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[milmilhas]

Love this slot car 

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[Ecurie Martini]

Looks like the Strombecker body with a DC 706 for power

 

EM

[Ramcatlarry]

Looks like the Strombecker body with a DC 706 for power

 

EM

but it is 1/24 scale....706 is too big for 1/32 (1/28) scale Strombecker.  I did get a white D-jag model kit in 1/24 scale once, but lost it in the years.

[Jaeger Team]

That body seems Lindberg...

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[don.siegel]

Yep, definitely Lindberg - Unique used Lindberg bodies on these. The giveaway is the cutout on the underside at the back, where a switch goes since this was also sold as a battery powered car. 

 

Shame on you Al - this is a very important car in slot racing history, because it's generally considered the first RTR car in 1/24 scale to hit the market. The first ones came with a Pittman DC704 and were RTR or semi-RTR, since you had to attach a few body parts. Then they did the kit with the DC706, but I think that was also available in RTR. 

 

Great model and one of the first I went looking for when I started collecting... 

 

Don 

[milmilhas]

Hi Don, 

 

I know this car was the first r.t.r car    , my car is the ref. 2411A with motor 704 A the model with no motor is the ref.2411.

 

I never saw the version with DC 706

 

This car was  announced in January 1964 .

 

I bought mine few years ago on ebay, the seller sold at that time a dozen or more !

[don.siegel]

But your car has a DC706, not a 704. 

 

Yes, fortunately, that whole lot came up on ebay, probably more than a few years ago! Before that it was a very hard car to find. 

 

I think we've covered the variants already, on here and/or SlotForum... 

 

Don 

[Jaeger Team]

The Dokk "dixit":

Posted 13 June 2010 - 08:16 PM
Jairus,
The Lindberg model has the fin, the Merit model does not. Both are "short-nose" D-Types.
The Merit kit was widely used in early slot car racing since there were few other bodies available in the 1/24 scale. The third one in this equation is the Strombecker, also a static kit (albeit motorized as was the Lindberg), also without fin as the Merit.

The Lindberg body was of course used in what is truly the first 1/24 scale RTR slot car ever produced, the Unique Jaguar.

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[Ecurie Martini]

I once had both the Strombecker and Lindberg 1/24 Jags.  My recollection is that they appeared to come from the same mold. Perhaps, per PdL's post, memory has failed me.

 

EM

[Jairus]

I have been working on completing mine for many years.
Not an RTR or a kit,... but I started with just the Lindberg model kit and searching for the parts on eBay.
Yup, same body driver and details as the slot car.
Unique Engineering didn't have access or skills for injection molded bodies of their own so their chassis kits later came with either "Shark" bodies or this "First RTR" with a Jag D-type sourced from Lindberg.
Fun working with old stuff now and then.
 

[TSR]

 

I once had both the Strombecker and Lindberg 1/24 Jags.  My recollection is that they appeared to come from the same mold.

 

Alan, no... the Lindberg has a fin, the Strombecker (that is patterned somewhat on the Merit), does not.

Lindberg made an immense number of variations of their Jaguar model, we now have no less than 11 different kits, some static, some motorized, even one where you have to wind your own armature on a 2-pole stack! 

Colors we have seen are green (like the Unique RTR and kit), blue (like used on the later Unique RTRs), red, white, yellow and "chrome".

Here is the later version of the Unique Jaguar RTR, in blue and in a cardboard box, no longer inside the clear-plastic box:







Here is the Strombecker Jaguar:





Sorry for the poor pics.