The SCX Citroen Xsara was indeed standard as it came from SCX (the Pro version with the fitted Rally motor)...the only change was NSR tyres on the back and lead ballast...no lightweight bits, no mods, no hopups...99% as it came from SCX. It was dragged from under a pile of dust on Thursday, tyre swap, glued & trued all round, lead ballast in the appropriate places...and first driven by me on Friday afternoon when the tracks were all ready. The Nissan R32 was indeed Rallied...Tour de Corse 1990 and finished 46th... The Scaley TR7 has a bespoke 3D chassis with SlotIt inline pod...and has since been 'upgraded' to plexitrack spec with a sprung front axle after watching the SRC's float round the Ninco track. The Ninco Lancia 037 was bog standard, including tyres, the only changes to the original car are glued/trued all round and lead ballast.
Can -Am cars look great and race great.. Wirral Slot Car Club have a Open Racing event this Saturday 27th April . Along with a TRUSPEED coaching talk on how to get the best out of your controller. 👍great job guys…
Well done guys under the strap 'Playing With Small Things'. Scott did mention the word 'trump' once but there was creditably no mention of 'Stormy Daniels' albeit, and whilst Nick did swerve and slide towards the kitty litter on a couple of occasions, you two nevertheless did manage to keep it together and for this I think you deserve to be awarded a PG 😀 Now when it comes to the Scalextric NYC taxi then I suspect there's a whole rank of them waiting to be sold? Personally, I don't like these 'huge' entertainment licence cars of late. The only thing approaching this which I have fallen for is the green Land Rover which, oddly enough, appears smaller than I was expecting but and notwithstanding so much the better for it 😀 In many ways this does resemble the Scalextric Mini Cooper in terms of scale and CoG. The drive train is novel and ingenious and whilst we may imagine that it will only win IROC style races it is nevertheless a fun thing to behold and a joy to "add to your collection". Perhaps this is why it sold out so fast - at least in green?
Australian cars at 15:44. Falcon XY GT HO Phase 3 have fetched over a million dollars at auctions. Scalextric seem to be making bith these Australian cars very narrow. My Torana LJ XU1 is narrower on the rear track than a Scalextric mk 1 Escort or even an SCX Fiat 600/Arbarth 1000. Hardley being reviewed let alone raced. Most disappointed. The V8 supercars were all made in China but to a cheap specification of the Australian Scalextric importer with no interior and painted body shiny black to represent windows. Extra work needed to run well in racing. However as certain liveries sold out, they became sought after with high auction prices generally and even higher for some. Cashed up new entrants wanting everything or as car fans gradually learnt about the cars being available. So you might have a valuable stash there.
Thanks for the info and background on the Australian cars. Hard enough to get a good compromise between looks and performance in modern race cars, but old racers were tall and narrow so any adherence to scale will make them relatively poor runners (without the magnet). A case of we can't have our cake (an accurate the model) and eat it (performance).
I have started a rally slot car club … why? Because ease of packing away and rent on any accommodation is doable rather than a permanent track raceway which is expensive for one night a week.. plus any age can race against each other without crisis of damage ..etc..
Both the TR7's had aftermarket chassics. Kavan's was 3D printed and Phil's was PCS. Kavan's Xsara was SCX Pro out of the box.
The SCX Citroen Xsara was indeed standard as it came from SCX (the Pro version with the fitted Rally motor)...the only change was NSR tyres on the back and lead ballast...no lightweight bits, no mods, no hopups...99% as it came from SCX.
It was dragged from under a pile of dust on Thursday, tyre swap, glued & trued all round, lead ballast in the appropriate places...and first driven by me on Friday afternoon when the tracks were all ready.
The Nissan R32 was indeed Rallied...Tour de Corse 1990 and finished 46th...
The Scaley TR7 has a bespoke 3D chassis with SlotIt inline pod...and has since been 'upgraded' to plexitrack spec with a sprung front axle after watching the SRC's float round the Ninco track.
The Ninco Lancia 037 was bog standard, including tyres, the only changes to the original car are glued/trued all round and lead ballast.
Great show and Nicks knowledge on Rally is insane!!!
Thank you both for another very enjoyable episode.
I too watched that Can Am documentary. I found it incredibly informative and well worth the watch.
Can -Am cars look great and race great.. Wirral Slot Car Club have a Open Racing event this Saturday 27th April . Along with a TRUSPEED coaching talk on how to get the best out of your controller. 👍great job guys…
Well done guys under the strap 'Playing With Small Things'. Scott did mention the word 'trump' once but there was creditably no mention of 'Stormy Daniels' albeit, and whilst Nick did swerve and slide towards the kitty litter on a couple of occasions, you two nevertheless did manage to keep it together and for this I think you deserve to be awarded a PG 😀 Now when it comes to the Scalextric NYC taxi then I suspect there's a whole rank of them waiting to be sold? Personally, I don't like these 'huge' entertainment licence cars of late. The only thing approaching this which I have fallen for is the green Land Rover which, oddly enough, appears smaller than I was expecting but and notwithstanding so much the better for it 😀 In many ways this does resemble the Scalextric Mini Cooper in terms of scale and CoG. The drive train is novel and ingenious and whilst we may imagine that it will only win IROC style races it is nevertheless a fun thing to behold and a joy to "add to your collection". Perhaps this is why it sold out so fast - at least in green?
Australian cars at 15:44. Falcon XY GT HO Phase 3 have fetched over a million dollars at auctions. Scalextric seem to be making bith these Australian cars very narrow.
My Torana LJ XU1 is narrower on the rear track than a Scalextric mk 1 Escort or even an SCX Fiat 600/Arbarth 1000. Hardley being reviewed let alone raced. Most disappointed.
The V8 supercars were all made in China but to a cheap specification of the Australian Scalextric importer with no interior and painted body shiny black to represent windows. Extra work needed to run well in racing. However as certain liveries sold out, they became sought after with high auction prices generally and even higher for some. Cashed up new entrants wanting everything or as car fans gradually learnt about the cars being available.
So you might have a valuable stash there.
Thanks for the info and background on the Australian cars. Hard enough to get a good compromise between looks and performance in modern race cars, but old racers were tall and narrow so any adherence to scale will make them relatively poor runners (without the magnet). A case of we can't have our cake (an accurate the model) and eat it (performance).
Nick is certainly very good at fettling his cars but when is he going to fettle his door handle?😉
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I thought the same .. but when the handle was on it’s looked a bit iffy and I was worried he would be locked in his cupboard for ever.!,,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant to watch the evolution of that door handle. And the emergence of the grubby hand marks just above. Bated breath…
I have started a rally slot car club … why? Because ease of packing away and rent on any accommodation is doable rather than a permanent track raceway which is expensive for one night a week.. plus any age can race against each other without crisis of damage ..etc..
Lets us know how the rally club develops. Post some pics on the Facebook page.