Devoted to Miniature Car Auto Racing World's Most Sensational Hobby
Published
by:
PRESIDENT:
Edward E. Baynes, 762 East Hawthorne St., Ontario, California
VICE
PRESIDENT: Charles Flynt, 1314 E. Mckinley Ave., Belleville, Ill.
SEC.-TREAS:
Martie Fairabend
(Mrs.) 53166 Franklin Dr., Utica, Michigan
FROM
THE DESK OF
THE
PRESIDENT:
For
the benefit of our members who could not attend the Nationals here in
California, I will try and give you a short resumé of the three days of racing.
By Friday, all
the entries had arrived and we had this barren track looking a little like a
Nationals.
Chris
Lupo brought the timer house over with him from arizona, and we put up our
shade parachutes. We got the public address system all set up; the County
brought in the benches for the contestants, so everything was all set.
We
got started qualifying about 10 AM and it took until about 6:30 in the evening
for everyone to get all their runs in. Glenn Falrabend started out the day with
his first ran (with a Junk 1254 car as Bob Loose calls them) with a speed of
154.64, which is the second fastest time that has ever been turned with a
miniature car. This speed proved to be the fastest of the meet. It was evident
that he was the man to beat!
Tonnie
Pegue joined the 150 mile an hour club with his beautiful red Four car with the
1.64 to 1 gear ratio. Tonnie also set quite a pace with his arrow car, turning
the track in 6.40 for a speed of 140 MPH.
Norm
Murray showed up at 4 PM after working all day on his two cars and one for Mert
and Ron Jantze. Norm got a run in on his Davis Custom car, and Mert and Ron got
their two cars qualified, but found that one car needed some more' work on the
fuel tank. It would not hold ft peak - so back to the workshop went Norm with
the Jantze-Davis Custom.
Saturday
was the big day for the Manufactured and the BB cars, and this was quite an
upset, as a Spur Gear McCoy car won the Class IV (BB) and a glo plug Arrow took
top time in Class II (Mod.Mfg.) We had entries in these classes from New
Mexico, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Northern California, Central California and
Southern California.-so everything was all set. fornia, and Southern
California.
A1
Weaver took the top honors in the strictly stock Manufactured~ Class I. He had
two very good running cars. What I want to know is how do you keep those cars
so hot up there in the cold North???
Tonnie
Pegue took the top honors with his Class II Arrow. Frank and Robbie Munis, from
Bakersfield, took second place in Class I (Mg). Paul Morgan, from up close to
Sacramento, California,
took the nice engraved stop watch given by Dick McCoy for the fastest car
powered with a McCoy at the 1965 Nationals. Paul won with a speed of 121 MPH
with a SPUR GEAR. Earl Hutton came in second with his Roach.
We
finished running about 4:30 as we had to be ready when they came over with the
water truck to wash the track for Sunday's running. We had a Drag Race, and for
a while it looked like Franny Wolf's fast Arrow had it in the bag until Ron
Jantze came up with his converted rail car and took a run. Man, that car was
wide open from the first lap, and it held it all thru the half mile to take top
place in the Custom Class. Lenny Zeitner took the Mfg. Class, and Earl Hutton
(the Santa Paula Flash) took the BB Class. We washed the track, and all headed
for the Motel for the banquet and the presentation of the trophies.
On
Sunday we got started about 11 o'clock, and ran the Cold Fuelers first. By 1
o'clock, we had them all run through and the track cleaned, ready for the Hot
Fuel runs. Glenn Fairabend lead off the field with his first run, with a speed
of 153.32 which again proved to be the fastest of the day. Our guest from
Sweden proved that he could operate a car very well, as he got both of his very
nice looking cars up over the 150 MPH mark. Martie Falrabend took second place~
snd the Swede third. Our Vice President (the man with the strong arm!) tied
with Frank Fox for fourth.
In this
event we had entries from all over the United States and from Sweden, which
made it truly a National Meet. George Payne came from Oklahoma to run with us,
and we had Len Zeitncr from Pennsylvania. Also from the East we had Bill
Pistoll with his own car and Al Winter by proxy, The Falrabends from the
Michigan Club, Tonhie Pegue from New Mexico, and Charlie Flynt with his three
fast cars (including the Novi) from Illinois, were also with us.
In
between the heats we had all the cars lined up on three long tables so that two
of the Indies could pick the Best Looking Car at this Meet. The prize went to
Lennart Forsloff for his silver car. This turned out to be the time to take
pictures of all the cars lined up and it was a very beautiful sight to see the
35-40 very nice Custom cars sitting side by side!
Our
Flea Market did not come into being until Saturday morning, and when it did,
what a sight~ There were cars and extras from a complete Club, all laid out on
two tables, for sale or trade. There were complete cars with Dooling engines
and mags in them, and new cars, and parts, such as tapered hubs, gears and
tires, mags for Arrow cars, all very reasonable. There were spark plugs,
pistons (some oversize) and rods, (straight ones, too), so if you were not
here, you really missed something. I bought a couple of cars and engines, but
the only thing I got to keep was a set of tapered hubs~ as some fellow from
Pennsylvania kept buying the cars that I bought!
During
the two days of Championship running, we had some very special guests, which
included Ray Snow (the manufacturer of the Hornet engine and the forerunner of
our Hobby); B Dick Hulse (originator of AMRCA); Keith Springer; Dick McCoy;
Norm Jansen; Art Poore (who did most of ~he work on the original Dooling
engines); Clarence Benskin; Bill Wiesnewski (from K&B Mfg.). Bill was out
with the new 61 engine for us to look at~ and he also brought out his sound
track and took a reading on Glenn's "Fast Four" car of 25500.rpm! Man, that is really
turning up!
We had
a catering truck during the two days of running, which furnished the fellows
with coffee, hot rolls and donuts, sandwiches, cold drinks, etc., which made it
very nice for everyone.
The
track held up real well, as we did not have to clean it at all on Saturday, and
only twice on Sunday.
The
automatic track-cleaner worked very well. It needs a little improving, but it
did save a lot of time. Everyone got all the runs in that they wanted, and we
were all through running before five. This gave us plenty of time to present
the Championship trophies for the day's running, and get our pictures taken.
(Maybe the pictures will be published in a magazine!)
Dick
Clyborne, one of our new members, handled the timing chores, and did an
excellent Job. Chuck Cook handled the P.A. system for us, for which we thank
him very much. Chris Lupo was busy doing something all during the Meet? he was
the hardest working member, at this Race, and we thank him a great deal. Don
Rouse was down for the first couple days of the Meet, and we wore sorry he
couldn't stay.
Ed Baynes