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[Jens Scale Racing]

Hi, Dokk,

I think it's a rare Diamond chassis, which a friend found in his collection. Only the motor is a newer one. But here you can see. How long this chassis was competitive . . .

[Jens Scale Racing]

...and the original description with signature.....

[BWA]

Neat chassis, but not a Diamond. That setup sheet does not belong to that chassis.

[Jens Scale Racing]

Does anybody have a pic which fits to the description?

[rdmac]

Go here...Neat Things Diamond Pro Car Build......Continues

...and here. Neat Things Diamond 3-bearing Chassis


Picture by "Captain Rick" aka dc-65x :mrgreen:

[Jairus]

Or, could be this one....

[TSR]

Hi Dieter,
What you have here appears to be a Neat Things chassis, but I believe that it is in fact a copy, possibly made in Europe from pictures published in Miniature Auto Racing in the middle of 1972. There are several reasons why I believe that I did not build this chassis, unless it went through many rebuilds that altered its basic construction.

1/ Side pans: mine came from Sweden and had TWO notches for the hinge tubing, while earlier cars featured a single hinge tubing and the center part was filed off.
2/ There were TWO drop-arm return springs hooked to .032"-wire hangers soldered to the front-axle tubing. I never used the spring configuration as shown.
3/ the motor-box rail configuration looks quite different from what I used to do.

This is a picture of a surviving example:




As far as the "Diamond", this is what one looks like:



It was named after its diamond-shaped front end and no longer incorporated a drop arm. Many were built, some with wire, some with flat spring-steel center sections.
Best regards,

[Jens Scale Racing]

Thanks a lot, guys!!!

Very good pics to see the differences. Philippe, yours seems to be very close to mine. I will step deeper into the history of that car.