Last weekend, in tribute to the upcoming Le Mans 24 hour race, club members brought in some of the many slot cars of Le Mans race cars for a photo shoot. Leading the field was the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR of Fangio and Moss, followed by Ferrari GTOs, a Cobra Daytona, Jaguar Lightweight, original Ford…
Shawn and Marty put on a great battle for the lead in Race 5 of the Thunderslot 2018 Race Series with Shawn ultimately leading Marty, 232 laps to 231 and taking fast lap, just breaking into the 3.6’s. David edged Russell for third, followed by Alejandro, Stephen, and Mark. In Group B, Randy came out…
The fourth race of the Thunderslot 2018 Race Series was held on May 19. As i was unable to attend, Alejandro was kind enough to write the story and take photos. Many thanks to Alejandro. Check out the revised overall results at the end of the article! The race started with Randy, John, and Mark…
The third race of the new-for-2018 Thunderslot Lola Series was another terrific race. Marty and Shawn had a great battle, both turning in record 236 laps with Marty just edging out Shawn by a .80 fractional to Marty’s .18. Both scored 20 points as Shawn had fastest lap–3.660 seconds to Marty’s 3.680. Whew! David was…
Race 2 of the Thunderslot 2018 series was somewhat different from the first race. Marty turned in a stellar performance, taking fast lap at 3.676 seconds and 235.55 total laps, but several others were somewhat slower. Russell was second with 227 laps and Alejandro was close to his Race 2 result at 225 laps. John…
The first race of the Thunderslot 2018 race series was a real barnburner! I believe that it was the fastest overall race that we have ever run. Everyone posted personal fastest laps and lap totals. The Thunderslot Lolas proved to be very fast and controllable; deslots were few and far between. The action was very…
I was fortunate enough to see Dan Gurney a number of times over the years, although I only got to see him race once. Sitting in the grandstand opposite the pits at the 1966 Sebring 12 hours, I waited, along with the crowd, for Dan to come around the last turn on the last lap…
For painting slot cars and scale models, my paints of choice are lacquers and Auto-Air Colors water based paints. For the lacquers I use Tamiya, DupliColor, and PlastiKote rattle can paints as well as various airbrushed lacquers. But the paints I often default to are the water-based paints from Auto-Air Color. These paints are very…
