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[Tom Katsanis]

I recently bought some boxes of cars and parts and received a few Tyco 952 chassis and motors. One of the NOS motors came in a bag with a DC65 6 volt arm and some ball bearings to suit.

Talking to previous owner he said he had planned to install the arm in the Tyco motor so the first thing I did was to do the motor mod.

Out of the chassis I received there was a built one with ball bearings on all four corners and it already had a modded motor with a DC65 arm but one of the bearings on the motor had failed so I figured this would be a great candidate for the new motor.

Already having a fleet of mid-'60s motored Kellisons and having a body left over I decided to drape the chassis in a Kellison body. Paint is Tamiya PS purple met spray and I hilighted the door and hood lines with a white posca paint pen. It's not the prettiest but I don't mind how it turned out.

 

 

 

 

[Tom Katsanis]

After coming across an early '60s article on jalopy slot car racing, I started looking at gathering some parts to build one myself.

Using a Pittman DC85 and a Kemtron chassis, I have geared the car 60/26 at the moment. Rear tires are Rannallis and the fronts are the Strombecker ball bearing types.

Body is just from the junk pile and is fairly beat up. I just threw a few paint jobs on it and have sanded it to get a bit of a patina look to it.

No track testing yet but hope to get it on the track soon.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tom Katsanis]

It's not the best video but the first test runs of the Jalopy.

Car is beautiful to drive the motor is very responsive & has great brakes.

I could nearly even put a bigger pinion or smaller spur on it than the 26/60 it has now the motor has that much balls.

[John Luongo]

nice build! looks like it has plenty of torque. nice track too!

[Tom Katsanis]

Thanks John.

1/32 Cheetah I just threw together with a Ram 283 & a scratch built chassis made from 1/16 brass tube & some brass sheet.

Main objective here is to just see how the 283 goes around a track I have a few of these motors & they seem to be one of the only ones that does not have a chassis kit a available.

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[Tom Katsanis]

Gene's world Pactra Sand Buggy painted by a friend sitting on an international chassis with power from a John Havlicek built champion 26d.

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[Tom Katsanis]

[Pablo]

You nailed it. Great handling and great power. Rockets out of the turns like a bullet. Amazing performance from a buggy     

[Tom Katsanis]

Thanks Pablo.

[Bill from NH]

That's the first one of the variations of that International inline chassis I've seen run since I first saw the chassis in 2002. That one handles extremely well with the added brass strips & a little weight. That particular chassis would probably handle well, no matter what body it had on it. Tom, beautiful car, your friend did a nice job on the paint. 

[Tom Katsanis]

Thanks Bill I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

[Mad Mark]

Cool cars!

[Tom Katsanis]

Thank you Mark.

This is an old Magwinder frame I got off a friend I lightened it up more replaced the Pittman dc85 arm with a new 6 v one & put a 58 Edsel drag car body I put together years ago on it.

[Bill from NH]

Nice job on the Edsel Tom! Have you yet had a chance to track-test it?  

[Tom Katsanis]

Thanks Bill,no chance as of yet we are in lockdown at the moment so track is closed.

[Tom Katsanis]

Another drag car I gave been working on this one is completely scratch built out of 1mm magnesium motor is a Ram 850 with a Ram 222 3 volt arm.

Body is a comp resins 67 Mercury Comet funny car with slixx Don Nicolson decals.

Front wheels are strombecker bb's rears are cut down protracks I have it geared 2.5 to 1 at the moment will have to see how it goes.

[Tom Katsanis]

Ford Twister streamliner dragster,chassis is an old 1/16 tube scratch built with a 6001bb for power that I got off a friend.

[don.siegel]

Nice build Tom. Got any ETs yet? I'm curious how the Pittcan does on the strip... seems like it should be a good candidate. 

Do 

[Tom Katsanis]

Thanks Don got some runs out of it today I managed a 1.402 out of it.

The chassis is geared for a circuit so J don't think mid 1.3s will be out of the question but 1.4s are fine.

[Phil Smith]

Tom that's a really cool car! Where did you get the body?

[Tom Katsanis]

Thanks Phil.
It was given to me by a friend here who use to work at Australia's oldest raceway that closed last year.

This was old stock in the back of the shop he only grabbed 2 of them don't know if there was more there or what happened to them (or the pile of nos pactra bodies I saw in a photo he sent me).

I have been told they were originally made by Booth.

[Martin]

Found this mag with the Twister on the cover. Pretty sure it was a hard body.

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[don.siegel]

Our discussion on the Twister, from back in 2006! 

Don 

 

https://www.slotforu...48/#post-165199

[Martin]

Interesting posts Don, too bad some of the pics are missing of the widened version. 

 

Do you know if it was a plastic kit?

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[don.siegel]

According to what I found at the time, the article was about a carved version, so a one-off - there was never a kit, just the vac-formed version it seems. 

 

Don