This car apparently belonged originally to John Harris - he was a team driver for Pittman in the early 60's

It has a Pittman 6001 installed.... and it does scream - we as well as possible for an early 60's motor  

As it arrived:

   

   

   

   


I stripped it down and painted it ..... still to decide  on decals.

   

   

It does not have the from grill and bumpers - if anyone has one they want to dispose of :)

This one is on mine :

Picked up this protoslot Lola Mk 6

   

   

Has anyone else Painted up their Scalextric cars to make them look more like their 1:1 version?

This is the start of mine:

   

   

and Then from this:

   

to this.....


   

   

   

SW70 Nissan Skyline Turbo Group 5 Kyalami 9h Endurance 1982 RRP £72.95

The Racer Sideways Nissan Skyline Turbo is another addition to the very popular and competitive Sideways Group 5 grid. Sideways announced the arrival of the first cars at its HQ in France last week and some have reached retailers on mainland Europe in the past couple of days. With any luck, Gaugemaster's distribution operation will get some Skylines to UK retailers before too long. These things are taking a little longer than usual these days, but it's great to see brand new models hitting the market place.

       

The Skyline was a beast of a car, developed by Nissan for the Japanese Super Silhouette Series that ran between 1979 and 1984, with cars built to Group 5 regulations. Powered by a 570 horsepower 2-litre turbocharged engine, the Skyline scored two wins in its 1982 debut season and five wins in 1983. The series was dissolved into the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship for 1984, with the Skyline having appeared at two JSPC races in 1983.

One appearance for the Skyline outside of Japan was the 1982 Kyalami 9 hours, a non-championship race that featured Group C, Group 6 and Group 5 cars mostly from Europe and plenty of local Group 1 touring cars. The Hasemi Motorsport Skyline was driven by David Hobbs, Tony Pond and regular driver Masahiro Hasemi - the car qualified tenth and failed to finish...

   

The Sideways car is a very faithful representation of the Kyalami Skyline. To model the car run in Japanese Super Silhouette and JSPC races, there will need to be a different headlight arrangement and rear wing struts. These may well be found in the white kit, that has also been listed by Sideways as arrived in France...

       

Underneath, we see the typical Sideways Group 5 arrangement and notice how long the Skyline is at the back. It truly is a monster, but looks rather nice. Here is the real thing on track from the 1980s...




The SW70 N.Skyline Turbo Groupe 5 Kyalami 9h Endurance 1982 is available as a pre-order now from MRE and Pendle Slot Racing. Other Skyline parts due to be released include...

• SWK/NS N.Skyline White Kit
  
• SWB/NS N.Skyline White Body Kit
  
• SWNS/A N.Skyline Chassis Standard Black Original
  
• SWNS/A1 N.Skyline Chassis Blue Flex and Light
  
• SWNS/B N.Skyline All Small Parts
  
• SWNS/C N.Skyline Spoiler Standard
  
• SWNS/C1 N.Skyline Spoiler Flex
  
• SWNS/D N.Skyline Transparent Parts
  
• SWNS/E N.Skyline Cockpit Lexan
  

Here is the next project underway in the Garage:


Any and all comments are more than welcomed!

Thanks

John

I have been aware of this car for quite a while now, and have hankered after one to match my Carrera 312 FI.

They dont seem to come up that often, but came accross one on ebay a while back, and not expensive either, so even though it was not in perfect condition - won it for a good price (relatively speaking :) )

So this is what it looked like on arrival:

   

   

   


Decals arrived and so the rebuild started. The driver is not really usable, so I have an immense miniature 1/24th driver, that after some filing not fits perfectly.


Car stripped,repaired and painted:

   


Build ongoing 

A while back I bought this 1/24th car relatively cheaply off the dreaded 'bay.

I really didnt like the colour, so when it arrived , I promply stripped it. And as usual, there it sat in the plastic container waiting....

   


   


   

I cannot decide if this is an earlier - read 70's  - build, or modern. For me it is unusual to have putty holding the tubes for the front wheels as well as holding the posts for the chassis. That tends to hark back to the 70's.

last week the decals from Patto's arrived, and with all this extra time, triggered me to get it out again and start the restoration....  i used Tamiya Orange, which is a pretty close match for the 60's Mclarens.  Once dried I used bare metal foil for rear wing


   

And only then - did I realise that this low wing version of the M8B did not run in these colours.  It ran in the jerobee dark orange, The Red of Lothar Mothenbacher and few other colours of lesser know drivers....

SO this will be the 'test' car that Bruce drove, while developing the factory longer wing (not the tall version) which became the M8D

   

The latest edition of Robert Schleicher's Model Car Racing Magazine is out now. The magazine is available in the UK from Pendle Slot Racing (www.pendleslotracing.co.uk/model-car-racing-mag-issue-111) with more details of subscriptions (paper and electronic) on the Model Car Racing website: modelcarracingmag.com

This is what's in the May/June issue...

• RevoSlot Toyota GT-One
  
• Historic Racing Classes Le Mans LMP Class 1996-2002
  
• History of the Hobby - Scalextric & SCX 1987-1992 Formula 1 Cars
  
• NSR Formula 86/89 Track Test
  
• Scalextric Lotus 25 Track Test 'Magnet-Free'
  
• MMK Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato 1961
  
• Home Racing - Assemble the ultimate plastic race track
  
• ThunderSlot McLaren-Elva M1A Track Test
  
• History of the Hobby - Ford vs. Ferrari
  
• ShadowFax Alfa Romeo 308 1938 Scratch Build
  
• Vintage Racing - Lotus 23
  
• RevoSlot Ferrari 333SP track Test
  
• Your Track - Martini Raceway
  
• Race tracks on Tabletop
  
• Real Race Track Plans
  
• Digital Racing
  
• HO Scale Racing
  

Back issues of the magazine are also available in the UK from Pendle Slot Racing here.
[url=https://www.pendleslotracing.co.uk/accessories/publications.html?___SID=U&ajaxcatalog=true&dir=desc&manufacturer=161&order=position][/url]

   

C4073 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z Red. RRP £40.99

Another of the brand-new 2020 cars has arrived in the Scalextric warehouse. The Chevy Camaro IROC-Z is the racing version of the 1985 road car that was the workhorse of the International Race Of Champions, from the relaunch of the series in 1984, through to 1989. Scalextric will be releasing this #12 red car and the #22 blue car in 2020...

       

These are some snaps I took at the London Toy Fair...

       

And the 2020 catalogue launch in Margate, alongside the blue car...

   

Not only was the IROC-Z raced in the International Race of Champions series, the car was named after it. To help the new road car capture a big share of the market, General Motors provided race cars to relaunch the IROC series in 1984 - a four-race competition that featured twelve drivers from different motorsport series. Five Nascar drivers lined-up against five CART regulars - including former-F1 super-star Emerson Fittipaldi. World Sportscar Championship legends Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell gave it a international flavour. The European drivers had to make do with one road course (at Cleveland) and three oval races - one at Talladega and two at Michigan. Grid positions were decided by drawing lots and the races were 100 miles on the ovals, 70-75 miles on the road courses. Below are photos of Mid-Ohio 1986 and Daytona 1985...

       

Cars were handed out each race, so drivers would be driving a different colour Camaro with a different number each time. Fans would identify their favourite by the big removable decal on the side of the car. Some peel & stick vinyl driver names will be needed for these Scalextric cars - together with window visor strips. Colours and numbers did stay the same - the red car in 1984 was the #10 car, driven by Fittipaldi, Johncock, Ickx and Waltrip. There was also a darker red (almost red/brown) car with the #12, driven by Johncock, Ickx, Earnhardt and Parsons. I have also seen the #12 car described as 'red' for the first race of 1984 at Michigan.  All the cars had the same Budweiser, Goodyear and Camaro Z28 decals as on the Scalextric IROC-Z.

That first season saw Cale Yarborough take the $150,000 top prize after one win (at Cleveland) and two second places. The cars would stay the same for 1985 - same colours and numbers - and Nascar driver Harry Gant ended up as champion over three races. The Talladega event was cancelled due to rain. Derek Bell was joined by John Watson and Jochen Mass as the European contingent. In 1986, Mass was joined by fellow Germans Hans Stuck and Klaus Ludwig - Al Unser Jr would win the series. The racing was pretty unusual - and rather crazy - for the European drivers...



The Scalextric cars will certainly pass for the IROC fleet from 1984-86 - the correct shape and decals, if the numbers and colours aren't quite right. If you are interested, here's the list of numbers and colours for those first three years with the IROC-Z...

#1 - White
#2 - Dark Blue
#3 - Pink
#4 - Cream (1984-5) Mauve (1986)
#5 - Powder Blue
#6 - Yellow
#7 - Blue
#8 - Orange
#9 - Mustard
#10 - Red
#11 - Black (1984-5)
#12 - Dark Red
#17 - Silver
#18 - Light Blue
#20 - Purple (1986)
#22 - Black (1986)

New cars, including a lime green (#14) Camaro appeared in 1987 - that green car will be essential for a full Scalextric digital colour-coded grid

The Scalextric IROC-Z development was very much driven by Dave Kennedy and racers in the US. I think the cars have the potential for a magnificent IROC-style slot car racing series, whether analogue or digital. Even if they are raced in more traditional formats, they'll deliver a very colourful 1980s grid. Unlike the T-Birds and Monte Carlos, the Camaros are packaged as 'high-detail' cars in plastic boxes. They are Digital Plug Ready, but do not have lights - neither did the real racing IROC-Zs. RRP is the standard high-detail £40.99 and the red car is available now on the Scalextric website and as a pre-order from all regular stockists, including Pendle Slot Racing, MRE and Jadlams Toys and Models.

Hello there

Preferably an SSD III model, but would also be interested in an SSD IV model.

What have you got...?

Thanks for looking!