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[Helix]

Interesting post Terry!

I'm in the process of building a Bonneville type vehicle, research is the key to pulling this build off for me

I've ask the question in another post regarding the 'Speed Demon', can anyone tell me where can I get salt flat style tyres and wheels, I have a set of 'Moon discs' just need the rest.

Cheers

Ray

[phil55]

bill...are  the silver and  light blue salt racers ( second row from the front in your pic) a production kit or are they scratch built?

[Greg Myers]

Interesting post Terry!

I'm in the process of building a Bonneville type vehicle, research is the key to pulling this build off for me

I've ask the question in another post regarding the 'Speed Demon', can anyone tell me where can I get salt flat style tyres and wheels, I have a set of 'Moon discs' just need the rest.

Cheers

Ray

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the fronts on the Attempt ! are narrow tread

 

[Casey]

I've ask the question in another post regarding the 'Speed Demon', can anyone tell me where can I get salt flat style tyres and wheels, I have a set of 'Moon discs' just need the rest.

Cheers

Ray

 

The M/T Challenger 1 kit is the only kit with dedicated LSR tires I have found, but there were some good suggestions here. The Goodyear Frontrunners are easy to find and would be a good option for a modern/recent vehicle IMHO: http://www.modelcars...lle#entry825375

 

I used a pair of the Challenger 1 tires and a pair from the AMT Piranha reissue (which are styrene) on my Avanti project: http://www.modelcars...ic=61472&page=5

[Helix]

 

The M/T Challenger 1 kit is the only kit with dedicated LSR tires I have found, but there were some good suggestions here. The Goodyear Frontrunners are easy to find and would be a good option for a modern/recent vehicle IMHO: http://www.modelcars...lle#entry825375

 

I used a pair of the Challenger 1 tires and a pair from the AMT Piranha reissue (which are styrene) on my Avanti project: http://www.modelcars...ic=61472&page=5

 

Casey, thanks heaps my friend, appreciate the feedback

[gtx6970]

Something you mght want to ck out are plain old rubber O rings.

You can buy a lifetime assortmant at Harbor Freight for under $10 I think

Edited by gtx6970, 15 March 2013 - 04:53 AM.

[Casey]

Shake it like a...

 

 

 

More like a build option than a dedicated LSR kit, but it's got a separate chopped top and the streamlined headlight covers:

 

[Art Anderson]

Did you know that the first six holders of the "official" automobile land speed record were electric cars? And the seventh was steam powered! The first internal-combustion-powered land speed holder was the eighth one, and from then on the IC-powered vehicles were unbeaten... until the jet-powered cars came along.

The steam powered LSR car was the "Oldsmobile Rocket".

 

Art

[Junkman]

There was at least one 1/24 scale resin, and one 1/20 scale vacuformed kit of the 1960 Donald Campbell Proteus Bluebird.

Edited by Junkman, 04 April 2013 - 01:19 PM.

[Junkman]

Then there is a resin kit of the stillborn Mercedes T80 in 1/24:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...n#ht_374wt_1170