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[Martin]

As we all know the basic Cox IFC chassis was mostly sold with a 16D motor. 

 

But how many La Cucarachas' have we seen with their bodies opened up to fit the shorter but taller 26D motor? 

 

In my research I found an add from Cox " NEW PRODUCT NEWS"  seems they sold the black IFC chassis with adaptors and a new brass clip to fit the 26D. See bottom pics.

 

As I had already made a tool to reproduce the standard 16D clip as I had a few chassis that were missing the clip.

 

Then some one then ask are you going to make the 26D clip with adaptors? Yes is the answer. 

 

Here is what they look like. To keep the cost down the 2 adaptors are 3D printed in nylon and fit snugly on both ends of the 26D motor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will place an add here on slot blog the happy trading place   Please PM me if you have any questions.

[Mad Mark]

Super cool!

[Martin]

Thanks Mark, can this be a place to show off Cut Cucs, anybody ?

 

Found this also, looks like a repackaged Cox 26D chassis?

 

[Dave Crevie]

Jeeze! I missed out on this whole iso-fulcrum craze. I was playing with much bigger cars by then. Were they really that good? Or just the "next big thing". 

 

My hat's off to Martin for giving them new life.

[Martin]

We started a vintage stock Cucaracha race class some 20 years ago now, and I do remember adding lead and running a strip of fiber tape as a travel limiter.

It was a fun class.

[Dave Crevie]

Much the same as the Manta Ray class we ran at Chicagoland when Mike was in LaGrange I would imagine. Us old codgers don't need no fancy-dancy high tech slot cars to have a good time.

[Bill Seitz]

My memories of the 60's production cars was that most of them were of rather dubious performance. We were kids, so what did we know? We were just having fun. However, when an adult friend introduced me to brass and wire chassis, rewound 16D's, and vac-formed bodies that had some real aero potential, I completely abandoned everything else. It was along this point in time that Cox introduced the La Cuc 'thingie', and all the magazine reports indicated this was the epitome of 60's production slot cars, but I never had one then. There's some fuzzy recollection that a Cox iso-fulcrum chassis may have passed by sometime in the 80's, but by then I was hooked on wing cars and never paid it any serious interest.

[Dave Crevie]

That's true, Bill. Early RTRs and kits were intended as toys, to run on plastic sectional track layed out on some kid's bedroom floor. When the big commercial tracks came along, it became obvious the toy cars fell short. That is when slot racing made the move from toys to a serious hobby.

 

I started building piano wire chassis before most of the other local guys. I'd seen them in the L A area. Some were good, and some just gosh awful. All trial and error. Eventually I started adding brass pans and the cars started winning races. Other guys had been doing the same thing, and within a month the Saturday night open class was filled with scratch built cars. The modified stamped aluminum chassis didn't have a chance.