Joe Handley

That little Scalextric Mini Cooper and the plain white Z-28 two of my crazy ones, the Mini is a psychotic little blur once I added a second magnet and the Z-28 is ballistic on the order of the "Big Red" road race Camaro now that there is a second magnet in there now too. I've got the silicons on order for three of the Petty Cars and on back order for the Mini.

Which one is the Massive Power set? I'm having a brain fart and can't remember for sure at the moment.

You guys may get a laugh out of this, the HobbyTown in Naperville, Illinois had recently put in a slot car track and one of the "kids" (late teens) from local R/C forum who came out for a crawler get-together and ended up playing with the track for most of the day instead! We close at 5pm at that store and he left around 4:30-4:45 and is now considering making his own wood track once he "recovers" from of building his AX10 Tuber!

Wanna make a bet that the lug nuts cause more to replace than the car would!

Let me warn you ahead of time Camaroman, for some reason the Concept Camaro handles like a pig and the guide gets hung up on the small diameter 1/30 curves. I want the Charger 500 street custom from Carrera, and the Orange SUperbird to make into a clone of the Superbird convertable owned by a guy on a Mopar forum I go on.

And I have since added a Scalextric "body in white" T/A Z-28 to my fleet............................

The ones that came with the set are now stick again, I did buy a second of both and modded the Superbird with a couple extra magnets and the Torino has had the magnets moved up front for "dirt tracking" . The Viper has been converted to a drift car.

Well it's offical, I'm hooked on these things now. I started out with the Carrera Petty set, then bought a plain white Scalextric Viper Comp Coupe, and now have a second Petty Torino and Superbird, Carrera Camaro Concept Car, and one of the Scalextric "impact resistant" BMW Mini's.

looks good!

###### man, I keep thinking you're restoring the real thing there! Very good job!!!

Incredible builds man, and that's a brilliant discovery on the Duplicolor sidewall touchup paint!

That is an incredible pic! Awsome video here! Don't see too many people driving two footed either! From what I've been told, if you do that while taking a driver's license test in Illinois, you automaticly fail the test!

I'd pay to see Jr Johnson and some of his fellow ex-moonshiners take a car set up for...ahem....deliveries....on some of the race courses just to see how their old iron compares to modern racecars

I saw this in a Carrera catalog at work yesterday and kept thinking of Fordsixty's road racers, and how this car kept making me think a '67-'69 made to look like this would be just plain wicked! Carrera's 1/32 Opel Commodore http://us.carrera-toys.com/index.php?eID=t...c3f4b18600952ec Carrera's 1/32 '69 Z-28 http://us.carrera-toys.com/index.php?eID=t...5747a285d8bace4

Thanks for the tips JB, I picked up a second Petty Superbird to try them out on! It is too bad there doesn't seem like there's more interest in this forum, this is one of the few places I know of that has anything like this (he greg, I've got an idea for the mag now too!) I ended up pulling all of the magnets in the set's Petty cars and found them more entertaining to drive like "dirt track" cars than with the magnets I even picked up the new Camaro Concept Car from Carrera and set it up as a "drift" car, way too fun . I still have yet to get the magnet out of the Viper Comp Coupe though......................

Always thought that was kinda funny too Phil Same here on the lancer, but make mine a Shelby

I love the scoop, is it manual or to you have a small battery and motor to move it.

Dang, that puppy is low!

I assume you're talking about the warship Corvettes? http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mildura/Corvette_links.htm

Good Question, I know a guy who'd be all over that in reg cab/sportside trim!

Stoga, haven't seen you here in a while! The last few runs of the Chevy/GMC G-Series vans (A-Team) have had a few problems too that could stand some fixing and I would love to see the Dodge/Plymouth F/S as well as the Chrysler Mini's done in scale again. I did pick up that Imperial last weekend though, nice kit!

I've got the Carrera Richard Petty set and I seem to have problems with the cars it came with (a '70 Superbird and '69 Torino Talladega) and the Scalextric Viper Comp Coupe wanting to roll over if they get too far sideways. Any suggestions (besides not to get too far siedways)?

This has been a very informative and in some ways educational thread and has been handled in a mature way by all involved, especially the moderators! I can't think of too many forums I've been on where there wouldn't have been name calling, accusations, and the like for "lesser" topics (usually Democrate basing ), let alone something this "loaded". You guys need to be given a huge thumbs up for this thread!

I'm with every body else here on more modern everyday cars and I love the idea of the Interceptor concept car from "The Wraith" too! I'd love to see modern domestic van kits (well any van kits really, just would prefer newer or just repaired older tooling). I don;t know why there have never been kits made of the regular Jeep Cherokee's, but I'd have no problems letting Revell or Hawk take measurements off mine for a kit if they were so interested.

Let's see, most of them are in a storage area I share with my Sister, got some stashed in various parts of my bedroom (I'm single so no problems there), and occasionally I'll have 1 or more in the Jeep, then there's also my RC and slot car stuff on top of that.....................................