[KensRedZed]

We have a "stock car" class where you can run stock plastic, or a scratch built chassis. The limitations are a BWNC1 motor and 100g minimum weight. It keeps things relatively even. But the scratch chassis's win every time. I built this car for a friend. These bodies come pre-painted. Now I find myself looking for a Fairlane GT body. It grew on me while building it.

That's lead on both the top and bottom of the chassis to meet the minimum weight. Ouch.

Body sits nicely on the chassis. Interior is just a piece of card-stock taped in place.

Driver is installed with the original roll-cage and fire-extinguisher.

Custom aluminum chassis. Sloting Plus roller bearings. RS Slot wheels. DArt tires and inserts. Professor Motor axles and wire. Slot It guide and braid.

Thank you very kindly for looking.

 

[Top Down]

Perfect. Just love it!

 

[Trisha]

Ken

Yet again a car that has greatly benefitted from a much lower stance. Impressive livery, too. Would be rather nice to see a photo of all your recent builds together if you have time, please.

 

[Kit Spackman]

One of the best looking NASCAR cars of all time, the '67 Ford, and you've built a magnificent example there KRZ.

 

[bwaminispeed]

Didn't know RS copied the back side of my wheels as well as the front.......Those look suspiciously like my 13 inch wheels....

 

[KensRedZed]

Thank you very kindly, Top Down, Trisha, and Kit.

Al. I humbly apologize for the mistake. The wheels were given to me along with the rest of the parts for the build so I'm not exactly sure of the source. I guessed wrong.

 

[bwaminispeed]

No problem, I'm quite surprised that they don't look undersized on a large car like that..........

Weird...

 

[KensRedZed]

I chuckled at first when I was handed the 13 inch wheels. I figured out that slamming a car tends to hide a lot of things.

Could it be possible that these wheels are actually closer to scale than we realize?

 

[chrisw]

I chuckled at first when I was handed the 13 inch wheels. I figured out that slamming a car tends to hide a lot of things.

Could it be possible that these wheels are actually closer to scale than we realize?

Hi Ken, Al did a good job in scaling/producing his 15" and 13" wheels,..........the same dimensions are found on the later produced RSSlotracing 15" and 13" wheels.

Both 15's are accurate/scale for cars that actually ran on 15's, and the 13's are scale for cars that ran 13's.

Cheers

Chris Walker

 

[KensRedZed]

Hi Chris. My humble apologies again. I used the wrong terminology.

Al's wheels are perfectly to scale. I think Al and I were both surprised how well these wheels suited the "large saloon" as Trisha calls these cars.

It was common for cars to have 13's and 14's back in the 60's.

 

[GRUNZ]

Another excellent build. You said the bodies come pre-printed: do you mean the guy that you built it for already prepared the body? Or you can buy them with all ready to be mounted on a chassis?

 

[KensRedZed]

Thank you kindly, Grunz.

These were pre-painted RTR Carrera brand slot cars. Now with a scratch-built chassis. My friend took the plastic chassis off and handed me the bare body with the running parts.

 

[GRUNZ]

ohhh I see. This means that the body alone should be around 100 gr ;-)

 

[KensRedZed]

Lol!

Taking the interior out and installed the card-stock dropped the body to 27-grams. A tolerable weight for a Carrera body.

Weight wise, my new 65 GTO should kick it's... but that's another story.

 

[Mr.M]

I think this may be a Revell/Monogram body. I don't think Carrera have done a Fairlane.

 

[KensRedZed]

Oops. Mr M is correct. I humbly apologize. My newbie status has once again been uncovered. I've only been into slot cars since 2018.

This was a very heavy Monogram body. I'll get the brands correct eventually.