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#1 grooverunner

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Posted 31 May 2016 - 07:59 PM

My dad has had this magazine for years and just the other day he pulled them out and started reading again. And he noticed in this issue an article in the January 1969 issue he never noticed since he was a 13-year old kid. It is about John Cukras, Wayne Williams, Joe Tango, Bob Emott, Chris Vitucci, Jerry Brady, Howie Ursaner, and Peter Von Ahrens. Also a whole bunch of others are in the article here aswell talking. So I figured since I did not see this here by searching it has not been published. So please forgive me if it has and a missed it. But I would think that you guys would enjoy.
 
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Posted 31 May 2016 - 08:03 PM

It's actually been posted here before... somewhere. But that's not important.


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Posted 31 May 2016 - 08:12 PM

Greg,

I did a few searches but couldn't find anything. I just felt it was to important to post for slot car history and good reading.
 
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Posted 31 May 2016 - 08:56 PM

I have a copy of that magazine too. I was looking for one in a way and stumbled on it at a garage sale for a whole 50 cents. Sure was cheaper than Ebay. :D


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Posted 31 May 2016 - 08:57 PM

That article is why John Cukras is a legend and will always be. He, Steube, Schmid, Warmack, Anderson, all still involved...

Great article, and in Car and Driver, too!

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Posted 31 May 2016 - 09:15 PM

Just to update you, Mike Steube quit slots two or three years ago and Tore Anderson has cut way back on his racing due to health problems.  

 

Cukras, Schmid, and Warmack are still at it.


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Posted 31 May 2016 - 10:34 PM

Warmack ran the Retro classes and Tore ran the Zimmerman in the RetroPro class!! Fun race!! 


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Posted 31 May 2016 - 10:55 PM

Cukras is still cool! I race with him once in a while at BPR, one of the greatest guys to run with, have lunch with or just shoot the breeze with. Class act all the way.

 

In slot car racing, he is a legend.


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Posted 01 June 2016 - 09:59 AM

Thanks, Ken, it was fun to reread the article. 

 

I was there and was a victim of the bumpy Elmsford straight like so many others that day.


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Posted 01 June 2016 - 10:40 AM

I always thought that the late Mr. Mandel was too smug and condescending in this article. Probably because Cukras was making more money than he was! :)

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Posted 01 June 2016 - 11:05 AM

True. I remember a lot of us thinking he really made slot car racers sound like a dirty, smelly bunch. Of course the depiction of Von Ahrens was pretty much spot on...


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Posted 01 June 2016 - 11:46 AM

Dear Bill,  

 

Mike Steube just donated to the Hardbody Enduro for GTP cars, and has been around Buena Park recently again. He is more into archery these days, but still cares a lot about slot cars, enough to donate several race prizes. Tore is fully involved in the RetroPro class, as he loves motor building.

 

Cukras and Bryan and Terry all head up the SCRRA.

 

We are trying to get Mike to join us in the 1/32 class as well.


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Posted 01 June 2016 - 02:15 PM

Yup, I remember being there with all of them. And yes, even PVA's green teeth. LMAO.


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Posted 01 June 2016 - 05:01 PM

Mandel was pretty much a jerk when he came to Nutley. You knew he was going to do a hatchet job on slot cars.


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Posted 06 June 2016 - 06:44 PM

What happened to Wayne Williams? I think I know about the rest of the guys.


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Posted 07 June 2016 - 05:23 AM

Wayne moved to Colorado and made a fortune inventing parts for racing bicycles. If I remember correctly it was something to do with brakes.


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Posted 07 June 2016 - 10:06 AM

I liked the article because it called me "the ice man," the coolest pro of all. With my contract racing for Cobra Slot car products, I was making more money than anyone ever has for racing slot cars.

 

Wayne started "Avid" offroad bicycle brakes. He recently sold his patent for belts replacing chains to Gates Corp and now owns a bicycle manufacturing company called "Spot Bicycles." They have belt drive and cost thousands.


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Posted 07 June 2016 - 10:54 AM

It looks like a lot of the "big time" racers of this era have done quite well for themselves in various endeavors.

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Posted 11 June 2016 - 06:44 PM

Wayne moved to Colorado and made a fortune inventing parts for racing bicycles. If I remember correctly it was something to do with brakes.

 

THANKS, TONY!

THANKS, HOWIE!


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