Thanks Doc and I'd love to take you up on that offer, but right now I just have too much on my plate trying to get our new place put together. Still unpacking, painting, and making changes. I'm going over to Howie's today to bring our travel trailer home and touch base with the Rapid Raceway guys.
2,302 September 13, 2017 7:36 am
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Or we could just locate a bunch of old pallets and give Jack a call!!
2,303 September 13, 2017 6:17 am
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Thanks Rico.
Wish I had a place to put that track Chris!
2,304 September 12, 2017 12:42 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Thought I'd post a note just to check in. We're in the new place as most of you already know. We're still working on getting stuff in the house and getting organized as well as making all those repairs and changes involved with acquiring a new home. All of my crap currently resides at 3 separate locations, most of it out of reach and unrecognizable do to cardboard camouflage. Between unpacking, setting stuff up, and repair work there has been little time to get anything done in regards to the shop build. I have only had one contractor submit a bid, and that was only for the concrete foundation. Evidently most every contractor around is too busy to commit to building my shop.
I'm missing the slot car racing and my racing friends. It was tough to get rid of my last track at the old place and that pretty much killed a lot of my enthusiasm for slot cars, at least for now. Hopefully once things get more settled and I can get to more of my slot car stuff I can get back into the swing of things. At this juncture time will tell........
2,305 September 4, 2017 6:25 pm
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
Here's my video clip of the finish:
2,306 August 25, 2017 3:22 pm
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
Here's some great photos from the 2017 PDX Adult Soap Box Derby!
2,307 August 25, 2017 7:51 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,118 replies, posted in NASTE)
Classes for the Aug. 31st Odd Thursday Night Race will be Classic Sports Car and Can Am.
For the Sept. 7 race they will be GT and Le Mans.
2,308 August 24, 2017 8:34 am
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
For 2017 Dennis Hart created and administrated the Formula 8 division within the PDX Adult Soap Box Derby.
Here are the official results:
CHAMPIONS
Team : Scuderia Kuba
Driver : Jennie Burns
# 21
80.45 sec.
2nd Place
Driver : Arrow Foster
# 8
81.59 sec.
3rd Place
Team : NASTE
Drivers : Dennis Hart & Rico Locati
# 12
85.61 sec
4th Place
Driver : Crystal Potter
# 36
86.19 sec
AWESOME job Dennis!
2,309 August 22, 2017 1:08 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,118 replies, posted in NASTE)
Race results from 8/17/17
GT3
1 Daniel 68
2 Rico 67.2
3 Monte 65.9
4 Al 64.8
5 Mitch 64.2
6 Gary 61.6
7 David 57.4
F1
1 Daniel 67.1
2 Monte 66.1
3 Al 65.4
4 Rico 64
5 Gary 63.4
6 Mitch 59.9
7 David 52.2
BRM Group C
1 Rico 73.6
2 Al 72
3 Mitch 71.4
4 Daniel 70.4
5 Monte 69
2,310 August 21, 2017 6:29 pm
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
HOLLY FREAKIN' COW!!! WE FREAKIN' WON!!!!
This was a TEAM EFFORT all the way, but we could not have made the journey without Dennis Hart's vision, and the skills and hard work of Chris Kouba!!!
Thank you ALL that helped make this happen! We obviously had THE BEST TEAM on the hill!!!
======Bill
2,311 August 12, 2017 9:42 am
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
Coming up with a time and date for a team meeting before the race has become quite a challenge. The best I can do is Friday August 18th evening after 6pm. I have determined a location yet, but I will do so after I receive confirmation from those that can attend.
Here's some points to think about before the meeting at which time we will assign some specific duties for our individual teams as well as all the teams collectively.
We need someone to be responsible for taking photos. This will be a duty covering all three teams.
We need someone to be in position at the speed bump located in the return tow route back up to the pit area. The speed bump is roughly 200 yards from the top of the hill or pit area. This person will responsible for unhooking our team cars from the tow vehicle, getting it safely over the speed bump, and then re-attaching it for the remainder of the two to the pit area. This person will not have to be at the speed bump through the entire race, only when one of our team cars is being towed back up.
If you would like to volunteer for either of those duties please let me know.
I would also like to get a contact number for each team member that will be on the hill. If you could email me the cell phone number you will have on you during the race that would be great. I will put together a list so everyone will have all the team member's contact numbers.
I would also like to make a list of all the team members planning to attend the after race party.
If you have any other concerns or questions please let me know.
Lastly, Dennis needs a small sized 12VDC "Boom Box" that will play single CD's REAL LOUD to install in the Flyer. He tried using one of those small round ones that kids plug headphones into and it didn't work. It has to be strong enough to drive real speakers. He will take it apart and set it up in the rear section to play appropriate crowd stimulating sounds as the Flyer flies by! Cheap would be good. Free would be better! He has an old Sony that works bitchin, but Char likes it and won't let him dissect it to fit. The crowd would LOVE it!
Again, the pre-race meeting will be on Friday August 18th at 6:30pm, location yet to be determined. I hope this date and time will work for most everyone.
May the force of gravity be with you.
========Bill
2,312 August 12, 2017 9:04 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,118 replies, posted in NASTE)
Race results from August 8th race:
GT Class
1 Greg 71.3
2 Al 69
3 Mitch 68.1
4 Daniel 64.2
5 Jeff 59.7
6 Amy 57.1
7 David 54.6
Le Mans Class
1 Daniel 68.4
2 Greg 66
3 Al 65.6
4 Mitch 64.6
5 Jeff 63.5
6 Amy 56
7 David 54.9
Over 50 Class
1 Mitch 67.5
2 Al 63.4
3 David 58.9
4 Greg 56.1
5 Daniel 53.6
2,313 August 12, 2017 8:59 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,118 replies, posted in NASTE)
New home stuff is dragging. Still no floors installed so no progress on getting settled. This sucks!
2,314 August 12, 2017 8:54 am
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
Dennis Hart is looking for a small sized 12VDC "Boom Box" that will play single CD's REAL LOUD to be installed in the Hawksbill Flyer. It has to be strong enough to drive real speakers. He will take it apart and set it up in the rear section of the car to play appropriate crowd stimulating sounds as the Flyer flies by! Cheap would be good. Free would be better! He has an old Sony that works bitchin, but Char likes it and won't let him dissect it to fit. The crowd would LOVE it!
May the force of gravity be with you.
Dennis
2,315 August 10, 2017 2:06 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,118 replies, posted in NASTE)
Info I received from Al regarding the classes for the next two Odd Thursday Night races:
F1 and GT3 on 8/17 and Classic Sport Cars and CanAm on 8/31
2,317 August 7, 2017 5:21 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
We got our cable service installed today so I am back up and running.
2,318 August 2, 2017 9:38 am
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
We're out, we're in, and what a freaking mess!
Thanks again to everyone that helped us with our move!!!
We won't have internet service at our new house until sometime next week, so I'll probably be out of touch for awhile.
=======Bill
2,319 July 30, 2017 1:54 am
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Unloaded a BUNCH of stuff today at the new place. We are having the floors and carpet redone so everything has to go in the garage for now. What a MESS!
2,320 July 29, 2017 8:38 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Three days left to be out of this place. TooBad Motorplex is just memories now. My HO track went into the U-Haul today. I have stuff scattered over three different locations.............it will never be the same!
2,321 July 28, 2017 6:07 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,118 replies, posted in NASTE)
Results from July 27th race at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway -
Trans Am
1 Mitch 66
2 Rico 65.9
3 Greg 65.6
4 Daniel 63.7
5 Al 60.8
6 Fernando 60.8
7 Burns 59.6
8 David 58.8
9 Julie 53.2
Can Am
1 Daniel 72.1
2 Al 69.8
3 Mitch 67
4 Rico 66.7
5 Burns 62.4
6 Fernando 61
7 Greg 59.3
8 Julie 56.1
9 David 52.9
GT 3
1 Rico 68.5
2 Al 66.5
3 Greg 66.4
4 Mitch 66.3
5 Daniel 65.7
6 Fernando 64.8
7 Burns 61.4
8 Julie 59.5
9 David 52.1
BRM Group C
1 Rico 76.4
2 Al 72
3 Mitch 70.3
4 David 59
5 Burns 56.9
Looks like you guys had some close racing!
2,322 July 19, 2017 8:54 pm
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
Thanks to Howie, the Scuderia Kouba gravity racers made it out to the Beaches Cruise In this evening.
2,323 July 19, 2017 8:43 pm
Re: Discussion of Classic Sports Cars ECT. (28 replies, posted in Cars)
I think we need to do some experimenting with some of the ideas suggested and see where it takes us.
I know Al's track has the capability of adjusting the track voltage, and the lap time breakout could also be experimented with.
2,324 July 19, 2017 1:14 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Now THAT could be a possibility!
2,325 July 19, 2017 10:51 am
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Just in case anyone was wondering, it is 3.3 miles farther to our new place in Vancouver than our current house in Fairview (as measured from the I-205 / I-84 interchange).
Time-wise that could be measured in HOURS depending on the day and time!
Probably no Odd Thursday Racing in the future at my place.............