I don't get it????

[Ben]

I have had slot cars all my life, only HO though. I really like the 1/25 cars and have seen some really awesome looking hand made cars but I can't figure out how you guys can build a slot car soooo nice and then run it on a track???????? I could see if you only go slow but I'd be scared to death that the car would fly off in a turn or someone else's car would fly into it!!! Do some of you guys build these really nice slot cars but not run them just to know that you could if you wanted?

[chris coller]

Comes down to a customer paying a "painter" to do then up for folks to do. I will say there may be only a few that I have painted that I would put on a contest table though. I don't get it either some guys paint some phenomenal stuff.

[SuperStockAndy]

Pretty cool to see it go down the track, but not in the air

I wouldn't pay a ton of money to get a nice paint job.

[ra7c7er]

Comes down to a customer paying a "painter" to do then up for folks to do. I will say there may be only a few that I have painted that I would put on a contest table though. I don't get it either some guys paint some phenomenal stuff.

Why do you think they pay someone else to do it? I don't know anyone that pays someone else to paint their cars. Most I have ever seen is a friend doing some painting because a guy broke his hand. I see some incredible model paint jobs but I would never say someone else must have done it.

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You see a lot of insane paint jobs on drag slot cars but not so much on track cars. I raced slot cars for about 6 years in local clubs and on a regional level and I never spent more than about 30 minutes painting a body. Sometimes guys will go all out on them but they are generally just looking to win concourse stuff. Track racers know their stuff would get destroyed eventually so most don't really spend the time to go crazy on a competition car's paint job. Some racers will use lots of futures floor wax/polish stuff as a clear coat and that protects a lot but it is very heavy in the wrong places when you put it on thick so most racers above the club level won't use it. It's different though for home use I had about 10 custom painted cars I used on the track I had at home but they were never going fast enough to do any more damage that maybe a scratch or scuffing and whats a race car without some scuff marks.

I think you are probably referring to the cars in the posts by chris4q and Sixx. chris4q builds incredible models for a collector overseas very very few if any of those cars get run at all they are shelf cars that might get run just long enough to make sure they work. Sixx'es bodies are drag cars and they don't generally see any damage unless some sort of extremely rare catastrophic incident happens. Drag cars when they come out of the slot 99 times out of 100 will come out right after the start so the cars is hardly moving.

Edited December 21, 2010 by ra7c7er