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Lancer had a great vacuum formed body of it in the Indy car series they had in the mid-60's. Anyone have a clear and/or painted example of it they can post?
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, Mar 29 2021 01:53 PM
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Steve Deiters
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Posted 29 March 2021 - 01:53 PM
Lot's of chatter on Indy Facebook pages about this car in the last week or so.
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Lancer had a great vacuum formed body of it in the Indy car series they had in the mid-60's. Anyone have a clear and/or painted example of it they can post?
Double Trouble
Lancer had a great vacuum formed body of it in the Indy car series they had in the mid-60's. Anyone have a clear and/or painted example of it they can post?
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Posted 29 March 2021 - 10:26 PM
If anyone has that body, or has used it, it'll probably be Rick Thigpen. Over the years, he's had a fantastic collection of bodies to use for his builds.
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Posted 29 March 2021 - 10:33 PM
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Posted 30 March 2021 - 01:36 AM
I built two of these slot cars using Lancer bodies.
One slot car was given to Tom, the engine machinist for the real car. Tom also has a few pieces of the Indy car. He also did the machine work for my '73 RS engine (shown on test stand).
The slot car is powered with two five pole 16D motors.
The Indy car was powered with two Porsche 911 engines.
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Posted 01 April 2021 - 01:55 AM
Bill Cheesebourg live in Tucson on the street north of Bill Rodgers, by the way all the people that hung out on speedway or the midnight drags he was kind of a no go driver. Raced at indy several times but just didn't have the foot for going fast like the article says. They should have put in Bill Rogers, now he knew how to go fast anywhere. we liked doing sidways slides on the freeway cloverleafs.. Sably Bill died of cancer instead of going fast.
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Posted 01 April 2021 - 06:28 AM
I have a clear Lancer body of this car somewhere. I’ll dig it out today.
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Posted 01 April 2021 - 11:02 AM
I worked at Huffaker engineering for a while and spoke to Joe Sr. about this car, he was not too optimistic about the layout. But built the car anyway for the customer.
It did not qualify for the race.
The beautiful Lancer body is called Indy Porsche Porsche. #225
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Posted 03 April 2021 - 11:15 AM
you did? cool!
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