7th-Aug-20, 04:18 PM
Umm? 
Now I've started digging I can see what my wife's getting at. Only two months covered and I've already missed three cars out. I'll go back to those later ....
March and there was the possibility there would be a race meeting in April, with Porsche's as the Owner/Driver class so .....
With a penchant for running pink cars - most other racers won't but for me the colour makes it easy to spot - a Sideways 'Retro livery' Pink Pig joined the fold, along with a bargain black MSC 959 in Pendle's sale. Turns out the black car was the pig, which took a lot of sorting to get running right. However, the Pink Pig runs like a dream, although the spoiler falls off even if you LOOK at it the wrong way! Still no chance to run these on the club track though as Lockdown was squeezed tighter. (At the moment I think these are the only two NEW cars I've bought this year. Even so, the 959 WAS on sale
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As we moved towards April the club meetings were most definitely cancelled - but that didn't curb the Magpie instinct so.....
How about an iconic Alitalia livery on a Sideways car? Don't like the shape of the Stratos - looks like it might not handle too well - but a second hand Lancia Beta for less than the cost of a new Scalextric car? Just HAD to have it. It's had some hard knocks with the usual casualties - mirrors and wiper - missing but it was also minus a tailpipe and the glass was loose. Both an easy fix. The scrapes give it some patina - and since it's going to be raced anyway ....
A car I'd lusted after at the Gaydon SCF, a B.R.M 1/24 Mini couldn't be passed up either. Second hand but absolutely mint and in the colours I'd have gone for if buying new (which I try to avoid on principle as it's coming straight out of the box and onto the track), it also required a little fettling as per B.R.M savants suggestions. Smaller front tyres - why sell it with rubbing fronts and include the 'remedy smaller tyres' in the box? - and gear mesh adjustment got it moving nicely. It's a real pleasure to drive. At least on the home test track.
Better save the others for another day as I'm feeling guilty and Josie's getting suspicious. She can count up to eight just as well as I can!
(Seems I have a bit of trouble beyond that though!)
Now I've started digging I can see what my wife's getting at. Only two months covered and I've already missed three cars out. I'll go back to those later ....March and there was the possibility there would be a race meeting in April, with Porsche's as the Owner/Driver class so .....
With a penchant for running pink cars - most other racers won't but for me the colour makes it easy to spot - a Sideways 'Retro livery' Pink Pig joined the fold, along with a bargain black MSC 959 in Pendle's sale. Turns out the black car was the pig, which took a lot of sorting to get running right. However, the Pink Pig runs like a dream, although the spoiler falls off even if you LOOK at it the wrong way! Still no chance to run these on the club track though as Lockdown was squeezed tighter. (At the moment I think these are the only two NEW cars I've bought this year. Even so, the 959 WAS on sale
)As we moved towards April the club meetings were most definitely cancelled - but that didn't curb the Magpie instinct so.....
How about an iconic Alitalia livery on a Sideways car? Don't like the shape of the Stratos - looks like it might not handle too well - but a second hand Lancia Beta for less than the cost of a new Scalextric car? Just HAD to have it. It's had some hard knocks with the usual casualties - mirrors and wiper - missing but it was also minus a tailpipe and the glass was loose. Both an easy fix. The scrapes give it some patina - and since it's going to be raced anyway ....
A car I'd lusted after at the Gaydon SCF, a B.R.M 1/24 Mini couldn't be passed up either. Second hand but absolutely mint and in the colours I'd have gone for if buying new (which I try to avoid on principle as it's coming straight out of the box and onto the track), it also required a little fettling as per B.R.M savants suggestions. Smaller front tyres - why sell it with rubbing fronts and include the 'remedy smaller tyres' in the box? - and gear mesh adjustment got it moving nicely. It's a real pleasure to drive. At least on the home test track.
Better save the others for another day as I'm feeling guilty and Josie's getting suspicious. She can count up to eight just as well as I can!
(Seems I have a bit of trouble beyond that though!)![[+]](https://slotracer.online/community/images/bootbb/collapse_collapsed.png)