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[don.siegel]

Here is a trio of chassis I picked up recently, since they seemed to be very good examples of early slot racing chassis - and maybe even converted from rail racers, given the ground clearance involved! What's also interesting are the two very complicated gear trains involved - and why they bothered, since in both cases there are large gears on the axle, and there would have been space for a regular pinion to contrate geartrain.... Also, what's the spur gear doing on that first chassis?

The tires are marked Veco, so I assume these are regular model airplane wheels, and the axle is the original 1/16", or thereabouts. Everybody turns very smoothly, in just brass tube, and both of the complete chassis seem to be set up for Pittman motors, probably a DC-60 - this would date from about 1960 or a bit earlier I assume. Haven't tried a body fit yet, but they might go in one of the period Strombecker or Merit 1/24 bodies...

Don

[Gary Bluestone]

That's some amazing stuff. They really went to alot of trouble to create these with what was available at that time. One thing that occured to me regarding the first chassis, with the bevel gear connected to a straight cut pinion on the other end of the(drive) shaft , you could locate the motor drive pinion below the shaft pinion to lower the engine, and keep the weight low down. Without that set up , the motor shaft would have to be level with the axle unless they could get hypoid bevel gear sets, which were no doubt rare . I have no idea about the spur gear on the axle. Gb