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Attention all. Before someone makes a movie about us called "once were slot racers"

 

If any of you with a working track would like to kick it into life on Thursday evening, I have a guy coming across from Stratford who would rather like to turn laps with some of the brotherhood of the east coast.

 

I'll supply the hot savouries if someone can supply the electrons.

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Hi Mark. Somebody from Stratford. That sounds interesting. Do not know of any slotties in Stratford although we have one in Hawera who raced with frequently until recently.

 

Please let him know we are alive and well.

 

Regards Charles Le Breton

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Heating and brownies!

 

I'm in!!!! :lol:

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Modesto! WTF!!!

 

Stay off the Gallo Dude........

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Thanks for the host Peter. I suspect I ate more than my fair share of brownie, and your share, and JKs share and . . . .

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Thanks for the host Peter. I suspect I ate more than my fair share of brownie, and your share, and JKs share and . . . .

 

well I know you didn't eat my share

worlds best brownies by far

ngā mihi ki te wahine

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retro racing is where its at 1/24 brass and rails

 

I have raced them and they are a great genre of slot racing....so are you soldering a few chassis' there Pieman?

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Munter , im not that clever trevor. its hard enough keeping up with this lot in the driving department.let alone car setup. there is a really top notch builder here,goes by the name of jim fowler,his work is super duper sano.check out some of his builds on the slot blog under the scratch building section.also don't like to burn the fingers.

also doing some stamped chassis racing too to help with the race craft :ph34r:

there are some great raceways up this way too for the 1/24 stuff

"I just wanta go fast....ricky bobby"

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The older i get, the faster i was.

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I have a guy keen to come up to race on Macs the 12th, and check over his Nationals and DTM Classics entries as well as the track itself, while he is here if that date works out

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Guys, this track is up for sale on Trade Me.

It belonged to Grant, he sold it and started his digital one about a year before he died.

 

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I've been out to see it this afternoon, It has some water damage, which would be fixable by ripping up the rest of the braid, sanding the whole thing with a belt sander, - which would also get rid of his braid having been set below the track surface of 1/2 a mm. then repainting.

Upsides are, it looks like they will toss in the cars with it, the controllers and power supply are included. The controllers look to be okay - Parmas, I forgot to check the impedance, but THINK I sold Grant 25s for it.

 

They have offered me a Buy Now of $200 and will trailer it to site for us. I just don't have time. It would be lovely if it could have a new life with someone associated with club.

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I have a guy keen to come up to race on Macs the 12th, and check over his Nationals and DTM Classics entries as well as the track itself, while he is here if that date works out

 

That's fine with me - we could run the TVR gig then assuming we can get a quorum. I am happy to open up this week too if you don't mind a double header. Let's go!

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I'll be there Thursday . . . have trigger, cars, and need for speed

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