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[SlotStox#53]

Here's one arse that's greatful for the Hurricanes and Spitfires and can tell the difference between em    Awesome planes... Certainly don't make em like that anymore ...

[MrWeiler]

Thanks...back when they were new I used both but I forgot 'till I saw the pictures.! Thanks again!

[Gator Bob]

Stingray GT # 116

 

Is that the (non-split window) coupe in a "showroom" stock appearance? i.e. no scoops or flairs.

[ravajack]

A couple of more rare & elusive Pactra bodies, as reported in Model Car Science, december 1967.

These were presented at the Mini-Trade hobby show in Los Angeles earlier the same year.

 

The Pactra  Chap 2F is seldom seen, and the odd yellow Chiquita Banana "thingie" is even rarer.

Has anyone actually ever seen this Pactra Banana car IRL?

 

[TSR]

Bertil,

None of the announced bodies and/or cars in this article were never issued, The trade show was very unsuccessful and signified the end of the road to many slot car companies that year. Pactra pulled the carpet under that program and reverted to making paint and brushes.

[Steve Okeefe]

Philippe,

 

Now I understand why I have never, ever, seen one beyond that photo.

 

Truly an ultimate logical absurdity in the evolution of novelty slot cars...

[Gator Bob]

Bill,

It is too narrow for those pregnant chassis, it looks too much like a real car.

 

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Is there a photo of the back of this 1:1 car?  Please.

 

Come on Dokk <sarc on> you don't think current F1/Indy (cigar) cars are in the Retro spirit?

[Gator Bob]

Philippe,

 

Now I understand why I have never, ever, seen one beyond that photo.

 

Truly an ultimate logical absurdity in the evolution of novelty slot cars...

 They might have been meant to ap-peel to the lady of the house.

[Gator Bob]

Stingray GT # 116

 

Is that the (non-split window) coupe in a "showroom" stock appearance? i.e. no scoops or flairs.

 

Or ? .... the one with the wide hood scoop?

[TSR]

You mean, this one:

 

[Gator Bob]

Not that one .. but thanks.

[Poobah]

And if a Banana car showed up? Then what? I am not asking as a joke. I am asking as someone who may have seen one. I wanted to buy it when it was new but did not have the money. Manufacterer names ment nothing to me back then, only that it was OUTRAGEOUS! It was in the display case about a week and then it was gone. I was a quiet kid so I never asked about it but I remember wanting it!

[Gator Bob]

Welcome Poobah !

 

I can't remember ever seeing one. It is very cool that you did. Where was your slot shop back in the day?

[Pete L.]

Does anyone have a lead on one of these for sale?

 

This is the 1961-62 Ferrari made by Pactra in what seems to be 1966-67. My all-time favorite F1 car.

 

Thanks.

 

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Glenn,

 

 

 Here's a link to a British firm, look under 1/24 scale bodies then GP cars

 

http://www.bettaandc...leintro1241.htm

[TSR]

This is the 1961-62 Ferrari made by Pactra in what seems to be 1966-67. My all-time favorite F1 car.

 

Thanks.

 

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Glenn,

this "156" was first produced by Stormer in 1963. Stormer was then purchased by Pactra and the body included as well as a limited number of the old Stormer molds, in the Pactra line. Pactra shut down all body production at the end of 1967, using Lancer bodies for their subsequent kits and RTR models issued in late 1967 and early 1968.

[Lone Wolf]

Couple more Pactra's. Sorry if they have been posted earlier.

 

Factory painted bodies. These came from the Polk warehouse. Had tons, sadly this is what remains.Came two ways, deluxe with detail painted for $2.98 and plain for $1.98 Notice one Cooper came with painted headlights and one did not. Pay no attention to my heel, to lazy to crop

 

 

This is a hard one to find, '65 Galaxie.

 

 

Ferrari 250 and Jag with original boxes.

 

 

Got more, gotta dig 'em out

[Poobah]

Bob My tracks were in Springfield Virginia. One big commercial and one small and also a hobby shop. I moved there in the summer of 1967. I finally lived where I could walk to 3 tracks and within a year they were all gone. It was sad, very sad. The Banana Car was one of the last cars I saw new for two decades. The next new car I saw was a Door Stop. To think that some people have the gall to call them THINGIES. It is funny tho that I saw them at a track in Woodbridge Virginia three stores down from where I bought my Dynamic Renagade in the track there twenty years before. I can not tell a lie - I bought a Door Stop.

[JohnnySlotcar]

Wonder what the banana car would sell for now, if ever found?

[TSR]

Millions! 

[TSR]

Two of the rarest Pactra RTR cars now in the restoration process: the truly rare Ford MK4, this one the sole genuine example I have seen in over 20 years, and the Vulture. These are now being sympathetically restored, using their original chassis.

The Ford body is in excellent condition and was supplied by Lancer to Pactra, since Pactra had shut down their own body production in the last months of 1967. getting a Lancer Ford MK4 body is pretty easy, they are around. Having a genuine Pactra Ford MK4 RTR car is another story altogether, and hopefully, a better example will eventually show up...
 

The last series of Pactra cars had "iso-fulcrum" steel and brass-rod chassis with an aluminum brop arm bolted to the "Hemi" motor and all three models are scarce or in the case of the Ford, truly rare.

 

 

 

 

 

The decals used are fortunately those of the very first Competition Models Ford GT issued 2 years earlier, and the LASCM is lucky to have a stack of them. Once the decals are removed (the body is currently in a bath of water to loosen the old decals), the body will be carefully polished and new decals fitted.

The other two cars in that last series are a Lotus 40 and a BRP-Ford Indy car, both scarce models today. All three use the same chassis.

 

 

 

The BRP in its original box is the only example I have ever seen:

 

 

The Vulture is less rare as a clear body, but as a factory painted RTR, is rarely seen... the body was made from the modified mold of the Pactra Eagle-Climax F1 with an added "bubble" top.

 

 

 

The Vulture also uses the same "iso" chassis shown above in the Lotus.

[Gator Bob]

The Vulture looks very cool. Thanks for posting it.

[Lone Wolf]

When I get bodies with that moldy "funk" on them ( as seen on the Vuture ) I use Clorox Cleanup for the initial cleaning. Kills that wonderful aroma they usually have as well. Then a gentle bath with warm water and Dawn followed by a 3 stage polish. Just my method, I'm sure there are others.

[TSR]

Joe, yours is a good method and pretty much the same I use.

[Horsepower]

Does anyone have a lead on one of these for sale?

 

This is the 1961-62 Ferrari made by Pactra in what seems to be 1966-67. My all-time favorite F1 car.

 

Thanks.

 

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Patto's Place has the 1961 shark nose Ferarri

http://members.optus...place/home.html

[Poobah]

TRS I do not have much of a scence of humor any more.