Which car in any category , do you think has the best aerodynamic body ?

Agree with you Zig, one of the nicer Thingies. All business, a proven chassis, simple but effective design.

Here are my Bandit and Super, as found, in different shades of red; I think the Super Bandit was sold with a black body, according to PdL.

Very clever body mounting system, with slots in the sides of the body. And I like the fact that Dynamic recognized the fallibiility of this method and included a screw hole in the middle of the bracket for when the slots split!

Don

PS: ZIg, just realized your thread was about aerodynamic bodies, not the Dynamic Bandit.

No question there, it's the ...

Or a Choti, the original aerodynamic Thingie body...

Not sure this is the same one, but Vauxhall also did a prototype called the XUR-2, which was done as a slot car by Testor - and before it was identified, we all thought it was some kind of Thingie! Your's looks a lot more like an Opel GT, if memory serves, which is not a given...

Here's the Testor car.

Don

Zig, John,

When Rod & Custom magazine did their "RTR Roundup" in the January 1966 issue, the Viper was considered the best all-around performer.

Don

That's exactly the point Matt: The R&C article was the only review that included actual lap and drag times, which theoretically don't lie.

Agree that all the other reviews were necessarily positive, to not offend advertisers, but this one really seems fair.

They also kept the cars stock and explained certain shortcomings in the notes: Russkit and Rannalli were geared for shorter tracks, for instance, and for the MPC Dyn-O-Charger, they said the same thing as everybody else: "well, maybe it is really the world's fastest production car, but the amps just weren't on tap for the car to really show its stuff.

Also, remember that the mag was dated January 66, which means that the tests were done at least 2 and probably 3 or more months earlier - before the Bandit and a lot of other cars were released. This was really the first big wave of RTR cars, which was probably the reason for the article.

R&C had a lot of slot car advertising for 2 years or so, but don't think that Classic advertised especially in R&C; they were big advertisers in Model Car & Track, also California based.

Don