{"id":17764,"date":"2020-04-16T00:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T08:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=17764"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:45:20","slug":"17764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=17764","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1407853036s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1407853036s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1407853036s\" width=\"330\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1407853036s.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1407853036s-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1407853036s-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SLOT CAR RACING AGAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a kid, I raced slot cars at commercial hobby tracks pretending to be the famous British driver, Sterling Moss. I still have my box of cars and controller. Twenty years ago, I started collecting the 1\/32nd scale slot cars that were being produced at the time. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since Porsche, &#8220;LeMans&#8221;, and McQueen are close to my heart, I purchased every Fly and Scalextric slot car represented in the 1970 film\/race, including the Ferraris. I also found an original race program. I then expanded from there to include earlier and later Porsche scale model race caras. <\/p>\n<p>To make it all make sense (yeah, right), in 2000 I built a 40 foot 1:32 Scalextric track of Spa in my basement crawl space. I just got my slot car track back up and running again to fill my off hours during the Covid 19 lock down. That&#8217;s one way to have fun safely! <\/p>\n<p>(Photo of Buffalo Springfield: Henry Diltz) <\/p>\n<p>Below, a great Neil Young song orchestrated by Jack Nietzsche. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"330\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8EUL-O3hRA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLOT CAR RACING AGAIN As a kid, I raced slot cars at commercial hobby tracks pretending to be the famous British driver, Sterling Moss. I still have my box of cars and controller. Twenty years ago, I started collecting the 1\/32nd scale slot cars that were being produced at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[3,7,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18022,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions\/18022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}