day long, I'll try to remember to bring it to Al's on Thursday.

I had this idea about limiting myself to just one car for each class so I could give it all my attention. It's not working out so well at this point.