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[Modellpularn]

Hi! I'm glad I found this place, since you guys are into slot racing. I fooled around with it in the sixties, never had a competetive car, or the money. I mean, like every week there was a new hot Mura motor, and I didn't have the cash, I was 14 - 15 years old.
Around 2000 I got a call from my friend whom I'd been slot dragging with. He told me of this new club that was just formed. Oh cool, so I had to join. And it was a Parma Flexi car to start with, then I got a Champion chassis and hotter motors, etc, etc...A guy in the club suggested we should try NASCAR with styrene bodies...Yeah! Now you're talking 8)
So I ditched the flexi junk, and started building plastic NASCAR racers. Mostly Rusty Wallace cars, but also a Tide Monte Carlo. We have gone to race in Germany for midsummer - June 20th. In 2004, my second trip to Germany, I managed to get everything right, and finished in - second place!! I could not believe it at first, but it was true. Everybody was surprised! I'll post some pics soon.
Here's my latest. Unfortunately I didn't do too well in Germany last year.
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[jbwelda]

nice!

but cars are meant to turn both left and right!

[Modellpularn]

Well, the car had no problems turning left and right, I lost power! I had an older, but well running chassis at first, but while in Germany I decided to try this other newer chassis with brand new brass bearings. The chassis are identical. The bearings were not broken in, so I guess they almost seized up on me. I'll switch back to the old chassis... :roll:

[Modellpularn]

Hey Zeb, thanks! That Dodge body is soo thick, we have to thin it. I had plastic shavings/dust all over the place after going at it with the grinder. If you click on my photobucket link, and then go to Rusty Wallace Dodge, you'll see what I did to the body, and not to mention the driver.... :roll: