Can anybody help with a short term loan of a Ninco off road car please?

I am one of the hosts for the extreme slotting event and currently working on a track layout. I only have SCX and Avant Slot cars to test on it and I need to find out which obstacles are too big for Ninco ones.

Happy to reimburse any postage costs involved.

FYI, I don't really have much woodworking or modelling skill and I've just started getting interested in slot cars.  I really dig the digital sets, as I'm want a bit more strategy about lane changes, proper racing line, etc.

So to my question, how does one go about putting lane change switches on a routed track?  Is it extremely difficult, or can it be done well with enough experience?

OK more cars from a clubmate, he has promised me these are his last ... hmmm we will see 

All of these cars are boxed in great condition and may have test laps on them. I know the mini has, the other 2 look like they haven't been run but I will presume they have to be on the safe side !
Postage to the UK is £4 Per car, other destinations will need to be calculated.

   

Scalextric Mini C3640 one spare braid only on bottom of box  £30


   

   

Sideways Mustang SW49 Spares parts package unopened on bottom of box £45


   

   

SRC/OSC Capri details here: SRC Ford Capri 2600 LV No.7 Brands Hatch 1973 (SRC-00406) (pendleslotracing.co.uk)
Package with spare small parts unopened included in box. £40

As usual, Thanks for looking and feel free to PM me for any queries.

Hi 
I am trying to find a set of BRM off set bearings   , I have one so if anybody has one spare and is willing to sell to me I would be grateful.??

This is quite a surprise!

       

       

   

Quote:AUTO WORLD RALLY CHAMPION: 1967-75 FORD ESCORT MARK I RALLY (HO SLOT CAR)

New tooling continues in the Auto World Slot Car realm with the MK I Escort Rally! Originally debuted in Ireland and the UK at the end of 1967, the Escort was the first passenger car to be developed by the merged Ford of Europe. A best-selling commercial success by an American manufacturer that never came to the states. In fact, Ford had built its 2 millionth Escort by 1974, which was a milestone unmatched by any Ford model outside the US at the time. But the Escort didn’t go down in history for simply selling well. The MK I Escort proved to be a force to be reckoned with on the rally course, becoming one of the most successful rally cars of all time. This MK I model set the stage for the European rally Fords that followed. Cars such as the Escort RS Cosworth, RS200, and the Focus RS would not be here if Ford hadn't set the precedence with the original rally success of this amazing MK I.

Tooled for our X-Traction chassis and featuring rally lights and a roof-rack filled with spare wheels and gas cans, this casting will be a great fit in our line of Off-Road slot cars and sets! Expect to see the first production sample hit shelves in 2022 and stay tuned for more updates!

Test shot subject to improvements in production.

   

SRC have open pre-orders today (see here) for the first liveried, high-detail 'Original' versions of their Toyota TS050 Hybrid Le Mans Prototype.

SRC 10001 - Toyota LMP1 TS050 Hybrid Le Mans Winner 2018 #8. RRP 96,00€. Available December 2021. Limited to 2015 units.
SRC 10002 - Toyota LMP1 TS050 Hybrid Le Mans 2018 #7. RRP 96,00€. Available December 2021. Limited to 1015 units.
Pack Toyota - Toyota LMP1 TS050 Hybrid Le Mans 2018 #7 + #8. RRP 192,00€. Available December 2021.

The SRC team have also released some photos of the first prototypes...

           

If pre-ordered from the SRC website before 1 November 2021, a 20€ voucher will be redeemable on future purchases. Pre-ordering both models gives you a 50€ voucher.

The promotion coincides with this year's Le Mans weekend - and Toyota have a good chance of winning their fourth successive Le Mans 24 hours, a sequence started in 2018...

   

The #8 car of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso took pole and the race win, ahead of their teammates Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López in the #7 car. With the withdrawal of Audi in 2016 and Porsche in 2017, Toyota were the only big manufacturer to remain in LMP1 for 2018. Their win made up for last-lap heartbreak in 2016 and retirement from a dominant position in 2017... a win is never a foregone conclusion at Le Mans...



The SRC Toyota is the most up-to-date Le Mans Prototype produced as a ready-to-run slot car. Not everyone is happy with it - the Digital Slot Car Association has refused it entry to their prestigious oXigen Le Mans event on scale accuracy grounds - but performance of the Chrono kits suggest it will be a successful runner in club LMP and modern Le Mans classes around the world.

The specs of these cars are very slightly different to the Chrono kit released earlier in the year (see News item here). This is what will go into your ready-to-run model...

• 1 x T1-D chassis (hard) +1 x Bolt T1 chassis bracket +2 x 1.6x4mm screw(RM1014) +2.5x6mm Allen screw
  
• 1 x front axle diameter 2mm (RM0213) +4 x front axle adjustment screw 2.5 × 2.5mm
  
• 2 x 17mm ABS front rim (RM0621) exclusive for 2mm axle +2 x Grip-0 low profile tire(RN0201)
  
• 1 x T3 guide (RM0711) +2 x braid (RM0706) +1 x 1.8x6mm screw (RM1002) +1 x 560/316 spacer(RM1405)
  
• 2 x screw (RM1011) union chassis and body +1 x rear chassis grill
  
• 1 x AW T1 motor mount +Bolt T1 motor mount +3 x 1.6x4mm screw (RM1014) +Bolt T1 nylon
  
• 1 x 2.38mm hollow rear axle. Length 59.50mm (RM0214)
  
• 2 x bearing (RM0525) +1 x stopper (RM0511) + 2 x 2.5 × 2.5mm screw (RM1007) +1 x spacer of 1.6mm length and 4mm diameter (RM0506)
  
• 1 x 28z AW gear / crown (RM0410) +1 x 2x2mm screw (RM1008) +1 x 12z AW pinion (RM0305)
  
• 2 x 17mm rear rim (RM0612) +2 x 2.5 × 2.5mm screw + 2x rear tire (RN0115)
  
• 4 x Toyota LMP1 official decorated hubcaps
  
• 1 x P1 motor (RM0111) +FK motor flange +1,4x4mm screw (RM1021) +2x4mm motor screw (RM1006)
  
• 1 x rear shock absorber support +2 x Supremex 5 SRC screw (RM1024) +2 x Block-S screw (RM1021) +2 x L8,5x5E rear spring (RM0832)
  
• 2 x shock absorber side support +2 x Supremex 2 SRC screw (RM1017) + 2x L8x5E side spring (RM0825)
  
• Decorated body No. 8 + instruction book
  

* EXTRA: 4 x RN0132 decorated tires + antennas + sensor

SRC cars and spares are stocked exclusively in the UK by Pendle Slot Racing: https://www.pendleslotracing.co.uk/brand/src.html

   

RevoSlot RS0109 Porsche 911 GT2 #25 Jägermeister. RRP £71.95. Expected November 2021
RevoSlot RS0110 Porsche 911 GT2 #23 Pink Pig. RRP £71.95. Expected November 2021

I continue to be impressed by RevoSlot's growing 1990s GT range - the unique layout with metal chassis and BRM parts, plus an attempt to re-create a 90s GT grid has been a welcome innovation in the slot car world. Less impressive were the spate of generic Martini liveries that appeared on the Marcos and Porsche GT2 bodies. These two new releases - plus a couple of Rothmans cars - fall somewhere in between... not actual 1990s Porsche GT2s, but rather nice homages to famous Porsches of the 1970s.

       

The 'Pink Pig' (also known as Big Berta and 'The Truffle Hunter') was a one-off car produced by Porsche in conjunction with French company SERA. The 917/20 was an  attempt to combine the features of both the long and short-tail 917...

   

It's the livery that endures - Porsche designer Anatole Lapine creating a pink body shell and labelling each of the body parts according to classic butcher cuts. The #23 Pig Pig caused a sensation at Le Mans 1971. Despite arriving at La Sarthe untested, it was the fastest car during qualifying. During the race, the 917/20 running in fifth position dropped out shortly before the end due to an accident. A modern-day Pink Pig returned to Le Mans in 2018 to celebrate the 70th birthday of Porsche. The #92 911 RSR won the GTE Pro class, driven by Michael Christensen, Laurens Vanthoor and Kévin Estre.

       

Jägermeister liveries sell well on slot cars... and this is a particularly nice heritage livery, based on the #25 Max Moritz Porsche 934 turbo that won its class at the 1976 Nürburgring 1000 Kms - driven by Derek Bell and Günter Steckknig...

   

Both cars are available for pre-order now at Pendle Slot Racing in the UK and 132SlotCar in the US.

   

Scalextric C4220 Chevrolet Camaro IROC - SCCA Trans-AM - Number 33. RRP £46.99. Available August 2021


I admit to being a little underwhelmed by the first two Chevrolet Camaro IROC Z cars that were released last year. However, in the Duracell colours of Scott Sharp’s Camaro – winner of the 1991 SCCA Trans Am championship – I think Scalextric have brought out the best of this American racing classic. The 1984 IROC Z was aimed squarely at Scalextric's US market and seems to have gone down well there - I've seen plenty of Race of Champions re-liveries, with a small cottage industry producing the correct decals for a full IROC grid.

   

The Scalextric shape isn't the 1991 Trans-Am Camaro, but it's not a enormous step away. The Duracell #33 is an iconic Trans-Am livery - and Scott Sharp a fan favourite in North America. Still only 53, Sharp won the Trans-Am championship in '91 and '93, but is better known for his IndyCar and sports car racing exploits.

Here's some great 1991 Trans-Am action from the Trois-Rivières street circuit...



There are a few tasty Camaro liveries in that race for Scalextric to look at.

Scott Sharp's Camaro is still active in historic racing. The car is now owned by Bill Ockerlund and is pictured here during the 2018 Monterey Motorsports Reunion...

   

The Scalextric model features the standard in-line S-can motor, easy-fit guide and is digital plug ready (DPR) for easy conversion to digital.

Expect the Duracell Camaro to arrive with retailers very soon.

Concurrently with building the track I am trying to do a few cars

Painted up 2 x 1/24th Ferrari 275 P2 bodies. One is Atlas and one is a mint unused Tamiya car I bought recently.


   


Tamiya top Atlas bottom.
Primered with Acrylic primer and used same brand red.  I decided to do the Blue/Red British entry for Le Mans and taped it up using Tamiya tape and normal white plastic tape.
As I have before with no issues.

This happened when removing the tape: All paint peeled back to body base.

   

I did this about 48 hours after red paint, and about 1 hour after blue paint - as I normally do. - This has never happened before.

I have now stripped it back, sanded body for grip and re primered. But I want same colour scheme but and scared to do same process again.
Should I change tape? Wait longer after red paint?  It has been primers now for about a week.

Scalextric is essentially a toy product. It is advertised and sold as such with huge quantities of boxed sets sold at Christmas via Argos etc. There is nothing wrong with that, it is their main market and they would not have survived so long otherwise. However, throughout the firm's history there have been sporadic attempts  to appeal to the more serious/club racers with upgraded faster products. This is a look back through the various incarnations, some more successful than others and including a few real turkeys.
 
1966 ‘Race tuned’ cars and controllers
The plastic cars introduced in 1961 after the Triang takeover utilised the venerable RX motor from their existing model railway locomotives. This was a good solid product with excellent torque which would pull a heavy engine and rake of coaches with ease but was never built for outright speed. Accordingly, in 1966 the motor was given a rewind for better performance, with black side plates rather than the standard silver and the ‘race tuned’ series of cars were introduced.
    Standard RX motor

 Most of the range was available in both standard and upgraded form. Apart from the faster motor the new versions were also fitted with a proper guide blade instead of the original pin, softer tyres, a race tuned sticker and the obligatory 60’s accessory – a go faster stripe! A new 25 ohm controller (#A262) was also provided for these cars which had the added advantage of being wired for dynamic braking.
 
They were a great improvement over the standard cars with a nice turn of speed and good handling characteristics for the time. They sold very well, are still widely available and amongst the best performing cars they ever made. A couple of kit cars were also available in the range (Cobra and Porsche 904) with two differently geared rear axles as well although these utilised a Johnson large can motor instead of the RX.

   

Unfortunately, within a couple of years, Scalextric started to apply the term ‘race tuned’ at random and many of the later cars were anything but. Even the abysmally slow powersledge cars were promoted as such.


1973/4 Super Formula F1
By the early 70s the quality of cars had taken a real nosedive with the cheapest possible production costs taking precedence over everything else. This was addressed in 1973 with the introduction of the Super Formula range of F1 cars. Advertised as “cars for the elite racing driver”, the major leap forward was the fitting of a chassis to the cars instead of clipping the parts into the upper body! The range included the Lotus 72 JPS, March 721, Ferrari 312B2 etc and they were superior to the standard range but suffered from the usual problem of a raised front end, with the wheels waving in the air, in order to negotiate the dreaded banked curve. The catalogue photos never showed this defect though. Nevertheless they were hugely successful and were the mainstay of production for many years.

1988 Spanish Scalextric SRS
A few of these Spanish made, ‘super racing system’ cars were imported and sold by the UK firm. They featured a lightweight, factory painted Lexan body, three different axle sets, upgraded RX motor and sticky tyres so performed extremely well but weren’t very accurate models. They didn’t really catch on and were soon discontinued.

1999 Protec
These were kit cars aimed at club racers. Standard bodies were used with metal chassis, 3mm drill blank axles, brass bearings, alloy wheels, three axle ratios and a higher performance engine which needed a special power supply. Just two cars were available – Vauxhall Vectra and Audi A4.
Scalextric ran a Protec race championship at various clubs but the quality of some of the  kit components were a bit rubbish so the system only lasted a couple of years. I have lifted this photo from MRE’s Facebook page which features a very young Gary Cannell and Sean Fothersgill at a Protec launch event.

2002 The Sport range
Apart from a new track system to replace the ageing ‘classic’ type, Scalextric applied ‘Sport’ branding to many of their cars which implied they were a new version of the 1960’s race tuned variety. In reality they were nothing of the sort. They did have metal axle bearings, ground axles and a Sport sticker on a bog standard Mabuchi motor but any performance improvement over the standard version was marginal. They really should have been named ‘collectors issues’ as they were limited editions in a fancy box and most of them ended up in display cabinets rather than on the track.

Incidentally this was also the time when magnets gradually began to dominate their design philosophy. Although they had been fitted to most cars since about 1987 they were of relatively low strength. The new Sport track had considerably less grip than the original version so stronger magnets were fitted to overcome this. Eventually they ceased to bother about basic slot car design principles and just bunged in ever stronger magnets to hide their product’s shortcomings.

2004 motor pods
C2521 Lister Storm and C2678 Maserati MC12 were announced in the 2004 catalogue as the first of a ‘new generation’ of Scalextric cars for the serious racers. Both cars featured, ahead of their time, separate motor pods and were very reasonable performers. They only remained in the catalogue for a couple of years, no subsequent car was ever fitted with the pods and the new generation disappeared without trace!

2005 Sport performance spares
These were originally announced in 2004 but didn’t go on sale till late 2005. There was a huge range of upgrade performance parts – motors, wheels, gears, bearings, deeper guide blades etc. They were mostly of excellent quality but in incompatible sizes. Sales were terrible and they soon disappeared from the catalogue. Some retailers still have stocks of them to this day!

2011/12 Pro Performance kit cars
These consisted of a white bodyshell, standard chassis and various upgrade parts from the Sport performance parts range, all the gears and three motors etc. There were four cars in the range:
Aston Martin DBR9, Chevy NASCAR, Audi R8 and Aston Martin LMP.
They were possibly introduced to use up leftover stock from the above Sport spares range. They were good value and could be made to perform reasonably well but sales weren’t great and they soon disappeared from the catalogue. Just like the spares there are still some retailers with stock available even now.

2015 PCR chassis
During 2014 the Scalextric development team visited a number of clubs to find out why their cars were rarely used at that level. Having been told a few home truths about the shortcomings of their product they came up with the PCR Chassis as an optional extra which would accept Slot.It tune up parts. It never seemed to occur to them that fitting alternate parts would more than double the cost of the basic Scalextric car so people might as well buy a Slot.It car in the first place.

The idea didn’t last long and very few of the promised ones were actually produced or sold. If you buy the relevant car then Pendle’s will happily give you a matching PCR chassis for free!

They also started to fit Slot.It size wheels so aftermarket tyres could be fitted, rather than doing something about the appalling grip levels of their own product.

2021 Here we go again
A member of the Scalextric development team is currently planning to visit clubs “to see first-hand how racers use the product and if you don't, why not?” I suspect he will receive exactly the same answers as they did in 2014! One day perhaps they will manage to design a car with decent tyres that runs well without magnets, just like they did way back in the 60s, but don’t hold your breath.