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[Bill from NH]

Thanks for your response. With it being a standard length can, means quite a variety of arms will fit it, both vintage & contemporary ones, The Ford body look like one of the AMT dirt car kits. It's been reissued once of twice.

[Slot Car Rod]

Mild restoration of a Dynamic-bodied Ferrari F1.  I do not know who built this car.

 

The car features a clever iso-fulcrum chassis with the pivot located at the motor bracket.  The Lenz silver wind motor still screams.  The original rear tires are still soft.

 

I grafted on the tip of a junk Matra body to repair the nose of the Ferrari, and touched up the paint.  The interior is Lancer with a Russkit driver head.

 

The motor endbell was melted and replaced.  New motor brushes were installed.

 

The car came with a 6-tooth pinion gear and a 25-tooth Weldon crown gear.  They actually meshed well.  I replaced the gears with a more conventional 7 to 28 set of gears.

 

Rodney

 

 

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[Martin]

Great save Rodney. Love that your restorations keep the feel and look.

 

Part of me would like to see what you started with, but I can imagine from your description what you had to work with.

 

I sure this was somebodies bride and joy. Now for all to see

[dc-65x]

Hi Rodney,

 

Amazing work on the body.....as usual!   

 

That is a really cool chassis. I think a version of that is in my future.  

[Bill from NH]

Talk about making silk out of a sow's ear!  Another nice restoration Rodney. 

[Pablo]

Ahead of it's time I love it      

[Slot Car Rod]

Thanks everyone.  Happy to share the Ferrari F1.  The chassis design and workmanship are nice.

 

Here is a 1964 Mercury stocker slot car.  It is a very period correct slot car.  Also, a talented person painted and lettered the Mercury body back in the day.

 

Kemtron and Dynamic chassis brass bits along with large brass tubes make up the chassis.  The chassis was neatly built and only needed a couple of solder joints redone.  I added the drop arm up stop and the rear body mount to the chassis.

 

The car features Kemtron brass wheels and brass axles.  The front wheels rotate independently.  An early Russkit 36D motor is used.

 

Rodney

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[don.siegel]

Very nice Mercury Rod, but that Ferrari F1 chassis is especially impressive! 

 

Is it all brass, or is there some spring steel or ground down piano wire around the motor? I think I might be tempted to do one of those as well... not as well as Rick, but in addition... good save on the body too! 

 

Don 

[Slot Car Rod]

Don, here are more pictures of the Ferrari chassis.

Piano wire over brass along the sides of the motor.

 

Rodney

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[Slot Car Rod]

I have run these two cars for many years:  a Plymouth and a Chevy with great graphics and patina.  I do not know who the builders are.

 

The Chevy has a reworked Pittman 705 that is as fast as a rewound 36D.  The chassis has lots of tubes going in various directions.

 

The Plymouth has a stock 36D and a Cox tube chassis.

 

Both cars are great fun to drive, and work on big and small tracks.

 

Rodney

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[Isaac S.]

The #11 is very nice, The motor is cool, like the silicone's too. 

[don.siegel]

Thanks Rod - somehow I missed those photos a couple days ago, and that does make it clearer... 

 

Don 

[Slot Car Rod]

Around '67 and '68, every kid seemed to be running a Cox La Cucaracha or La Cucaracha chassis-based car.  The La Cucaracha cars were fun to drive, and the cars were fairly fast down the straights (with stock or rewound motors).  The chassis kits went for a couple of bucks, which was quite a bargain (26D kit shown).  Also, the chassis kits were an option for people who did not want to scratch-build a chassis.

 

Here is a Chaparral 2 with a Cox La Cucaracha chassis and a '68 Classic Mabuchi motor.  I added some weight to the center section of the chassis.  Cox wheels and tires are used.  This car is from a northern California builder. The car is great fun to drive.  

 

Rodney

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[Isaac S.]

Lots of detail on the body, very low to the ground. 

[Slot Car Rod]

I decided to build a more scale-looking Ferrari 330 P4 Can-Am car.  I wanted it to have a NAMRA look to it. 

 

The body is a repop Lancer.

 

It is powered with a Hemi/16D rewound motor.  Mura/Lenz sold this type of motor briefly.

 

The wheel inserts are from a McLaren model kit.  They are inserted into ProTrack wheels.

 

The car is fairly light and is easy to drive.  The motor runs great.

 

Rodney

 

 

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[Slot Car Rod]

Worked a little more on this Porsche 908 that is patterned after the Steve McQueen 1970 Sebring car.

 

Resin 1/24th scale body.  Porsche wheel inserts from a Porsche 917 kit.

 

Plafit chassis and H&R wheels.

 

LED lights to be installed one day.

 

Rodney

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[boxerdog]

I don't know how you do it, Rodney. 

First, find and accumulate all of this stuff, then find time to make it all pretty much period-correct and authentic!

 

Keep it up!

 

dc

[Slot Car Rod]

Thanks.  I hope pictures and descriptions of these cars help with everyone's restorations and recreations.

 

Here is a 1968 Ford P68 I purchased decades ago from a builder in Australia.  I wanted a slot car of a Ford P68, so this was my chance to own one.  I do not know who made the body.  This car is a very period club track racer.  It features a Mabuchi 26D motor, Riggen style wheels, Weldun crown gear, and a scratch-built brass chassis with floppy pans.

 

The Ford P68 body is formed quite well.  When I saw pictures of the car, I thought the rear fenders were flared out using a heated spoon that was a typical technique used back then.  Also, the rear fender flares were too small and looked like they rubbed the tires.  After receiving the car, to my surprise, the rear fenders were made of glued-on cardboard stock!  I replaced the fender flares with larger ones made of sheet plastic and resin.  I could not match the green paint so I painted the flares black.  Door lines were added with acrylic semi-gloss black and a small-tipped brush.  All other detail is as found.

 

The chassis is unique, with its floppy pan mounts on the main chassis rails.  The chassis had too much flex in the rear which contributed to the rear tire rub, so I added a couple of half chassis rails and some more pan stops.  There is also some added motor bracket bracing.

 

I replaced the rear tires with urethane tires.

 

The car is fun to drive and works great on a club track.

 

Rodney

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[Martin]

Always loved the Ford P68, Then I remembered I got one in a body lot some time ago.

It too has the flares and to my surprise it's actually painted like the real car, gold is a bit off.  But worth a chassis at some point.

Thanks Rodney for the inspiration.

I had a giant poster on my bedroom wall as a kid. The Ford P68 was in Gulf colors.

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[Slot Car Rod]

Martin, very nice Ford P68.

 

Here is a Lola T163 that is another one of my favorite slot cars.

 

The vintage four-rail chassis has Associated/Steube pans and drop arm.  It is a 3/32nd axle car.  The Mura C can motor has Champion blue dot magnets and a 25 single armature.  The motor brushes are shunted, and heat sinks are used.  The front wheels are Associated.  Modern rear tires are on vintage wheels.  Vintage spur gear that looks like an Associated.

 

The body is painted with Poly S paint.  The wing is vintage Lancer on Q-Tip posts.  The intake and exhaust pipes are made with soda straws.  Vintage Dynamic decals are used.

 

This car was set up for a Blue King track, hence the added lead weight.  The car has the vintage pro car feel and is fast down the straights.

 

Rodney

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[Slot Car Rod]

I completed this Lola T70.  Does anybody know what brand the body is?  Butyrate plastic.  Note the unique rear spoiler.  Dynamic decals are used.

 

I had a 16D motor in this Versitec chassis in the '60s.  I cobbled together a SS101 motor and installed it in the chassis.

Champion shunted 16D motor brushes were used in the motor. The Lola body matches the wheelbase of the non-adjustable chassis.

 

The wheels and wheel inserts are Russkit.

 

Rodney

 

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[Isaac S.]

Wow, beautiful cars. I like those Associated Jet gears, only have one. When did they come out? I think I remember seeing an ad from about mid '69 advertising their Jet gears. 

[TSR]

Rodney,
I am pretty sure that Lola in post # 346 is a Pactra body. Can't verify this minute.

[Slot Car Rod]

Thanks Isaac.  I see Associated/Steube gears on some 1970 race report tech sheets.

 

Thanks Philippe.

[Jay Guard]

Rodney:

Who made that beautiful Lola T-163 body in post number 345?