The Cal-look Lounge

My boss is a total nutter for slot cars. He's got a race track in his garage complete with bridges and people and scenery and animals and well you get the idea. And god knows how many cars. I think he is trying to rope me into it too, he found this car:

(http://slotcarworld.com/Pinkkar025.jpg)

Pretty cool the Dan Gurney pre Inch Pincher oval has been immortalized as a slot car. Too bad we cant find one anywhere!

Zach, maybe I can find one for you, let me investigate

That would be super cool Alex! Thanks! :)

I bought one a few years ago, haven't seen one for sale since.
 ???

i have one !

(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/kaiserslautern.JPG)

but why you dont use the real things ?
(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/DSCF1905.JPG)
(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/DSCF1906.JPG)

yea..........
(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/dktrnghia_abug_go.JPG)

(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/dktrnka_si_start.JPG)

winner !
(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/DSCF0763.JPG)

but back to the dan gurney car , i know a shop here in vienna , they have it !

WTF? With full tree??? Amazing!!! :o ;D

 :o :o :o .........  ;D

Zach, I've found one around here but it would take some days to get (mail order), let me know if you are interested, maybe dekatee can find it easier?

crazy !
the slotshop in vienna had it for month and sold it last week !
he can order one , in spain - wuhaaaaaaaaa...

so alex d , you are the santa !

by the way :
http://205-70.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-years-hunting.html

alex

get me one two.....

Awesome post, i also have slot cars and will show a few tomorow, love the full tree, wicked

ok russell if I can get another one it's for you

Ernst your not showing off your hot slot are you?  :o

(http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7cf35b3127cceb054c8d59c0f00000026108EaNWrVqyb4)

 ;D

"hotslot" is now gulf-colored and on the first floor in the garage...
(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/DSCF1097.JPG)

and tomorrow i go to germany , to pick up this , 60 kilometers behind walters bug-box !
(http://www.turbo-diesel.at/Phorum/album/albums/userpics/10008/hoschlitz.jpg)

now slottrackhunting is over and i work again on my 1:1 cars !!!

Zach,  I know there use to be people that made their own depending on the scale.  If it is model scale 1/24 ish you can get the model and have one built.  They use to call them hard shells.

Glad to see this on here as a post I will have to dig out my fiber buggy, and Ghia 1/24 scale get some pictures of them they have been in storage for the last 5 years. 

Zach, Rusell, check you pm's

guys, latest news is that the Pink-kar factory closed some time ago, so in fact it's difficult to find any version of the slot bug

We've been enjoying racing on Olgilvie Hill Climb in the garage.
Foot print 45 feet by 20 feet, average lane length about 135'.
Good lap times with pan cars about 3.8 with Falcon 7s or Pro Slot 4002 motors.
8 guys racing gets the banter going, kinda fun couple times a month.
For VW content here is VW drag racer Scott Stephens lending a hand.

Awesome.

Awesome Stuff  :D

Here are some snaps of John's (my boss) track...

more...

some more...

last ones...

Very cool Zach, your slot car racer buddy appears to be a skilled model maker too.

Couple years ago we had this 12 feet x 24 feet 1/32 scale routed track, fun but a lot of squeeze lanes.

Close up of what we race, classic Champion chassis, aluminum pans, beveled pinion and spur gears and a dropped rear axle with bearings.

Some of the homemade brass chassis cars look like functional art.
Way beyond my skills, here's a new 60's style brass chassis, work of art.

Couple of nice routed 4 and 5 lane tracks on this thread too.

Any So Cal slot racers?
Stay in the slot and encourage others to come out. ;)

ZACH, DOES THIS GUY ALSO WORK ???

Of course! He is my boss! We are the two man team that makes up Blizzards Top shop & Custom Auto Upholstery.

When can I come over??

I still race HO cars. Occasionally Pete Santini and his son show up.

Anytime Rick!, I got restarted in slot cars with an HO track 2 years ago.
Close to your place the Buena Park Raceway is one of the best slot car shops in the country, 2nd weekend of the month the D3 class has all the trick scratchbuilt cars.
Last month they had open wing cars running 1.5 second lap times on the 150 foot king, they say that track is just a big motor dyno.
Check it out.  ;D
http://www.bparkraceway.com/ (http://www.bparkraceway.com/)
Best,
Mike

I've been to Buena Park before. I used to run Grp 27s wing cars back in the day at a track not too far from BP Raceway.

Later on I got into RC cars and in 93 I finished 8th in the ROAR 1/10th scale Stock National Championships.

Would lone to come down and play on your track!

Rick

G27 that's hardcore, like the wing car at speed photo!
1st and 3rd Saturday eves we race slower and more affordable equipment.
Please do contact me for the hook up if you are in the area.
If I can find the time I'd like to see BPR on the 2nd weekend of the month.

Had some RC years too, early 70s in the Briggs Cuningham parking lot just off Baker and the Newport Fwy raced the 1/12 Jerobee .049 RC cars, ten years later same place with 1/12 electric.
Late 80s raced 1/8 scale gas at the Ranch (remember that track!), Santa Monica, Las Vegas and San Diego tracks.
Hung around with Ron Paris and managed a second in a year long 2wd 1/8 scale gas class series.

Goofed around with a buddy's brushless electric motor 1/18 scale RC car today, cool smaller Losi racing Baja bug hauled butt.

I've spent some time at the local road race tracks.
Are you still doing SCCA work?
Best,
Mike

I can't afford to throw bucks at a hobby like I used to.  ;)

I did some racing at Briggs. Mostly RC12Es. I raced a lot at the Ranch too. Did a lot of local series with ROAR and NORCCA. I was so cal 12th scale champ one year. My favorite class was 12th scale 4 cell on carpet. There was a place in Riverside that ran on carpet.

1/8th scale was pretty killer! Loved watching them run.

I've seen a few of the 1/18th scale cars but I'm afraid to get hooked.

I haven't done any corner working for quite a while. Just no time. I'd like to get back to it at some point.

Rick

I've seen the 1/18th scal

look what a good friend of mine gave me as a present the other day, he took one of these pinkar splits and turned it into a proper cal looker, it's so beautiful that I don't think I'll ever use it!

before the treatment:
(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9552/img7342im6.jpg)

and after:

(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3572/img7808ha8.jpg)
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1774/img7816wx4.jpg)
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1610/img7842lb7.jpg)

eating detroit iron  ;D
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3958/img7797qt2.jpg)

or just cruisin'
(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7373/img7809cp3.jpg)

WOW . I think i found a new hobbie. great stuff, Is that blue and silver track inside somebody's home garage? pretty serious

See if you like the promo video.   
http://www.youtube.com/v/6HRL1uRECx8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1
In San Diego we IROC race $40 NASCARS ready to run, replacement motor $6 every 40hrs.  :)

http://www.youtube.com/v/Kn0JhQzTaME&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1

Yuk,yuk!

Fred chill, these are just toys.
Do you own a slot car or slot car track?
Show me your slot car pit box.   :-\

Fred r u trolling ???
Dont' know who you are, you think I know you?
I'm not a hater so this fizzles with your rants.
Race your VW slot cars with us sometime.
8 lanes no waiting!
I'll introduce you to the gang.
A few of them have hot vws too.
Good luck racing.

Here's one for you Fred.
It's called a "Womp", because that's the sound it makes when it hits the wall.
Only $50 a great starter car for you to get back into RACING slot cars.
I like seeing all the detailed slot tracks with the scale looking cars, but for my own taste it gets a little too much like model trains.
Roger will be tickled to hear your ambition to make a slot car recreation of his Ghia.
To really pull it off you'll need an OCIR drag strip/return road slot track configuration with staging lanes 8 wide full of VWs ready for a Bug In.   8)

I'm not a NASCAR fan either.
But the slow/heavy/cheap slot cars can be fun to race.

One of the best races last year was American LeMans final race at Laguna Seca, that was awesome. 8)

Hey "Fred"  ;D  Hope all is well dude.......... See you soon!!!

well..........since I'm not 12 years old anymore, these are the only toys I play with!!!!  :o  ;)   slot?? or slut??  ::)

Finally carlos, Somebody posted my three favorite things ! Sluts,Cars,AND RACEN.O-YA , Mark re-lax

Just curious,
I have had the Pink Kar version of the Dan Gurney Inch Pincher for years, but just recently bought a Ninco version.
The biggest difference being the wheels and lack of bumpers.
Do these companies have anything to do wih each other ?