There's a thread asking what your favourite current slot car is and why.

So in order to restore the balance of the Universe I thought it would be fun to explore our least favourite cars and why.

I'm not looking for the ugliest in terms of looks but the ugliest in terms of engineering and/or driving performance.

So here is my contribution.

I bring you the SCX Citroen 2CV chassis Nr 657.

   

Now on the face of it this potential beauty is great.  4WD, suspension, drop arm - this is, on paper, a cracking little rally car.

But OMG - did the engineer have the day off and they let the work experience tea boy design the innards?

Take a look....

   

   

The drop arm is too short and the leading edge of the guide can get caught on track joins. The "suspension" is not sprung, the axles are simply loose (the holders for the bushes are deliberately way over-sized) but captive so they will articulate but not in a nice way.  The 4wd is shaft drive and is noisy as a bag full of spanners.  But none of that is as bad as the drive gears - look - a motor that is RAISED ABOVE the axle line and uses transfer gears to pass the power from the pinion DOWN through a transfer gear to the contrate.  So now we have a raised centre of gravity on a very narrow and tippy car.

So handling is going to be a problem - it is likely to tip over mid-corner.

Well actually it doesn't.  Mainly because the damned thing doesn't make it to mid corner - it will proceed very noisily along a straight and as soon as it reaches an R2 bend simply falls over as soon as the front changes direction by about 5 degrees!!!  God knows I have tried but it does this time after time after time - and I am the most successful slot rally driver in our club (that's not saying that much by the way).

It is so bad it is laughable.  I only still have it because, in all conscience, I could not sell this to some unsuspecting buyer.

In fact I have bought a Chase-Cars chassis so I can enjoy the 2CV on a tippy slidey chassis that is designed to be exactly that and with the bonus that it corners all day without falling over.

I had to hunt for about 15 minutes for this car - it is so bad it has slipped right to the bottom and back of my slot car stuff over the years - but now I have found it I can give it a decent chassis.

So that's my car that should never have happened - what's yours?

A few Fords:



63 Falcon:

   

   


Anglia and Mk 1 Escort:

   

   


Cortina Mk1:

   

   


Popular:

   

   


Torino:

   

   


Regards, Lloyd

Modified Joest Porsche chassis, cut out for a slot it pod. I love this car...

           
Mini Thunder Saloon with big arches. Brass and wire + pans. Inline. Pendle mini tyres. Currently running a pioneer Dixie motor...great fun ?

Brass and wire chassis, inline, side pans. Currently running an HR18k motor, 9mm ultra grips and max width 54mm for our small class.

   

I really like ARC Pro. In my opinion it is a fabulous entry-level digital slot car system. ARC Pro doesn't do what some of us are used to from the C7042 Advanced 6-car Powerbase (APB), upgraded with its after-market computer-based software, pit sensors and wireless controllers - but ARC Pro does most of it, rather more simply and for much less cash.

It does work well out of the box, but only if the 24-page ARC Pro Quick Start Guide is used as a bible - especially for car and controller connections. The Quick Start Guide gives a very quick (two-page) overview of the app and there is more on the ARC Pro page of the Scalextric website, including the chance to download a pdf copy of the all-important Quick Start Guide. What you get about the app in the Guide are the two pages attached below.

Apart from those overviews, there is no manual to using the ARC app. I was very comfortable with exploring the app without a manual and I quickly figured out what it did, how to set up races and to trouble-shoot issues. I do that will most other apps on my phone, iPad and computer. However, I appreciate not everyone is so comfortable with that.

There were early calls for a written manual for the app. It wasn't something Scalextric were likely to produce, so it was going to be a labour of love for an enthusiast. I made a start... Having helped out answer questions about the ARC app on the official Scalextric forum and elsewhere, I quickly realised that any written guide, if it would cover everyone's issues, would end up about the length of the Bible - Old and New Testaments combined.

I think the Scalextric forum is still a good place to find info and ask questions, but maybe this is a good opportunity to collect some of the key basics about the app and common issues that some users find difficult to get their heads round. I'm going to start with what I call the 'Rule of Three Colours'...

I think it fills a nice spot between standard controllers (that don't have brakes) and ARC:
https://www.scalextric.com/uk-en/shop/ne...ongle.html

Particularly when used in pairs...

I think I saw someone mention they will be at Gaydon for testing...

So one of the annoying things with SF was the time limit on editing. All of the other forums I am on let you go back and edit your topic or reply whenever you want.

So is it possible to let people go back and edit their posts? No time limit imposed?

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3 litre             
Anglia         
Capri        
Cobra        
Escort        
Falcon        
G7A        
Galaxie        
GH7        
GT1        
GT2        
GT 1965        
GT40 Mk2        
GT40 Mk4        
Honker        
J Type        
King Cobra        
Lotus Cortina        
Mirage 2        
Mirage        
Model T        
Mustang fastback/1        
Mustang Fastback2        
Mustang        
P69/1        
P69/2        
Shelby Cobra Coupe        
Zephyr