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Hi, We would like to invite you to:

MINITECHNIQUE SCALEXTRIC EVENT & OPEN DAY, 4th FEB 2012

GRAND OPENING OF OUR NEW BUILDING TO HOLD OVER 70 Classic Minis, Protecting your and our Future. We will have over 200 minis under cover by 2013.

We would like to invite you to our massive Scalextric Track 80ftx20ft on Saturday February 4th, Everyone welcome track opens 1pm - Race for real 7pm.

Will you be The Mini Technique Scalextric Mini Cross Champion.

£4 adults, £1 kids. 10 mile Mini Run around local lanes. Hot Food, Classic Car Display,Competitions and much more.

Message me if you or your club wish to attend or race in the Mini Cross Championship.

Minitechnique, Bradshaw lane, Pilling, PR3 6SN.

Add your names to the facebook event page http://www.facebook.com/events/309247539120252/

Add me: Mark Stokes Swift

E: markswift@live.co.uk

Call: mark, Craig or stef: @Minitechnique

01253 790189

minitechnique wrote:
GRAND OPENING OF OUR NEW BUILDING TO HOLD OVER 70 Classic Minis, Protecting your and our Future. We will have over 200 minis under cover by 2013.

Don't undertsand that bit ? but good luck with your event anyway.

Pete wrote:

minitechnique wrote:
GRAND OPENING OF OUR NEW BUILDING TO HOLD OVER 70 Classic Minis, Protecting your and our Future. We will have over 200 minis under cover by 2013.

Don't undertsand that bit ? but good luck with your event anyway.

We have built a new building around our old building then added a second floor.

We will be storing over 70 minis in this space so in the future we will have plenty of minis to restore and sell to customers if there are no minis around anymore to put all these parts on, whats going to a happen???

We aim to have 200 minis in storage before 2013 should keep us busy for a long time, we already have 1000's of parts in our stores.

To protect our future and supply parts well into the future.

Found the website link here:
http://www.minitechnique.com/

Hi, I have added a page to our site over the weekend that tell you more about the scalextric event.

www.minitechnique.com

I have also added a facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/309247539120252/

If you wish to put your mini on display your more than welcome there will be a Trophy for best presented Classic.

Mark.

ULTIMATE CLASSIC MINI SCALEXTRIC TRACK

OMG!!!! ITS A BIG JOB!!! ITS MASSIVE - Tonight I laid out some Scalextric track and planned the circuit for the 4 lane track is 73ft x 15ft The Maguire Straight is 68ft long. "We need 280 standard straights !!!!!"

The track will pass along the seat cross member of a full race Mini bodyshell which will be suspended on steel girders bridging a 12x14ft hole.

We still have some space to spare so may get bigger yet. Tomorrow is a big day as we will be putting the 1st Mini upstairs, eventually there will be over 70 up there in storage.

Join our massive Scalextric open day & race event page on Saturday Feb 4th 2012. If you love Minis you cant miss this.

http://www.facebook.com/events/309247539120252/

Tonight is came a reality I picked up over 300 straights tonight, got a lot of track now to clean

Added 400 pieces of track today more pictures on my facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... &sk=photos

Car 37 @17.01 started SS1 and completed three laps before retiring with bush problems. lol

Paddy Crosses the bridge of death............. but soon retires with a broken bush.... lol

Thats a huge setup

I collect SCALEXTRIC, but only the old models, here is one.

Very nice I have a few old ones myself. Few c76 etc. Were welcoming everyone to bring there own cars down if they wish to give them a run between 1pm & 6.30 on Feb 4th.

minitechnique wrote:
Very nice I have a few old ones myself. Few c76 etc. Were welcoming everyone to bring there own cars down if they wish to give them a run between 1pm & 6.30 on Feb 4th.

Thanks, nice to hear that you like the older stuff too

here is a couple of odd/rare c76 Mini,s and a c7 next to them.

Thanks for the invite, but it will be too expensive me.

When James May built the biggest Scalextric track in the world @ nearly three miles long, on the site of Britain's oldest grand prix track at Brooklands. He contacted Scalextric and they sent him boxes of brand new track. I am attempting to build a massive four lane with Vintage track some of it 40 years old, armed with a test lamp, and old screw driver, sandpaper, wirewool and a old cleaning stone, 4 vintage controllers, power pack and a block of wood to help bend the kinks out of the track.

Bet James May did have all these problems to deal with. lol

I will get there..............................!!!!!!

I built a pretty decent Le Mans setup in my garage one year as it happened to be empty at the time of a Le Mans barbecue (getting pissed on little bottles of beer, building a beer wall, and following the live race on the web). The garage is about 5.5m x3.5m and It was full!

I had a huge stash of old track and it was a constant battle chasing poor connections, so I soldered wires across the connections - perfect. Most faults appeared to be at 'cross over' sections from (bitter) memory

I had a couple of old control units but the modern , well '80s is modern in comparison to the rest of it, plug in power packs are far better. We were racing a GT40 against Mini clubman.

Gave half the track to my nephew. His dad was delighted. My sister in law, less so!

UPDATE:

Were hoping to add another track which will be a drag/oval really long with bank curve each end should be fun.

I am going to put a smaller 2 lane track downstairs on a table.

Kids are welcome.

Today I have been out and plotted a small mini run around 30mins on some of the great roads around us.

Hope some of you guys can come over.

Mark

Minitechnique.

SCALEXTRIC EVENT UPDATE:

Picked up some more track tonight for Scalextric Event on 4th Feb. I am pleased to confirm that we will now having a drift sport track downstairs and an oval race way with bank curves with lap timer also.

Must also thank Kay @Mini world for publishing the event in this month News section

The event must not be missed.

@Minitechnique, Pilling, near Preston M6 J32 about 20mins. PR3 6SN

Mark

looks like it will be alot of fun. good luck.

I been testing over 100 peices of track today that I spent all weekend cleaning, I ve also got hold of some nice Scalextric scenery. I will be adding a drift track downstairs and a large oval with banked curves. So we will have 3 tracks to run on.

I have made a few changes this week, we now have two tracks one is up and running now fully, its is inspired by the FIAT test track in Turin. It was great today to un-boxed my Italian Job Scalextric cars and give them a blast, thankfully no damage to them. Sport Track designed cars are a bugger on old classic track, got them running after a lot of messing and swapping pieces of track around. Still got around 100 peices to clean for main track, need to get it running. yet ;(

Enjoy the updated pics.

Every one is welcome and if you wish to bring your own scalextric cars down your welcome its a RUN WHAT YOU BRUNG EVENT!!! All models welcome not just Minis.

Mark

http://www.minitechnique.com

Pilling, Lancashire. 20 mins from J32 M6.

PR3 6SN



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Hopefully Friday afternoon I will have the main track running, got a 14x12ft hole to fill and around 100 pieces of track to clean and lay down and a rear subframe to change. No pressure then. Also a drift track to sort Saturday morning.

We have 2 four lane Scalextric tracks up now and running for tomorrows Scalextric event @ Mini Technique. Hopefully get some pictures up in the morning. Starts 1pm. Minitechnique, Willow Park, Bradshaw Lane, Pilling. PR3 6SN. 20mins from M6 J32.