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[Slot Car Rod]

I hand painted this Dino body back in the 60's and never made it into a car until now.  I remember the body as a Dubro but could not find any brand reference for it.  Anyone know what brand this is?  The body is really wide for the time.  The driver/interior is an AB Slot Cars brand.  I used a jail door-style chassis and a Mura A-can motor for this car.  Wheels and wheel inserts are Russkit.  Rear tires are Paul's urethanes.  The Mura motor has "can in a can" magnet shim and magnets, along with a green color epoxied open armature.

 

The car is really fast and is easy to drive.

 

 

 

 

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[Alchemist]

Awesome Rodney!

 

Ernie

[Larry Horner]

Lovely build Rodney and the body is one of my favorite Ferraris ... right up there with the LM250! I also love the built up drop arm which is pure artwork.

[Flathead]

Body is a Pactra.

[don.siegel]

It's a Dino show car/prototype, but the slot body is a lot wider than the original! Very practical for our projects. 

 

Don 

[Pablo]

     

[Dave Crevie]

A little info on the real car.

 

 

 

https://supercarnost...inetta-speciale

 

 

This photo of my car is from the auction catalogue when it was sold at Retromobile. Still with the crooked right front bumperette. This was a mistake from the factory, when the front bumpers were added to make the car street legal. I wanted to correct it when I repainted the car, but it required moving the mounting boss on the body, and I just wasn't comfortable with my welding abilities to weld a heavy cast aluminum boss into a very thin aluminum body. Now I kind of wonder if that flaw is proof of the car's ancestry. Anyway, the car hammered sold at $1,770,000. It's LeMans history pushed the price up into the stratosphere.

 

 

[don.siegel]

Thanks Dave, good article. 

 

Always liked the slot body, but never really knew much about the real one. It was shown at Retromobile one year and I remember being surprised by how small it was! 

 

Don 

[Dave Crevie]

It was a small car compared to other Ferraris, like a 330 P 3/4. Keep in mind it is only 2 litres, and although it had it's own class, it was still expected to run with the big dogs. This is a poor photo so I don't know if it will give you any help for comparative size;

 

 

Or maybe this one. I was 6 foot even in height. Those are 14 inch wheels, and I count not quite three times that with my calipers. So that is about 40 inches high, same as a GT-40. 

 

 

And yes, I was a tight fit. The seat was semi-laydown, and my knees had to straddle the steering wheel. Much like a go-Kart.