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I can help you ID your wing car.  It's been many years since I raced those but raced them for several decades. Lot of adrenaline fun going real fast.

I once communicated with a guy in Florida I think ... who said they ran a custom built Nascar class. I asked him to send a pic of his custom chassis .... and I would do the same for him. His car looked like some glorified Wonp slab car with bubble gum solder joints. Yikes!

Running INline custom built Revell/AMT type bodies is probably ONLY ran there in Oregon. Pacific in Edgewood  ran semi-scale lexan Nascar bodies on Flexi chassis'. Way faster. I am definitely NOT a fan of inline,  but have to follow the 50 year tradition of OSCAR.

Hawk7 powered  Can-Ams can smoke the heavy S16D Nascars. Lightweight bodies 10 grams vs 34 grams .... allow lightweight chassis. 115 grams vs 240 and more total car weight.  Nascar bodies do not help the handling but are what slows the car down. Take that Nascar body off and the car gets faster. Can-Am bodies help the handling aerodynamically and make the car faster. Low tech cars can go about as fast depending on body and motor rules.

Let's get out the open 12 super lexan cars and REALLY go fast!

Got my gears from Amain hobbies in Cal.  If you want to use 3/32 axle .... you have to make your own reducer out of K&S brass 3/32 ID tubing and carefully grind out a hole for the setscrew to pass through .... then cut to length to match the gear width. When done right,  the fit is perfect.

My assumption was Ted would win the event .... when I left before the race was over. Congrats Marty!  On the same lap after 16 heats.

I REdiscovered how weak front brass axle tubes are in racing.  I had to straighten mine about 3 times to get the axle to roll again. Thought my motor was slowing down. No, just the rolling resistance going UP. Will be looking for a good solution to that problem.

Today is the first time I have perused this gallery of Bob's old fleet of cars. You can see his progression of design over the years. A very creative guy and always had a fast car even if he decided to use his "B"  or "C" car at a race. Beating Bob at his track was near impossible especially if he pulled out his "A" car. He once loaned me out one of his top cars .... after my car expired in the race and I could tell the difference in handling after 1 lap. Top builder and top notch guy.

Crunching some numbers on yesterdays race.  Zack the winner cut a best lap of 4.595 .... so a perfect race "potential" would be 835.6 laps in a 64 minute race. Since no one ever has a perfect race .... rather has to contend with passing slower traffic and wrecks to avoid and occasional fall outs ... plus running on the slower lanes .... reaching a potential of 92% of perfect puts him right around 768 laps,  which is very good. Some race computers will calculate the race and analyze it from every stat.

20?  Wow,  what a prolific builder he was!  All top notch cars for the last decade ... and maybe his latest cars were even improvements.

Zack,  I got your email request about a Fusion Nascar body and replied back to you on that ... just checking to make sure you got the reply email?

Have all of Bad Bob's cars been picked off now?  Ted was interested in a few of those.

Typically the very inside and outside lanes are considered the gutter lanes ... with lap penalties, but not on your track. McFarland could win on Yellow and was his favorite lane. I love RED lane!