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[Bill from NH]

I got a set of those Champion blind (not blonde) hub wheels with my NCC Grp. 20 kit in '70. REHCO put the kit together, so at one time they had a bunch of them. The rears are now hard, but the fronts still look like new. I forget if that kit came with an Arcolite front axle or not.

[Mark Onofri]

It's a typo.

[Bill from NH]

Excuse!   

[Dave Crevie]

Always liked the Lotus Type 62. I have a 1/32nd model kit of the Europa I plan on using to make a slot car version of it. (Don't remember if it is Airfix or some Japanese version I picked up at a swap meet.)

 

 

I have most of what I need to build a full size clone, including the slant four 907E type motor. (several, actually) I planned on using the Europa's box section backbone, not the tube frame of the original. But outwardly, it would look the same.

 

One nice feature of the Type 62 is that the doors cut into the roof like a GT-40. I have real difficulty getting in and out of the very low Type 65 I planed to use for the project. 

[Mark Onofri]

A 1/1 I take it? Yes, I've seen several examples of the back bone 30-40esk frame. All swiss cheesed, they look sweet. Thought about one for my 280 ZX turbo but, I don't have the time like I used to.
PS, I just reread the first sentence so all I can say is, 🙄

[Bill from NH]

Doesn't your ZX have a unitized body?

[Mark Onofri]

It does, however, if you compare it to the backbone chassis that Dave is referring to, it's a perfect marriage. The rear suspension is a bolt in unit and the front suspension components can be bolted to the backbone. The feature that makes it feasible is the similarities between Chapman struts and McFearson struts. Dave, do you have a convenient picture of the chassis ?

[Mark Onofri]

PS: that looks bitchin with the rear flares. Waaaaaaay better than the stock virgin.

[Martin]

Hard to beat a stock Version 

But I will have to revisit this project someday. It was so narrow I had to flare it. looking back I want to flare it way more now.

 

 

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[Mark Onofri]

Version, time for a new phone. Or,new glasses.

[Martin]

I knew that, just messing with you Mark  Is your device voice activated or ? 

[Mark Onofri]

Autopilot, it looses something in the Italian to English translator

[Mark Onofri]

I didn't want to post this under clear bodies.
MASARATTI birdie cage

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[Dave Crevie]

Martin; If you need wider flares for that Type 74 body, you can copy these. They were available (for 1 to 1 cars) from England years ago. They were fiberglass and you cut out the section of the body and glassed them in. But they look the best of any of the flare jobs I have seen over the years. I bought two sets, one set I used on an "ultimate" type 74 I built for a racing buddy, and one I was going to use on another Europa Type 65 I owned. (I had two) 

 

 

 

 

Mark; I was saving this Maser body since Moses was a wee lad. I kept it because I thought it was one I pulled as a teenager, but when I realized it wasn't, I finished it off and mounted it on a home made chassis, some years ago. It is butyrate.

 

 

 

Looks a lot like yours. Do you know who made yours?

[Martin]

Thanks Dave, those flares are tastefully done. Pictured saved for future modeling

 

As you probably know Jim hall cut his teeth in a Birdcage Maserati.  Then decided he could do better, and he did of course.

 

I am reading the book TEXAS LEGEND Jim Hall and his Chaparrals, by George Levy. Great book IMO.

[Dave Crevie]

That is a good book. Lots of history.

[Mark Onofri]

Dave, not a clue as to the manufacturer. I had planned on Bonner power and wound up with the 444P-4. It's on the chopping block so eventually, it will get done. Hoping to use a bunch of Kemtron fitting and brass tube. Once a plumber, always a plumber.

[mickey thumbs]

[Mark Onofri]

What's it have for a chassis?

[Dave Crevie]

A lot of chassis were built back in the day using those Kemtron tubing connectors. Perfect for an early sixties style build with Pittman power.

 

Or you can build something similar, but more simple like this, that I built in the very early sixties;

 

 

I have one of those Revell Cobra body kits, still in the box. Bought for me by my slot racing cousin when we visited one of the Revell tracks in the LA area.  

[Mark Onofri]

Glad to see your posting some of your builds. Maybe it will inspire Billnh to do the same?

[Dave Crevie]

As soon as my medical team find the proper dosing for some new meds I'm on, which seem to be helping with the tremors. I need to be able to solder without stabbing myself in the hand with the iron. 

 

I've done a couple, the alumawinder and an old dragster frame titled  "Like I need another project", both in the slot drag racing forum.

[Mark Onofri]

Get well soon. I figure, anyone with the b***s enough to drive a 1/4 midget (USAC ?) Is unstoppable.

[mickey thumbs]

Chassis is in progress. Waiting to figure out body mounting before cutting the wires beyond the motor bracket. Motor is a 40K Predator slim can.

 

[Bill from NH]

The chassis looks good Mike. What body did you build it for? Is that slim motor bracket one you made or a commercial unit? I know BWA had them at one time but those haven't been available for a few years.