SCHOR Tracks - THE RIVERSIDE CUSTOM BUCKTRAX

The super fast and famous one!

This is the “RIVERSIDE”.  It is named after the famous Southern California International race circuit that it replicates.  The Riverside is one of the very first HO slot car tracks that Bucktrax built.  This beautiful 61 foot, Lane-Master timed, high speed, sweeping turn, continous rail, painted Bucktrax is truly one of the nicest and fastest HO slot car tracks you will ever see. Larger and longer than most Bucks, it sits on a 6x18 foot table and boast six very high speed lanes. I believe it was the third of the original trio of big custom tracks made by Dale Buck (all three were made on 6’x18’ heavy duty tables: The Velocity-Dome, The Original Scorpion, and The Riverside).  This was before they began production of the 4x16s and the 4x12s that made Bucktrax so popular across the country.  This particular track was originally made for multiple HOPRA World Champion racer and Scale Auto/BSRT Owner Gary Beedle, and was first located at the Scale Auto compound in Redmond, WA.  It was then brought south to DelMar, CA by Gary Cleverley, where it anchored his “HO Racing and Hobbies” facility back in the mid-nineties and hosted the first three huge Race-A-Rama HO Slot car events, along with being the track and site where the still standing Guinness World Record for 1/64th scale slot cars was set.  It then spent a year at Gary Morgan’s “Kensington Speedway” in San Diego, and finally found it’s current home in Rancho Cucamonga, CA - only a few miles from the site of it’s namesake, where it has been pampered and gently restored by Eddie Torres.  With a record qualifying lap time of 1.487 seconds for NEO class HO cars, this is definitely one of the worlds fastest tracks.

El Serpiente

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RACE A RAMA '94' - NEO Race on the RIVERSIDE
at HO Racing and Hobbies in San Diego 

SCHOR Race Schedule, Winter/Spring 2010

THE OFFICIAL

SCHOR 2010 RACE SCHEDULE

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Saturday January 23rd

SCHOR 2010 - Race #1

Ben Vasquez's POCKET ROCKET RACEWAY

(4x12 Custom AFX Track)

MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY-MOD

9749 La Docena Lane #B Pico Rivera, CA 90660 (562) 949-3204

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Saturday February 20th

SCHOR 2010 - Race #2

Jim William's WILLIAMSVILLE RACEWAY

(5x14 Custom AFX Track - Banked ROVAL)

MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY-MOD

3604 S Cabrillo Ave San Pedro, CA 90731 562-325-3367

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Saturday March 20th

SCHOR 2010 - Race #3

John Wakamatsu’s WAKA-DOME

(6’x24’ Long and Fast - Custom Tomy Track)

NEO, MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY-MOD, and UNLIMITED

17508 Budlong Ave. Gardena, CA 90248 (310) 328-8511

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Saturday April 24th

SCHOR 2010 - Race #4

Eddie Torre's RIVERSIDE RACEWAY

"The BUCKTRAX RIVERSIDE is BACK!"

(6'X18' Ultra-Fast Custom Bucktrax)

NEO, MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY-MOD

11665 Treviso Way Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701 (909) 944-7509

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Saturday May 22nd

SCHOR 2010 - Race #5

Eric Roos' UNLIMITED RACEWAY

(4X16, Velocity Dome Bucktrax)

NEO, MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY-MOD

321 N. Sweet Ave. Fullerton, CA 92833 (714) 738-3802

THE BIG SHOP - San Diego

Although it no longer exists, you can’t really talk about HO racing in So Cal without mentioning the infamous Big Shop. The Big Shop was owned and operated by custom bike and hot rod builder (among other things) Dennis “What da” Tate. It featured a 4-lane, 68 foot custom Tomy/AFX track, that was epoxy painted, with continuous rails, and LaneMaster timing. This track was designed and built by Gene "Rasta-Man" Bellegarde.  The Big Shop played host to a number of very big races from around 1996 thru 2002 including the famous “Race a Rama”, and both SCHOR and Speed Merchants series races. Every class was run at the Big Shop at one time or another: Box Stocks, Super Stocks, Nas-Trucks, Modifieds, R/Os, and it hosted some incredible NEO races, we even raced T-jets on it. An who could forget Dennis’ famous pool parties. Fast HO racing, barbeque, and a dip in the pool - those really were the days...

Click here to check out VIDEO of NEO racing at the Big Shop:

 

 FYI: The Big Shop’s "Banjo" track lives on to this day in Arizona as “The Glenn”.

It has been revitalized and is now owned by Glenn "Mr. Speed" Goodyear.

SCHOR Tracks - Coyote Raceway

Coyote Raceway no longer exists, but back when it was in operation it was one of the very nicest tracks on the SCHOR circuit.  It was built by it's original owner Roger Cortouis back in the ninties, It was a 6 lane Tomy track with big deep cycle battery power and Trix Trax timing & scoring.  Sometime around 1999 Roger sold the Coyote to fellow SCHOR racer David Zoriki.  The track was last seen in use at the 2001 SCHOR SpringNats in Gardena, CA.  Shortly after that the stock Tomy track rails were removed and there was a plan to convert it to smooth continous rails.  That conversion never happened and in the Coyote faded into history.  There were rumors that it had been dismantled or destroyed, but it suddenly popped up on eBay this past January 2010.  A guy in Las Vegas won it, and it turns out that "the rails are still missing".  Oh well!!  It WAS a great track!  Maybe we'll see it in action again some day.

The most recent photo of the Coyote in storage circa 2009...

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