A wonderful transformation, John. Lovely model.
Love Scalextric
I run my cars on a Scalextric sport 94FT track and have a high number of them with a Sideways HC 02 Zakspeed Ford Capri flimsy body! and Slot It Nissan Skyline- GTR-32
3 Carrera cars,all 6 colors of the Policar Subaru's cheap little ones almost? indestructible and cheap $39 Aus: Great little cars, not great handlers limited with speed ability
but ideal for the Grand kids and great grand kids. Pioneer Notch Back Mustang this one with original tyres, a Slot It Nissan Skyline-GTR-32
All cars tuned and MJK Urethane tyres trued, except for Pioneer and ad Slot It 0riginal tyres. All tyres trued all cars trued. Preferred running! Love Scalextric!
3 Carrera cars,all 6 colors of the Policar Subaru's cheap little ones almost? indestructible and cheap $39 Aus: Great little cars, not great handlers limited with speed ability
but ideal for the Grand kids and great grand kids. Pioneer Notch Back Mustang this one with original tyres, a Slot It Nissan Skyline-GTR-32
All cars tuned and MJK Urethane tyres trued, except for Pioneer and ad Slot It 0riginal tyres. All tyres trued all cars trued. Preferred running! Love Scalextric!
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I'd like another Silver Sauber Mercedes, they run well. My donor car has arrived. From this I want the axles and windscreen. I will wash the body as best I can as it has some unusual stickers when I get time. The tyres were worn out so I left the fronts alone after a quick clean and replaced the rear tyres with some Slot It F22 tyres that I've had unopened for some years. I wiped the body over with a cloth damped with lighter fluid and its looking cleaner. Still want to remove those stickers. I'm hoping my Number 27 body will arrive tomorrow.
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about loving old Scalextrics… these four are raced as a class on my four lane track: a Jag, a Lambo and two Ferrari’s.
I find much pleasure in restoring the old battered cars into a decent (not perfect) driveable condition. Accepting them as they are, with all their imperfections and limitations, yet a pleasure to make them run as good as possible. Nice detail: all these four have working headlights, tail lights and - wew - braking lights. Stock motors and wheels - but carefully trued new tires, oiled and lubed gears and bushings. And with the Ferrari’s I did some chopwork to lower the front end to get a decent stance. Simply lovely and a joy to race them as a class.
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I find much pleasure in restoring the old battered cars into a decent (not perfect) driveable condition. Accepting them as they are, with all their imperfections and limitations, yet a pleasure to make them run as good as possible. Nice detail: all these four have working headlights, tail lights and - wew - braking lights. Stock motors and wheels - but carefully trued new tires, oiled and lubed gears and bushings. And with the Ferrari’s I did some chopwork to lower the front end to get a decent stance. Simply lovely and a joy to race them as a class.
I never thought of that but totally true. Particularly the Jag has a good shape, long and wide with a flat underpan. There’s four screws to attach the body to the underpan, of which I only use the front and rear screw, nicely positioned in the middle of the car’s width.
I cut away a bit of the edges to permit body float. One other important improvement, performance wise: good soft braids. I have a roll of Scx braid that’s very good. Plus I filed the guide flag thin so the front sits lower on the track.
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There’s a lot of vertical play in the front axle but that can be cured with glueing some plastic to limit the vertical travel (haven’t done that though).
I had a good laugh about myself when I fixed the Jag. For some mysterious reason the car was strangely slow in tighter right hand curves. I checked all kinds of possible causes, like left wheels rubbing the bodywork, braid to track contact, etc - until I finally found out out the left rear wheel was spinning loose on the (round, not knurled) rear axle! The car was driving seemingly fine with only traction on the right rear wheel - lol. That was an easy fix with some superglue.
The stance of the Jag is pretty good I think, it’s a fine model and I think one of Scalextric’s best cars from that era.
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I cut away a bit of the edges to permit body float. One other important improvement, performance wise: good soft braids. I have a roll of Scx braid that’s very good. Plus I filed the guide flag thin so the front sits lower on the track.
There’s a lot of vertical play in the front axle but that can be cured with glueing some plastic to limit the vertical travel (haven’t done that though).
I had a good laugh about myself when I fixed the Jag. For some mysterious reason the car was strangely slow in tighter right hand curves. I checked all kinds of possible causes, like left wheels rubbing the bodywork, braid to track contact, etc - until I finally found out out the left rear wheel was spinning loose on the (round, not knurled) rear axle! The car was driving seemingly fine with only traction on the right rear wheel - lol. That was an easy fix with some superglue.
The stance of the Jag is pretty good I think, it’s a fine model and I think one of Scalextric’s best cars from that era.
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