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[dc-65x]

Can someone identify the make, model and year of manufacture of the body below. I swear I've seen it before but I can't place where:

 

 

Oh, that's not my hand in the picture!

 

Thanks in advance for any help

[SlotStox#53]

Don't know what it is, but sure is a very pretty shape/look Recently saw that very body or a duplicate in a very recent auction for 6x nos Lancer shells... if knowing it's a Lancer is any help?

 

Hope someone can enlighten you Rick

[Matt Sheldon]

At first glance I was going to say Dubro 904 Porsche, but then I realized it is not. This is one of those posts where you give your answer thinking you nailed it and PDL kicks the door down and shows you are very incorrect.

 

It looks like a Ferrari, Corvette, El Camino mash up.

[SlotStox#53]

Looking at it again , could it be a Dino Ferrari?

 

 

Has a similar El Camino curvy swoopy rear type thing going on..

[Jens Scale Racing]

Rick,

 

Pactra made it, a Ferrari Dino. And Patto made one as well. Here is a link, scroll till the bottom:http://www.google.de...ved=0CFcQrQMwAA

[don.siegel]

Yep, it's the Pactra Dino - originally a show car I believe, and a lot narrower than Pactra's version!

 

Great slot car body though!

 

Don

[Rated_RR]

Picked this up today can anyone give me a value on it.
Cox Chaparral 2-E. Still NIB

[Rated_RR]

Can anyone give me a value on my NIB Cox Chaparral 2-E Mag

[dc-65x]

Thanks for the help guys.

 

I looked it up in Auto World Catalogs. The 1967 catalog lists a Pactra Dino Ferrari #131. The 1966 1/2 catalog stops at the Morgan #130 so it's possible the Dino #131 was available during the 1966 R&C races. I'm not sure if it would have been allowed in the series but it would make an interesting body for a racer with, shall we say, an unusual power-train!

[SlotStox#53]

It's always intriguing when you mention unusual power-train!! would certainly make for one low slung R&C car !

[Pablo]

I have no idea what the body is, but I can verify that is NOT your hand, Rick

[TSR]

There are two kinds of Dino automobiles (they were never called "Ferrari"). the 206 was an aluminum bodied car with a 2-liter V6 derived from their F2 car. Very few were built and it is the one Pactra modeled. You can see the rectangular Dino badge on its nose.

The later 246 was quite a different car and is most popular as very few know what the 206 looked like.
 

The original design was from this Pinin Farina 365GT "Experimentale" with the driver seating in the middle, with a passenger on each side:

http://www.supercars...ID=1&pID=896131

 

Can anyone give me a value on my NIB Cox Chaparral 2-E Mag

 

I can.  

 

[SlotStox#53]

Didn't the "Dino" V6 end up in the rear of the Lancia Stratos rally car?

[Gator Bob]

Can anyone ID this body?

 

And no, I didn't do this hand paint in orange.

[MSwiss]

Didn't the "Dino" V6 end up in the rear of the Lancia Stratos rally car?

Yes.

 

A co-workers friend had one he imported.from Germany and legalized.

 

Very cool car.

 

Talk about "thinly disguised race car". LOL

[TSR]

Can anyone ID this body?

 

And no, I didn't do this hand paint in orange.

 

Bob, looks like a poorly rendered 904...

[Gator Bob]

Thanks Dokk!

[SlotStox#53]

Yes.

 

A co-workers friend had one he imported.from Germany and legalized.

 

Very cool car.

 

Talk about "thinly disguised race car". LOL

"police officer" is this car legal?  yup.... Only just

[MSwiss]

The 5 mph bumpers were 1" or 1 1/2" square tubing mounted to Fiat 131 shock absorbers.

It was Fly Yellow.

IIRC, he said he paid 35K and got it from a doctor in Germany.

It just made the 51 coolest car list in an article in my new Road & Track along with the Dino.

[TSR]

The Stratos is absolutely a cool car. French rally driver Bernard Darniche was its top driver in the mid 1970s, winning a string of rallies that ended the reign of the Alpine-Renault cars. They are so popular in Europe that you can now buy completer replicas made in the UK and powered by either a real Dino engine (generally stolen from a rusty FIAT), or a Ford V6 made to look like a Dino engine with new cam covers!

They got wilder in the late 1970's, with wide wheels and added flares, and Alitalia sponsorship for the factory team cars...

 

 

[Allan Feldman]

I am sure since I have this (Pactra Slotcar) experiment (Dino?) 206 show car that it was a one off since it had I believe 6 enclosed (under plexglass) nose lights but it was never put into production. I do have a 1/43rd diecast of this car made by Politoy M of Italy. I think it was exhibited at the 1966 Paris car show. The early production Dinos were aluminum and had the 206 engine but they were not radically different in shape to when the Dino was uprated to the 246 engine. Pinifarinas 365P was a one off built car I do not think it was called a Dino when it had a V12; I thought it might have been called experimential . i remember it coming to Good Festival of Speed It was a rather nice shade of light blue if I remember correctly.

Regards Allan

[stevefzr]

Can anyone ID this body?

 

And no, I didn't do this hand paint in orange.

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Hi Bob,

 

Looks like a Prince R380 to me.  If I recall correctly they did a front enginged version like this and latter changed it to rear engine. 

 

Tamiya did a hard body slot of the Prince

 

Regards,

 

Steve C

[Allan Feldman]

Steve, I have the motorised Tamiya Prince GT R-380 and the headlight covers on the orange body are too long to make that a Prince. I would go with Phillipe and think its a Porsche 904.

Regards Allan

[TSR]

The Prince R380 was a re-bodied Brabham BT8 (chassis SC-9-64 is I recall correctly) sold to Japan and fitted with a Prince inline-6 engine and the Hewland HD5 gearbox. It is now on display at the Ginza in Tokyo and is metallic maroon in color.

The Tamiya version is of the 380-2 of which 4 were built for "Japan GP II" as exact copies of the Brabham chassis, with a slightly evolved body shape very obviously inspired by the Porsche 904. There was ONE 380-3 with an even more streamlined body shape akin to that of a Porsche 906, and it was in the USA a few months ago on display at Nissan, that absorbed Prince in the late 1960s as Prince was going under..

The orange body shown above and its details still look more like a 904 than the Prince, especially in its details such as gas cap, side vents etc.
However, who knlows?