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[Vay Jonynas]

I have a red 1973 Dodge Charger like the blue one I've posted down here. Richard Petty's was just slightly faster though. He garnered NASCAR's Winston Cup championship with it in both 1974 and 1975, winning a startling 23 out of 50 races in the latter year.

I wish Scalextric, Monogram, or somebody would put out his STP Charger in 1/32 or even 1/24 slot.

[Vay Jonynas]

I recently bought one of these gorgeous Scalextric 1/32 Ford GT40 Le Mans slot racers off the Electric Dreams website. What a little beauty! In my opinion these Ford GTs and the Ferrari 330P/LMs against which they competed represented the aesthetic pinnacle of sport prototype development.

[TSR]

I LOVE GT40s... I might break the piggy, sell the trailer, and buy a Superformance repro to tool around. Oh no, can't do it, they JAIL offenders now and I don't have any tattoos...

[n9949y]

Historic Race weekend, Portland, OR International Raceway, July, 2007.

Sat AM practice, turn 11:



Trans-Am Start, turn 1:



Third lap:



Eighth lap:



Winning Trans-Am car, Sat, July 7, 2007:



My Geezer-Pleezer next to the "I-want it" Mk II:



(For the camera guys, photos from my Canon EOS Rebel XT Digital SLR.)

[Vay Jonynas]

I'm still a big fan of the Funny Cars Don "the Snake" Prudhomme raced in the seventies. The best looking is perhaps the Mattel Hot Wheels sponsored 'Cuda he ran early in the decade.

[MG Brown]

Revell-Monogram had announced a line of Classic NASCARS to be released this year. Not sure if this is still on with the change in company structure?

[Russ Glass]

1972 Datsun 510 BRE.

[Vay Jonynas]

I've always loved the lines of the Ferrari 330P/LMs. They were a fitting rival in the mid-sixties to the Ford GTs in every way.

Monogram put out gorgeous slot cars of these two racers at the time. I bought the one of the Ferrari in 1965 at a hobby shop on the north side of Seven Mile Road, just west of the Southfield Expressway in Detroit and built it. Though I still have the assembled car, I wanted an unassembled kit as well. I finally bought one last month on eBay. Here's the kit:

[Tex]

Niiiice!

[Tex]

Zeb,

There are plenty of Lola T70 MkIII Coupes out there (1/32). I'll come up with some links in a minute.

And that Ferrari... (sigh)... I so prefer those flowing lines over the more angular 512LM.

EDIT: OK, maybe the best thing to do is to use Yahoo or Google and search for "Lola T70" + "slot car" + "1/32". I came up with MANY hits.

[GTPJoe]

Fly makes a group of Lolas in 1/32 that are really nice.

And for the ultimate Ferrari 250 LeMans, check out a company called [url="http://www.racer-emmegi.it/default.htm""]Racer[/url]. Not cheap, but the best there is.

[Vay Jonynas]

For those times when the levee breaks but you still need to get around town fast.

[Vay Jonynas]

Here's an AMT Lola kit I have in my collection:

[Vay Jonynas]

I bought one of the last 1987 Buick Grand Nationals to be produced late in 1987. I loved the car - but it was stolen out of the parking lot in 1993 as I was attending a wedding! It was found trashed a couple of days later. My insurance company refused my demands to restore it and eventually got me to agree to a cash settlement. I still regret not digging in my heels to get it repaired.

[Vay Jonynas]

1965 I believe. It would be a great-looking slot car built-up that's for sure but I have no intention of breaking up the kit to do so. I'd be willing to build one up though if I could get the parts for it loose or even partially assembled.

[Jaz]

The most beautiful car ever made...

[Tex]

It's hard to argue with that. There are a small handful of swoopy red cars from the '60s that epitomize the blending together of form and function.

[Vay Jonynas]

I've liked 1934 Ford Coupes from the thirties ever since that day in 1964(?) when a Monogram ad for the company's new line of slot cars in Boy's Life magazine caught my eye. The cars I'm actively running right now are all 1/32 scale but the 1/24 scale Carrera Ford Coupes are so gorgeous that I might very well expand my racing horizons. Here are pics of three of the ones that tempt me from the Electric Dreams website:

[Vay Jonynas]

I also like these 1/24 scale Carrera 1941 Chevys:

[Flower]

Go, Lola, go!

[Vay Jonynas]

I had a gold 1983 Chrysler Imperial, which I bought with 20,000 km. on the speedometer in 1986. I felt I could use a little luxury at the time since I thought I had by then become a respectable member of society.

Well, I was wrong. The car was such a slug that I ended up selling it in disgust in 1991. Chrysler never did get the fuel injection system to work right in the 318 with which it was equipped.