Caldicot's Vintage Night

[peetbee]

A quick picture of the cars lining up on the grid last night, can you name them all?!!
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/peetbee/vintage/P1010035.jpg

Hopefully Dyna can post some more pictures. It was great fun and a great mix of cars. We want more to join us though!

[Welshy40]

Looks good, did Matt's car survive?

[peetbee]

They all finished the final!

[Dyna]

Yeah just downloading pictures now - unfortunately my camera is on its last legs and is struggling with certain lighting conditions, but they are better than nothing :) And i think Andy got a few more pics of them running didnt he Pete ?

And yes thanks James, my Top Force did survive :p

Only just though, i had to make running repairs all night with Dave Belstens super, super glue on loose screws, and on the penultimate lap of the final my rear gearbox screws came loose ( again ) and the gears were errr not sounding healthy when i accelerated as they were jumping out of alignment :wtf: But it finished only 2/3rds of a lap down on Dave Belstens Optima Mid, and a lap up on Dave Jacksons Firedragon & Pete Belstens RC10 Team.

Put it this way, me and Dave were only a couple of laps down on the modern 4wd's, and we have no set ups, old tyres, old brushed motors or low brushless, cars that are disassembling themselves as they run and low grade/old electrics... And i have to say on the track we had last night, my old Top Force was absolutely planted :thumbsup:

Anyway, here's some pics & info of the cars in the pits...


My original Top Force with full Graphite Design chassis & shock towers, all running gear to Top Force Evo spec and a couple of other small original Tamiya Team mods from '93... running Vampire Lipos & MRT VX Pro brushed speedo and 17t Double motor.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/dynastorm/RC%20Stuff/vintage%20runners/Pictures389.jpg


What can i say about this one... :woot: The fastest car ( in a straight line ! ) on the track, running a 10.5 brushless !! On the straight it pulled 6-7 feet clear on my Top Force ! If it could go round corners as good as it went in a straight line, the rest of us would've been 3 laps behind :lol:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/dynastorm/RC%20Stuff/vintage%20runners/Pictures390.jpg


Bills original Kyosho Lazer ZX, running original tyres, silvercan mabuchi motor and period electrics. Very slow, no grip at all but Bill had us all in stitches the whole night with his running commentry of his own driving and how bad the car was :lol: I came down from one heat with tears in my eyes from laughing so much as it couldnt even get grip to get over the doubles - on carpet !! :woot: Im lending him some decent wheels & tyres and a spare old 18 double for the next round - once those are on he will be a contender as he's a hell of a good driver and his Lazer is a good car in good nick...

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/dynastorm/RC%20Stuff/vintage%20runners/Pictures392.jpg


Pete Belstens RC10 Team, a belter of a car, running Lipos & modern electrics, and its set up very, very well... :) And boy can he drive it - again Pete was only a couple of laps down on the modern 2wd's... Sorry about the poor photoe Pete, thats when my camera decided it had had enough :bored:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/dynastorm/RC%20Stuff/vintage%20runners/Pictures393.jpg


The 'other' RC10, ran well, needs a period wing but in very good condition :thumbsup: Modern electrics & mild brushless, a bit more practice & playing with set-ups and it will be as quick as Pete's...

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/dynastorm/RC%20Stuff/vintage%20runners/Pictures391.jpg


Now this was the nicest car there last night - Brians Schumy Procat with all the original Team hop-ups.. you name them, it had them ! And in such good original nick, most people would call this a shelf-queen and not let it run - credit to Brian, he was in there racing crashing like the rest of us :thumbsup: Again, my camera was on the fritz, so rubbish picture - make no mistake ill get a better one of this car next round as its brilliant :woot: Running modern electrics & brushless, once Brians got it set up and used to driving it again it will fly !

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/dynastorm/RC%20Stuff/vintage%20runners/Pictures395.jpg


Theere were 2 other vintages there last night, Dave Belstens Optimna Mid and Brians sons Tamiya Lunchbox but my camera decided to retire dead before i got pics of them... Sorry !

All in all great night again, no worries or stress apart from running repairs to 20 year old plastics and more fun than ever - and there more smiles from people running vintage than there were modern cars :thumbsup:

[peetbee]

I would like to add that I am not responsible for the setup on my car, in fact I have no idea what most of it is! I bought it from the states and that's the setup that was on it after running at a dirt track!

Also technically it's a championship edition not a team car! :p

It was a fantastic night and I'll get you next time Matt!

I don't think my camera was much better than yours but here goes!:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/peetbee/vintage/P1010056.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/peetbee/vintage/P1010045.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/peetbee/vintage/P1010048.jpg
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