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Hello HRW Friends..

Sorry I haven't been around much. Really Miss you guys and your builds and racing...This second Cancer round hit me pretty hard..but still kicking..between work and fighting the C there has been no slot time..

Sneak peak at the 3rd Oval.. Freeport Speedway.. ya I got 3 ovals in the house..haha.. oh an a dragstrip too..

This one is going to be a blast..

I will soon post a build log and details.. some different stuff in this build

Thanks Woodguy32

Looks cool so far. What is the footprint?

It is good to see you back Woodie. I like your new track.

Man that is a sweet track. Like how you recessed the computer. Looking foward to the build details

Good to she ya posting Wood man!!!
Looks like a killer track!

Rusty

Hey Woodguy, nice seeing you post again, and thanks for the update. Funny thing, someone on another forum posted your profile pic, and I knew right away it was Your track and cars. And I got to thinking about you, and wondered how your battle with the Big C was going.
I hope you are over the hump now, and you can start posting more often. As I for one, missed seeing and reading yer stuff :)
Take care, and ya'll come back now- ya hear ;)
~Ralph

Good to see you still kicking, Woody. I think about your wonderful woody cars all the time. Frankly, I've never seen better.

looking good, may have to change your name to OvalGuy :lol:

Hey Woodguy!

Good to see you back!

I hope all is going well with you now and your putting it behind you......

Great looking new track.

I love that sign with the coupe on it!!!

Where did you get it?

Is it custom made by you?

Take care now,

Wayne (Bolton's Speed Shop and Paint Works) :D :D :D

Wood - it is good to see you back. I hope you're starting to feel better! The track is looking good and I look forward to you posting again!

Great to see you back! Keep progressing on the new track, it looks great!

Thanks HRW Guys.

This track like all my Ovals will be very different, so many different ways to go in circles ..lol

When I get more done I will explain what makes this one pretty unusual..

It is very close to 1/24 scale to Freeport Stadium which once housed a football field also.. making it easy to scale out..Only issue is the width of track itself is out of scale to accommodate the 5 lanes for slots..

Its up on wheels so it can be rolled around and the best part it is not in the wood shop like the others.. so I can run it anytime.. (My other tracks take so long to clear the sawdust.. even covered in plastic )

It will be a Fun build with tons of planned extras.. hope to be a never ending project..

The sign is a story in itself..Freeport is my home track..I grew up in Bellmore 2 towns away and heard them from my house.. you sure could tell the Modifieds where running.. What a sound..

The sign itself is a handpainted thing I did one night, but still need to put on the patina and rust to make it look right.

But the sign means more.. as a kid in highschool I got a job at Decal Makers in Bellmore blocks away from home so I did art and printed decals..So the funny thing is I printed the decals for the Freeport, the same design was used at Islip also another Long Island track..

Yup .. sure brings back get memories .

More to follow..

Thanks Woodguy32

Oh .. if you look way back on the first turn.. you can see a bigger car.. well that is the new scale I am scratch building ..1/16 vintage sprint cars with workable steering and drivers with hinged arms attached to the steering wheels going at it ....they will be huge and heavy .... only be able to run 2 at a time on this track.. lol but more on that later

wood

Wood, what joy to see you back - and so clearly back in action!
You've been away so long that some of us had begun to fear the worst, and didn't like to ask.

I'm guessing the new oval is about 16 x 8; with those squeezes, it looks a bit like a UK Slotstox track - but not for long,I'm sure, when you get going on the scenery.

Looking forward to seeing it develop.


David.