The Professor Motor Story

Greetings
One & All
Welcome
to the web home of the professor emeritus of model car racing,
Professor Motor. Click away to have some fun. We hope
you will be entertained and amused by our site and will enjoy and
benefit from the products and services we have to offer .. and
don't be shy .. ask us questions, and give us some feedback on
our design .. and please be patient if not all of this is working
.. our site is still being built.
Thanks
...... professor.

Our
Mission
To
inform, communicate, educate and entertain the great masses of
enthusiasts involved in modeling, model car racing, slot car
collecting and hobbies in general .... and along the way sell
some model car , motorsports or slot car goodies to help pay the
bills.

Professor
Motor History
The
good professor motor has been involved in model car racing and
motorsports for quite a while ... in 1961 the professor's granny
bought him a model racing set for Christmas which featured two
Mercedes 300SL sports cars racing on raised
"rails". Rail racing, as some of you history
buffs out there may know .. was the forerunner of today's model
car (slot) racing. The rest, as they say, is history. More
detail about the professor and his exploits can be found on the
"biography" link. The latest endeavor, ... www.professormotor.com
domain was created 10 February 1999.

Tools
Used
We
get a lot of questions from folks on how to do a web site (we can
provide that service by the way). To help answer those questions
.. the following "stuff" is used by the good professor
to create this site. Hardware
- dual processor 450 MHz Pentium II PC machine built by the professor from parts
(slower machines would work just fine), The recent purchase of a
Nikon Cool Pix 950 digital camera has been pure magic in creating
high quality images as you can see by the large format Pro Slot
car pictures (for example). A picture of that camera is shown
below. Software - Front
page 2000 and notepad are used to edit the HTML code .. Corel
Photo Paint 9.0 and Ulead Photo Impact 5.0 are both awesome
programs I use to edit images (with care sharp looking detailed
images < 40k in size are possible), Winsock FTP Pro is used to
make transferring files to the site an easy mouse "drag
& drop" operation and ms office 2000 is used (particularly
excel) to go right from spreadsheets to HTML files.


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