Article in Daily Telegraph today about the risk of dying:
"Age is one of the biggest risk factors for general health and well being and the chances of dying rise substantially as people grow older."

Well, who would have thought it?

BBC web site - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52627900

...........they just move around a bit.

IMPORTANT
The information within this first post in the thread has been discovered to contain a major inaccuracy.
All references to it being the original March Mustangs track are incorrect. The passage of time does strange things to the memory and although the history was based on first hand recollections new information has subsequently come to light which refutes it. All should become clear as you read through it.


This is the tale of a track that was born in the late 1970s and its subsequent travels round the country. Some elements of the story are lost in the mists of time and others involve a degree of fraudulent behaviour so one participant will remain nameless to protect the (alleged!) guilty party.
This is the track in question:
                           

It is the first Mussel Bay club track which was in use at their original King's Lynn premises from 2003 to 2005 but the story starts in Cambridgeshire in 1977 when Mike Harvey (who currently runs the reincarnated Presto Park) started the March Mustangs Model Car Club.

It was initially housed in a local church hall with a Scalextric track but, later that year Mike and an American service man called Chuck Palmer built a 68ft wooden track on Mike's driveway. It was constructed from 3/4 inch chipboard and the lap recorders were built by Nigel Gibbs, now of Anglia Slot Racing. The club also found a more permanent home above a garage in the centre of March and the first open meeting was held on 4th March 1978 with several drivers from Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich clubs competing:

       

Later that year the track was extended to 100ft but Mike changed jobs within the police force and was unable to continue his involvement with the club. It continued for a while but eventually closed in 1981 and the history of the track becomes a bit vague at this point. It may have gone to a short lived club in Gorleston for a while but eventually ended up as the final track of the original Presto Park club at the Angel Inn, Larling. Presto was formed in the 60s and changed premises and track several times before eventually closing down. It is possible that the track was modified and/or incorporated parts of an earlier Presto track during its time at Larling but I have been unable to find a definitive answer on this.

Having been in storage in Great Yarmouth for a while after Presto's closure the track was purchased by Mussel Bay Raceway in 2003 and moved to King's Lynn. It was set up in palatial premises on the top floor of the old Skoda Tractor offices in North Lynn and run as a commercial raceway, complete with shop, for hire by the hour. The club used it on Friday nights. All went well for a couple of years but, early in 2005, at the end of a club night, we were informed by the owner that the rent had been tripled and was now unaffordable so the track was dismantled and put into storage. Some time later the raceway owner told us that the storage unit had sprung a leak, the track had been terminally water damaged so had been burnt. The club itself found smaller premises, built a new shorter track and carries on using it to this day.

End of story?......................Er..........No.
Fast forward to 2013, out of the blue I received an email from somebody in the Wirral claiming that they had acquired the original Mussel Bay track for their new club and asking about its history. I replied saying it had been destroyed but they sent me some pictures and it was indeed the one. They informed me it had been purchased from Mark Scale of Scale Models in Stockport for £200.

Intrigued by this turn of events I started asking questions and discovered that the reason the original commercial raceway had failed was that the owner had kept all the income but neglected to pay the rent for six months so was evicted. He also failed to pay for a lot of the shop stock and had not burnt the track but sold it to persons unknown and kept the proceeds. Two friends of mine who had invested money in the project were not best pleased to discover this but the owner had disappeared and has never resurfaced! Mark Scale had later acquired the track and stored it in the Scale Models track room with a view to refurbishing it for use but eventually sold it to the new Wirral club who took it to a local church hall. By now it was in quite a sorry state and needed a lot of work:          

The latest owners also did nothing with it as far as I can tell, I did offer to buy it back if the project didn't come to fruition but I had no further contact from them. About a year later it appeared on eBay at a silly price, was relisted five times and failed to sell. I heard nothing more about it for a while but in January 2015 I received an email from Barry Davidson in Princes Risborough, Bucks who told me he was the new owner and asking about its history! Apparently he had bought it from the Wirral club for next to nothing and the transport costs far exceeded the purchase price. He intended to use it as a home track set up in a barn owned by a friend.

Recently I thought I would check up on its current whereabouts so emailed Barry and asked.  He still has it five years later but it is still not completely restored as the barn it was intended for burnt down and it has taken a while to find somewhere else to put it. Unfortunately the new premises are too small to accommodate the full size track so the long straights will have to be omitted and stored away. Anyway, here is the original track plan:
   

And this is the current state of play:
       

Perhaps one day it will be restored to its former glory and I can go down and have a play on it but who knows where the story will end. It was a magnificent track and I miss it to this day.

And Finally..............
If anybody can fill in some of the gaps in the story I would love to hear from them.

So we got an e-mail from the parents' organization for the high school my daughter goes to.
Parents had requested that the teachers actually grade homework and send feedback instead of simply dumping pages of homework on them without giving the students any idea if they had grasped the material or not.

The principal response (and this is more or a less a verbatim quote): We did a test run. A teacher took a chemistry essay for 30 students. He had to download, print out, correct then scan and upload all 30 and it took him 7 hours."

First of all: Isn't it a teacher's JOB to make sure kids learn?!

Second: My response was: Dagnabbit... my horse and buggy just can't seem to keep up on the Autobahn!

I can#t believe that the teacher did not have the work sent in electronically, use the standard revision techniques and send them back.
If someone complains that they could cheat and not write it themselves: a quick google /wikipedia search will unearth collusion and you can ask them to sign a statement that it was all their work.

Really? Are we stuck in 1990?

Hello ladies and gentlemen,
I have this lot for sale. There are two types. One is the Ford GT40 style where the original was two vertical halves. The other is from a Lotus 40 perhaps?
Price is 20.00GBP plus shipping

There are four of this one


and six of this one



These were repopped with the original hollow out in the back

You might see that fault on the drivers head lower right cheek....that has been corrected with a remould of the head and clean casts will be provided.

Wolf Creek is an actual creek that our house/property is situated on. It flows into the New river in Southwest Virginia. I built a large RC off road park in my yard and called it Wolf Creek Scale park and well... I just sort of keep using the name. There are no wolves so I don't know where the name originally came from. The slot car track started as a Carrera GT set back in 2011/2012 I believe. I've upgraded the wireless controllers from the original IR to 2.4 GHz, Black box to the new CU, I've expanded 3 times and I'm right around 90' now. 

Dan Gurney drove pretty much everything and some of his cars were real lookers.  I recently picked up this one on Ebay.

       

Hello all,
A group of retailers are providing some retail-therapy via a Virtual SlotFest.  Details in link below.

Leo

http://www.virtualslotfest.co.uk

Lots of us have done it. During lockdown I opened my two pots of Smooth on Vytaflex that I had purchased some twelve months earlier and got out some old moulds and made some new ones.
I began casting using my experience from two earlier episodes.

1) It is messy
2) The one part (yellow pot part B) starts slowly going off as soon as you open the pot.
3) Use a syringe to inject the mixture, I used a 10 ml one mainly due to what I had and the nozzle size.
4) Choose tires to repop you like and use a lot. 
   I wanted tall profile narrow vintage tires, tires to fit the Slotit 14mm rim, high profile wide, F1 wide donuts, SCX Escort and Fiat Abarth replacements.
5) Clean the rim and lids carefully after use because any residue on the rim starts to cure and getting the lid off the yellow pot will have you speaking bad words before all the contents are used. 
6) You will have failures which is disappointing after waiting twelve to sixteen hours for demoulding. Some failures can be repaired when you mix and cast next time but some will go in the bin....my success rate improved as I learned my syringe technique.
7) The black pigment is extremely strong so take care not to get it on you, your clothes or anywhere it shouldn't be.

This pack cost me about 40GBP. I have given a few sets away but now have a supply that should last me a while.

Pictures can now speak