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[Steve Okeefe]

Here's a listing of bodies that were used in the races, bodies that might have been used in the traces, and current production equivalent bodies you can obtain today.

 

NOTE: This is NOT an "Approved Bodies" list; you can use any body you want as long as it was available in 1966.

 

How to read this chart:

 

The six narrow columns on the left are the race numbers, one through six.  An "x" means the body described on that line either appeared or could have appeared in the race entries.  A "TC" means it was called out in the Tech Charts.

 

The three orange columns in the middle are original vintage bodies, and the three purple columns on the right are currently available equivalents.

 

CLICK to enlarge...  The rest is pretty much self-explanitory.

 

 

Please remember:  This is a work in progress and I'm confident there are eligible bodies missing from the chart.  If you know of one that should be there but isn't, post a reply and tell us.

[Noose]

Steve,

 

Great work.  Will need to get Mr. Dilworth to give you his full list of the GP bodies as he has many that we now use today in the R&C Jail Door GP Series.

[Steve Okeefe]

Noose,

 

Rick T. helped me with input for this list, so he gets some kudos too. 

 

How do I contact Mr. Dilworth? 

[Noose]

HowmetTX here on the blog

[Steve Okeefe]

Thanks, Noose

 

Gotta get my head outa the tomes and start paying more attention to who's who.

[Don Weaver]

Any new coupe bodies to add to the list?  Hard to find what's listed.  Are 1:1 cars raced in 1966 allowed (i.e., Chaparral 2F, Ford MK IV) allowed or just the available slot car bodies allowed?  Thanks.....

 

Don Weaver

[SlotStox#53]

I would of thought any slot car body of any 1:1 racing car upto & including 1966 would be eligable for the R&C

 

As long as you can get or make the body and it fits within the width & other rules for the R&C races   I was going to look at what other cars were raced then for another possible entry.

[Gator Bob]

Steve,

 

Could/Should these Coupes be added to the list?

 

• DuBro  - Shelby Daytona Coupe
• DuBro and Classic - Thomas Cheetah 
• Rainbow - Ford GT

[Steve Okeefe]

Any new coupe bodies to add to the list?  Hard to find what's listed.  Are 1:1 cars raced in 1966 allowed (i.e., Chaparral 2F, Ford MK IV) allowed or just the available slot car bodies allowed?  Thanks.....

 

Don Weaver

 

To answer your question, yes any 1:1 car raced in 1966 (or a few years earlier) is okay.

 

The list above was assembled from the R&C race Tech Charts and all the information about current production bodies I could find - it was and is NOT intended to restrict body choices.  Because it is an unfortunate fact that original vintage bodies from 4-1/2 decades ago are becoming very rare and expensive, I was thinking reproductions of the vintage bodies appearing in the Tech Charts (example: True Scale, ED, Anderson, Dilworth, etc.) would be okay too.

 

However, as Don Siegel has correctly pointed out, there were many more entries at the R&C races than show up on the Tech Charts, so who knows what other slot car bodies might have been there?  The only hard-stop limitation is that you should not choose any bodies representing cars that did not yet exist in 1966 - a few years earlier than 1966 however is A-OK.

 

Not to be too picky, but both the Chaparral 2F and the Ford GT-40 Mark IV you mentioned in your question were 1967 cars...     As an alternative, the original Ford GT-40 Mark I, GT-40 Mark II and "J" car are all 1966 or earlier. 

 

 

 

Steve,

 

Could/Should these Coupes be added to the list?

 

• DuBro  - Shelby Daytona Coupe
• DuBro and Classic - Thomas Cheetah 
• Rainbow - Ford GT

 

 

Bob,

 

Yes to all four; they all date to 1966 or earlier.  Do you actually have examples of these bodies?  I'd be interested in verifying the part numbers for the bodies charts.

 

The DuBro chart lists a "Cobra GT" as part number 24-26 and a "Riverside Cheetah" as part number 24-28, and there are photos of each.

 

The Classic "Cheetah" is part number 4423 and there is a photo.

 

The Rainbow Ford GT is another animal; there is so little documented information about Rainbow bodies that I couldn't even build a chart.  As it turns out however, I have one photo of a Rainbow product, and it is a Ford GT:

 

 

Looks like part number 25-29.  Rainbow advertised only once that I know of, in the January 1965 issue of Model Car & Track, on page 14:

 

 

And while the ad does mention a number of body styles, including a Lotus 30, the Ford GT is unfortunately not one of them.  And of course, there are no part numbers...

[Gator Bob]

 

Do you actually have examples of these bodies?

Yes.  

 

But the Rainbow Ford GT is in purple tint, I can't locate where the tag went after it took a bubble bath.

Both DuBro bodies are factory tinted then painted with printed stamp on inside roof.

The Classic is clear. IRRC it has the insert.

[SlotStox#53]

Be cool to see a Cheetah running around Eddies Have to look at the different GP bodies that are available in the same time frame.....