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[Mad Mark]

Id like to see some of your best handling vintage cars. If a contemporary build please post a period korrect one.

Ill go first. my best handling car is one I built myself. i have a similar period vintage car that can do slighty faster lap times but it doesnt drive as nice as this car. no added lead beside a brass guide retainer. this thing is only rails on a flat track.

[Bill from NH]

Nice Russkit Chappy body & the chassis you built is very clean.

[Dave Crevie]

Of the cars I built in period (1964-1966) these were the best by lap times. 

 

Best 1/24th sports car. Lotus 40 body on AMT chassis. Rear tires are not original.

 

Best 1/32nd sports car. DuBro Maseratti Birdcage on scratch built chassis. 

 

Best open wheelers. 1/24th (top) Lotus 25? body on scratch built chassis. 1/32nd DuBro Cooper body on scratch built chassis. 

 

Continued next post. (ran out of bites for pics)

[Dave Crevie]

Continued from above;

 

Top chassis is from the 1/24th Lotus. Atlas motor. The bottom chassis is from the 1/32nd Cooper.

 

When travelling to other tracks I liked to take this 1/32nd car. Not blindingly fast, but very consistant and easy to drive. Chicago slab car.

 

For the kit car class, this Dynamics Harvey Aluminun Special was a good choice.

 

Of course, everyone had these. Classic Manta Ray. For a while it was the fastest car in any class.

[chrisguyw]

In the mid 60's I was a bit too young/unskilled to be putting together any decent scratchbuilt cars, so I spent my time modifying kits/RTR;s.................

 

Cheers

Chris Walker

 

A Russkit "Carrera" with a few mods,.......was a great RTR, and now is even better.

 

 

Tucked under a McLaren,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

 

 

Despite being very narrow, and with a short guide lead, this Monogram Lola GT handles very well........

 

 

Quite a bit of bracing, and a heavy pan,.....transform  the not so great handling of the Monogram.

 

 

 

 

This is a redo of a car I built in late 67 early 68,....my first with moveable sidepans.....this one got the "thumbs up" from a few of the older/experienced  guys at our local track.

 

 

 

My first serious (or so I thought" 1/24 car was a Cox Team modified Cheetah,..........I was seriously disappointed when I ran it against some of the other cars at the track.

 

Since then I have been tinkering with ways to make them go, and this is the best I have come up with, it runs/handles extremely well, and by undoing 3 screws it can be reverted to stock.

 

This runs under a Lotus 40

 

 

 

[Mad Mark]

Great cars fellas thanks for sharing

[Dave Crevie]

Chris has some gems. It's amazing how much time racers put into modifying available chassis back then. The Dynamics backbone especially.