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[Pablo]

You got that right, Mikey Love big hair
The car is ultra-sexy

[dc-65x]

I should have that Porsche body painted......but I couldn't help starting another project. But I need to paint.....need to paint.....don't want to....

[havlicek]

Another beautiful car Rick...and that movie was funny as heck, right up there with Buckaroo Banzai

-john

[dc-65x]

Thanks John

"No matter where you go, there you are", Buckaroo Banzai 1984.

[TSR]

OK, I don't recognize those geeks in bad jogging outfits below. Who are they and what planet do they control?

[zipper]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/ ? (haven't seen)

[TSR]

Thanks!
Sounds like the ultimate B-movie... we love them all and they beat everything else on TV!

Rick, nice build, and it really shows how fragile these things must have been when they hit the wall, and how much reinforcement was quickly placed by Morrissey himself in his subsequent builds...

[tonyp]

remember they hit the walls very slowly. lol...

[TSR]

Yes indeed, I was also going to add that...

[dc-65x]

OK, back here on earth, I tried the Might Motor Porsche at Eddie's last weekend.

On the track it looked REALLY tall . I thought it roll over faster than a trained dog . Instead it worked great . Maybe the narrow rear tires worked together with the high CG to create a nice balance....whatever works .

Rodney and I were able to run lap after lap side by side on the Blue King. He was running a restored Russkit Lola T-70 Black Widow 4WD powered by two Russkit 22 motors. Great fun!

I wanted to use an Auto Hobbies full interior but it needed a little clearance between the motor and the passenger seat. I heated an "empty" motor up and pushed the chassis into the interior.....



.....to create a little "bump" to clear the motor:



"Shaky" paint brushes were all I had to paint the interior with. Luckily, you can't see much of it when it's installed in the closed coupe body:



Yes, I know, the driver is on the right side. Luckily, the real car I used for inspiration was a right hand drive model originally used for road use in England .

I soldered on some "trumpet" exhaust pipes and painted them "high temp" flat black:



Here is my racer next to a picture of a real 904 that inspired it:



I had fun making a metal gas cap the kind of looks like the real one:



The Revell wheel inserts were painted up too:



Here's a 904 with the cool pipes.....



.....and my 1/24 version:



A few more pics of the finished racer:







Onward to the next project and thanks for looking .

[slotbaker]

Beeeyoootifull.
Nice little museum piece.

[ShootinSparks]

Rick, that is just plain purty... superb job. Thanks for sharing the build and the road test results with us.

Very cool 1:1 car you picked to pattern the paint after, too. I've seen photos of most of the paint schemes the 904 raced with, but I don't think I've seen that one.

Let us know if that high temp exhaust paint holds up under the heat of full bore racing.

Heating up the empty can to make that interior clear is a great idea and shows great inventiveness... you are a true craftsman.

[Mark H]

dang very nice

[Jairus]

Wow! That looks pretty sweet Rick. Love the pipes as you and I seem to be the only one's who ever do that.
Back in 1999 I took one of my cars to a track here in Salem (The last one we had) and the first thing the track owner asked me was "what are those two pipes sticking out the back of the chassis for?" I guess in his mind, it didn't 'go' it didn't belong.

Beautiful addition to the stable Rick!

[Duffy]

<Duffy tentatively raises hand...>
Does this count? A poor substitute, but it's a RACER and they'll be track-flak after the third heat anyway.



Rikky's is waay nicer. I gotta go buy an econo-bag of cheep brushes for Sacrificial Ferrules!

Duffy

[dc-65x]

Thanks guys, I like the way it turned out too.

One comment though. This car was built to represent a 1964 RACER. It's not meant to be a "motorized model". It doesn't even have a side view mirror to get knocked off. The only external detail pieces are the "pipes" and the gas cap (both of which are quite stout and not going anywhere at the speed this car can attain).

This RACER has a state of the art, new (for 1964) motor and space frame from one of the industry greats and founder of Team Russkit, Jim Russell.

This RACER is faster than my Kemtron and Pittman RACERS that were on the tracks in 1964. It is also equal in speed around the Blue King to a Russkit Black Widow 4WD with silicone tires. The Black Widow was one of the faster RTR's cars from late 1965 to early 1966. That's an eternity of slot car development time during the Golden Age and it show's how good Jim's car was in 1964.

Here again are some 1964 RACERS:



How times have changed! But, IMHO, the cars shown on that track in 1964 were RACERS!

Ownward to the past!

[Duffy]

..Wo, did I ever slip Rick a jeffrey, I pushed him to caps, Italics AND BOLD!! Chill, Dude, stroke the furry wall, stroke the furry wall...

But you're right about that. Personally, I've been so immersed in Retro lately I feel like I've gone over to the Dark Side (and the cookies're all peanut butter), but I meant my comment from the other direction entirely--it's really fun to add realism to these cars, even when. We have a ball adding what touches we do, and the more we do it the easier and more natural it becomes, even on a RACER (I am not as bold as Rikky) and who knows, we might be seeing more side mirrors on Can-Ams one day.

Duffy

[dc-65x]

I pushed him to caps, Italics AND BOLD!! Chill, Dude, stroke the furry wall, stroke the furry wall...

Duffy, I just had to one up your caps and Italics with.....BOLD!

[Duffy]

...Hm, now I'm kinda regretting not having sanded off the mold seam on that driver's helmet. See, this stuff's contagious.

[Tex]

Rick,

Superb.

In your spare time someday, MAYbe you'll take a couple pics of your whole fleet of recreated vintage cars(?). I know I'D like to see that!

[Pablo]

Bad to the BONE, Rick, thanks for showing !!!!!!

[dc-65x]

Thanks for making it fun to share my passion for these old cars here.

This one's next to finish up:



The inline DC-65X proved "worthy" at Eddie's last weekend so I'm trimming and mounting that rare Lancer body on it. Better on the track than sitting in its box .

Track report soon.....