A little about me and what this site is all about is in order here so here goes, hope I don't get too long winded here. I have been modeling in one form or another most of my life, as a teen and into my early 20s it was model cars, airplanes and a ship or two. I got away from the hobby for a number of years then in my 30s got interested in RC models. I built and flew a number of model aircraft and even built a 1/10 sprint car that I raced once in a while. Then came the pilots license and flying. The next step came in a natural progression I guess, I made a living as a machinist mostly in the aerospace and defense industries. I decided to build the ultimate model, my own airplane, a Skybolt. When I got into my early 50s I became disabled due to a number of heart attacks, lost my pilots license, so I sold the Skybolt when it was 60% complete. A couple of years later I took up scale modeling again, building WWII aircraft. Now being a race fan as far back as I can remember, motorcycle and sprint cars mostly. I decided to build some sprint cars, the ones Dad and I watched at Ascot back in the 70s and early 80s. My second wife loved the sprints and we attended them until Ascot closed in 1990. I got hold of a 1/24 Grant King kit built it and noticed it just didn't look right. The biggest thing wrong was the rear wheel offset and they were too close to the body of the car. Upon starting another sprint car I decided to make a rear axle that was correct and put my machining skills back to work, and made one scaled from a drawing of real sprint car axle. Next I found aftermarket photo-etch detail parts, brakes, bird cages, all kinds of goodies. Now I can make it look really good. Upon showing pictures of my axle to others with all the goodies added, people started asking for the axles for their builds. Next came the chassis drawings, I like what they call vintage sprint cars late 60s up to 1990, but the only kit out is a 1986 or 87 Gambler chassis. I found a few guys building and selling modern sprint car chassis but nothing pre 1990. So I started making scale drawings of the different chassis of the time, Nance, Maxwell and Gambler so far using Autocad. To me they seem to scream sprint car unlike the newer ones. I guess its my way of keeping these classic cars and chassis builders alive. I will be adding to the collection as I can, hopefully soon Trostle, Stanton/Challanger, Super K, Edmunds and others, I am planning on some 100 inch cars too. So this is how Robco Models came to be.