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[philk]

Our local track gave out cases of coke, drank em all, didn’t save any.

[Highnoon]

Don’t know how I stumbled across this thread. I race at Parma and around the Midwest from 1964-1970 then my family moved to California so I could go to college. I couldn’t take my trophies with me so I sold them to a trophy place on pearl road were Parma raceway use to get here’s. I had 172 trophies and they gave me $1.50 a piece so that was enough for me to buy a car when I go to Lost Angles. I bought a 1963 Corsair Monza, three speed convertible, no top, gold spray can painted, foam thick wheel, and widened steel wheels, baby moons, lowered 2 inches by some Chino California low rider guy.

[A. J. Hoyt]

That's a good trophy idea! In the Michigan HOPRA racing series, we had a "rotated" Best Marshal trophy, handed off to the next guy at the next race. It was the upper half of the old Frankenstein model kit (very "realistically painted, I might add) arms outstretched palms down (the way the model was intended) with an HO car glued onto the underside of the right palm! It was cherished, I think. It got passed on a number of times but we lost track of it.

[A. J. Hoyt]

I found this thread again after a very old photo showed up at home, taken while still living in MI just before my wife and I moved to SoCal in November of 1980. I gathered my trophies together for the photo, then removed the place plaques to keep before donating the trophies to a thrift store to limit the bulk of moving. These were from racing MI HOPRA (as a teen) and some stuff from racing Gp 27 in Flint, MI, building my own scratchbuilt chassis in both HO and 1/24.

 

I was busy with life in SoCal (never racing in clubs or commercial raceways) but, being a dad and raising my kids, I felt compelled to CAD design and build up a very nice HO track so they could experience the fun but, alas, they preferred Mario Karts. 

 

 

The display on the table includes my Weller case controller, an RC stock car and other objects of my obsession.

 

Yes, that's a picture of A.J. Foyt inside the HO converted shoe box and a picture of the door of my 1:1 oval track race car in the Hoffman's box I still use here in CO at RJ's Raceway. The empty package of Erik cigars was in honor of Moose Carver, proprietor of Malibu Raceway in Inkster, MI. I still have the Westland HO Racing Association "red shirt" hanging on the box with some "tipped up" successful Gp 27 chassis.