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Mid-Pack Racer
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:10 PM
In 1967, Howie and Sandy visited our raceway, GranPrix Raceway, in the Bronx. Howie and Sandy ran their scale versioned F1 cars, while my brother and I ran our Jail Door/dropped axle/thingie-based cars. I've recently had some of my slides re-enhanced. Here are some images, from that day.
Al Pollack
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Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:13 PM
Awesome pics.
Howie even looks more handsome... if that was possible.
Mike Swiss
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Mid-Pack Racer
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:18 PM
He does "clean up" well. At Speedzone, I promised Howie, that I would post these images.
Al Pollack
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Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:26 PM
Awesome. Was Ray Carlisi there that day, too?
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Posting Leader
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:27 PM
Cool stuff.
What kind of track is that?
Grand Champion Poster
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:27 PM
Is the story true that he traded that one guy, a rewound 22, for that long white jacket and walked out super-stylin'?
Mike Swiss
Inventor of the Low CG guide flag 4/20/18
IRRA® Components Committee Chairman
Five-time USRA National Champion (two G7, one G27, two G7 Senior)
Two-time G7 World Champion (1988, 1990), eight G7 main appearances
Eight-time G7 King track single lap world record holder
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Posting Leader
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:41 PM
Looks like he is flashing "the finger" at someone! LOL.
Checkered Flag in Hand
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:48 PM
I remember visiting that track (once) for a GT Coupe race. (I believe it was a Car Model race.)
I too would like to know what track that was, I think I saw a similar one in New Hampshire but I can't be sure.
Mid-Pack Racer
Posted 03 December 2015 - 12:52 PM
Yup, Ray Carlisi and Dave Liebenthal were regulars at the raceway.
I'm pretty sure, that the track was a Mr. Raceways track. Bronx Raceway (Gunhill RD) had the same track, but ran it in the other direction.
The guy in the trenchcoat, was Chris Saxby, an ace airline mechanic. We had a nice crew, at our raceway.
Al Pollack
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Posted 03 December 2015 - 01:04 PM
Cool pics, thanks for posting! 
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Keeper Of Odd Knowledge
Posted 03 December 2015 - 01:38 PM
I love the sport coats and ties on the Russkit boys!
Thanks, Alan, for the pix!
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Builder
Posted 03 December 2015 - 04:31 PM
Classic photos of some very cool kids in a bygone era. 
The guy in the white lab coat must have been the armature balancing technician. 
Paul Wolcott
Age scrubs away speed!
Posted 03 December 2015 - 08:32 PM
That track was a Mr. Raceway's Lemans model, built in Cambridge, MA. It had four two-driver positions placed around the track. All lanes had polarity switches, so drivers weren't too careful about wiring they cars correctly.
We had the same track in Brunswick, ME, when I started commercial racing in 1967. The raceway at Woodfords Corner in Portland had a huge Mr. Raceways track in excess of 200', but i forget the name of this model.
Posting Leader
Posted 03 December 2015 - 09:07 PM
American Model Raceways also made a very similar track called alzo called a Lemans. The picture is from Modelville Hobby's site that tells how the modified figure 8 came to be from the Lemans.
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Posted 03 December 2015 - 09:30 PM
So Al, did Team Comet clean up on Team Russkit?
Or at least, did they scrub Howie's filthy mind clean?
Mike Swiss
Inventor of the Low CG guide flag 4/20/18
IRRA® Components Committee Chairman
Five-time USRA National Champion (two G7, one G27, two G7 Senior)
Two-time G7 World Champion (1988, 1990), eight G7 main appearances
Eight-time G7 King track single lap world record holder
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Age scrubs away speed!
Posted 03 December 2015 - 09:44 PM
As I recall, the Modelville history write-up says they had an AMR Lemans at one point. That was before I started racing there in the fall of 1969. The sketch they show has a bend in the middle of the short straight to the left of the bank. That short straight on the Brunswick Mr. Raceways Lemans didn't have a bend. In the track photos posted earlier, it appears to be straight also.
We ran the Brunswick Lemans backwards because it was assembled with the bank end of the track placed in front of a couple large plate glass windows. The raceway owner didn't want slot cars launching into these windows, even though he had a fine mesh netting hung from the ceiling to the bank.
Posting Leader
Posted 04 December 2015 - 12:15 AM
Great memories, Al!!
I notice you and Marty with 'Team' shirts!
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Keeper Of Odd Knowledge
Posted 04 December 2015 - 09:33 AM
How otherwise could you tell them apart!
Cheers
Bill Botjer
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Checkered Flag in Hand
Posted 04 December 2015 - 12:16 PM
Bronx and Sebring Raceway in Glen Oaks had the same track. It was a great track, very fast!
Checkered Flag in Hand
Posted 04 December 2015 - 01:20 PM
What great pics, they look amazing.Thanks, Al.
It was so much fun to see you at SpeedZone. Those were some crazy days.
Checkered Flag in Hand
Posted 04 December 2015 - 02:28 PM
Funny how clean cut we all were then. Turn the clock ahead a couple of years and see the difference.
Headmaster of the asylum
Posted 04 December 2015 - 02:49 PM
Al,
I thought I'd play with your pics in my photo-editing program, just for grins.
Here's the result from your first pic:
Original:
Adjusted:
I think it's an improvement. If you give the word, I'll process all of them and replace them in the first post.
Gregory Wells
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Posting Leader
Posted 04 December 2015 - 04:49 PM
Greg,
Can you do something with that godawful paneling?
Great pictures of what this hobby was and still is.
Grand Champion Poster
Posted 04 December 2015 - 05:23 PM
... and loosen those ties! Poor Howie and Sandy having to wear jackets and ties at that age - how old were they in '67 in fact?
Great pics, thanks for posting.
Don
Headmaster of the asylum
Posted 04 December 2015 - 05:29 PM
Howie was 17 or 18, depending on when in '67 the pics were taken.
Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
