1960 SCRAM Season
The SCRAM equivalent of our Stock Car Racing Pioneers card set, which re-creates stock car racing’s roots. 52 driver cards plus three bonus “special event” car cards, 16 track cards, special “vintage” TV Week results and Interviews charts.
Ready to take your SCRAM racing experience back a few decades? The 1960 SCRAM Season for RED WHITE & BLUE RACIN' ushers you back to the wild, wooly, early days of stock car racing, cast in the trappings of our venerable fictional stock car racing organization. Inspired by the Stock Car Racing Pioneers cards (based on real-life early stock car racing history), we introduced the 1960 SCRAM season cards as a special holiday 2020 PDF release. We're pleased to bring it back to the PLAAY classic site as a full-color printed card set.
We spent many hours working with PLAAY Gamer and NASCAR historian Jerry Minks to fine-tune the standard RWBR game rules to accommodate the foibles and intricacies of the early days of stock car racing, with its high attrition rate due to mechanical failure and its preponderance of short, dirt track races. It's a different kind of racing--the cars ran a lot slower, the tracks were a lot less "finished," and the crews often had serious struggles with the equipment. The racing was close-quarters and often heated. It was an entertaining spectacle!
The '60 SCRAM set (just like the real-life Pioneers set) captures the essence of an era of stock car racing that might be difficult to envision, especially for a more casual NASCAR fan, with a cool SCRAM spin! The patriarchs of many of the familiar SCRAM racing names are represented in this set: Burl Exham, Lonnie Lane, Sr., Ross Pettis, and Branch Montana, to name a few. You also get a collection of tracks that includes the early versions of some of SCRAM's iconic racing venues, like Sun King Speedway, Southern Super Speedway and Dixie Regional Raceway, as well as some long-extinct tracks like the Ozarks Raceway and the Heart O' Carolina Speedway!
Just like the Pioneers set, a couple of the '60 SCRAM cards come with special, boutique rules to reflect a driver's unique-to-the-era driving personality. For example, Willsey Wightman gets a pit stop boost the last third of his races, and Gord McGreevey sometimes gets the option to DUEL within his group instead of challenging outside of it.
We also include the Pioneers modifications to the Race Week and TV Week procedures. The early days of pro stock car racing coincided with the early days of television. As such, there wasn't a lot of television coverage, especially at the smaller racing venues. Just bear in mind that when we say "TV," we’re really referring to ALL of the available media of the day: radio, newspapers and racing magazines, as well as television. We've re-worded some results and changed some others to better reflect the kinds of things that would happen in the early days of the sport. For example, the '60 SCRAM Race Week TV results allow for a "set-up" option, common in the early days of NASCAR. In those days, drivers would sometimes—ahem!—bend the rules (or, break them outright!) to gain an advantage on race day. The set-up option re-creates this aspect of Pioneers racing. When a TV result indicates a Set-Up Opportunity, the driver may accept or decline. Make your choice, then roll a die on the corresponding chart to determine the outcome and the driver's subsequent placement for the race.
We also changed the "TV Interview" aspect of Race Week, with a special TV Interview chart for use with this set. Whenever Race Week calls for a TV Interview, use the charts that comes with your '60 SCRAM cards instead of the chart that's in your Race Week booklet. These TV Interviews are cast in a "retrospective" context. In other words, imagine that you're watching a documentary or retrospective on the early days of SCRAM, and the interview with the driver is taking place today/recently with an aging driver remembering the race you're about to run. NOTE that there are "set-up" opportunities expressed in some of the TV interviews—again, you'll decide whether the driver accepts or declines the opportunity.
The 1960 SCRAM season cards for RED WHITE & BLUE RACIN’ includes cards for 52 fictional stock car pros, with duplicate "specialty" car cards for a handful of the biggest names. You also get a set of 16 track cards representing the various racing venues of the era. And, you get the special Race Week and TV Week charts to set up your '60 SCRAM season in classic retro style! All this for just $21 postage-paid!* Order YOUR copy TODAY!
* for USA delivery only; International delivery requires additional postage.