Great video Dave of the history there. Love the Rovers. I like that they've got a nice wide footprint and with the body lowered a bit they're very competitive with similar era Group A cars.
Great video Dave, I think you dealt with the issues really well, it is a really lovely car, I do remember Steve Soper from my younger days, a true legend!
Nice car and historic livery. Again a little early for the period of Super Tourers I love but even I know those SD1s went like a large, heavy rocket. And I'm very familiar with the name Steve Soper from his battles in the Sierra era. 👍
Yes but there's two sides to that. I guess they should check over the ones they send out for review. The flip side being, at least you know the cars the reviewers get haven't had any special treatment.
Yep, the thing is a Friay afternoon lemon out of the box. The clue is in the colour which, incidently, and from the latest stills, is seemingly and properly more orange in hue? All in all, Scalextric still doesn't know their oranges from their lemons and so my green light on this has to hang on 'amber' which I imagine is the proper colour of what this thing should be. More generally, these press on plastic wheels over knurled soft metal axles are always prone to arrive at the scene of consumer product disappointment. We know why they are done but give me an Italian or a Spanish slot car with machined rear aluminuim wheels, motor pods with chassis float, ergal or brass gearing and all this for around £10 more on any day of the week. The main part of the answer in the case of Scalextric is, of course, 'Staffs'. Talking Utter Slot has Slot.IT as current constructors' world champions and with good reason. Otherwise, I do recall, and now more than 40 years ago, Scalextric first doing an SD1 and my then buying one in Triplex livery whilst as a student at the time and I was best pleased. I may still have it somewhere and it would be interesting to compare the quality and the technology between the two and against what we know and love today. I'll see if I can find it, Dave. Otherwise, Scalextric remains a curate's egg - good in parts. The last one I bought was last year's Land Rover (morbid curiosity) and I am best pleased with the execution and the innovative power train. All Scalextric should be to this standard and more. I do like their recent Ford and Subaru Rally cars too albeit I do not have a Scaleauto or an Avant Slot or an SRC and I imagine these Rally/Touring brands will leve these for dust?
I have one SRC car it's very much a class on it's own on my track, better than most, not better than a revoslot here. The yellow isn't right but I don't think it's that far wrong either, they yellow does change under different lights on the camera. Scalextric still have a way to go but they've certainly improved from the 2023 low point.
@@slotr Thanks Dave. Truth is we don't rightly know whether Scalextric has just got a little bit of egg on it's face with this shade of uyellow and, in truth, my high sniff was no more than my usual bit of sword play. The best bit is that this is a trubute to and not an in memorium for Steve Soper and pso roperly thanks for your raising awareness concerning this fine racer. All his fans from the era should get one.
Always enjoy the historical storytelling Dave! Well done!
Thanks for the backstory Dave. Always appreciated
Have just got the model myself, very eye catching colour scheme. Such that like you as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted it.
Always informative mate, great video Dave 😊👍
Good video. Nice to hear positive comments about Scalextric.
It's been a while since they earned some but they seem to be over the worst now
Great video Dave of the history there. Love the Rovers. I like that they've got a nice wide footprint and with the body lowered a bit they're very competitive with similar era Group A cars.
Well Dave I think you've convinced me to have a long hard think about getting this car. Great review and fix on a grwat looking car 👍👍👍
Interesting approach keeping the stock rubber.
Only to keep it as close to stock as I could for that first run, nsr supergrips are on the way
Part 2 is uploaded now Harry 🙂
Great video Dave, I think you dealt with the issues really well, it is a really lovely car, I do remember Steve Soper from my younger days, a true legend!
Thanks mate for the shout out
Nice fix bud, cheers for sharing this one! 💯
Nsr wheels and tyres all round now on their way from pendle
Great video,
Steve Soper actually won the 1987 Bathurst 1000 here in Australia, but the team was disqualified...
Scalextric C3738 is the BTCC version.
Nice car and historic livery. Again a little early for the period of Super Tourers I love but even I know those SD1s went like a large, heavy rocket. And I'm very familiar with the name Steve Soper from his battles in the Sierra era. 👍
Oh dear. Shame the car didn't get a mild checkover before dispatch considering where it's going. Own goal Hornby!
Yes but there's two sides to that. I guess they should check over the ones they send out for review. The flip side being, at least you know the cars the reviewers get haven't had any special treatment.
Welcome to the "standard" way of making ootb slotcars handle better!!!!!
Yep, the thing is a Friay afternoon lemon out of the box. The clue is in the colour which, incidently, and from the latest stills, is seemingly and properly more orange in hue? All in all, Scalextric still doesn't know their oranges from their lemons and so my green light on this has to hang on 'amber' which I imagine is the proper colour of what this thing should be. More generally, these press on plastic wheels over knurled soft metal axles are always prone to arrive at the scene of consumer product disappointment. We know why they are done but give me an Italian or a Spanish slot car with machined rear aluminuim wheels, motor pods with chassis float, ergal or brass gearing and all this for around £10 more on any day of the week. The main part of the answer in the case of Scalextric is, of course, 'Staffs'. Talking Utter Slot has Slot.IT as current constructors' world champions and with good reason. Otherwise, I do recall, and now more than 40 years ago, Scalextric first doing an SD1 and my then buying one in Triplex livery whilst as a student at the time and I was best pleased. I may still have it somewhere and it would be interesting to compare the quality and the technology between the two and against what we know and love today. I'll see if I can find it, Dave. Otherwise, Scalextric remains a curate's egg - good in parts. The last one I bought was last year's Land Rover (morbid curiosity) and I am best pleased with the execution and the innovative power train. All Scalextric should be to this standard and more. I do like their recent Ford and Subaru Rally cars too albeit I do not have a Scaleauto or an Avant Slot or an SRC and I imagine these Rally/Touring brands will leve these for dust?
I have one SRC car it's very much a class on it's own on my track, better than most, not better than a revoslot here. The yellow isn't right but I don't think it's that far wrong either, they yellow does change under different lights on the camera. Scalextric still have a way to go but they've certainly improved from the 2023 low point.
@@slotr Thanks Dave. Truth is we don't rightly know whether Scalextric has just got a little bit of egg on it's face with this shade of uyellow and, in truth, my high sniff was no more than my usual bit of sword play. The best bit is that this is a trubute to and not an in memorium for Steve Soper and pso roperly thanks for your raising awareness concerning this fine racer. All his fans from the era should get one.
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