Vince, do you have any photos of the old chassis you built? All the various UGO chassis I've ever seen were nickel or chrome plated. So I assumed they might have been built in Japan.
Does anyone remember U-Go motors?
#26
Posted 29 January 2023 - 09:21 PM
I intend to live forever! So far, so good.
#31
Posted 22 March 2023 - 07:52 PM
What’s in the box? Can you show the labels?
#33
Posted 23 March 2023 - 10:06 PM
"What’s in the box? Can you show the labels?"
Zipper posted your answer. The other bottles must be "Red Goo", but I forgot to check.
Philippe de Lespinay
#34
Posted 23 May 2023 - 06:07 PM
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#35
Posted 23 May 2023 - 07:06 PM
Here is one I built for a customer with a mint U-Go 16D.
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#36
Posted 23 May 2023 - 07:14 PM
I don't have one at hand, but U-GO chassis & their separate chassis parts have been soldered on for years. I never knew whether they were foreign built or built local.
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#37
Posted 17 June 2023 - 01:40 PM
"Here is one I built for a customer with a mint U-Go 16D."
Nice copy of the Bob Emott built car that Ursaner drove to a 2nd place at the 1967 "Nats" in Atlanta. The flip-flop body mounts are of course your personal touch.
"They were Nicole plated in the Bay Area"
Was she good looking?
"f they were chrome you cannot solder to chrome so the frame would be junk if it broke."
100% correct, and as far as I know, all the 1960s and early 1970s plated production chassis were done so with nickel, some with cadmium before it became illegal, later replaced with a zinc alloy allowing soldering.
Philippe de Lespinay
#38
Posted 17 June 2023 - 11:40 PM
I simply copied the car in this picture. I did not build that car and was told it was the Bob Emott chassis.
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#39
Posted 22 June 2023 - 07:40 PM
Yes, this is the Emott car driven by Ursaner at the '67 Nats. The chassis was discovered in Bob's basement mere minutes before the wrecking ball took the house down. The replica body is the correct Pactra Ford that was on the car, painted by Noose for the LASCM and sporting the correct decals. The motor was a rewound Russkit 23 with Arco mags. The car, held by Ursaner, can be seen on this B&W picture taken at the raceway in Atlanta that very day:
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Philippe de Lespinay
#40
Posted 25 June 2023 - 02:59 PM
Great picture Philippe