Lane's SCA - Chicago Auto Show 2004 (6)

Gameworks

After the autoshow, Gameworks in Schaumburg IL was the place to be on Saturday night. If you're not familiar with Gameworks, it's a huge arcade for adults with a lot of driving & motorsports games.

You can see more info about Gameworks HERE.

The number of driving games at Gameworks is unbelievable. Add to that a great sound system, bar, and restaraunt, and you can see why we visit often and end up spending a lot of time there.

Inside gameworks

On Sunday morning, the group was invited to take a look at a unique race car under construction. Rich at MSR Racing, who is a long-time friend of the cub, has been hard at work recently to get this car ready for the upcoming season. What makes this car so special? It may be the first Formula Vee car in existence that is fully operated by hand controls. While it's tough for most of us to envision driving a car with no pedals, imagine doing so at speed in the heat of competition.

If you're not familiar with Formula Vee cars, take a look on Rich's website HERE. Weighing in at only 1025 lbs with driver, its 65 horsepower can put it past 140 miles per hour.

Piston

It seems like Rich was more proud of this mangled piston than he was of all of the team's trophies.

As our weekend came to a close on Sunday afternoon, we all packed up and headed back home. It was quite an enjoyable time - the auto show, great meals & conversation, seeing Rich's cool car, and talking trash while racing slot cars.

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