2004 World Proxy Race

Why oh why aren't vacuum-formed bodies permitted?! These bodies by MTR32 are magnificent:

















And there are more!

Kind regards

Russell

Russell

Where do you find this stuff Now those are some bodies I would love to get.... great detail....... solid looking...... Hummmmmm Slush case time maybe???

chris........

<<what were in for can you tell me are those 90 degree bends chicaned or is that an optical illusion>>

Graham

your eyes are not playing tricks on ya..... yes there is a chicane area (about 3 foot long) between the two truns, Oh yeah and the turns are chicanes too

Chris.........

I see the real reason for a heavy car on your track ,now I need a wedge shaped body for car number 2

I get scared when I see the good progress that everyone is making building new cars for this event!

Unfortunately, with so much happening at work during February and March (our 2004/05 budgets are due by the end of February and we close our 2003/04 financial year on the 31st of March, not to mention the launch of this baby), as well as other distractions such as the Dubai Shopping Festival, the ATP Dubai Tennis Open, the PGA Dubai Desert Classic and the Dubai World Cup (the world's richest horse race) all taking place during this time, it is unlikely that I will be able to finish a new car for the opening race of the World Proxy Race Series in New York in March.

I do however have this Opel Calibra, which I entered (and won) in the 1999 OWH Proxy Race:-





It meets the technical specifications of the WPRS and I could easily prep it with a fresh motor and tyres.

The question is, is the body legal? It's a 1/32nd 'ish' Scalextric C0596 Opel Calibra body, from the 'drug baron' range of Scalex cars that originally came with black windows:-



I flared the wheel arches out to 64mm and built up the front valance with sheet styrene:-



If it's legal, I will happily enter it. Comments?

Kind regards

Russell

"drug baron" range! Love it

Nice paint job, far better than the dodgy Old Spice original and whatever happened to those original super-low profile tyres

A340-500, very nice. Actually I prefer the A330 it somehow seems more elegant with only two engines. However, any airliner pales into insignificance when looking at Concorde If only Airbus or its CEO would give the type certs to BA we could get one flying again

No wonder you need beds on new airliners - they take that long to get anywhere!

Speed is life! sometimes a good maxim for slotcars too

Mark.

Here are my two World Proxy cars so far. Still some work to do on the bodies as far as detailing etc. Almost ready to sending them off to the world proxy races starting in New York at Chris Briggs. Then from there to Tasmania then on to the United Kingdom and posslbly on to Switzerland with whats left.

Two Fly Capri 1/32nd scale bodies are used on two similar but different scratch built chassis. One is a anglewinder the other is a front engined, drive shaft, inline setup. Both have torsion body chassis with independent floating bodies.

Both bodies will have vac formed light weight windows and sheet styrene interiors with a cut down Fly driver torso. Both will weigh in at around 135 grams. Both Motors are Slot-It 26k motors fitted with Mura Endbells and hardware