On the Horizon (Page 1 of 3)

That's RIGHT! OLD CRAP!

  For almost as long as I can remember I have been collecting slot cars. All kinds of slot cars, small ones as well as large ones. Although I have thinned out the collection over the past few years, I still have a few old 1/24 cars I have just not been able to let go of. Not that they're anything special or super rare, I just like them. I have always planned to do some racing of these old cars, but it seems I always jusy kept finding some reason to put it off. Well I'm hitting the 60 mark this January and it's high time to get these old crates on the track where they belong!

  Most of you that race here at TooBad Motorplex have at least one old 1/24 scale slot car sitting around. For those that don't, the prices on some of these cars have come down quite a bit on Ebay, and you can actually pick one up for less than the price of a new 1/32 car. As far as spare parts, I should be able to cover most everyone that wishes to race these beasts!

  So what are the rules you may ask? Typical for TooBad we are going to keep it simple. Cars elligible for the Over 50 Class will be cars with a mass produced chassis that was available in a kit or RTR (ready to run i.e. Cox, Strombecker, Revell, etc.). That also includes the chassis only kits, such as those manufactured by Dynamic. No modifications will be allowed to the chassis (as in the addition of weight pans or handling pans). Legal motors will be the 36D cans, as well as the motors that were used before the 36Ds became the standard (i.e. Kemtron, Pitman, Atlas, Tyco, etc.). I know what you're thinking; there is a loyt of disparity between those listed motors and chassis types. True. So what I see is a number of divisions within the class. The cars will be raced all together, but finish positions will be scored according to division. The cars motor type, chassis type, and body type (either clear plastic type or injection molded model type) will be factors determining divisions within the class. I will be recording and keeping track of each cars lap times as well as number of laps completed during the races. At some point we may have enough data to combine some of the class divisions based on similar performance. Phew! Oh yeah, the MAIN RULE; ALL cars must use Paul Gage urethane rear tires! Paul makes very nice replacement tires for the old 1/24 cars. MINIMUM rear tire diameter shall be 1 1/8 inch!

  So get 'em out and get 'em ready! Bring them out to the next Odd Thursday Night Race and get the lube warm! We race 'em on January 29th!!!!

A few more examples of elligible cars:

DUDE.....ANY of those cars will work!!!!

All you need is tires!!!

Bill: Sounds like a fun series. Thanks for above info and pretesting you are doing. Question; have you tried to run any of the 60's made silicone tires on you're track? Curious if they work vs Paul Gage tires. I was looking at PG tires for the vintage cars and noticed that some may only be 1" diameter, you want 1.25" dia min. Depending on the brand of vintage car used it might be not be possible to use 1.25" dia on all cars, just something you might want to look into before people start buying/building cars.

Goose

My Gar-Vics will come alive!  What a great idea!

I've got that old Champion with the 36D and Arco magnets.  It also has the Larry Cockerham weight plate and it still wheelies with the plate.  If I take it out, my guess is that it would be largely drivable.  If I read the rules right, I would need to remove it?

Rico

Any particular body type?

I hadn't really given bodies much thought. I thought at least for now we'd go with run what ya brung......

I managed to find two. The first is a beat up looking GT40 body on a K&B chassis that's supposed to be "new old stock", the other is an AMT body on a Strombecker chassis. Just what I needed another Bonneville.

It came, it runs, it doesn't get any better than that. Well, with better tires it might get even better.

Still trying to figure out how to upload photos, this might work, then again maybe not.