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[vintageslots]

Saw an old post on these and for the past five years no one I talked to was quite sure of what it was. A few older guys here in Omaha slightly remembered them. Know I finally know for sure. Thought maybe you guys wouldn't mind seeing a few pictures

                                                                                                           

James

 

 

 

 

[Bill from NH]

James, your body is a MAC Ferrari coupe. Somebody else makes it today & gave it a different name, but it originated at MAC. Your motor is an almost new looking Mura "Green can" motor. Mura put a wide variety of differently wound arms in these motor from an unbalanced Grp. 12 to various open class arms.

[vintageslots]

The motor is not balanced so thanks for info there. I have always thought the chassis was cool but wondered how well it drove. Car would run with some new tires on it. but I would hate to break/damage it testing it out at our local track. I wouldn't think a lot survived in tact

[Tom Thumb Hobbies]

It wasn't an idea that worked very well. Too flexible and too light. IIRC they weren't around long.

[Jens Scale Racing]

Very nice find! These chassis were not very succesful in Germany, most people raced the old ones. Here is a "restauration" of such a car:

 

http://www.jens-slot...1971/index.html

 

The body was very popular in 1970 in most german clubs....but the open one was the favourite:

 

 

Have a look at the slotblog forum, there is more information on these cars of Kuznia, named Monza:

 

http://slotblog.net/...winder-chassis/