Like so many of us ‘over-the-hill’ guys, I played with T-Jets and Tyco Pros back in the early 70s. Florida was not a hot-bed for HO racing as it was in other parts of the nation. It certainly is even sparser today here in the state. And as many of you have found, you now have the time and money to pursue the hobby like you couldn’t back-in-the-day.
I guess I can blame my son J.W. and Ron Bernstein ( www.riggenho.com ) for all this stuff. Several years back, my then 9 year old son brought me a small box containing a T-Jet and three Tyco Pro cars. These items were left in the ‘rafters’ of my basement by my father-in-law when he owned the house. I often did father/son project with J.W. so this was seemingly just another thing to tinker with and fix. Within a few weeks I had a Tomy track ordered.
In the process of tracking down parts for the Tyco Pro, I meet Ron. Somewhere in our early conversations he asked me if I’d “ever run a Riggen?” “A what?!?” I said. Needless to say within about a month I had a Riggen.
Within a year I probably obtained about 100 cars from T-jets to BSRT Poly Mods. It was a great learning experience. All the while I racked up so much track time the Tomy track literally was falling apart. Joints had to be glued and rails soldered together.
So I ordered a 2-lane Brad Bowman track for my basement ‘man cave’. It turned out to be some of the best entertainment money I’ve spent. It is really enjoyable for T-Jets to ceramic Super Stocks. It is also an invaluable 'tool' now for testing and tuning production cars. And, somewhere in 2007 we added on a back room and installed a 4 x 16 Wizzard Scorpion for hi-magnet racing.
So with the experience gained in racing with the Florida HO Racing Association, the RiggenHO Limited Editions ( www.riggenho.com/flynnmain.htm ) , my eBay business, and being a BSRT/Scale Auto parts dealer, launching a website seemed to be the next move. Probably about the time my eyesight gets more worse and my hands are arthritic, the web site will be perfected ;-)
So until I get more details worked out, email or call me if you have questions or don’t see what you want. My goal is to offer well-built cars that are enjoyable to run and have the parts to keep them that way.