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Friday, December 23, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Gary Cleverley - R.I.P.
It is with great sadness that I write this post. I recently learned that Gary Cleverley passed away on December 10, 2011 which was his 59th birthday. Gary was a one of a kind guy who lived life at a speed that most of us can only imagine. To his friends he was a wild and crazy fun guy who love to go fast!
Gary was a pioneer in the San Diego County slot car racing scene. He first had "LeMan's Raceway" (photos here), a big 24th scale commercial raceway in the Vista/San Marcos area. Later, in 1993 he introduce everyone in San Diego County to serious HO magnet racing when he opened "HO Racing and Hobbies" (see video below) in Sorrento Valley. He brought in 3 custom Bucktrax from Scale Auto in Seattle, installed an HO dragstrip on one wall, and taught many of us the nuances of real HO slot racing. Gary C. was friendly and helpful to his customers, and fun and generous to his friends.
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| Cleverley's Prowler |
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Monday, November 28, 2011
The Latest in HO Slot Cars: New DRAGSTERS from Auto World
These 4 Auto World Top Fuel Dragsters have just hit the market. These four-gear chassis - dual-Neo Traction magnet Top Fuel Racers, along with other recent AW drag cars (Funny Cars and Pro Stocks) are some of the most exciting HO slot cars to be released in a very long time, and will likely spawn an all new racing class and at least a few new after-market drag racing parts.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Race Results: Results: SCHOR 2011 Race #9
Eddie "Break's his Duck" at takes NEO on
The Riverside
Morgan is dominant in Modified
Ben smokes the field in Super Stock
Dan is the fastest man in Pro Hardbody
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The weather was perfect, the track was fast, and in spite of missing a lot of the regular SCHOR racers, the turn-out at Eddie's was still large and produced a day of great racing. We held a total of 6 events, and even had an amateur race in Super Stock.
The day started with Amateur (Rookie) Hardbody and that race was dominated by little Ryan Schartau a new young racer who's so short he has to stand on a milk crate to see the whole track. Ryan drove his hardbody car like a pro and dominted the field for a wire to wire win in his first SCHOR race.
Next up was Pro Hardbody: Dan Cronin carried over his winning ways from last month's race to end up way out in front in the combined scoring for the two pro hardbody semis.
We moved on to Amateur Super Stock where Darrin Angelo just ran off from the rest of the field to clitch his first big win in SCHOR.
There were 14 entries in Pro Super Stock and it proved to be a serious fight just getting though the semis into the main. Then the main turned out to be a hard fought battle between Morris, Dan, and All-Pro SCHOR racer. Ben "The Viper" Vasquez. When the dust settle, once again it was Ben who emerged victorious.
We had a healthy and very fast field of 12 entries in Modified, where Gary Morgan showed everybody that he could not be caught with his G3R/T+ Hybrid car. Ben was second running a fast Slottech, and Rick "Mr. T-Jet" Jocham was a solid 3rd with his Wizzard Storm.
11 entries in NEO meant there would be hard fought battles and durabilty struggles just to get through the semis and on to the main event. When all of the dust settled at the end. There standing on the top step of the NEO podium for the First Time in his SCHOR career was no other than Eddie "The Snake" Torres!! Yes, Ed finally as the Europeans say: "Broke his Duck" in NEO and won it all. Ben pushed him hard ending up second, and Rick had some smokin' early laps driving a fast Cronin prepared T1 to third.
The Results:
Friday, October 14, 2011
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