The Fast & The Furious

Back in 2001 the Fast & the Furious hit the big screen. Prior to that I hadn't been to the movies more than once or twice in over 20 years. I found myself back at the theater over & over again. I just couldn't get enough of it. I even made a slot car race out of it.

In the movie all they talked about was gettin' ready for Race Wars so that became the name of my new race & in 2002 the first Race Wars (slot car race) was held. 

In the movie everyone gathered in the desert to do battle to find out who would be the best of the best.

In the slot car world it became a one day traveling race that included six different tracks.

You had to build one car (& there were guidelines) to compete against all the other racers across six different tracks without any changes to the cars between tracks.

Each track being totaly different in design, layout & texture. All of the cars were impounded when not racing to ensure they were not tampered with.

The race started at 9:00 am with tech-in of each of the cars. Once the race was started we ran the first three tracks & then had a break for lunch & followed with the final three tracks. At the end of the race there were awards handed out for all the winners.

That first race saw fifteen racers all doing battle just to see who would be the best of the best & at the end of the day, a very long day (some 12 hours later), a guy by the name of Bob Dunkle was the 1st Race Wars winner.

And at the end of the day as I looked around at all the tired faces wanting to do nothing more than go home & go to bed I wondered to myself did we do good or what?

I hope you'll stay tuned to find out what happened?

Thanks for lookin" ... J Y D

It's my birthday

Today is my birthday ... I'm 54 years old. I started the day off remembering my last birthday.

I thought why not share it with the rest of the world ... so here goes.

(3 / 21 / 2008)

Hey Guys ... Today is my birthday. So I thought I'd share with you one of the best birthday presents a dad could ever recieve!

Andy made this for me & it's a total blast ... check out the link below.
And just when you think it's over ... well it's not ... keep watching.

The Dog Pound goes Hollywood! ! !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-AnxZgRhw8

Old School Racing is the way it needs to be!

(3 / 21 / 2009)

Now to wait & see what this birthday will bring?

Thanks for lookin' ... J Y D

The Ninco Corvette Down Low

If you're in to the old Vette scene ... this is gotta be at the

top of your list.

Stay tune ... for the rest of the story ... J Y D

Carrera 41 willys

Just got done drivin' the 41 ... need to play with the weight a little ... but already you can tell it's gonna be a blast.
The biggest problem I see is after drivin' this one ... ain't no way you wanna go back to drive the others.
So I started on the second one ... Thanks Jon 





Thanks for lookin' ... J Y D

A pair of Mercs

Back in 2007 our first winter series we had a car raffle as part of our awards nite.
As part of the raffle I asked Phil (Retro Resins) to build a couple of cars & nobody other than the two of us new what they were.
Long story short ... I was lucky enough to wind up with one of the most besutiful 49 Mercs that ever had a guild flag under it. Thanks Again Phil.

Since that time I have picked up several of Phil's Retro Resin bodies but have never built one.
So this morning at some un-godly hour as I sat at the kitchen table with my first pot of coffee It called me. So I went downstairs & grabbed a body to have coffee with. The next thing I knew I was cutting up a chassis.
The late morning & afternoon hours where spent with some errands & stuff.
Once all of that was out of the way ... I headed downstairs to finish my new ride. And even though it's not totally done it is a driver. I just spent the last 1/2 hour drivin' it around the track.

It still needs some finish work, paint & interior ... but for now ... I think I'm just gonna enjoy drivin' it for awhile.
Hats off to Phil ... with out Retro Resins ... there's some pretty cool cars that none of us would ever get to enjoy.

Thanks for looking ... J Y D

Fun ride to the track

I think the Thunderbird should make a great tow car.
Needed a way to get the #32 car down to the old Santa fe Speedway in style.


Norb ... now I won't have to keep using your 55 Chevy. ... J Y D

Carrera GTO & Charger

I was up in the middle of the night (couldn't sleep) so I did the the black one to sit next to the green one.
After I had the GTO on a rolling chassis ... I figured why not?