Hi guys,
I would like launch a new discussion on factory-painted vacuum-formed slot car bodies.
All of you knows the story of slot racing. The major manufactured issued body for their slot car chassis on a regular basis, a plethora of outfits also seized the opportunity to supply car to the slot racing market. Most notable of these are Lancer, Pactra, Dubro and Testor.
Lancer also produced bodies for many slot car kits and RTR manufactures : BZ, Cannon, Cox (Daytona’series), UHP and even slot cars sold by Pactra. Russkit, Revell and MPC, also made bodies of their own.
1/32 and 1/24 scale body list included here are works by members of slot racing forums.
Please, could you identify "Factory-painted" bodies of each manufactured : short story of manufactured if necessary, model car body, relating kit or RTR slot car, range of colours and at the last by not the least, information about of painting technique with focus of masking.
In another post on SlotForum.com, I talk about 1/32 Select bodies. I have in my stock a Midwest Kit with a #101 Select Ferrari P3 painted body – factory-painted or not –. Some people think that right. Other people believe that wrong. But, I have also two #113 Select Ford J : one is a clear body and other a painted body with the same painting technique of the Ferrari body ?!
According Philippe de Lespinay : “Select bodies was a product of Bill Sippel of Auto-Hobbies fame and VECO model aircraft parts.They made both 1/32 and 1/24 scale bodies of decent, if not greatly accurate, bodies in polystyrene butyrate.
While the Auto-Hobbies and Select bodies came from the same place, they are two distinct and different lines. The A/H were first, and I believe that from 1966, the Select line superseded it.”
Yves
