Post by retroracer44 on Mar 31, 2016 0:49:48 GMT -5
Hello to all of you on this forum. Let me introduce myself. My name is Keith and I use the handle Retro Racer 44. I am also a member of the Slot Car Canada, Slot Car Illustrated, Home Racing World and Slot Forum. I have visited this forum a few times in the past and find many people that I know already from these other sites.
I am proudly Canadian! I grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, part of the Greater Toronto Area, but have also lived in Quebec for two years, the Northwest Territories for ten years, and British Columbia the last twenty-five years. I raced slot cars in Toronto in the 1960s and my cars were all scratch builds. While I was teaching in the Arctic, the fad died out, but it wasn't until 44 years later that I discovered the hobby survived and is growing again. Five years ago, retired, I moved to the Greater Vancouver area. My wife said I needed a hobby, so I looked up slot racing and found Luf's site www.oldslotracer.com and have been back into it ever since.
When i joined the club, everyone was running plastic RTR cars, Fly, Scalextric and Slot.it mainly, but I wanted to get scratch building again. A few were already making cars for their shelf and we soon started a constructor's award. If you run a car with a scratch built chassis you earn points. I have also discovered the joys of proxy racing and currently have about a dozen cars out around the world running in proxies, and have also run several proxy rounds here. Last year we started the GVSCC Targa Florio Proxy and it was such a success that the Targa 2 will be held this fall.
Last week I took the plunge and signed up for the VRAA proxy that many of you have entered. I have a MB W196 open wheel GP car on its way to me and hope to build it up worthy of the quality of modelling I see on these pages. The 1.5 litre models with their open engine and suspension detail will have to wait.
Anyway, that's about me.
Keith
I am proudly Canadian! I grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, part of the Greater Toronto Area, but have also lived in Quebec for two years, the Northwest Territories for ten years, and British Columbia the last twenty-five years. I raced slot cars in Toronto in the 1960s and my cars were all scratch builds. While I was teaching in the Arctic, the fad died out, but it wasn't until 44 years later that I discovered the hobby survived and is growing again. Five years ago, retired, I moved to the Greater Vancouver area. My wife said I needed a hobby, so I looked up slot racing and found Luf's site www.oldslotracer.com and have been back into it ever since.
When i joined the club, everyone was running plastic RTR cars, Fly, Scalextric and Slot.it mainly, but I wanted to get scratch building again. A few were already making cars for their shelf and we soon started a constructor's award. If you run a car with a scratch built chassis you earn points. I have also discovered the joys of proxy racing and currently have about a dozen cars out around the world running in proxies, and have also run several proxy rounds here. Last year we started the GVSCC Targa Florio Proxy and it was such a success that the Targa 2 will be held this fall.
Last week I took the plunge and signed up for the VRAA proxy that many of you have entered. I have a MB W196 open wheel GP car on its way to me and hope to build it up worthy of the quality of modelling I see on these pages. The 1.5 litre models with their open engine and suspension detail will have to wait.
Anyway, that's about me.
Keith