Off Roadarama
I guess so! I know I have heard the name Skeletor before - he is the one riding the "Werewolf" (?) right? I traded another club member one of my Vettes. As his Buick wouldn't run down the track at one of our past race events.
You are correct, Skeletor is riding the wherewolf thing. Skeletor was a character from a cartoon from the 80's called "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
By the way, Milton--you say you go to a racing club? Does it allow mail-ins?
A little of topic, but relevant in a way...
It is not really a diecast club. There is a local hamburger restuarant that host Firday night races. A few of our 1:1 car clubs that we belong to - attend via their monthly meetings and we usually have a race event afterwards.
The relevant part is that I am talking to the owners about hosting a mail in event along with a local walk in race event - like the Silver Cafe is going to do.
To stay on topic I will introduce the "roadarama" format as a potential race event!
in the olden days when a racer suggested a series, that racer took responsibility for the rules and the finals... that way no one felt stuck with it....
luckily TLD. took the first heet and posted some killer pictures of the cars, some on glass ! so cool...
about a year ago, we got a bunch of new racers [really glad to have them] the finals rule kinda faded as we were so glad to have a new guy offer to host that we didn't want to discourage hosts...
maybe it is time we thought about the series co-ordinator being the finals host unless there is a reason not to...
Two thoughts for Strollers ideal bank
1) Referring back to ideal for this format and the stocker/modded discussion, I guess track width would need to be established first or early on. The knobby tired vehicles I have - just barely fit into the stock HW segment track as it is.
2) Next would be height. Customizing another vehicle with the minimum width of the segmented track would mean lots of tire clearence on most cars and thus finish line height limitations. Is it not the drag tracks gates that are only 1.25 inches inside lane height?
...one of the slot car tracks I unearthed has two snap in hills - an open lane venue in the making!
Did a few test runs on a down hill straight run. The vehicle pictured rolled very well over both ramps - one on the down hill and one on the flat, but since there where not any guard rails it took a right hand turn after each hill!
The track shown is also compatible with the older set I have - so an even longer track is envisioned. Now to convince Mrs Fox to give up more space in the sun room!
There are a lot of new HW and MB series out there now with knobby wheels!
How many others would want to participate in this type of series?
Stroller (original ideal/rule maker/track layout?)
KandO
Delta6
Milton Fox (potential host/track would be an open 1/32 slot car downhill straight - with two hills as pictured in this thread - will add side barriers)
Sorry! Partly my fault for responding as well.