Book on 60s slot car racing

Here’s my vintage 1/32 fleet of cars I’m working on.

It seemed like slot car racing has always been about building & tuning your car to be better than the other guys car. But I now do it differently to make it more fun especially for beginners. So I try to get groups of cars that have close to identical performance and run them on a four lane track at a low voltage, like 10 volts.

The old Monogram chassis are great. And the new slot car bodies by Monogram & MRRC use the same body mounts or I add body mounts.

Here’s the first group with the brass chassis. The #3 Chaparral has the aluminum home set chassis with the plastic wheels replaced with aluminum ones - this runs well.

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Here’s some home set cars, I’ve replaced the axles & plastic wheels but I don’t think that was really needed. With a guide pin instead of a flag they are super easy to put on the track after an off. I might use these chassis on some more cars

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Here’s the cars I need to finish. MRRC Ford MarkIV & Chaparral 2f plus Monogram Ferrari & Cobra all will be mounted on the first version of the brass chassis. These bodies are superb.

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