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[Cheater]

This video was posted to another thread here a few days ago, and then the video was deleted from YouTube, killing the link.

Here's another YouTube upload of the same video and I think it's worth reposting here. Hopefully, this one won't get deleted.
 
I'd love to credit the people who produced this great video, but I don't know who they were. Can anyone tell us?
 

[gotboostedvr6]

Haha its the name punching the donut that bots see as bad.

[MG Brown]

At the time the video was made, word was that it was produced by a group of ex-Disney employees that went under the name "Traveling Light Video." The name is now being used by another company so I can only assume that the people who produced this video are no longer in business.

"PDT" was available for purchase after the Nats on DVD, somewhat along the lines of John Ford's Nats videos of the past.

 

I was trying to add subtitles to the video, and because of that, it had to be re-loaded.

[MSwiss]

I'd love to credit the people who produced this great video, but I don't know who they were. Can anyone tell us?

 

Along with MG's above info, I'm 98% sure I was interviewed by Greg Gilbert. 

 

With moving fairly recently and digging through some boxes looking for something, I did come across the hard copy of the DVD.

[Tim Neja]

What a great production of those Nats!! Lots of good interviews and seeing an awful lot of people that have passed in these 19 years since that race!! Very fun watch.

 

Thanks for posting!

[zipper]

Nice bunch of racing friends - with more hair perhaps and not grey like today.  

[Kim Lander]

Outstanding video... lots of familiar faces... thanks.

[Pablo]

Thanks, Cheater. That's fantastic beyond words.          

[RodneyZ]

That is a really cool video, Neat to see Swiss back then.

[Ricky Vegas]

WOW!! This video is phenomenal!! Thanks for posting, Greg,

 

Really cool to see you as a racer too, Mike Swiss.

 

This video captures how slot racing is like no other hobby. I've rotated through a lot of hobbies over the decades and the camaraderie of slot racing is second to none.

 

Case in point. I move to Smyrna, TN. I hear they're racing hard bodies at Apex Hobbies in Murfreesboro. i know absolutely no one.

 

Now, I'm three weeks in. Gil Gunderson AKA Boola just finished a car for me that's pure jewelry. J.C. Martin is showing me the all the ropes. Will Brinkley pits across from me and shares his expertise. The guys have let me borrow loaners so I can race, too. 

 

I could not feel more welcome. That's exactly how it was when I started racing at Mike's and Roger's in the Chicago burbs.

 

And at my first races at Thazer and At The Track in IN. The world would be a better place if more people raced slot cars... LOL.   

[John Luongo]

Great video. A "who's who" of slot car greats.

[Clyde Romero]

I was in Iraq in 2005 during the surge of troops during the Bush administration.

 

They definitely had more fun at that Nats than I was having! 

[Chris Burlew]

Hello,

 

There is a "Nats" paper/magazine shown at the start of the video above, .45 into the video... Does anyone have a copy of this paper?  I had a copy but it got tossed many, many years ago and I would love to get one back again.

 

Thanks,  CB

[Steve Deiters]

Interesting very small clip with John Cukrus where he references the Hemisfair race.  He said was probably the biggest race at the time and he modestly says in passing that he won.

Aside from winning the race it was a defining moment in slot racing design and technology.  

John Cukrus used a pistol grip Parma Russkit controller in his victory setting in motion a wholesale switch to this type of  controller away from “plunger-style” that had dominated the slot racing scene since it’s infancy.  

Ken MacDowell the founder of Parma International told me on more than one occasion that the use of that controller and the victory “made” Parma.  This style of controller still dominates to this day and morphed into use in R/C racing and as the saying goes the “rest is history”.

[Bill from NH]

If Ken MacDowell had left the Russkit "R" on the controller handles instead of replacing it with the PARMA name, he would have sold even more controller handles.

[MSwiss]

Why?

[Bill from NH]

Original Russkit handles with the "R" were a collectable item. 

[MSwiss]

Parma, AFAIK, never sold the blue or black ones like Russkit had.

 

The clear and metaflake Parma handles that still had an R on them only became a collectable because Parma changed it.

 

If they never changed it from the R, it would just be another Parma handle.

[Steve Deiters]

Several of the early R4’s were committed to videos like this.

 

I wonder if they have ever wound up on YouTube?