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Hello All
I am one of those people who was quite active in a club 50 years ago but just stopped when I left the parental home. My son had a Scalextric set but wasn’t interested. I dug it out and set it up in the garage for something to do while I was  advised not to go out due to Covid 19. Anyway since  to upgrading to an Arc Air I can race against a pace car. I still lose. However I have acquired a few slot cars and assembled some kits so I have been kept occupied. 
The technology now is interestingly different. Back in the late 1960s it was about soldering brass chassis and rewinding motors. Now I can purchase 3D printed chassis!
Best wishes
Tony

   

C4147 Drew Pritchard's VW Beetle - Jack Sears Memorial Trophy, Goodwood Revival 2018. Available now. RRP £40.99


The Scalextric Team turned up at the 2018 Goodwood Revival mob-handed, running a track in the tented village 'Over the Road' and taking in as much of the real racing action as possible...

       

Clearly there was product development research going on too - and one of the tangible results is the lovely VW Beetle raced by Salvage Hunters' Drew Pritchard in the Jack Sears Memorial Trophy race that weekend...

       

Even though I'm no Salvage Hunters fan, the black Beetle stood out for me at the Scalextric launch in January...

   

The Jack Sears Trophy race celebrated sixty years of the British Saloon Car Championship (now the BTCC) and it was important to have a Beetle on the grid, as there was one back in that first 1958 season. Welsh antique dealer, TV presenter and historic car enthusiast Pritchard happily obliged - his Beetle having appeared at numerous Goodwood track days and a Members' Meeting, but this was his Revival debut.

Drew and his mechanic Ian had been building and tweaking the car for about five years, creating an authentic 1958 Beetle with 1500cc VW engine, twin Weber carburettors and tuned to produce an impressive 200 bhp. A lot of work had also been put into the suspension to handle that power and still go round corners... at least most of the time!




This was Drew's verdict of the race, given to Classic Car Weekly

Quote:It was wonderful, absolutely fantastic. I was up into 13th when I got stuck behind a Ford Zephyr, but I thought 11th was doable when my fanbelt snapped in the second to last lap. I went straight back into the pits and we fixed it quickly, but I had lost time and eventually finished 25th. Still, it was great fun and the car drove really well. It was a tribute to my team of mechanics that I was able to place it exactly where I wanted on the track.

And of having a Scalextric version of the Beetle made...

   

The car is available now from the Scalextric webstore (here) and will be arriving with your favourite Scalextric retailers over the next few days.

Inaslot sell 'paint defect' Pioneer cars at a considerable discount to normal retail price and they occasionally put some of them up on eBay at a low start price. They currently have some P010 1968 Trans-Am Mustang #22 'Bill Maier' cars available on their website at just £30. LINK

So why has somebody paid £35.11 for one of these on eBay? LINK

Just started a new build from a Hawk body ,kindly sent to me by Gordon .I don't have a before photo but it appears in a post of Gordon Lash ups .
Stripped the paint off using brake fluid which worked well and then primed and painted it RED not ORANGE .I was lucky that Gordon had fitted the glasswork as Hawk kits don't have any ,so I was able to used those as patterns for some new ones ,Purchased some wire wheels from Pendles which set it off nicely ,also got a VAC formed interior for it but had to grind out some oak beams from the inside to get it to fit .More to do but pleased so far 

Steve

So back in the day, I was one of the first to find George Turner models , and fell in love with his Maserati 300S with the open Bonnet.
I built it and showed it off on the forum, and the rest is history......

Then about 3 years ago, a fellow collector here in Belgium put up a Maserati birdrcage boatail, with the most unbelievable detailed 'cage'. I was able to purchase it . It was built by the inimitable Phil Smith, who I believe made 2 versions - super detailed and not so - this is one of the not-so  

I know that in the inevitable consolidation/downsizing after retirement, I know I would never sell these 2 cars.

So, I decided I needed something 'to show them off', and decided on 2 further GTM models. hence the Maserati Transporter, and another version of the 300 S with openening Bonnet.

The inspiration to start this build:

Maserati 300s GTM:




       

       


Maserati Birdcage - Phil Smith:


       

       


Fiat Bartoletti transporter:


Some history of the  Maserati factory team's great No. 1 transporter of its World Championship-winning 'Fangio 250F' season of 1957 – and which would also have taken Fangio's Piccolo 250F (chassis '2533') to the last race of his glittering career at Reims in 1958 – it was subsequently acquired by Lance Reventlow for his 'Team America' Scarab assault upon the European Grand Prix road racing establishment in 1960-61.

This Fiat-Bartoletti transporter's next all-American owners then made the most massive impact of the postwar period upon the European road racing establishment – as Carroll Shelby's Cobra operation used this enduring team transporter during its ultimately Ferrari-toppling FIA Grand Touring Car World Championship-winning assault of 1964-65...
This transporter's amazing pure-blood, thoroughbred, motor racing pedigree at World-class International level was then perpetuated as the leading British Ford GT-programme team of Alan Mann Racing, based in Byfleet, England, hauled its cars and associated men and materiel around the World Championship battle zones of Europe.
Ultimately this Fiat-Bartoletti 642 was taken-on by leading Ferrari privateer David Piper – and liveried in his bright tone of 'BP green' – to carry his Ferrari 275 LM and 'P-car' sports-prototypes through the later 1960s until, in 1969-70, it was acquired by Steve McQueen's Solar Productions team to feature prominently – under ever-changing team liveries – in what has now become perhaps the ultimate motor race enthusiast cult movie – 'Le Mans'.
This great transporter was based, just like its Ferrari factory team sisters, upon a Fiat Tipo 642 RN2 'Alpine' bus chassis.

It was powered originally by a 92-horsepower 6,650cc six-cylinder diesel in-line Tipo 364A engine, and was completed with custom-made bodywork and vehicle ramps and hoist by Bartoletti of Forli, Italy. Overall dimensions were 9,085mm overall length, 2,492mm overall width, and 2,924mm overall height. Top speed in original Fiat-engined form was only 85km/h, sufficient for European rural and Alpine roads in period. The transporter could carry three race cars, a considerable stock of spares and tools, and at least seven crew members/mechanics.

Once it had completed its 'Le Mans' filming duties, in Italian-red factory Ferrari look-alike livery, the transporter was acquired and run for a while by Anthony Bamford's renowned JCB Historic racing team in the UK, before passing in later years to Cobra enthusiast and noted 'Cobra-Ferrari Wars' historian and author Michael Shoen for his own marque collection.


       

       

   

**With Gary’s retirement and the merger of MRE into Pendle Slot Racing, this offer is no longer valid**

However, on behalf of everyone here, I’d like to thank Gary for his support of SlotRacer Online and wish him all the best for what I’m sure will continue to be a full-on involvement in the hobby.

Here’s the original post…


UK slot car retailer MRE have extended their Club Price Discount scheme to members of SlotRacer Online - offering a 15% discount off the RRP of cars, spares and accessories on the MRE website: www.mre.co.uk

   


Who are MRE? Starting out as an online store in 1998, there were two MRE high street shops until the focus shifted  entirely to e-commerce from 2005. As an official retailer for all the big slot car brands and most of the smaller ones, MRE has customers all over the world. MRE is known for good customer service, an extensive pre-order system and Gary Cannell's weekly news email, which is one of the best sources of new product information out there. At SlotRacer Online we have often shared news content with Gary - including his fabulous coverage from the Nuremberg Toy Fair.

MRE stand out for me by having probably the biggest range of Carrera cars - including 1/24 and Digital132 - in the UK, as well as stocking the lovely Pre-Wing resin kits. MRE have also commissioned unique cars, including last year's Scalextric C4108 Chevrolet Monte Carlo patrol car...

   


How does the discount work? On each product listing there are three prices available - a standard MRE Mail Price, the Club Price and a Star Price. The Club Price gives 15% discount on the RRP. This is extended to 20% by spending £500 in the previous 12 months. Full details are here: www.mre.co.uk/about_us/pricing

   

The example above shows the RRP and three price points for the 1/24 scale Carrera Pink Pig Porsche 911 RSR.


How do I register for the Club Price Discount? When you register for an MRE account, you'll be able to add your SlotRacer Online membership details. The MRE team will then verify you are an active member here and unlock the Club Price discount.

   

It's as easy as that.

A very big thank you to Gary at MRE for adding SlotRacer Online to the MRE Club Price Discount scheme

Zoom/Skype 1/43 meeting, your thoughts please!

For the last few weeks I have taken part in the excellent worldwide slotcar Zoom meetings and have really enjoyed discussing the hobby with other modellers around the world.

My contributions about 1/43 scale slotcars ahas been well received and I have gained a lot of useful information in return.

This got me thinking whether something similar, either in Zoom as a group, or Skype for individual chats, would give us 1/43 modellers the chance to have a natter live as it were.

I know there is some language barriers here, but a show and tell format could overcome most of that. What do you think?

Regards, Lloyd.

Lots of us have done it. During lockdown I opened my two pots of Smooth on Vytaflex that I had purchased some twelve months earlier and got out some old moulds and also made some new ones. I use a 20 shore silicone from Barnes Australia (Pinkysil) but any silicone of similar hardness would do.

I began casting using my experience from two earlier episodes.....

These pictures show what I have achieved after about seven pour/mix/cast episodes.

1) It is messy, I wore gloves and threw them out with the mixing sticks and cups after each session.
2) The one part (yellow pot)  starts slowly going off as soon as you open the pot. I kept it in a zip top bag inside another zip top bag.
3) Use a syringe to inject the mixture, I used a 10 ml one mainly due to what I had and the nozzle size.
4) Choose tires to repop you like and use a lot of. 
   I wanted tall profile narrow vintage tires, tires to fit the Slotit 14mm rim, high profile wide, F1 wide donuts, SCX Escort and Fiat Abarth replacements.
5) Clean the rim and lids of the pots carefully (especially the yellow) after use because any residue on the rim starts to cure and getting the lid off the yellow pot will have you speaking bad words before all the contents are used. 
6) You will have failures which is disappointing after waiting twelve to sixteen hours for demoulding. Some failures can be repaired when you mix and cast next time but some will go in the bin....my success rate improved as I learned my syringe technique.
7) The black pigment is extremely strong so take care not to get it on you, your clothes or anywhere it shouldn't be.

This pack cost me about 40GBP. I have given a few sets away but now have a supply that should last me a while.

Pictures can now speak
 
















I wrote this on another forum but was asked to repost here. 

I love urethane tires because...they true easily, I can make them in many types, sizes, styles, they last well, they grip well enough to race with. I used them last night in a pre 65 club class. I have used my own tires in proxy events with success.

Making the mould is key. The subject tire needs to be held in place so it doesnt float in the silicone....I have had that fun???%$#^*()_!!!

I like unusual GP cars and one that caught my attention recently was Jo Siffert's 1963 Lotus 24 BRM because of its unusual engine cover and particularly the shortened nose as raced in the Monaco GP. I carved the body based on a blueprint of a standard 24 and from photographs of the Siffert car of which there are a surprising number on the web. My good friend John Warren then moulded and cast it for me and, after a five week journey from New Zealand, I began work on it last week. The photographs below show the actual car and where I've got to.  

Best Wishes

David