
Slot racing as a fad - a contemporary take
#1
Posted 21 August 2016 - 03:54 PM
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#2
Posted 21 August 2016 - 03:56 PM
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#3
Posted 21 August 2016 - 04:05 PM
Saliva as braid juice? WOW!
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters, and if you do not have integrity, nothing else matters."
Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
#4
Posted 21 August 2016 - 04:40 PM
Don, thanks for taking the time to scan and post this. It is still interesting to see how far from reality
some of these guys are. I suppose all they need is a colorful cover and they can sell any book that is loaded with pictures and some kind of info about something that is nostalgic to people.
#5
Posted 21 August 2016 - 05:30 PM
Thanks Matt.
I also thought, we know how far off they are just on slot cars - wonder how inaccurate the rest of the subjects are?
Don
#6
Posted 21 August 2016 - 06:10 PM
Thanks for posting.
Man, I must be old to remember and enjoy playing with all that stuff.
Wonderful memories
#7
Posted 21 August 2016 - 11:38 PM
I also thought, we know how far off they are just on slot cars - wonder how inaccurate the rest of the subjects are?
You make an excellent point.
I subscribed to Consumer Reports for some time but it finally occurred to me that the better acquainted I was with an area of testing and rating, the more I was likely to disagree with their recommendations, particularly when they contained a subjective element - audio and photographic equipment and automobile handling were among the examples.
#8
Posted 22 August 2016 - 06:50 AM
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"If you have integrity, nothing else matters, and if you do not have integrity, nothing else matters."
Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
#10
Posted 22 August 2016 - 06:30 PM
I was around 28 or so and naively trusted consumer reports guidance to select the 1st generation early 80's Ford Escort for our used compact car rental fleet. That decision nearly bankrupted us within 2 years. I know Escorts are somewhat better now but they were PoS's back then and Ford was very tight lipped on releasing TSB info back then so you had to take the cars to the dealer to get fixed at their labor rates and at their "appointment schedule" speed. Our utilization rate sucked on these because they were always in the shop for days racking up huge repair bills. We got rid of them as fast as finances would allow us.
OK Back on topic, Wow, 300 raceways in California?
#11
Posted 23 August 2016 - 12:00 AM
I can think of of about 12-15, a half hour or so, driving distance from my house.
When old timers come into my raceway now, that use to race, I ask them where that was.
If it's local, I usually can remember/ identify the raceway, about half the time.
The other half of the time, the person quotes racing in a fairly nearby suburb, that I wasn't famliar with.
Heck, in the early to mid 90's, we had about a dozen in a 60-75 minute radius of each other.
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#12
Posted 23 August 2016 - 07:36 AM