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GSL XXVI News - Concours Slot Class


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Hey all - Mark Gustavson asked me to post the following info about GSL-XXVI and the new slot car class:

DEAR CONCOURS SLOT CAR BUILDER!


You’re Invited!


The Trustees of the GSL Championship Scale Vehicle Championship and Convention decided, two years ago, to recognize the growth of the “Concours” slot car builder by creating the Concours Slot Car Class – to recognize the great work that leading edge slot car builders are doing these days. We’ve watched the articles in Slot Car Magazine and we want to invite you to participate in the twenty-sixth GSL Championship – the world’s leading competitive venue for sophisticated scale vehicle builders.


In Section A, below, you can learn about the famed GSL Championship. Please check out the rules of this new-for-2017 GSL Class, and please visit the GSL website at: http://www.gslchampionship.org/


In Section B, below, you can read the text of the new-for-2017 Concours Slot Car Class. If you have any questions, please contact GSL founder Mark S. Gustavson by dropping him an email at msgsl@xmission.com – be sure to put “GSL” in the subject matter.

SECTION A. What is GSL?


The GSL Championship was created in 1979 to provide an encouraging, objective, and an hospitable venue for sophisticated scale vehicle modelers, regardless of their interests, to compete where craftsmanship and technical innovation would be recognized and rewarded.


As a reaction to other historic shows where certain building styles were favored and others discouraged by the judging preferences and selection of winners, and as a further reaction against competitions where personalities and public favor played significantly in the outcome, the GSL Championship was fashioned to provide a “safe harbor” to competitive builders interested in aggressive, quality building.


Over the years, the antiseptic fairness of the GSL Championship has encouraged an ever- widening group of wonderful and very competitive scale vehicle builders to attend and be a part of the greatest scale vehicle contest ever created. As an outgrowth of that commitment to fairness, GSL competitors and attendees have developed a cheerful demeanor where friendships are made and renewed regularly, where it is safe to share ideas and techniques, and where each builder’s efforts are respected, and where everyone is challenged by the work they see.


In fact, one of the several attractions of the Championship has always been the cheerful and cordial demeanor of the participants. The attendees and builders always share their techniques and thoughts about building better models, encouraged in no small part by judging impartiality and good humor that are hallmarks of the Championships.

The Trustees of the International Model Car Builders’ Museum are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth GSL Scale Vehicle Championship and Convention will be held Thursday, April 26 through Sunday, April 20, 2017. This 26th International Championship will be held at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel – this is the same excellent facility where we’ve presented GSL since 2009!


GSL-XXVI will present the traditional range of competitive Classes, two days of seminars, a day of Museum tours, the Museum-benefit Auction, the famed Trade Show, four days of renewed friendships and shared experiences, and will end with the Awards Breakfast on Sunday morning, April 30.
We will start the Championship and Convention on Thursday morning, April 26, 2017 with a general “welcome” opening session at 10:00 a.m. to hand out the Championship and Convention schedule, acquaint everyone with last-minute details and developments, and talk generally about the event. The Contest Hall will open for registering models to be entered in competition at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. Seminars will start at Noon, Thursday, and extend through Friday afternoon, April 28, 2017. Judging will start at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, during which time the Museum-Benefit Auction will be held. The Awards Breakfast will be held on Sunday morning, April 30.


See you in April, 2017!


SECTION B. Class Rules: Concours Slot Car Class!


Concours Slot Car Class Rules:


This Class is for any model of any four-wheeled vehicle, representing any make or vintage automobile or truck, or an automobile or truck design created by the entrant, outfitted with functional slot car features that would permit the model to be “driven” on a typical slot car “road course” or dragstrip track. The slot car may be two or four-wheel drive; the choice of motor(s) used to power the entry will not be considered during judging.


The goal of this Class is for highly-detailed, slot car-based scale vehicles that exhibit authentic details for interior and exterior features, and mechanical detail, to the greatest degree possible. Entries will be judged on the quality of construction, and how closely the major and subtle elements of the entry approximate or match that of an authentic scale miniature of the subject matter. Additionally, the craftsmanship and quality of the slot car frame (including soldering and fabrication techniques and skill) and the running gear (power pickup, tires, wheels, and related functional components) will be evaluated. If there are two models vying for an award in this Class, where both are equally well-done from a functional standpoint, and one exhibits more convincing and authentic detailing, the more realistic model will receive the award. Documentation is encouraged but is not required.


Qualifying Concours Slot Class entries are required to meet, at a minimum, the following conditions:


1. Four rolling tires that touch the surface when placed on a slot car track;

2. Full body work including clear windshield and other windows as required by the vehicle design, appropriate exterior chrome trim/bumpers (when the style of the model calls for the same), and a minimum of two headlights and taillights for all scale vehicles other than those built for a 1:1 scale competition venue where no such lights are required by applicable rules;

3. Display a full interior composed of a dashboard, a steering wheel, at least one seat. The builder may also, but is not required to, include a human figure which, if included, must be placed in a seat.


Qualifying entries may use commercially-available frames, wheels, tires, and electric motors, and a kit-based body, but are not required to do so. Scatchbuilding is welcomed! CAUTION: Out-of-the-box, commercially- available/ assembled slot cars, bare frames, or “thingie” slot cars will not be permitted to compete in this Class.
No group (or commissioned) assembly of components are permitted. Entrants may commission machined or photo etched parts as long as the entrant assembles the same.
 

See you in April, 2017!

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