40 replies to this topic

[Bill from NH]

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.

[Jaeger Team]

...memorabilia...

[TSR]

 

 

 

 

[don.siegel]

A used U-Go 26D, one of a couple I've found, all used. Not easy to find the box. 

 

Don 

 

[TSR]

More U-Go (or U-Don't!) products at the LASCM:

Many different wheels and tires:





More motors:





And then there are the lethal liquids to mess up your car and destroy its nicely painted body... (Do Not Take Internally)




 

[Mr. M]

What’s in the box? Can you show the labels?

[zipper]

Bloo Goo?

[TSR]

"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. 

 

[Vince West]

The frames were piano wire with a motor, rear wheel bracket, nose piece, and cross wire for front wheels. They were Nicole plated in the Bay Area. If they were chrome you cannot solder to chrome so the frame would be junk if it broke.

[Jairus]

Here is one I built for a customer with a mint U-Go 16D.

 

 

 

[Bill from NH]

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.

[TSR]

"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.

 

[Jairus]

I simply copied the car in this picture.  I did not build that car and was told it was the Bob Emott chassis.

[TSR]

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:

[Martin]

Great picture Philippe

[Flathead]

"UGO Smith worlds fastest slot cars" sponsorship on the Melrose Missile Barracuda circa 1968.




The above mentioned wire frame. Blue packet was for 16d size motors, 26d frame was in a green packet. + 2 sizes of Blue Tigers.