I spent my misspent youth waiting for the slot car groupies to find me.
"Diamond" Jim Evans was a local racer who was already traveling to Michigan to race G7 open cars about 10 days after first rediscovering slot cars, at Jerry Kulich's Grand Raceway in Broadview.
The first time I met him, was at that Midwest USRA points race at Ray Birmele's Fantom Raceway.
His first question, for me, before any technical ones, was "Are there any slot car groupies?"
When I gave him the bad news, his comment was:
"Slot racing will never be big time until there are some." LOL.
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
17B West Ogden Ave., Westmont, IL 60559, (708) 203-8003, mikeswiss86@hotmail.com (also my PayPal address)
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