Magnesium slot car chassis are usually synonymous with Cox, but other makers made them too, not to mention scratchbuilders. Still, I think Cox was the only company to make a car with a mag chassis. I recently picked up a MIP chassis by an unknown company, E&J Engineering of San Diego, and in the last year or two I've found a few more, in both scales, so finally got inspired to start a thread. I'm not including dragsters here, since mag frames were more standard in that area.
Here's the E&J chassis, a rather odd beast, which I also took out of its packet to give you a better look; I thought I already had one of these under a car, but it wasn't quite that. I've also added two contemporary mag chassis by well known companies, MDC and Kemtron. Somewhere I have one by a company called Ross, but couldn't put my hands on it!
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Here's the chassis I got it confused with, along with another one that seems to come from the same manufacturer! Anybody have any ideas about who could have made these. They seem too well made, and the 2 too similar to be a one-off. Note that the shorter frame has its body attached by small screws into tapped holes in the frame, like a dragster, even tho it's a vac-form Lotus 30.
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to be continued...
Don
Here's the E&J chassis, a rather odd beast, which I also took out of its packet to give you a better look; I thought I already had one of these under a car, but it wasn't quite that. I've also added two contemporary mag chassis by well known companies, MDC and Kemtron. Somewhere I have one by a company called Ross, but couldn't put my hands on it!
Here's the chassis I got it confused with, along with another one that seems to come from the same manufacturer! Anybody have any ideas about who could have made these. They seem too well made, and the 2 too similar to be a one-off. Note that the shorter frame has its body attached by small screws into tapped holes in the frame, like a dragster, even tho it's a vac-form Lotus 30.
to be continued...
Don
