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Specials
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Specials

We have a number of 'Special' evenings throughout the year at the 'Fort, fun being the order of the day, one such class is caravans, a homemade trailer caravan towed behind one of your slotcars via a homemade 'hitch'.
There have been a few different trains of thought on what makes a good car/caravan combo, we have seen lego caravans (which tend to fall apart when crashed), an ingenious one by Jason where the pivot for the hitch was on the bonnet of the towcar at the front, it was quite stable and didn't 'whip' like others but because of that it couldn't negotiate our tight corner.
Anyway 31st March saw Rd1 of this years 'Specials',  the caravans made another appearance, the new build of Les looking very quick in practice, on closer examination the towcar turned out to be a Genesis!! how about that Richard Mack, probably NOT what you had in mind for your chassis [Image: 1f601.png]
Once again the laughter was louder than the cars and at the end of the evening Bernie had JUST beaten Les for the win, with Mike & Graeme rounding out the top 4.
I reckon Les needs to keep the caravan attached, it was rapid, wheras Anthony needs to find some way of keeping his caravan attached to it's wheels, I think it lost at least one wheel every race which rather slowed it down.

   

Les's 2nd place caravan
   

Bernie, racing since 1969 Wavegreen
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I get an error clicking that video link...let's try this...




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Thank you, not sure what I did wrong but your version works fine. Wrench

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