The Corvette C7 Stingray Concept

This is a one piece 1:32 Corvette C7 body. The front and rear windows are molded with the rest of the unpainted body. The resin was formed with a 2 piece mold.

$25 (US) for the body plus $5 shipping and handling to the US.
I will ship worldwide but S&H will be adjusted accordingly.
I will combine shipping for multiple items.

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Power tools? Stand back!

I've been playing with this idea since I first found out that people could really make their own slot car tracks. Who knew that you could take a piece of wood, cut a groove and add power? Watch my misadventures at SCI.

Actually, it's not going that bad.

Slots Of Fun Still Growing

Slots Of Fun has gone international. Not really. It is still just some silliness run in my basement. I repainted three of my older guest cars with various national colors. These are SCX Digital Ferrari 550 GTs. I was looking to do something realistic yet specific to my track. I came up with the Slots Of Fun International Challenge At Ravensring - ICAR - ooh I like that. I used the F550s since these guest cars were starting to show their age and a slick coat of paint never hurts.


I wrote more about these repaints and posted pictures at SCI and SCX World Wide.

It's Official - IndyCar Returns to The Mile

This is great news! Lower ticket prices. Just that little bit later in June for warm weather! The race is scheduled for June 18-19.

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One thing jumped out at me though. I could have rented The Mile for $20,000? That is all it took?

of IndyCar & The MKE Mile

Indy is back - at The Mile! YES. There is an announcement scheduled for tomorrow. IndyCar is returning to the Milwaukee Mile in June of 2011. The race will not be the traditional weekend following Memorial Day, but I'll take it. The rumored late June date will probably be better weather-wise. I remember standing in freezing rain and sleet for an IndyCar race one June. Summer usually starts in Wisconsin the next week.

of Pine, Plastic, & Far Flung Places

This summer's travels took us west to Bear's Lodge and east of Wooster.

One week after our trip west to South Dakota and Wyoming we made a spur of the moment decision to head to Mid-Ohio for the ALMS race.

I should have known that the intersection of US HWY 30 and I-69 might not have been the best place to stop for sleep at 1:30am with my 3 boys. I was getting tired & I promised myself that I'd stop at the next truck stop or McDonald's for a nice well lit parking lot to sleep in for an hour or so before we drove on. When I got to the first Fort Wayne exit and it featured a truck stop and a McDonald's I gave thanks to St Christopher and pulled off the road. I'm not sure what I saw what transacting in the McD's parking lot across from the TWO gentlemans clubs, but I was positive that it would not look good to have a story in the news about me, Brandy's, & a car load of kids. It turns out that Good Chris would have to carry me a bit farther down the road. He did. We slept for a few hours in a clean Ohio rest area.

Partially rested we spent the day at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course watching IndyCar qualifying and the ALMS race. Fabulous track! It is a beautiful facility. I took something like 2400 pictures, turned a bright hue of red, and we had a BLAST. I would definitely return.

Our 8th annual pinewood derby and summer picnic was held. There were 12 kids entries, 6 adults, 4 entires for Formula Unlimited, and 1 flame juggler. Brats, sunshine, little pine race cars, I don't think it could have been a better day. Oh but it could get better. The after-party included pizza, a Hannah Montana dance off, & Slots of Fun.



Speaking of slot cars, I finished my Speed Racer Mach 5 as an SCXd car. It has probably been 6 years since my boys gave me that snap together model as a gift. After a combination of procrastination and planning she has finally taken to the track.
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What a great summer.

Indy Predictions

OK - The 2002 Indy 500 winner did not make the race so now I'll have to come up with something else.

The winner - Will Power. You can't bet against Penske at Indy and Will Power is the driver to beat this season.

I am cheering for Dario Franchitti. He has been racing hard all season and is due for a win. GO Dario GO.

Surprise feel good story - Sarah Fisher. If she finishes ahead of Danica there will be no surprise. But look for Sarah Fisher Racing to get he car into the - top 10? No. Top 5. Wouldn't it be great she broke through and won?

If you are an Arrested Development fan you will be rooting for Ana Beatriz. Steve Holt!

Indy Is Back!

Indy Qualifying
Wow. Seriously. Wow. The new format works.

Part of me misses the whole Month-Of-May build up, the tradition. But most of that was gone years ago. There are still some that miss the front engine roadsteers. We need to move on. When I first heard that the top 24 would be locked in on Pole Day and that the top 9 would then have another Race For The Pole. I thought, "NO!!!!!" But I settled down and thought for about 5 minutes and realized SOMETHING needed to change and heck if IndyCar found sponsor for this format all the better.

There was still all the drama of Pole Day. There were teams posting times. Waiting in line only to decide to keep their time and get back in line. There were teams that crashed during practice. There were teams that had a car safely in the race that decided to withdraw their time and try again. Sometimes that worked - Helio Castroneves. Sometimes it was a ticket to Sunday's Bump Day - Paul Tracy.

The Top 9 Race To The Pole was dramatic with Chip Gannasi declaring on live TV that Penske's stall tactics were "Bull shit and you know it!" Once a car is in the top 9 the team can continuously re-try for a better time without the worry of giving up the already scored fast time. This allowed Penske's pole sitting Castroneves to run absurdly slow warmup laps before his retry. This was eating up time for the other pole wanna-bes. The only rule preventing this was a mushy directive that if they were short on time and the next in line was already on the pole the pole sitter would not be allowed to retry. Huh? What is "short on time"? Why should the pole sitter be denied an attempt at a better time?

There was an obvious hole in the rules and Penske drove a truck through that hole. Don't tell me that Chip wouldn't have done the same with his drivers. In the end Penske's move didn't matter. How do we patch the hole for 2011? The pole sitter must be allowed to defend the pole by being allowed to run faster and faster just like everyone else. I would allow the current Race To The Pole rules for the first part but then for the last 30 minutes (or 15 minutes - I'm flexible) a team would have to withdraw that car's time to re-qualify. Withdrawing would mean that the car is now in 9th position, not out of the race, until a new time is posted and the car is positioned accordingly.

Bump Day provided us with some real excitement. There was a very real chance that Tony Kannan was not going to make the race. Did those crashes get in his head? Was there something wrong with the car? KV Racing's Paul Tracy was in the race - again - but continued to fall closer and closer to the bubble. Time was running out but the KV Racing took a chance and decided to withdraw PT's car. He sat in line as time for his Indy return ticked away.

There is still a lot of room to improve in IndyCar. But, Indy is back!

of Penelope Pitstop, a DBR9, & SCXd pix

Son #1's first SCXd car was the green #28 Aston Martin DBR9. He drove it a bit hard and soon the 'lips' and driver's side A post needed repairs. I had a repaint project in mind, so I bought a second hand #28 and traded bodies with him and set to work.

At first the boys were not happy anytime that I suggested pink. So naturally, the car had to be repainted pink. Penelope Pitstop's Compact Pussycat seemed to be the perfect concept. At first I considered making an open top version of the DBR9. But I would have needed to fit the A posts anyway. I decided to keep the roof. The car is obviously not a line for line copy of the Compact Pussycat. It was never intended to be. This car is my vision of what a real race car would look like if Boomerang/Cartoon Network sponsored a car as the Compact Pussycat.

First the car was painted white, masked, painted pink, masked again, then painted yellow.

The drivers A post needed rebuilding and painting after it became obvious that the glass would not fit. The lips needed to be redone when the grill was reinserted. I decided to Krazy Glue the grill in place to support the rebuilt lips.



I gave the Compact Pussycat to my resident Pit Babe. She can't wait to hit the track. A big crowd is coming for Mother's Day. The boys are coming around to appreciating pink - in the right context of course.

For more pictures please visit Slot Car Illustrated or SCX Worldwide.

of Wood & Scratch Builds

This guy is working magic with wooden custom built slot cars.

Zagato @ SCI

His blog the scratchbuildguild

How does he make balsa look so real?

of SEAT Leons & Fun

SCX sent the SEAT Leon WTCC Safety Car to me as a prize to an online contest. I have used it during races but it ends up getting in the way and pushed off the track in the heat of competition so it sat for months. This isn't a problem with the product just a lack of experience at my track. I had run it as a normal car and loved its different feel so much that I needed to get a Leon in race livery. Now that I have two Leons, I've been using it more as a Safety Car while running hot laps. If you don't mind driving you'll find these cars great fun.

The Safety Car has a simple silver/grey paint scheme. I could not help myself and added the logo of my circuit. The headlights, brake lights and roof lights all flash when the car is in safety mode. The interior and bottom of the car are detailed quite well. Switching from Safety to Normal mode is as easy as programming the car to a given hand controller. One time it programs as a normal car the next time Safety mode.

You'll know it is in Safety mode when you place it back on the track it does a recon lap or two. SCX says it is measuring the track so it knows where the pit entrance is but I'm positive that it is finding the lane changers so it can run me off the track. In Safety mode the car slowly plods along the circuit randomly changing lanes and avoiding the pit lane. I have a dual use track (road and oval) so the Safety Car sometimes gets confused and drives through the pit lane. This is usually after it drove the longer road course and having taken the oval on its recon lap. In Safety mode it is programmed to car 6 even on a 3 car system. It would have been nice if it was car 7. It does not need to refuel giving it an advantage on the leader board during a race.

In Normal mode it is as quick as any other Leon. Don't be mistaken. This is not going to be your quickest and most nimble car. I did like it enough though that I needed the #23 Monroe. Despite having a slightly different chassis these two Leons drive pretty much the same. They have the top speed of any other SCX car with an RX-42b under the hood but their short wheelbase and height makes them less agile, quirky, and well - slow. These cars are about a half second slower than other SCX cars on my oval (2.87s) and close to a full second slower (5.00s) on the road course. On the R1 hairpin (a 180° SCXd inner) the car sometimes decides to just lay down. It's not the driver! I know I've taken the corner faster but then the next time she just - tip - lays down. Odd.

The #23 is a brilliant blue and yellow with superb detailing and clean tampo markings. It looks like it wants to race. I really like the lines of this car. The rear wing on both cars is easily removed if you choose to do that before a race. My only complaint about the detailing is that fragile roof antenna on the #23. It is the same frail plastic found on the DBR-9. If you put it on the track consider it gone. There must be a better, more flexible material. When I converted the #23 to digital I needed to change the rim style. The picture shows it mid-conversion. Right now she has 4 matching, white rims from the version 1 conversion kit.



The SEAT Leons are great looking cars right out of the box. The Safety Car is easy to use and when putting in laps on the basement track it provides a fun obstacle forcing you to change lanes. I have found it fun to leave it in Safety mode while I race against it using the Monroe liveried #23. The #23 will race the road course while the Safety Car takes the oval short cut. I swear, IT KNOWS. Darn thing beats me half the time, and while in a race with 3 others there is a good chance the Safety car will win because it never pits. Despite not being super fast, or able to scream through the corners, I find these cars fun to drive. These are not squeeze and go rockets. They demand to be driven.

I will be buying one or two more Leons as equal racing partners. If you can still find a SEAT Leon Safety Car grab one. SCX no longer offers it as part of the 2010 catalog. It would be nice if SCX would sell the Safety Car chip so we could make other ghost cars.

I'm back!

I'm getting back on the web log horse and this weekend is as good a time as any with Sebring in the news. I'm spending the unexpectedly snowy spring Saturday working on my slot car track (the Ravensring), a few slot car repaints, and watching the 12 Hour race.

The race season started a few weeks ago with the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Fun race but the DPs are not LMPs. I'm going to make an effort this season to get back into IndyCar now that Tony has been removed from office and 2011 is around the corner but they somehow snuck the season opener in past me last weekend.

My comments on ALMS Sebring to follow darn it looks like it will be difficult to beat the Pugs.