[BAracer]

#62

"Hello John, got a new motor?"


Just catching up with stuff after my little (UK) holiday. Most of the chat seemed to revolve around some sort of slot car ringing scheme organised by Big Greg (think Noel Coward in The Italian Job, but with a beard...)

So BG had put the orders out to the team. Leo managed to pick up a couple of Porsches off the streets of Edinburgh and quickly got them out of the country and over to Honest John in Canada. He'll be doing the actual cutting and shutting once he gets his head round what's in the box. After that is done, things got a bit confusing. I think Greg was going to use all his talent to paint and decal the body, Chris was going to use all his talent to paint the driver (Jackie Ickx' younger brother, the one with the funny eyes) and then it was going to be shipped over to Den the Fence on the West Coast who was going to flog it at one of his car boot sales. Will follow this with interest.

To cover for all these goings on, Dennis came up with a story about a slot shop in California opening it's doors to hundreds of people for a grand re-opening after their Covid shutdown. Alan updated us all on the progress with his Touring Car heading down under for this year's Australian Proxy Championship. And Brian showed off some Spykers he got for a steal (not off Den the Fence I hope) and talked through some of his tuning methods and received further tips from the brains of the organisation, Chris.

And to finish off, Dennis showed us his SRC Toyota that he had built up from a white kit, but he was not happy...someone had nicked the hubcaps! Now where did Leo go...?