Now, here is an amazing time capsule car. I got this in a freebee box of slot car stuff. This car is totally as it was last run before being chucked in a cardboard box, and stuck down the basement for more than 35 years.

It is built mostly from Dynamic parts, with a Pittman 706 for power (relatively speaking about the same power the real car had in the 50s and early 60s). The body is a pre Painted vac joby by Dubro. The rear wheels are the well known Brass Tradeships with white Silicone. This car has an unusual (well, I had never seen one) and, very original Dynamic springy piano wire drop arm with molded lead weight.

Any way, as usual, the pics can tell you way more than I can, so, here they are, original Vintage Dirt n Grime and all, just the way I pulled it from the treasure box. Actually, it looks more like it was just pulled out of a chicken coop in Wisconsin.

By the way, after a couple of drops of oil in the right places, it was buzzing round my track quite nicely, fairly quick, and, not near as tippy as it looks, despite being very tall, and rather narrow. It really does run very nicely.















And, here, through the kindness of Don Degersh, is a scan of the original spec sheet of the oddball Dynamic swinging pickup. Don was nice enough after seeing my first posting of this car on Slot Blog to go rooting through his files, and find, scan, and email me this little historical treasure.