[Micky R]

QUOTE (JOHN SECCHI @ 7 May 2012, 18:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Got one of them TMR lane sticker if anyone wants to replicate them, be a nice touch for a Tottenham retro event.
Don't know if Zenon Craft ever raced at Tottenham but me and him took the trip from Southall to TMR a couple of time's to look at all the latest bits which we couldn't afford, different world to Nordic!
[oneofwos]

i have a small wad of the stickers in my old box! think ive got all 8 colours to!

 

[Mike G]

Mike wootons partner was Ron Cox now living in Cornwall, yes i was there that night that Mike got a slap and ended up with two black eyes. Mike G

 

[Mike G]

Hi Steve, Sorry cant make Wednesday but will make the effort soon, we are actually racing retro can am at Pinewood this week. Mike

 

[oldgitwells]

QUOTE (JOHN SECCHI @ 7 May 2012, 19:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Got one of them TMR lane sticker if anyone wants to replicate them, be a nice touch for a Tottenham retro event.
Don't know if Zenon Craft ever raced at Tottenham but me and him took the trip from Southall to TMR a couple of time's to look at all the latest bits which we couldn't afford, different world to Nordic!
[oneofwos]

But TMR didn't have Max the Alsation, the dog that manged to drag Fletcher under the track whilst marshalling!

 

[superhornets]

Hi jon
and ate Paul turners 1/2 chicken while he was racing

Cheers tony

 

[Ron Kiddell]

QUOTE (TSRF @ 29 Oct 2011, 16:14) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Cool stuff!
Would any of you gentlemen know the present whereabouts of Ron Kiddell and Michael Finnessey?

Hi not bad just over a year later i have found this thread lol
Nice to see the article on the Tottenham open again (lost my copy looking for another if anybody knows of 1)
Still in touch with Phil Lee from that final as he has always been a friend of mine.
Have done some Ninco slot car racing a few years ago at GT Raceways in Rayleigh , Which is next door to my Skyline tuning garage.
I dont have time to do slot cars now as to busy with real racing my skylines.
The King track was always my fav track and always went on about it when racing the Ninco stuff,Met up with Eddie Mac to as he also did a bit of racing at GT Raceway.

found this recently


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[howmet tx]

Love that GT Models Lola!

 

[ArJayAytch]

Ron: Great looking car, both sides up.

Richard
Luton SCC.

 

[Bigtone]

Seeing that car brought back memories, I had completely forgotten that we used to staple clear lexan spoilers to the front of cars. Nice car

 

[Micky R]

hopefully here are some pics of my old stuff...... if ive done it right

comments greatfully received....
car
motors
box
chassis
controler

try to fix this tomorrow

 

[Micky R]

cant get image links to work!!!

 

[roblees]

Dropbox links work fine Micky - thanks for posting these pics.

 

[Micky R]

i will try and take and post some better pics of the chassis and car

 

[merkit the grof]

Sometimes the stars all come aligned at the right time and magical things happen without any intervention from mere mortals.

Last Tuesday, it happened to me. I had been following this lot on ebay and decided to bid. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRFIX-CARS-SLOT-CARS-X3-PLUS-BODIES-VINTAGE-/183341901089?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=dvfDaDCkVXdjnR%252FDelWmIeRRj%252Fw%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc

I could see 2 in line scratch chassis, 3 interesting looking motors, and the 1/24th car was a Ferrari, sadly, fitted with an anglewinder chassis.

Equally important, some of the bodies were signed LND, and I like signed slot-things, I really really like signed slot-things.

As I spent last week working in Poland, I decided to use my faithful Snipper (n'en déplaise aux vieux shnocks).

I picked up the parcel from the post office today. Once opened, I realised that I clearly wasn't paying attention when I bid, this is what I found when I opened the box:

The F1 chassis is marked Mike Williams.

And under the 1/24th Ferrari is a Tottenham raceway sticker for #75.

Putting 2 and 2 together, I searched the forum and found this thread. It is the car entered by Mike Williams at the Tottenham open in 1970 (as per scan above).

There you go: Thanks to the magic of Ebay and the power of snipping, a little bit of British slot history gets to live another day (albeit in a Frenchman's house).

Joel

PS: One last thing, who is LND??

PPS: Right now I feel like a dog with 2 d***s.

 

[ArJayAytch]

Joel, I'm glad these have come back into the fold as it were.

I saw the sticker on the car with the nose spoiler (therefore possibly a raceway car), and asked the seller what it was, thinking that it might be a scrutineer's sticker. All he could tell me was that the cars had been his late brother's and he couldn't read the sticker...!

Richard

 

[Chris Frost]

Sad to hear Mike Williams is no longer with us.

PS: One last thing, who is LND??

LND stands for Langstone, Newport and District. That's the slot car club in South Wales where Mike used to race. I remember many of his cars had LND on them, including the new ones built years after the LND club closed.

 

[merkit the grof]

Chris, thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Joel

 

[gus3049]

n'en déplaise aux vieux shnocks

It would take considerably more than this to upset me. In this case, the result was the right one anyway. If those cars had come into this establishment, like any other slot car, they would have been used. Probably asset stripped for the gears and motors and the fact that they had history would not have bothered me at all.

As I said elsewhere, different mind set

 

[TSRF]

These nice spare bodies will require the construction of replica chassis... and motors.
Another project that will see the light sometime before my ashes are used as fertilizer.

 

[Splendid]

Wow. That blob pair on the June issue cross into the paint style of tin litho toys, and it suits them very well.

Is there a proper name for that effect-shading?