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Cars ready for next event

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Because I'll be tied up with 1/1 car racing this coming weekend, I spent last weekend working on cars for next week's event for our HS, VS6075 and SC classes and what a lot of time and work it was! Wanting to try to improve my HS cars and with regulation changes for the latter two classes I had my hands full. Where to start? With our VS and G5SC classes being now combined into VS6075, including a set of regulation changes, my biggest challenge was deciding on which cars to prepare. I started by laying out all the prospects and doing some checks to help narrow them down. Here are the 16 cars I started out with:

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After many workbench tests and partly by process of elimination, I came down to the following 9 "finalists", 3 for HS, 4 for VS6075 and 2 for SC:

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Of these, the only car that was left untouched was my HS Capri. Every other one had some work done, some more than others. Let's see how they run next week.
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Re: Cars ready for next event

Post by steveaca »

Amazing selection there Gordon: 11 VS/Gp5 cars !! I'm sure that you have all of the 9 'finalists' up to speed. Looking forward to see them, particularly the NSU, on the track.
Also looking forward to seeing no. 33 in action at Wallerfield on Sunday. All the BEST !!!
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Post by Luke »

Extremely impressive 1/32 work there Gordon and how you are now involved with 1/1 racing again, is just so unbelievable. I find it difficult to understand how you still try and get all these slotcars ready for upcoming events. On the other hand - I'm sorry to say that I haven't even picked up any of my slotcars (as yet) to do anything ... for 2016.

Now, although I did mention (here and there) that I will continue to support SSD and SSA racing - I just don't seem to have that "addiction" like I use too, for tuning and setting up 132 cars. I even recently gave away a whole set of (not used much) slotcar spares and trying to find the time to see what else I can ... At the same time - I must let you know though, I kept important things like my Slotit Gear Puller, NSR Precision Allen Driver, MB Slot Car Setup Plate and other tools needed plus spare parts that I know could well be important down the road.

That said, I suppose I will just have to see how things go as time goes along with me tuning/building cars for our slotcar racing.

Anyway and as usual, you sure posted some marvelous and meticulous looking pics of your workbench and all your VS6075 cars.

Luke
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