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[MSwiss]

I finally got around to opening the boxes with the cars last night.

Jairus did a great job packing and labeling them.

I got in about an hour of initial running before I closed.

The cars are very cool.
The variety of innovation and terrific execution really reminded me why I love slot cars.

Other than Ray Fellows car running backwards and another car suffering from contact issues,
the cars ran fine after a little tire preparation.

I did a rough "grading" of the cars in the picture below.
The fastest car is lower right, the slowest is upper left.
They run in rows bottom to top, IOW, John H.'s car is tentatively
9th fastest.

The car I was most impressed with was Mike Zimmerman's idler gear car.
It's very smooth and the fastest car that doesn't have an aerodynamic body
or aero enhancement.

2nd most impressive was the Kathryn Bartlett/Steve Kempson entry.
Again no aero and a narrow track, front & rear.

[Gator Bob]

I finally got around to opening the boxes with the cars last night.

Jairus did a great job packing and labeling them.

I got in about an hour of initial running before I closed.

The cars are very cool.
The variety of innovation and terrific execution really reminded me why I love slot cars.


I did a rough "grading" of the cars in the picture below.
The fastest car is lower right, the slowest is upper left.

http://www.gargaro.c...nWaVs/dream.wav

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[HarV Wallbanger III]

COOL! Now I'm 3rd from last!

[The Bugman]

veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy interesting,,,

[havlicek]

Not only is this cool info, but I wanted to say a special "thanks" to Mike Swiss for the extra effort involved in doing this. I suspect many of the builders are chomping at the bit to get an idea of how their car stacks up after all this time...and now they have the info, even if only preliminary.

They run in rows bottom to top, IOW, John H.'s car is tentatively
9th fastest.

...story of my frikkin' life, always a bride's maid and never a bride ...to coin a phrase No matter, I'm just happy to have a car entered and hope it waits to "smoke" until at least after the first leg of the race!

-john

PS...although I do take note of the fact that Barney's car is right up there with one of my motors. GO TEAM CORT!!!

[Jairus]

Wait a minute John. How many of these races have you taken part in?
I have been battling Sir Kempson for 4 of these darned races and most of the time, find myself coming up short! (Did well in 2008)

Seems I am still behind him yet again....

[One27ray]

Just Like Ray Fellows to be going the wrong way

Hopefully someone change the wires around? thank you I guess a picture is worth a thousand words

Wrong way ray

[Jairus]

Shows that Mike has a sense of humor huh...

[tonyp]

You guys have any big fast tracks on the schedule like these things used to run on in the 60's?

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Thanks John but the #1 car, Dyna Rigg has your arm as well I think so you should be jazzed about that! I used an old design Dyna-Saur chassis I built back in the 80's for our Dinosaur races on our American Black track and told Mike it I hoped would at least be mid pak.... I just hope it will run in the race as well as in testing!

Thanks for the motor John.

Go Team "Strong Arm" John H. motors and arms!

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Yes Tony Swiss will get them again for his King later in the season, RT 93 on their REAL American King and us out here on our Gerding King at BPR....
I think that is the only big tracks we run on ???

Hey Mike maybe we should run both of your races while you have them??? Saves shipping.....

[MSwiss]

"Manta Ray " Price was in early with John Austin's entry so with his help, writing down the times,
and resetting the computer, I went ahead and qualified the cars.

Here's the quick n' easy results.


I started with the slower cars first. I'll retabulate the order when I get a chance.


The new order of the cars. The top 4 stayed in exact order as I had them
roughly seeded and the top 10 are still the top 10.


The original order I had them after 5 or 10 practice laps with them.
(minus John A's car)

[tonyp]

Barney that will do. It would have been cool to run them on speed zones 220 also. But you have some great tracks there.

[Lone Wolf]

WOW, At least I'm not last, well damn close to last . Mike, thanks for your effort. I know nothing about "tuning" a car. If you want to add weight, twist,turn or bend anything go right ahead. Oh, by the way my car is #711. Guess ol'e 711 is not as lucky as I thought .

[havlicek]

...well if we're having tuning done...can we send my car to Tony P for some tuning and then back to the track?

-john

[Lone Wolf]

Hey there Johnny, Don't get too excited. Not asking for an unfair advantage. Just stating that I never really built a car for competition. Most of mine are for looks and an occasional lap or two. I figured if it is falling off the track maybe somebody can stick 10 cents worth of lead on it somewhere. If touching the car will incite anybody than lets just say race it as sent.

I am doing this strictly for fun, even to get this far is great for me.

[Gator Bob]

Hi,
Well it sure is good to the Dyn-ASTRO x2 is on the top of two lists now.

BTW, Can I change the name and decals to Done-Astro x0, or is that considered an unfair disadvantage.

"am I wrong?"

Don't forget I'm the points leader for now

[havlicek]

Hey there Johnny, Don't get too excited. Not asking for an unfair advantage. Just stating that I never really built a car for competition. Most of mine are for looks and an occasional lap or two. I figured if it is falling off the track maybe somebody can stick 10 cents worth of lead on it somewhere. If touching the car will incite anybody than lets just say race it as sent.

I am doing this strictly for fun, even to get this far is great for me.

...just funnin' with ya Joe I'm like you and really don't give a hoot about where I wind up here. I just think it's cool as heck to see this many mostly accurate cars running vintage motors in one race series.

-john

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Joe you haven't priced 10 cents worth of lead lately have you??? HA! I think a 2x3 piece is like $2.99? Send Mike the $ I'm sure he will know where to stick it! (the lead)

[Mopar Rob]

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Congratulations to Oscar & Pablo who look like they had the fastest true Dynamic cars without all kinds of extra brass and other stuff hanging off. Good job

[The Bugman]

i gotta really thank Pablo,,at first i was whinin and pi$$in and moanin ,maybe not even gonna enter,,but he encouraged me to "hang in there" & "you'll be fine with your entry"
im glad i did,,
yep its gonna be a fine SERIES,,

[Mopar Rob]

Oscar:

I guess all that testing paid off? Plus you're starting with about 2 million bonus points. I'm just glad the Proxy is finallly here.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Swiss: "The new order of the cars. The top 4 stayed in exact order as I had them roughly seeded and the top 10 are still the top 10."

Hey Mike it must be that SCM experience that allowed you to pick the top ten with just "seat of the pants" feel and then to run them on the clock and peg it, not close or almost correct, but PEG IT! WTG!

WTG Oscar and Pablo on your runs as well! I just noticed half the field is REAL Dynamic cars!
COOL guys. We needed 2 classes.

[MSwiss]

The top 11 are still the top 11 but I was looking at timer on the few laps I took with them last night.

I'll try to add some impressions of the cars if I get the time.

[The Bugman]

Oscar:

I guess all that testing paid off? Plus you're starting with about 2 million bonus points. I'm just glad the Proxy is finallly here.

thats only 1,000,000 & 60,,,,,lol