paul alflen Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 HERE IN DETROIT MICHIGAN WE HAVE A SLOT RACING BOOM GOING ON. SIX OR SEVEN TRACKS HAVE OPENED IN THE LAST 3 YEARS. IT IS GREAT FOR MODEL BUILDERS. THE RACERS BUY KITS AND DONT USE THE ENGINES, OR CHASSIS, OR TIRES. THIS IS A GOOD SOURCE FOR ALL THOSE RESIN BUILDERS LOOKING FOR A DONOR KIT. THE SLOT CAR GUYS ALSO BUY THOSE DOG KITS LIKE THE BERETTAS, PROBES, AND NEON TO TURN INTO A DRAG SLOT CAR THAT GOES 50 MPH IN SCALE SPEED! SO IF A SLOT CAR GUY COMES TO YOUR MODEL MEETING DONT SHUN HIM. ASK HIM WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO WITH ALL HIS EXTRA PARTS!!!
Jantrix Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 We've got a few of those slot car types here too. Many of them do some fantastic paint work. Glad to have them.
Jordan White Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Not to be a dried tube of glue, but could you possibly turn off the caps lock please? We don't need people yelling in here.
Greg Myers Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Not to be a dried tube of glue, but could you possibly turn off the caps lock please? We don't need people yelling in here. I find it easier to read
LAone Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 those guys have talent! maybe HE IS EXCITED! to let us know..
Dwight55 Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Then ya have guys like me who do both. I race (tear them up)in the winter, then rebuild them in summer. BUT mine are all HO scale.
Eshaver Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Suddenly..........................It's 1964 all over again . Now where did I put all those K. B Sidewinder motor parts ? Ed Shaver
Greg Myers Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Suddenly..........................It's 1964 all over again . Now where did I put all those K. B Sidewinder motor parts ? Ed Shaver I still have a box of stuff, an 85 for sure. and two trophies too.
Guest Johnny Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Suddenly..........................It's 1964 all over again . Now where did I put all those K. B Sidewinder motor parts ? Ed Shaver I still have one brass chassis set up for the sidewinder. The sponge tires have rotted away though! I still have my high dollar MRC translucent red controller too! Was a big thing here in the middle to late 60's. Nice track that I would marshall at on race nights for run time! Boy those guys were fanatics about their cars!!! Grown men acting worse than grade schoolers at times! Lost the place when the car dealer wanted to expand and the building mysteriously burned down. They actually saved the track itself and another guy moved it and repaired it opened another track in an empty store in a shopping center but it never drew the crowd back and it closed after a couple years. Now last year or year before a new track opened in an old Roper factory building down the street from where I live.(used to work there until they closed) but I haven't paid the place a visit yet!
ra7c7er Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 I used to race up there I lived in Ann Arbor and raced at Professor motor and a few other tracks. If you go to T.S.S hobbies in Belleville Michigan their is a guy there that has a car that does 225 scale MPH on the big track. And in Cincinnati Ohio a guy did a 600+ scale MPH run on a world record length track. Last time I looked into it the record scale speed for a 1/32 scale slot car was 700+ set in Europe. I have been getting parts and pieces from a slot car racer friend for a while now once I told him I was building models he just started dropping off the stuff. In fact he has given me 31 kits worth of body missing kits. It's a great way to get parts.
Jon Cole Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 I find it easier to read I always view my screen set to 125%. If u try it, it's down lower right corner. I find it is much easier on these old eyes.
gray07 Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 When i lived in indianapolis in 9 years ago i used to race on the east side at a place called Indy Slots
ra7c7er Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 Slot car racing is actually on the downward trend of it's most recent uprising. But it is also just getting into some areas. Here in St. Louis their is a club that has been actively racing since the mid 60's.
Ben Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 A buddy and I were talking about this at work today, ironically enough! What I don't get is why do they like it when the cars go so fast you can't see them????? I like my cars to go fast but to me, it's more fun to race someone side by side at a reasonable pace. I also don't get the cars that are super detailed with really nice paint jobs? I remember it being really easy to send a car flying if you pulled the trigger a little too hard! LOL
Draggon Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 I still have my high dollar MRC translucent red controller too! Mine melted during an enduro! I can still remember that sicky-sweet plastic smell it gave off some 45 years later. I heard rumors of a new track opening here in Fremont, but so far I havent found it nor can I verify. I sure hope so. I'd like to get back into racing.
62rebel Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 i was under the impression that the slot car guys didn't want styrene body shells because they tore up the lexan jobs if they hit each other? at least, that's why i was shown the door when i brought my JoHan '63 Fury bodied slot in for tryouts around 1985 or so...... that's what THEY told me. i chucked it in the partsbox and never looked back.
1320wayne Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 (edited) i was under the impression that the slot car guys didn't want styrene body shells because they tore up the lexan jobs if they hit each other? at least, that's why i was shown the door when i brought my JoHan '63 Fury bodied slot in for tryouts around 1985 or so...... that's what THEY told me. i chucked it in the partsbox and never looked back. Slot car drags is popular in a lot of different areas throughout the country and a lot of racers are using styrene and resin bodies for a lot of their builds. I think the only big concern for them anymore is meeting the weight requirements for specific classes. I do a lot of body designs for Pro Mod style bodies for a resin company and part of my master design is to keep the weight down as much as possible when cutting, splicing and filling. Every bit of weight designed into the master will transfer to the cast body and if it's too heavy the racer will only be able to compete in the unlimited class, or something to that effect. Edited April 2, 2011 by 1320wayne
Thom Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 You are correct, the styrene and lexan bodied cars don't race together because of the weight issue. I think most of the styrene models are being used in drag racing. But there are a lot of oval or tri-oval tracks around the country that run a form of NASCAR vintage style "hard body"(as we call them)classes on a heavy brass Parma FCR chassis. Lots of bashes and crashes and bumpers flying fun. My fav bodies are the '68-69 Torino, '55 Chevy, and '49 Merc.
The Modeling Hermit Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 In my hometown, we had a gentleman that put up a very nice youth type center, back in the mid-sixties. It was brightly lit, and had a fantastic race track. The only problem is that the bullies like to hang around outside, and would break the kids slotcars. It lasted for about a year before the gentleman finally gave up and closed, because the bullies were chasing off the good kids. I really loved that track though.
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