Thing is, in those early days, each new chassis we built was a new experiment... it is really only when the anglewinder design was set and kind of frozen for a few years that builders (and Emott being one) began building series of nearly identical chassis.
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Posted 13 January 2017 - 09:56 AM
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Posted 13 January 2017 - 11:27 AM
The problem is there are so few pictures of east coast inline chassis in the magazines back then.
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Posted 13 January 2017 - 03:09 PM
Dokk,
You really nailed it with that statement that every chassis we built was different.
It seemed that each week someone would come up with a new idea and the next week everyone would have either a new chassis with that idea incorporated or have that modification on their existing chassis. I have not witnessed that amount of innovation in slot racing since.
Maybe that helped to keep slot racing popular. I have seen some of it in Retro, and that has become the popular type of slot racing over the past several years.
I have a box full of old sixties chassis that I built and I want to restore, something I should have started twenty years ago when my memory wasn't so fuzzy.
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