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#1 proptop

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 04:47 PM

Hi guys...it's been a while since I've posted...how ya'll doing?

Just got some of these (bare) chassis...they look like the old G+ chassis from the 70's...

I've never heard of 'em before...what are they, clones or something?

Thanks :)

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 08:34 PM

The AMRAC chassis is the tooling of the Canadian Cox HO cars, themselves patterned after the G-Plus, but with added little winglets that allowed them more drift before they crashed. Jim Russell founded AMRAC and purchased the tooling for the chassis and bodies from the defunct LDI Canada company. .

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 07:48 PM

Cool...thanks Dokk!
Is that the same Jim Russell as in Russ-kit (or is it Russkit) ?

They would perhaps be of 1980's "vintage" then ?

Hard for me to think of anything from around that time as "vintage" though... :rolleyes:
The other day I heard some teen age kids calling the 80's "Retro" :blink: :laugh2:

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 11:18 PM

Same Jim Russell. Vintage would be FROM 1982 because that is when LDI collapsed and took Cox down with them.

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Posted 10 April 2009 - 12:53 AM

HEY ANY GUYS GOT PHOTOS OF ROY WONGS HO BAT PAN PLUMBER CHASSIS WITH 4 WHEEL INDEPENDANT SUSPENSION AND STEERING/AS WEL ID LIKE TO SEE A PICTORAL OF THE PROGRESSION OF TOP HO CHASSIS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS FROM THE LATE SIXTIES TILL PRESENT
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Posted 10 April 2009 - 08:38 AM

Another subject worthy of a new thread... :)

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Posted 10 April 2009 - 08:56 PM

AMRAC, there are some bad memories there. . . :hang3:
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Posted 10 April 2009 - 08:58 PM

Please do tell... :)

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Posted 11 April 2009 - 09:57 AM

Sorry, my brain shorted out for a moment. The MAXX car and the AMRAC keep swapping places with each other in my melon. :blink:
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Posted 12 April 2009 - 09:35 AM

I don't know anything about the MAXX. The AMRAC was the Cox chassis I was asked to engineer for LDI Canada in 1976. They flew me to Toronto and I worked there for 2 weeks designing it as well as the bodies and the magneting "wings" for it. I had a much better design but they just wanted a clone of the G-Plus. I hated doing it. The bodies were pantograph reductions of the Cox SuperScale Porsche and Datsun as well as my own Can-Am contraptions.

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Posted 15 April 2009 - 05:25 AM

Hi Dokk, your AMRAC Can-Am h.o. car has been a favorite of mine, and when i found out it was really a Cox car, that made it even better :)

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Posted 15 April 2009 - 11:28 AM

The last HO cars I raced were from Wizzard. They were pretty amazing even in stock form. In modified form they were like cock roaches on speed. The hardest cars to follow on a track of any car I've driven, especially with a modified arm and no extra traction magnets.
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Posted 16 April 2009 - 10:16 PM

Picture_7_016__648_x_486_.jpg I think this is a Maxx car
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Posted 16 April 2009 - 10:25 PM

Picture_7_011__648_x_486_.jpg This is a Amrac
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Posted 19 April 2009 - 02:46 PM

Picture_7_018__648_x_486_.jpg Maxx car
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Posted 19 April 2009 - 03:52 PM

I have two of the AMRAC cars and my son picks them over all the other cars.
I just could not take the noise so I put a softer front tire and they are a lot quieter now.
They are good runners for what they are.
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Posted 25 April 2009 - 01:32 PM

Picture_7_013__648_x_486_.jpg Amwreck
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