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[dragonslayer1]

Anyone think this chassis is worth anything, since someone engraved their name on it? Didn't Google the name yet I'm thinking its probably the builder.

 

It has a built vintage Mura B can with a newer Gp12 .410 arm and cobalt magnets This is fast and handles better than my wing cars without a body on it.

 

 

[Bill from NH]

Dave, the chassis is a Parma production item.

 

The motor is a Mura C-can, rather than a B-can. While not worth a great deal of money, if it can be documented as having once belonged to Tore Anderson, hang onto it.

[Cheater]

Surprised you don't recognize the name, Dave.

 

John Tore Anderson is a slot car notable on the West Coast who has won major slot car races in five decades!

 

The engraved name might possibly be a fake IMO, especially if you bought the car on eBay. I say this because I wouldn't have thought that Tore would have used a Parma production chassis from that timeframe.

 

I'll see what I can do about getting Tore to confirm or deny this, as he has been a member at Slotblog for a long time, though he doesn't post much any more.

[dragonslayer1]

A friend of mine asked me if I wanted the chassis two years ago, he had it since the '70s.

It had orange Tunas on it with a red orange McLaren M8F body on it as I remember seeing it on his shelf back then, it's not an eBay find. I remember him telling me he picked it up at Pine Plaza Raceway in Forrestville, CT. They had a 310 ft Engleman there. Guy by the name of Sherman owned the place.

Anyways I'm wondering if Anderson may have autographed it, and not built it, if he was in Connecticut back in the '70s. I wouldn't know because I was fourteen in 1970.  a

And I've never seen anyone race those inline Retro car chassis they have today, never! We all used right hand drive endbell mounted motors. This inline chassis today must be something new because I have never seen or heard of them raced in the '60s here.

[TSR]

Dave,

Parma began producing these chassis and RTR cars fitted with them around 1975, when the supply of other available chassis from Limpach, Neat Things and Associated SS (Gilbert) dried up. These are the most commonly found post-vintage chassis nowadays because Parma made thousands of them.

While John T. may have signed it for someone, it seems frankly doubtful, because that chassis looks like it has seen better days, with virtually all its joints re-soldered and the repairman never bothering to clean his mess afterwards. Also the markings look quite recent compared to the condition of the chassis in general.

Best would be to ask Tore himself, by getting in touch with him though Bryan Warmack right here on Slotblog. 

[Cheater]

P,

I've already PM'd Bryan to point him to this thread and when Tore comes by the shop later today, he'll show it to him. Bryan thinks the engraving is very suspect, as he says Tore never signed chassis in that manner.

We should have Tore's opinion later today.

[TSR]

Maybe the chassis owner kissed his ring! 

[Hworth08]

Boy, fraud is gettin' hard to do.

[Samiam]

This is starting to sound like an episode of Pawn Stars.

[TSR]

Yeah, we need a real expert here!

[Bryan Warmack]

   Tore just had a look at this and said it was completely bogus. He said he had absolutely nothing to do with the chassis or the inscription.

[Cheater]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Nothing about that engraving looks right to me and I apologize to Dave for focusing on that.

Thanks, Bryan!