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[Cheater]

Bet you guys thought I'd never get these pics posted... me, too. I'll try to add weights in a bit.

Here are the F1s from Abbeville.




Chris Barnes




Lindsay Buron




Tommy Flythe




Jay Guard.




Richard Houston




Joe McIntosh




Marty Stanley




Raymond "Speedy" Gonzalez




Richard Sylvester




Marc Waddle




Don Weaver




Greg Wells

['Slots of Fun']

Those cars are antiques by now!!!

V/R,

Don

[Cheater]

Don,

I'm sure glad you don't have to make a living as a stand-up comedian...

Besides, you're wrong. Scratchbuilt slot cars don't go obsolete until AFTER the next race. That's the way it's always been.

LOL!!!

[Marty Stanley]

Greg,

Thanks for posting the F1 pics.

Only Can-Am and Flexi GT to go and you're almost all caught up! Of course you will shortly have the pics from LaGrange to post.

BTW, tear them up in LaGrange. I would like to come up, but we're in our busy season right now. Hard to get any time off without quiting. With the job market the way it is, that is NOT a good idea.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the cars from Abbeville.

[Marty Stanley]

Congrats to you podium guys. Great-looking cars. I'm looking forward to some pics of your chassis. You guys are doing a super job.

So are we, Mike, so are we!

['Slots of Fun']

I'm sure glad you don't have to make a living as a stand-up comedian...

What's my chances as a sit-down comedian?

V/R,

Don

[Cheater]

Dunno... we're still focusing on making you a decent sit-down race director!! LOL!!!

[Cheater]

Here are the Can-Ams from Abbeville.




Chris Barnes




Lindsay Byron




Tommy Flythe




Gary Shepard




Raymond Gonzalez




Jay Guard




Richard Houston




Joe McIntosh

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Ben Kernan




Marty Stanley




Eli Nichols




Dan Parker




Richard Sylvester




Ralph Thorne




Marc Waddle




Don Weaver

[Marty Stanley]

Cheater,

I know you're busy getting ready for LaGrange, so I would like to thank you for a job well done.

It is appreciated... all that you do.

[Cheater]

Thanks, Marty.

The ugly part of today was that I promised my wife about six months ago that we'd go to a barbershop concert tonight. And since she bought the tickets so far in advance that we had front row seats, there was no chance I could skip it.

It's about 11:20 Eastern and we just got home. I'm going to try to get up early enough to post pics of the the last six cars (Flexi GT class) before Dave Liebenthal shows up at 6:00 AM and we head south to LaGrange.

This is another one of those weekends where going back to work on Monday will be more restful! LOL!!

[MSwiss]

Thanks for the pics. I love the mix of different designs.

For the guys worried about too many "cookie cutter" JK chassis, while there is a fair amount
of them, they are constructed a bunch of different and cool ways.

[Cheater]

I can't remember exactly how old Eli Nichols is (OK, now I see I listed him as 12 in an earlier post, is that correct, Don?), but he's an excellent and impressive young racer. Hope he can attend more of the SERRA events.



One of the few shots I took of the drivers during a race. This is Can-Am and, L to R, the drivers are Don Weaver, Marty Stanley, Ralph Thorne, Gary Shepard, Tommy Flythe, Eli Nichols, Ben Kernan, and Richard Sylvester.

[Cheater]

The Flexi GT cars at Abbeville.




Jay Guard




Richard Houston




Dan Parker




Sandy Houston




Marty Stanley




Ralph Thorne

[Cheater]

This finishes up the Abbeville coverage, and I appreciate everyone's patience with me.

Jay's been encouraging me to simplify the coverage I do for the SERRA events and since the turn-outs have been steadily increasing, I'm going to take his advice.

Rather than showing every car in detail shots as I have been doing, from here on I'll take a "massed" top and bottom shot of each class (like TonyP does for the Retro East coverage he posts) and then do body-off top and bottom detail shots of the podium cars and top shots of the concours cars for each class.

Hopefully taking a lot fewer pics will all me to get the race coverage posted more promptly.

Now... I'm starting to work on the LaGrange coverage for SERRA #9.