Hello everyone... I have a small company making interesting, easy to build slot car scenics (Buildings bridges and Signs) kits...

Im in North Carolina...

I have been obsessed with Model Car Racing since I was 4 years old...  Im 55 now..

I love the cars the tracks and the history of it all!

I love to chat...

visit www.racetrackscenics.com

Kevin

To assemble a list of historical slot car motors  has been an ambition of mine for a long time and now is the time to get this going.

The source of my material is a lot of old vintage slot magazines inter alia, Model Cars (UK), Model Cars and Track, Model Car Science, Car Model (USA)

Please feel free to add pictures and I will move them and add them to the area where thwy will fit best, to improve what I hope will be a comprehensive accumulation of pictures and articles.




This was the beginning of slot motor usage and experimentation - Very late 50's into early 60's


       


                           

Then moving to early to mid 60's

       

       

       

                  

I've wanted a Volvo rally car for a couple of years, the scx ones look OK but always seem to sell for silly money....so let's print one. 


Estate or Saloon...best doing both. 

Both bodyshells fit the same chassis, one specifically drawn up and printed for the purpose.  Slotit IL pod and NSRs with a shark 25.

The blue one will see Rally stages, the estate will probably race in saloons. 

   

   

   

WHO Nascar & AFX Gen6 Race Night - Round 5 of the 2020-22 WHO club championship

Regulations can be found here: https://www.whoracing.org.uk/rules.html

Doors open at 6.30pm - please don’t arrive earlier... unless you’re part of the set-up crew, of course!

And we do ask that all racers aged 12 or younger bring a responsible adult with them.

Race fees: £3 adults, £2 under-16s. Please bring the correct change, if you can. We will be introducing a pre-pay system over the summer.

Club Cars & Controllers: Our AFX Mega-G+ club cars remain available – each of them stays on its coloured lane. We also have a big box of DS, Parma and Ninco loaner controllers to borrow one for the whole evening. There is no extra charge for using either the club cars or the controllers.

Covid precautions: With Covid cases still high on the south coast, we're asking you to take a lateral flow test sometime on the day of the event and also not to attend if you have any symptoms that might be Covid. This is to keep vulnerable members of the extended WHO family safe. Inside the Barn, wearing a face mask, practising good hand-hygiene and giving each other space are non-negotiable requirements. We will ensure as good ventilation as possible - and will also have hand sanitiser and spare masks available if you forget your own. Any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Do let us know if you’re coming: This will make the job of our race control volunteers easier – especially if you need to borrow a controller or use the club cars. Please email, message, text, reply on Facebook or here on the forum etc.

Slotmania

Swapmeeting near Stuttgart, Germany 

One (if not THE) biggest swapmeeting in Europe. 

Anyone gonna be there?

Nico

G'day.  First let me say how happy I am to finally find a club within a 20-minute drive of my house.  So more than happy joining the membership there (comes with free gift car) and hoping my $ keeps his doors open.

But, I am having some issues adapting to the track after spending so long just using my home track which is Carrera.  This club track is a Ban Pro track.  Which is a 6 lane routed track.  These tracks are braided and have steel inserts running all the way around under the braid allowing for magnets to be used.  Lanes are set at 12v, not sure if this can be adjusted but seems plenty.

Most of the cars I have are fitted with silicone tires.  The track seems to be used at times for sponge tires and has had glue applied.  Owner runs his cars around there with rubber tires, but also applies a liquid to the tires to make them extra sticky.  My cars with silicone tires don't seem to like it.  If I run them with magnets after a few laps it seems like they are overheating the motor and then slow down. A couple of minutes cool down and they are good again for a little while.  Remove the magnets and the slowdowns stop, but they become both very tail-happy, and deslot easily.

The owner suggested running without the wire connected for the braking.  But as most my cars have the digital chip in, this was a non-starter for the first visit.  Planning another visit soon with some more cars to try and setups to check.  I think I will set a few cars dedicated to run at that track and the rest keep setup for home.

Where would you start to setup a car for a track that has been coated with glue for sponge tires - without going to sponge tires too?

http://www.mobara-base.com/photography_course.html

Anybody going to the biggest Slotcar Swapmeeting in Europe?

Nico

   

The opening round of the 2022 British Rally Championship starts with two runs through a seafront stage in Clacton on Saturday evening. There'll be live coverage via the rally Facebook page and via the HM Productions YouTube Channel. There's also streaming planned for the 12 stages on Sunday - which all take place on closed roads in the North East Essex countryside. This is the schedule...

   

I'll be somewhere out on the route being used by stages 4, 8 and 12.

The Corbeau Seats Rally was the first closed-road event to take place in England after the law was changed in 2017 allowing such events. Twelve months later and Chelmsford Motor Club (who also organise the Brands Hatch Winter Stages) held the country's first closed-road stage rally based around Clacton. It's brilliant to see the event back after a Covid-enforced break and - for the first time - hosting a round of the British Rally Championship.

The BRC website is here: https://www.britishrallychampionship.co.uk/

That firms can't even be bothered to reply to enquiries ?
I messaged 3 local-ish firms on "Trust a Trader" that have top reviews about coming to visit and quote me for some fencing I would like doing.
5 days later one bothered to reply, only to ask for more details which I sent within the hour of the email and awaiting further reply.

I would expect for them all to have got back in contact within a couple of days at worst ... perhaps my expectations are to high ? 

   

I was chatting to Andrea at NSR a couple of months ago about an article I was writing for Slot Car Magazine. I asked him about some of the rather tasty authentic liveries that have appeared on NSR cars over recent years - and he admitted the company do have half an eye on the "collection side" of their range, although their primary focus remains "making slot cars as fastest as possible" - that's the raison d'être of NSR and always will be. Given the string of historically important - and sometimes historically quirky - liveries on their classic Porsches and Ford, including numerous limited edition models and twin packs, I was surprised to see the launch of a new 'Historic Line' range this week...

       

NSR claim the range comes from a desire to celebrate cars and personalities that have contributed to motorsport history on tracks like the Nürburgring, Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring. Each release comes in a collectors' box and contains an information card with a silhouette drawing and short technical description of the car and its history in the race the livery is from. The first two cars pay tribute to Can-Am privateer Vasek Polak - the Czech-born Porsche dealer, racer and team owner being a perfect subject for any historic collection...

       


These two 1973 Can-Am Porsche 917/10k cars are offered individually as limited editions of 999 units each. There's the #0 driven by Jody Scheckter all season and the #3 driven by Brian Redman at the final race at Riverside...

       

Although the race these cars appeared at is not specified on the NSR website, on Facebook it's claimed the cars are "driven by Jody Scheckter and Brian Redman on the 1973 Can-Am Championship Road Atlanta circuit. Scheckter finished third while Redman failed to finish the race." Scheckter certainly did finish third at Road Atlanta - the second race of the season, but Redman only appeared at the final event at Riverside. It was Steve Dunst who drove the #3 Vasek Polak Racing car at Road Atlanta, albeit with different bodywork to the NSR 917/10k. Redman did have the updated body for Riverside and NSR have captured the livery perfectly, so that makes it an authentic model for that race. At Riverside, Redman ran a strong second, until  broken suspension gave him a nasty fright - whereas Scheckter had mangled the front of his 917 early on, preventing a shot at third place in championship.

And price? These Historic Line releases are going have a collectors' premium. Both the Vasek Polak Porsches are listed at £100 on the UK distributor's website - that compares with £87.95 for last year's Vaillant Interserie livery. The latter is arguably a rather more attractive colour scheme and of equal historic importance - three-time Interserie champion Herbert Müller did win the 1975 title with that car. To be honest, I'm still scratching my head a little... It seems NSR are already cashing in on a growing collectors' market for their models - particularly the classic Porsches and Fords. I guess this will be testing the water on whether those collectors will pay an extra 15% premium on what's already an expensive car - expensive because it's a premium slot racing car rather than a detailed scale model. The subject of this first release might also indicate where that potential market is located.

This pair of 'Historic Line' Vasek Polak Porsche 917/10K models are on their way to distributors and retailers now.