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[Michele Bilancia]

Good morning everybody! Could you please help me identifying this old Parma chassis and motor? Thanks in advance!

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[slotcarone]

That's an original Parma Flexi Car commonly called a Flexi 1. Ron will know exactly.

[Paul Menkens]

The great grand daddy of hundreds of flexis that came after it!

[jokar124]

......and the motor is the Parma Super 16D

[Michele Bilancia]

Is the motor coherent with the chassis? Armature is balanced and green, not epoxy....

[Bill Seitz]

That does look like the original Parma S16D from the same period as the first Flexi chassis.

[Michele Bilancia]

Ok, thanks for the info.... What about a correct body?

[Michele Bilancia]

Ok, thanks for the info.... What about a correct body?

[Bill from NH]

Any 4" body, other than most F1s, will fit this chassis. Choices are sports cars, coupes, stockcars, trucks, & others. 

[old & gray]

Parma - Intrepid GTP 

 

 

[John Luongo]

that intrepid body on the flexi-1 made for a decent gtp racer. until the turbo-flex came along.

[MSwiss]

Below is Flexi talk.

http://slotblog.net/...1-release-date/
 
http://slotblog.net/...ent#entry725236


The kick up in the back is highly exaggerated,
but the below pic from the patent shows a common body for the original Flexi when it came out.

I'm 98% sure it was referred to as a Porsche.

[Dominator]

The body in Mike's diagram is a Porshe.

[Michele Bilancia]

Which color was the rear crown insert?

[Dominator]

The early flexi's used a brass pinion and cobra spur gear.  Late 80's stock gearing was 8/34.  At some point in the early 90's the pinions went to steel plated and the spur went to a 30 or 28 PSE crown.  I would have to dig up some of my slot car bulletin mags to get a better time period.

[John Luongo]

i seem to remember the cobra gears being a gray color with the later pse gears being pink. the cobra gears would sometimes loosen up on the hub, allowing them to "clock" under power. bona fortuna, michele

[Michele Bilancia]

Guys, thank you very much for the info!

[Bill Seitz]

Before Parma introduced their pink spur and crown gears, they used whatever "generic" black 48P spurs that were available. I think REH was making these, and many didn't have any brand imprint or indicated Cox. The first gen Parma S16D motors I had came with brass or nickel-plated brass 9T, 48P pinions, so I expect that's the pinions that were used in the RTR cars. A 9/30 ratio might work, although from the factory I'd expect a little higher than that, maybe 32 or 34, though I never had one of the RTR cars.

[Michele Bilancia]

Is this the correct pinion?

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