Hello Fellow Slot Car Enthusiasts

[wb0s]

 My name is Bill and I'm an old slot car racer, builder, collector, and tinkerer currently living in Fairview Oregon. Probably like a lot of you I have enjoyed slot cars since I was a small kid. I started with a Gilbert 1/32 figure eight set for Christmas that came with the '40 Ford coupes, to which one of the '61 Corvettes was added on my birthday. After a year or two I received an Aurora Thunderjet 500 set as another Christmas present. Although the Gilbert set and cars are long gone, I still have some of my original Aurora T-Jet cars. 

 Since then I have been in and out of the hobby, but have never left completely. In the early '80s I raced with the HO Racers of Oregon (HORO). We were pretty hardcore racers for the time, racing modified T-Jets, modified Magna-Traction cars, and modified Tyco 440s. In addition I found out about a local 1/24 club PASER, that had been racing since the early 1960s. I started racing with PASER in a barn owned by Lee Dundas in Wilsonville. There I was introduced to 1/24 hardbody cars and 1/32 Womps. I still love them both and race them whenever I can!

 After another departure from the hobby, I resumed racing in the late '90s with a group called NASTE (Northwest Association of Slot Track Enthusiasts). I have continued racing with NASTE as well as other local clubs including Rapid Raceway for 1/24 cars. I am lucky in that there is so much slot car racing going on here in Oregon. You can literally race every week around here if you have a desire to! I still enjoy racing all the different slot cars, HO, 1/32, and 1/24. I still build a few cars, and have built tracks in all the three scales both section plastic type and routed wood. I currently own an HO MDF routed track as well as an 84 foot three lane routed track for 1/32 and 1/24 cars. We are currently racing 1/32 cars as well as 1/24 BRM and Vintage '60s cars on my track on a monthly basis.

 My latest endeavor has been to partner up with one of my good racing buddies and start making urethane tires. With my partner's help we have started to market our tires to racers other than just the local folks. We are trying to provide racers with something a little different from what has been available from other vendors. We take pride in the tires we make and strive to provide a quality product. I must give credit to my partner for the idea, execution, and website. He is definitely the brains of the outfit!

[Peter Seager-Thomas]

Hi Bill, welcome to the forum.

Thank you for introducing yourself, there are too many who join but are reluctant to take part.

I reckon you are not the least unusual having been in and out of the hobby since you were a kid. I seem to have done it in 15 year cycles, but after the last take up, it didn't stop.

Which particular era of F1/open wheeler car is of interest to you? Most members here are very much into the 1960's F1 cars, both 1.5L and 3.0L, though there are a few oddballs like me who prefer earlier stuff, much earlier.

How are your tyres different?

You might care to add a thread to the manufacturers section, whilst this forum has no objection to you adding a website to your signature.

Welcome again, Peter.

[wb0s]

Hello Peter,

We race vintage F1 cars here at our local tracks. The class is comprised of various divisions, so any F1 car can compete. Personally I like the fifties and early sixties cars the best. I recently acquired a couple Cartrix F1 cars and have been enjoying modifying them for competition and actually getting to race them. They're not super fast, but I think they are a lot of fun.

Our tires are different in that we try to make replacement tires that are superior in performance to the stock tires for many brands and makes of slot cars. We make tires for HO cars and 1/24 as well as 1/32. We also do custom or special requests when possible. We are continually increasing our inventory and selsction for customers. In fact I just made sixteen new molds last night. We had finish our tires with an emphasis on getting the best finish possible on the backside sidewall of the tire. We strive to produce good looking tires as well as a good tire for competition use. We stand behind our product and want our customers to be 100% satisfied. If you don't like our tires you can send them back for a full refund. If a customer has a defective tire we will replace it for free.