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[Eddie Fleming]

59 Chevy but who's counting. Love the Rex White paint job. As far as I know Rex is still living in the Atlanta area.

[Slot Car Rod]

Rex White

 

Thanks for identifying the correct year 1959.

[Bill from NH]

Wikipedia indicated he was born in 1929. He'll be 92 this year. He only drove a Pontiac in 1961, it wasn't his usual #4. it was #47.

[Slot Car Rod]

Three Revell cars.  I made a brass pan for the Corvette.

 

 

[Martin]

Always amazed at the range of cars you cover.

Revell Ferrari 250. My first slot car.

 

I notice the Black car has 3 side vents (U.S.Ca. car) the white car 2.  Did you remove one?

Read this also....

"Two slanted air vents were on each side of the front fender, but while racing, a few GTOs were damaged and rebuilt later on with three vents to again help cool the engine."

[Isaac S.]

Martin, I bet yours didn't look that good! 

 

Rod, I really like the '64 Vette. The Cox wheels look really good on that car. My questions are which one is the fastest and what wheels are on the white car? 

[Slot Car Rod]

The white 250 GTO is roughly patterned after one that ran at Laguna Seca in 1963.  Yes, one vent per side is covered over.  I remember the wheels on this car being Ervco brand.  They made lots of different wheels.

 

I am not sure what brand wheels are on the blue Corvette.  They scale out to about 16" in diameter.  I had one pair and purchased the second pair on eBay.

 

Regarding performance, the blue Corvette has a some of advantages with a French rewound motor, Parma crown gear, and a brass pan.  The other two cars have stock motors.  All three cars have urethane rear tires.  I first tried aj's silicones on the black car, with little success.

[Isaac S.]

Very cool, I didn't see the Corvette had a French motor. Ervco makes sense, they also made lots of anodized wheels.  I think those are Cox American Mag fronts (the other you show is a rear as used on the Cheetahracha), they don't look like Dynamic.

[Martin]

Rod said "I am not sure what brand wheels are on the blue Corvette.  They scale out to about 16" in diameter."

 

Guys, they look like they could be (likely) from the Dynamic Renegade, which are bigger (and rare) than the more common Cox mags.

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[Slot Car Rod]

Thanks Martin.  I think you nailed it.

 

One of the most dominant IMSA GTP cars was the Nissan GTP ZX Turbo that ran from around 1986 through 1989.   This Nissan had lots of horsepower and what seemed to be more downforce than the competitors.  

 

There never was a mass-produced 1/24th scale model of this car.  TrueScale did produce a vacuform body of this car, and I will build one up one day.  

This 1/24th scale slot car is built around a one-off model car body made by Greg Sacho.  

 

The slot car chassis is a Slick 7 brand "Formula S" steel chassis.  With this chassis, body mounting is with shaker tubes.  A Falcon 7 motor along with a Slick 7 spur gear is used.  The car weighs a total of 5.6 ounces.  It took hours to get the body weight down to 1.4 ounces (with light kit).  Although very close to scale, this is a large car.

 

Rear tires are Pro Track on Electric Dreams set screw wheels.  Front wheels and hard rubber tires are Plafit.  Wheel inserts are ground to size for the BBS-style wheels (BRM brand), and the five spoke inserts are from a model kit.

 

Rubber rearview mirrors and antenna are from Germany.  A Ninco light kit was installed.

 

The car drives a little like a Eurosport car, being very precise and very neutral.  This is because of the precise Slick 7 steel chassis.  The car has been run quite a bit, and the paint has been touched up and the body repaired over the years.  This is another one of my favorite slot cars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bill from NH]

Did Rudy (Slick 7) sell that chassis as a full sidewinder? If so, the motor box appears to be easily convertible to anglewinder so that C-cans fit, by bending out the left pillow block & resoldering it. When we had local tracks, this chassis was not used, The Slick 7 GT-12s (Asps) were.

[Slot Car Rod]

Bill, here are the two generations of the Slick 7 Formula S chassis.  The anglewinder one is the newer one and will accommodate C-cans.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bill from NH]

Thanks for the clarification. These Slick 7 Formula S chassis weren't run locally, even though we used a lot of Slick 7's other products.

[Slot Car Rod]

The Can-Am series came back in the late 70's with single seater Can-Am cars.  Most of them were converted Formula 5000 cars.

 

I finished off Will's scratch built single seater Can-Am model as a slot car.

 

A slot car driver figure and Lexan rear wing with styrene plastic struts were added to the body.  The body was hollowed out for slot car use.  The car was originally a curbside model.

 

A Champion chassis was modified to allow for the more scale wheels and tires.  The front wheels and tires are Cox.  The rear wheels are Dynamic mag wheels turned down and inserted into Pro Track wheels.  Rear tires are fish foam H&R.  A Falcon 7 motor is used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Slot Car Rod]

Will said he based the scratch built body on a car like this one.

 

 

 

[Bill from NH]

Russ Toy was another Bay Area individual who was very good at putting  scale wheels on a flexi chassis. I first saw his work in the VMRA reports. I do recall seeing the converted Formula 5000s being run in the late -70s. Good job with this Champion Astro build.

[Slot Car Rod]

I just completed a 1/24th scale Mercedes 300 SL slot car.  The chassis is a very rare International brand that features a leaf spring rear suspension!

 

The Mercedes body is made by the Cartronic brand.  It is made of styrene.  This brand of slot cars is very seldom seen here in 1/24th scale.  

I still have a light kit to add.

 

The Japanese International brand chassis is factory-assembled and was made around 1965.  It was bent in the package, and it took a couple of hours to realign the chassis as best as possible.

The motor pod acts like a torque arm for the rear suspension.  The leaf springs support the car.

 

The Mabuchi 36D motor has a red wire armature, and is a special long motor shaft version.  It came in a Mabuchi-branded package.  The brass bevel gears are 3 to 1 Classic brand.  The guide flag is a new Monogram.

 

The wheels are aluminum Cartronic brand.  The aluminum wheels were originally for 3mm axles.  I tapped out the wheels for 5-40 axles.  Tires are trued Cartronic.

 

 

[Dave Crevie]

Looks good. Like the rear suspension.

 

International also made brass locomotive models for the model railroad hobby. The details were horrendous, but the proportions were spot on, and the drives were pretty good. Plus the price was right. While an O scale Max Grey or United loco would be $250 or higher at the time, the Internationals were $50. So I used several of them as basis for my builds. I built a Southern PS-4 from their version, with full backhead detail, using Bechtold and Backshop lost wax brass castings. It was good enough to get a first place in a model contest. Unfortunately I sold it shortly thereafter, the buyer offering a price I just could not pass up.  

[Martin]

Interesting rear suspension on this little beauty. Lots of nice details although it is missing its classic side vents ?

[Slot Car Rod]

It looks like some had vents and some did not.

[Martin]

Got it, thanks. Great looking model.

 

I had never herd of Cartronic brand.

[dc-65x]

With or without the side vents it's a very cool and unique build Rodney. Thanks for sharing it with us. 

[Martin]

I love the wire over the windshield, I guess to stop animals from coming into the cabin.  Did you do this detail Rodney?

 

The side vent comment was not a criticism of your build, hope you know I love that you are sharing your amazing collection.

Just wanted to let you know I was paying attention to the details.

 

Great old pic of the original car too.

[Slot Car Rod]

Martin, thanks for viewing.  The body details/parts are all factory Cartronic. 

Thanks Rick.

[don.siegel]

Great build Rod. Very intested to see how your's runs... I've got the same chassis, but with a differential, and I used it in an Aston Martin DBR1 (Strombecker) many years ago. But because I took the easy way out for mounting, I basically locked up the suspension, so wondering what affect that has on its handling... The differential seemed to work pretty well, but the motor was lacking in beans, so it may not have been much of a test. 

 

Don