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Started by Tim Wilkins , Feb 26 2020 10:25 AM

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#1 Tim Wilkins

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Posted 26 February 2020 - 10:25 AM

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Posted 26 February 2020 - 10:47 AM

Tim, is that the same four-lane track Monty Ohren built for 1/32 racing at B.P. Raceway about 10-12 years ago? The track I'm talking about only stayed at the raceway for a short time. IIRC, it had a paint/sand running surface and the yellow sidewalls.


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Posted 26 February 2020 - 12:16 PM

Not sure who built it. It looks like the track I last saw at Bob Wright Raceway in Santa Clarita before it closed down. I verified it includes the laptop and Trackmate system.

 

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Posted 26 February 2020 - 01:17 PM

Yes, this is the track that Monty built for BPR


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Posted 26 February 2020 - 01:44 PM

Thanks Bill, I thought it was. But at my age, i've been wrong more than once. :)


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Posted 26 February 2020 - 05:20 PM

You should get it Tim--- small footprint and lot's of racing!!


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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:52 PM

Is Bob's track still open in Palmdale?


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Posted 27 February 2020 - 04:16 PM

I thought this is the track that Monty Ohren and Greg Gilbert built?  Greg was the manager of Uncle Kal's raceway that was in the basement of a wine store that had a Hillclimb and a flat track that looked like this one.


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Posted 27 February 2020 - 04:53 PM

Do you mean this one that once resided at Hobbytown, Fresno?

 

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 05:11 PM

One of our members called about it last night - it's a 1/32 scale track.  Short side is 12' wide.

 

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 05:52 PM

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 09:53 PM

I thought this is the track that Monty Ohren and Greg Gilbert built?  Greg was the manager of the raceway that was in the basement of a wine store that had a Hillclimb and a flat track that looked like this one.

 

Greg Gilbert has a 4-lane track at his AL home with a similar layout to this one. iIRC Gerding built it. The yellow flat track at Uncle Kal's was 8-lanes. I had heard/read that Monty built that one.


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Posted 27 February 2020 - 10:02 PM

Bill:

I think you are right about the Uncle Kal's track being 8 lanes.  I only ran on it a few times and that was a good 20+ years ago, so much for my memory.  I do know for sure that it was Monty and Greg that built the Uncle Kal's track.  Hey, one out of two isn't so bad for an old guy!  You are right for sure about Gerding building the track at Greg's house in Alabama.


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Posted 27 February 2020 - 10:10 PM

Ron:

Nope, that track was designed by my good friend and racing buddy Fred Hood.  BTW... Fred and I (with a few others) were the charter members of the club that started and ran the Fresno HobbyTown USA track..


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Posted 28 February 2020 - 02:51 AM

The track that Monty and Greg  built was called the Corkscrew (I always maintained it should have been named the Quarkscrew).

 

This track is now at Mo-Town raceway, Modesto, CA.

 

You can use the track listing section of this forum to find it. And there is a picture of it on the page that comes up


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