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[Steve Okeefe]

Scuderia Scale Bodies

 

 

Scuderia Scale was a very early body manufacturer - and although they didn't seem to survive past 1965, they contributed to the development of the pro-racing slot car by just being there and catering to the "Dawn of Time" scratch builders...

 

 

 

 

[Mark Onofri]

Damn it Mr.Gluebomb!!!!
My profuse drooling over the Maserati bird cage clone, AKA Chaparral,shorted out my phone!!!!
Seriously, thanks!!! Now I have a(nother) legitimate reason to stay up at night. Besides Benny Hill and, doing my math homework, thanks Dave C.
[I Sincerely thank both of you, it's what makes SB the best] .
One thing (of many) that puzzles me is:
It's ok to have a hard body in 1/32 but, it seems (to me) that 1/24 should be vacuum/blow formed or it's just not a slot car. Go ahead, I paid my health insurance.

[Dave Crevie]

Considering that slot racing in both scales started with styrene (or variants thereof), I can't condemn hard body racing. I did some wing car racing in the late 1980's and early 1990's, but I can't say I enjoyed it as much as the (semi) scale C-2 and Eurosport classes. At that time I pushed a manufacturer (what you can do for me?) to produce scale-proportioned vac bodies to go along with his line of bodies designed for the 3 1/4 inch wide chassis being used. He was already making stamped steel chassis to fit his sprint car bodies, it wouldn't be a big deal to modify those to fit scale proportioned bodies. Just couldn't get the support from the other racers I had hoped for.

 

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