Home
Latest images
Register
Log in
For about 2 years now I have been trying to get this ball rolling, and it looks like tomorrow will be the day that I finally do. The track I'm currently building was designed and built specifically for this car class, so there has been a lot of investment in both time and money involved, and I've only scratched the surface.
The class involves the use of T-Jets using the Road Race Replica's Fairgrounds cars in two classes, based on performance. The first class that will be built on is the Hobby Stock Class, what will be the entry level and least expensive of the two. I grew up around a race track in the San Antonio, Texas area called Pan American Speedway, from the age of 7 until my late teens I was an avid race fan and regular attendee. For many years my oval slot car tracks were named in honor of PAS, but when I built Sequoia Speedway I broke from that tradition. Google Earth shows that very little remains of my old home track which closed in 1980, urban sprawl and an industrial center have all but erased it from the south Texas countryside, for me it was time to put the Pan American name to rest.
The Hobby Stock Class will use the earlier body styles, the '55 and '57 Chevy's, the '57 Ford and '58 T-Bird. The '62 Falcon will be used in the Super Stock Class once it's introduced. Requirements for the class will be a stock OEM chassis, not the Ultra G, which is the chassis for the Super Stockers. Required are 3R wheels and non-white letter tires. Wheel styles must be either the slots or the steel wheel style, colors are up to the car owner. The only motor modifications allowed are the shimming of the magnets to reduce armature clearance, changes in motor brushes and springs, aftermarket guide pins, shoes and shoe springs and axle gear change. The Road Race Replica body cannot be modified in any way except to effect tire clearance, no lowering, raking or removing of material to lighten the bodies. No car may have any added weight applied to it. You may as an option use the low profile 3R front tires but there will be a minimum chassis/track clearance.
Decals and paint are up to the drivers preference with the exception of using any real world pattern, such as making a Dale Earnhardt car, etc. Sponsors are recommended to be from the late 1970's though the mid 1980's. Remember, this is depicted to be a mid-Texas short track of that time period.
Car costs are estimated to be about $40 each, including decals. Two weeks ago I ordered $100 worth of decals from Patto's and 3R, those will be made available free to those building cars on a first come, first served basis. Tomorrow materials to complete 7 cars will be ordered, we have 5 drivers and 2 proxy cars to build, this will give us enough to run a minimal program, and plans are to add two cars a month over the next six months, we want to have 18 cars running by March, 2011 for our Spring Series. I am still trying to sell an r/c car in order to raise the cash to complete the track's landscaping and maybe order another car or two, otherwise things will progress much slower than I'd like but we'll get it all done.
Pics of the completed cars will be posts as soon as they become available, I'm thinking in about 3 weeks. Look for them here first.
The class involves the use of T-Jets using the Road Race Replica's Fairgrounds cars in two classes, based on performance. The first class that will be built on is the Hobby Stock Class, what will be the entry level and least expensive of the two. I grew up around a race track in the San Antonio, Texas area called Pan American Speedway, from the age of 7 until my late teens I was an avid race fan and regular attendee. For many years my oval slot car tracks were named in honor of PAS, but when I built Sequoia Speedway I broke from that tradition. Google Earth shows that very little remains of my old home track which closed in 1980, urban sprawl and an industrial center have all but erased it from the south Texas countryside, for me it was time to put the Pan American name to rest.
The Hobby Stock Class will use the earlier body styles, the '55 and '57 Chevy's, the '57 Ford and '58 T-Bird. The '62 Falcon will be used in the Super Stock Class once it's introduced. Requirements for the class will be a stock OEM chassis, not the Ultra G, which is the chassis for the Super Stockers. Required are 3R wheels and non-white letter tires. Wheel styles must be either the slots or the steel wheel style, colors are up to the car owner. The only motor modifications allowed are the shimming of the magnets to reduce armature clearance, changes in motor brushes and springs, aftermarket guide pins, shoes and shoe springs and axle gear change. The Road Race Replica body cannot be modified in any way except to effect tire clearance, no lowering, raking or removing of material to lighten the bodies. No car may have any added weight applied to it. You may as an option use the low profile 3R front tires but there will be a minimum chassis/track clearance.
Decals and paint are up to the drivers preference with the exception of using any real world pattern, such as making a Dale Earnhardt car, etc. Sponsors are recommended to be from the late 1970's though the mid 1980's. Remember, this is depicted to be a mid-Texas short track of that time period.
Car costs are estimated to be about $40 each, including decals. Two weeks ago I ordered $100 worth of decals from Patto's and 3R, those will be made available free to those building cars on a first come, first served basis. Tomorrow materials to complete 7 cars will be ordered, we have 5 drivers and 2 proxy cars to build, this will give us enough to run a minimal program, and plans are to add two cars a month over the next six months, we want to have 18 cars running by March, 2011 for our Spring Series. I am still trying to sell an r/c car in order to raise the cash to complete the track's landscaping and maybe order another car or two, otherwise things will progress much slower than I'd like but we'll get it all done.
Pics of the completed cars will be posts as soon as they become available, I'm thinking in about 3 weeks. Look for them here first.
I cant wait to see the cool cars you and "Fast Petey" build up.