When I got my first Model Motoring set in March of '67 I think cars were about $3 at Dick's Hobby Shop in Terrell Plaza in San Antonio. We (my brother and I) set up an oval and raced, lane choice was a flip of the coin. After a while my dad got smart and took the guard rails off, then it didn't matter.

http://home.earthlink.net/~amg_racing/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mvc-424s.jpg

The fastest car I had was a Batmobile, my brothers was a convertible Ford Fairlane. I had that track for many years until my step-mom sold it in a yard sale, where the cars wound up is anyone's guess. We raced on that track until like 1974 when we got a proper A/FX track (I bought it with earning from the car lot). I can remember racing on a banked oval with a Matador against my brother's Chevy and actually winning. I dropped the slot cars thorugh HS because of sports, but it was a fun distraction while in the Army. I really didn't get back into it seriously until 1984 or so, and the rest is history.

I thought it was weird a few days ago when I got an email from Dunk asking me to buy cars for him from Pete??
Dunk, if you can remember back a few months, when you where whinning about not having rear axles? remember that? I told you to send me your address and I mailed you a bunch of stuff for free, remember that? Do you remember saying thanks????????????????? NOPE
Get some manners dude. your already sounding like a future ............forget it..............I WILL mind my manners.

I see. OK, well what can I say. He just wants to use a different avenue for his purchases since I won't sell to him. I'll keep that in mind for all future sales.

If anyone else got the same request I'd sure like to know about it.

Pete, I'm liking that old pic you posted. I honestly don't think there are any pics of my younger brother and I racing slots when we were kids......although I wish now that there had been :(

At age 30 I'm still far from a rich man........my wife and I usually operate on a tight budget...but we survive. To fund my hobbies I sometimes hit flea markets,yard sales, and etc. in search of vintage BMX bikes,video games,action figures, and other collectible vintage toys, and etc. I then sell on Ebay (in spurts) and often convert other items from my toy collection and other hobbies to fund the "hobby of the moment" that I'm into at the time :thumbsup:


Everything I do is done on a budget......but that doesn't mean that you can't have a ton of fun on a budget. :thumbsup:

Tx, my whole life growing up is well documented, from pics like this to Super 8mm movies. I have pics of my brother and I taken once a week in 1968 as the Hemisfair Tower was being built because I had an uncle working on the concrete crew. I guess my dad thought I would become famous someday...sorry dad.

There was a truck stop on the northeast side of San Antonio called the Gas-N-Eat, they had a 1/24th scale slot car track my oldest brother would ride his bike out to run on. I bought a Cox La Cucuratcha to race with him too, I think I traded it to him for candy or something.

I have one picture that no matter how I scan it it won't come out clear. It's of all my cars, slots, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, all around a 2 lane oval and I'm racing the Batmobile all by myself. The date on the back says November 1968 but I don't remember the caped crusader lasting that long.

I've been looking at my old pictures. I had tons of stuff. A big part on my life as a youth was slot cars my friend Nick and I would run our slot cars all day. I had some Tyco sets put together at my house and we had his brother's Aurora track at his house. I remember it starting out on the floor in his bed room, then on a ping pong table in his basement. This went on for years, yet I have no pictures of it. I know I was always getting slot stuff for Christmas and birthdays. I am finding pictures of Major Matt Mason, GI Joe that Aurora bowling game, an air plane thing where the airplane flew around a tower on a wire of some sort and you made it do tricks, but no slot stuff. This is boggling my mind.

I had the Big Jim with the Karate Chop, GI Joes of all sorts of sizes and colors, enough Lego's to reconstruct the Twin Towers, and so many Hot Wheels that my step mom STILL finds them when she cleans out the storage shed and barns. I had the helicopter on the little wire where you picked up stuff and moved it from one pad to the other, and I actually sold that in a yard sale a few years ago.

Besides slot cars now I do sailboats. Not your little WalMart style kind but the big one meter kind. I have a AMYA US1M ordered from Tower right now, a 1/22nd scale Voyager. I've never raced "officially" on water, so this is something totally new to me. But for $200 I get a class legal boat with an almost 60" tall carbon fiber mast, a nice little 2 channel radio and the glues to build it with. I'm an associate member of a local club that I'll join after I get the boat. And of course, AMG will sponsor it at all regattas.

Hi Pete-
Have you gone to production on the Brumos Porsche Grand Am body? I would like to pick up some of those from you. ;) I sent a message through this board but didn't know if it worked.

Thanks,
Scott
Vargo Speedway (http://www.supervipersystems.com/VargoSpeedway)

My name is Martin, and I am new to this forum.

Welcome to the forum Martin! :wave:

Dunk, if you can remember back a few months, when you where whinning about not having rear axles? remember that?

i belive i did on another forum somewhere in the round 2 auto world
and i wasnt whinning about not haveing axels i was posting a photo
of what i did to make t-jet rims

Hi Pete-
Have you gone to production on the Brumos Porsche Grand Am body? I would like to pick up some of those from you. ;) I sent a message through this board but didn't know if it worked.

Thanks,
Scott
Vargo Speedway (http://www.supervipersystems.com/VargoSpeedway)

I will be soon Scott, right now I'm building my new airbox so I can do two cars at once on the same size piece of plastic I was getting one car on. Everything is frozen until mid-March, which isn't going to be that long. I'm working with a machinest friend now that may be going into limited business with me turning axles and arm shafts from titanium scrap he has. We've ordered a couple of rolling chassis, his idea is to machine a small flange into the axle so you won't need spacers anymore. I haven't seen a prototype from him yet but I should sometime early next week. My sprinter buck will be updated this coming week too, I've been looking at Zigs and see where I'd like mine to be better shaped that it is now.

Hey guys, I believe the helicopter toy that yall have been referring to is the "Vertabird" ...... :thumbsup:

Hey guys, I believe the helicopter toy that yall have been referring to is the "Vertabird" ...... :thumbsup:

Thats it Brian ! "The Vertibird" That thing drove the family cat away and the dog went nuts. :thumbsup:

Nowadays you couldnt market a vegamatic like that without a helmet, eyeprotection, elbow and knee pads! :rolleyes:

I'll bet lunch you got one in that toy museum of yours! :p

Funny, that, Bill! I purchased one, NEW just a few years ago! The rotor now has a ring around it, but it still performs the same, eh!
With hot batteries, I can pick up a Charger Daytona, heh! That cats DO stay clear, hey, but really like to watch it fly about! :lol:

I'll bet lunch you got one in that toy museum of yours! :p


You know man, that's one of just a few toys that I've never owned. I've owned countless vintage 12" GI joes,Redline Hot Wheels, and even some vintage Barbie stuff.....but not a Vertabird ;)

I watched this thread for a while. I have to agree with Pete. Kids today are LACKING in manners, I have a 17 year old, every once in a while he needs slapped up long side his head to remind him to use them!

Pete,
When you do the Brumos Porsche Grand-am, are you going to do the Fabcar chassis or the Riley which they are running this year? If you need pic's of the car's let me know. I can send some to you. Also I would be interesting in picking up the vacuum form busness from you. It would be a good thing for my son to get involved with.

send me a PM and we'll work out the details there.


Thanks
Henry

I think the business will stay in my hands, I have more bodies planned soon, and I'll resume production in early/mid March too.

As of the end of March I'll be retiring. I'll be 47 years old and my legs aren't as good as they used to be. Between doing stupid stuff playing airsoft and years of abuse riding dirt bikes both ankles and knees are pretty much shot. This will give me something to do once I start staying at home.

I have requests for a new Grand Am car, I have plans for a Go-Kart and an open cockpit version of the Odyssey. I don't know much about you drag racing guys but I'd even consider a Pro Stock someday. I'm also going to update my Outlaw sprinter to Zig's level of detail. I'm not going away, but I may slow down some. One project a month may be enough.

pete, im sorry i called you a scammer im sorry for all the trouble i caused you in all of this

sethanddaddy, just incase i didnt say thanks for the rims thanks

pete, i have a question i made this plaster sprint car mold to make bodys for t-jets when i vacuum form it it gets holes in each side of it it the mold to tall? what am i doing wrong? :confused:

Wow, Dunk, You are on a roll!
You shoot off your mouth days ago and refuse to acknowledge that you were in the wrong, eh.

Then you make excuses for your childish behavior to justify your actions, yeah?

When that doesn't work, you decide to quit HO and go play with your brother, right?

You have trouble with the Vac-forming on your own, eh, and decide you had better say you are sorry and acknowledge 2 great guys on HT (when you have offended many, hey!) to get some help.

You wait exactly 2 hours and 2 minutes to ask Pete for help, right?

:lol: I wish I was Pete so I could tell you to go jump in the lake, eh!
Maybe Pete will be more forgiving than I would be.

Good Luck! :thumbsup:

pete, i have a question i made this plaster sprint car mold to make bodys for t-jets when i vacuum form it it gets holes in each side of it it the mold to tall? what am i doing wrong? :confused:

I thought you'd gone already. That was your first instinct, why not stick to it?

I thought you'd gone already. That was your first instinct, why not stick to it?

after my sucess with carving and vacuum forming the sprint car for t-jets i think ill stick around and maybe try some other cars for t-jets

I've had my say about what was done and said. At this point I choose to just ignore as much of him here as I can. Hopefully that will take care of whatever is left over. I'm not going to comment here about it further, everyone here has their own opinions and I have mine. Other than to say it was an unpleasant and uncomfortable experience I'm letting it drop. For now. But I will say, Dunk, don't even think about asking me for anything, even advice. You won't like what I have to say you can do with your mold, and your product.

There are guys here like Zig, that are CRAFTSMEN. Guys that take an image in their heads and make it a reality. I am in awe of the guys who resin cast, I look at their posts and wish I had something I could add. I can't. That skill is beyond me for the moment, maybe this time next year it won't be, but I'm OK with that. Crafting in this hobby is a time-learned skill. Guys who can build tracks with elevation changes, landscaping and such are the masters in my opinion, and that also a skill I'm working on.

I do one thing, and I do it with a moderate amount of success. I was happy that the Odyssey was a hit with you guys, once the Formula whatever is done, I'm sure some will like that too. Being a cottage industry I don't have to make my living at this, I can do what will make a small group happy and move on to the next small group. If I can make racers happy along the way, that's fine with me. I take my inspiration from guys like Zig, and I try to give it back to guys like Dunk. But I refuse...REFUSE to have it stolen from me. Fool me once....

Welcome to the real world. The correct term is "black balled". Another phrase would be"consequences of your actions". How about a biblical reference, "reap what you sow". Am I comin' through loud and clear?

You see Dunk, You exercised your inalienable right to be a turd. Now Pete has exercised his right to flush you. I can safely say that every one watching along was aghast at your behavior. We all saw it coming. Many patiently tried to advise you, yet you persisted.

Pete is a man among men. He loves this hobby. He appreciates the craft and it's bountiful nuances. He takes young people under his wing and gives of himself whatever he can. He's humble, and honest. He practices the lost art of "hubris". That's known as a "class act".

For shame Dunk, You took a big crap on Pete professionally and personally. Now you want/expect absolution!? "I'm sorry, give me what I want", wont play here. Game over! No replays. Your out of quarters. You had better learn something from this experience. If not corrected, this is the kind of behavior that will find a whelp like you unconscious and later counting your remaining teeth.

Pete is the exception not the rule. The world is full of people who would help you, or gladly hand you your lunch. The phrase "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is not just a bunch of words! It's what you should have done. It's what you need to learn.

The word maturation comes to mind. I suggest you look it up, and any others from above you dont understand.