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[Ron Hershman]

Where and when???

[Pablo]

I'm guessing early '80s?

[Tex]

I can't concentrate with that pair of tight shorts on the left lookin' back at me. If only I was 17 again! LOL.

Well, it's an Engleman track. Jim Honeycutt had/has one. This pic was taken after I got married and retired from slots.

[TSR]

Wing cars, so at least late 1970s...

[68Caddy]

Tex, I'm with ya, what track? Oh well the chick is old like us now.

Nesta

[jimht]

Broadway Hobbies, Houston, 220' All-Tech that Craig Landry hosted the Nats on in 1978.
Looks like Mrs. Drewes behind the counter.
This pic is probably early seventies, 1971 or 1972, long before Craig bought the Raceway after Lloyd Drewes died.
Mike Delmonico front right, Dave Roberson and Mike Porfirio sitting next to the bank on the small Engleman.
Jim Ross with his back to us behind the bank talking with P. A. Watson.
I'm sure I was there, don't remember it, though, too many races blurred together...

[Tex]

Thanks, Jim; I wondered if that was Mike in the hat on the right. And, while I never raced with/against PA back then, his distinctive "wave" of hair is recognizable from pictures I've seen.

[aquavelvis]

Is that Ken Evans marshalling the deadman?

Two of my favorite tracks ever, the 220' and the old white track, which I understand from another board was a locally-built Engleman copy with an oval doughnut.

[DOCinCanton]

What I find interesting about the pic and the replies, is that my last slot car race was the Nats in Houston in 1978. I still have two participant placques for that event. I remember almost nothing from those races except that I attended at Ken MacDowells request to run his lastest group car. I finished 5th as an "independent" entry with his new group car. And I cant even remember which group car it was. I love those big tracks, especially the 220 ft tracks.

[GaryG]

I saw that track when PA had it at Pasadena Raceway in Pasadena, TX. That would have been around 1986.
I was in Houston on business and went to the raceway on a local race night and someone offered me a ride
and I took it. That's my only race on an Altech! I never understood why PÅ's King, the 1985 NATS track,
was more popular than that track.

[tonyp]

Jim, when did you guys show up at joel's with the big air dams?

[jimht]

Tony, if you mean the introduction of floppy .007 side dams that was at the Bicentennial Warm-up Race that Al Payne won. I think I was wandering around with the infamous HT eyepatch because I'd gotten a sliver in my eye while cutting out steel chassis at the motel.
And...I believe we all convoyed down from Elmsford together after the race there.
The Texans thought it was hilarious that all the New Yorkers complained about having to sit in a car for so long...no big deal to us, like driving across Houston...
The results would have been way different if we'd paid more attention to the depth of the braid recess on Joel's track

[tonyp]

Funny thing is we never paid any attention to setting up the guide for the track. Imagine all those hunks that may have been killers if the guides were set right.

I do remember the eye patch... Alan used to drive me crazy refusing to run my good chassis and winning with those damn $10.00 jobs I had to make a ton of to make any money. Lol....

[Larry Labounty]

I found the Thrash o Gram from the Bicentennal warm up . It claim Alan had a Spyder chassis . The picture wasn't clear enoght to tell if it was the $10.00 pro special or the steel car. Trinity must have stared fall of 75 ? As Ernie had a Hi pro set up for the warm up

[idare2bdul]

The 78 race on the Engleman marked the introduction of Cobalt motors. Team Camen, Revtech and Checkpoint all showed up armed and ready.

I raced semipro and in the days before European lane rotation felt I had a good chance for a win after running black and red and being tied for the lead. I hadn't put my good motors in yet and was actually driving well for a change. That was before the batteries needed both chargers on and unfiltered AC ripple turned two of my controllers unusable. I had to settle for 6th after repairing my car from the two crashes caused by stuck controllers. Give me a time machine and a Ruddock controller and I'd like to re-write history.

[tonyp]

Larry, Alan always used a $10.00 chassis.. I tried t explain Geeks like you were no going to go .25.00 for a steel chassis if he keeps winng with the cheap stuff. LOL..

[tonyp]

Is that Donnie Barber marshalling coming out of the deadman?

[idare2bdul]

I started racing at Crash and burn in 1975 and all the cars had full wings. I never raced in the era with the partial wings and tube front axles. Bob Crane, the winner of the Bicentennial race was a Crash and Burn regular participant in our races. Bob was one of the first Pro Racers to encourage and help me.

The full wing cars had challenges of their own. We had to choose where to pass or with the narrow lane spacing your wings would get caught up in the gears of the car you were passing.

[jimht]

Is that Donnie Barber marshalling coming out of the deadman?

No, it's a local racer, Texas Series race, not the Nats.
Besides, Donnie only came to Texas one time to kick our butts at my '75 Nats on the 180' Engleman, not the Houston All-Tech.
Where is he and what did he do with that car, anyway?
He stuck a Lola T290 on it and it was a missile from the time it hit the track, we all might as well have just packed our stuff and gone home, it was that good.

[Duffy]

I can't concentrate with that pair of tight shorts on the left lookin' back at me. If only I was 17 again!

Ohhhhh man. If your eye snaps to [that little barely-nubile gobbet with the lost-cow eyes and full-body pout] that fast, in that blurry a pic, when facing all that wealth of track--welldamn, Tex, somewhere in your ample entropy-riding body you still ARE 17! I applaud.


Duffy

[Larry Labounty]

Larry, Alan always used a $10.00 chassis.. I tried t explain Geeks like you were no going to go .25.00 for a steel chassis if he keeps winng with the cheap stuff. LOL..

Didn,t recall the $10.00 chassis being called a spyder. I thought you only called the steel chassis spyders. Many years have pass to recall all the details.

[tonyp]

Spyder was anything with that French guys front end on it. Lol.....

[Ron Hershman]

No, it's a local racer, Texas Series race, not the Nats.
Besides, Donnie only came to Texas one time to kick our butts at my '75 Nats on the 180' Engleman, not the Houston All-Tech.
Where is he and what did he do with that car, anyway?
He stuck a Lola T290 on it and it was a missile from the time it hit the track, we all might as well have just packed our stuff and gone home, it was that good.

Donny is still in the Cincy Oh area and he still has that/the car.

[Bill from NH]

The one thing I remember about Alan Payne when he raced at C&C was he ran his own arms, which were usually very fast. Others, such as Tom Gray, Carl Ford, & Dave Kiley tried, but weren't as consistant.

[Tex]

Can you say "jailbait"?! I may be a dirty ol' man, but one must look to correctly ascertain whether or not jailbait laws apply, right?

I'm wondering if that's Ken Evans mostly hidden by that sweet young thang? He got his hair curly-cued, didn't he? Maybe Ty Fawley(his hair was naturally curly)?