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Gregg, currently Parma makes and sells the best quality Crown Gears made for 1/8" axles. Only problem.... they are cast only in PINK! (I dye all mine with Rit dye) My favorite parts house btw is NCP.

I think I met Marilyn Monroe once. I was only three at the time but it left a huge impression on me.

Never saw that episode. But love this car! Have huge respect for you for completing such a nice build up as that kit is not easy. A lot wrong with it and I know. I bought one back in the mid 80's when it came out. Beautiful! Just beautiful. Too bad the 5 spokes were not in the kit tho... I have already decided that when I finally get back to mine that those will be my choice. (They are way more realistic.)

I'm trying to remember anytime I posted a thread that went nine pages in 7 hours.... ? Sheesh!!!

Does a "trend" deserve it's own section? Should we have one for "Pro-Street" and one for "Street Rods" too? How tall do you want the home page to be anyway? It's all modeling and everyone can learn from the techniques. Why be a divider V, when you can be a unifier! Just my two cents.

Very funny Greg.

Oh YEEEAAAHHHH, I love the beach!

Better get out of the house.... an "Agent" is on the way! ("The Matrix")

Never heard of an "empty model car box". What is that? I have nearly all the model boxes I ever owned including a tattered old Coo coo Marlin Monte Carlo NASCAR box that I keep all the loose decals collected that I bought as a kid in 1970.

I have one of the new AMT slot car kits coming. Soon as it gets here I plan to do a review and build up thread here, on Slotblog.net and Slotforum.com. Yes, it is 1/25th scale. Or 1:25 as they say in yrrup. 1/25 scale is still popular but not a growing hobby. It primarily exists where a surviving track is located. The fact that it requires such a large track surface is why home sets are rare and explains why 1/32 is so much more popular. If you want parts in 1/25 scale, there are plenty of on-line sources including Professor Motor, Electric Dreams and others. Best thing to do is join one of the forums I mentioned above and read, ask questions, click on the advertisers and get to know the hobby before spending your hard earned dollars.

The chassis is a kit made in Germany by "Motor Modern". It is totally adjustable so it will fit a variety of bodies. There is a whole hobby built up in Germany racing cars just as detailed as this Lola, (Although not as nicely as this one) and they race the snot out of them for one race. Concours first and then race. After-which the owner polishes up the winner and it goes onto the shelf. Damage happens but rarely. This is the chassis they use, but with faster motors of course. P.S. Beautiful work Chris, I see that you have pushed the bar higher yet again!

Okay, now do 1969 Mustang "dagmar" coned lenses! Seriously, this is a great tip! Thanks Art.

Seems to me that you are already... ah, never mind.

Mike, I just build. No tracks near yet (one being built in Albany). But I enjoy both aspects of the hobby, ie: Building and Racing. Plus there can be just as much modeling in slotcars as building a beautiful static curbside! Example: That is one of the blob bodies I told you about. It is going on a racing car for my friend in San Diego for a race Jan 28th. The body shell is a Gurney Eagle, vacuformed. He wanted a devil as the driver so with-in the racing limitations I took one of the aero vac figures and added horns and a roll bar. The flames are hand painted and the chrome is alclad. Took about 8 hours to produce.

I have been bugging Gregg for years to include slot stuff in the mag. But after hearing "NO" for so long.. I eventually quit. If you want to learn more about slot cars, join one of these other forums: Slot blog.net Slot Forum.com Old Weird Harold FYI slot car hobby is divided up into a lot of different classes and factions. The one you want is called "Hard body" racing or NASCAR. Currently there are only NASCAR and maybe Sports cars being raced. But some tracks hold vintage races where Cox, Monogram, Revell cars are raced for fun. Back before 1965, most all slots entailed a model car body mounted on some type of aluminum, brass, steel framework. Nearly all were kits that the kid had to build. Todays factory cars are already built and have some sort of blob like vacuum formed body that resembles a bar of soap. If you want to get into slot racing yourself, you have to learn to walk before you can run. What I mean is that the cars you see racing in the video were specially prepared by professionals. That is why they go so fast. Most-likely handbuilt and feature motors that are far superior to anything we had just 20 years ago. I suggest you pick up this neat little Parma chassis and mount a hard body on it. The chassis is good and solid, fairly quick and easily upgradeable. Good luck!

THAT was a fun road trip!

427 Big Block Chevrolet (Rear oil sump is a dead giveaway)... and as Anthony said, prob from the AMT Gasser Vette.

I had always thought this would have been a brilliant powerplant idea for a street machine. It is an Allison V-3420. Essentially two Allison v-12 engines using a common crankcase. Quite a few were produced for the P-75, which was canceled after the turbojet engine was proven to be a much better powerplant. Nice build. I would have coupled two engines and run one differential per axle like the original. But still cool looking the way you did it.

Hey Chris.... post the pictures of that Porsche 911 we collaborated on! That one is pretty.

Pretty nice work that. Notice the dates of the posts? He works very fast and really knows his subject. Bet his research time spent was double or triple that of the construction time.

That you did! Time? Time for COFFEE!

The rims are vintage Monogram threaded slot car items. The front tires are Revell and the rear foam tires Dynamic glued and trued. The wheel inserts are from Lindberg '66 Chevelle with some of the rim removed till they fit nicely. They are glued in place.

Ahaaaa.... Okay. Guess that's the arian way. Anyway, spent two hours last night on it and only managed to clean up the sprue and mold lines off a handful of parts plus putting together the front and rear wheels. Decided to simply go ahead and build this from the box as an RML with the early engine. Ordered three figures to start with from Scale Equipment Ltd. (Best figures in the biz) Ordered a seated figure for the driver and one standing guy for the conductor plus one passenger.

Well, first mistake I can see in this kit is not the parts or molds... but the directions. Seems the artist illustrated the rear outside wheels (Rim) assembled backwards. From the wheel assembly (pg 10) to decal placement (pg 28) the drawing shows the casting reversed.