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Another Cox 1/24 Cheetah. The body on this one is clean, original, and complete. The chassis is missing some parts.
I like the paint job on this 1/24 Porsche. It is mounted on a modified Dynamic chassis.
K&B Lola T70. This is a nice original. It's just missing the wheel inserts.
I don't remember for sure (old guy issue), but I think this may be one of Hal Tacker's paint jobs on this clear body. It is mounted on a Dynamic chassis. One thing for sure, it is definitely cool!
Daytona Cobra GT Coupe mounted on a Testors chassis.
This is an original Revell Lola T70 with a factory paint job.
A pretty nice, original, and complete Russkit Porsche.
A little rough, but this K&B Chaparral is original and complete.
A pretty nicely painted Cox Chaparral.
Strombecker 1/24 Maserati F1.
Customized Lotus body on a Cox F1 chassis?
Monogram Lotus F1 in 1/24. This one needs some work!
I believe this is a Strombecker Ferrari F1 in 1/24. This is a nice original car.
Another Cox BRM. A little rough.
For over 20 years, NASTE has held their Annual Halloween Race. I built this car for racing in Halloween races. It has competed twice. It never won..........goes really fast down the straights..........does NOT like corners!
Cox BRM F1, original and complete.
Honda F1 in 1/24.
Revell 1/24 F1. These cars were also produced in the Ed Roth monster versions.
Cox 1/24 Ferrari F1. This one is complete and pretty nice, thanks to Dick Gehrke!
Cox BRM, another car from Dick.
Monogram 1/24 Lotus F1. A little rough but complete.
A Russkit Ferrari F1. The body is injection molded, not clear plastic.
This Atlas Cooper, like many of the cars in my F1 collection, came from my friend Dick Gehrke. Dick kept very good care of them through the years!
This is a vintage MINRA trophy I found somewhere. Another one of those DKWW (don't know where or when) deals.....
Atlas made some really nice 1/24 F1 slot cars! This is their version of the BRM. Check out the nice brass bevelled gear set.
1/24 Cox Ferrari F1.
I believe this is a Strombecker 1/24 F1. Very nice detail!
I like F1 slot cars....a lot! I like the way this Eagle was detailed and painted. Maybe not really accurate, but the boy in me says cool!
This Cox Lotus is pretty rough. Maybe someday it will undergo restoration?
This Cox BRM is pretty nice!
Champion has manufactured some great chassis through the years. This 1/24 chassis makes for a great handling slot car, even by today's standards.
Champion inline chassis (not such a great handler, but pretty!).
These aluminum techand cooling blocks were manufactured by Kirk Smith and Hugh Ellsworth under their In Slot Racing business name. This was Hugh's personal one he used at the races. It is now part of my local slot car history collection.
This brings us to the bottom shelf of the display case. Where most of the 1/24 scale F1 cars live. This first car is an early attempt at transforming a battery powered model car into a slot car. My original thought was maybe some day I'll complete the job. In reality I may never get there. But I think its cool anyway! It was customized from a Strombecker motorized Mercedes Benz model.
In addition to slot cars, quite a few years ago I started collecting Pine Wood Derby cars. Since then they have also gotten pretty expensive (evidently I am not the only one collecting them). This is one of the nicer ones I found before the became valuable! It is an older build, judging by the early wheels. It was very nicely done!
Everybody that has old slot cars has at least one of these Cox controllers! This is the only one I have that is still new in the box!
This model car body was painted and detailed by my friend John Gill. John designed and printed the custom decals himself. He gave me the body to race on my Sportsman car, but I only raced it once. This is a one-of-a-kind and I don't want to ruin it!
This is a new 1/24 factory painted DuBro body. I just can't bring myself to mounting it on a chassis! It will remain a collectible for me.
I believe this is a Can Am Lola model car body and was built by the same person that built the Chaparral 2G in the previous pictures. This body is also mounted on a Cox magnesium chassis. It is also very well done!
1/24 factory painted Lola T70 vintage clear body. I believe this is one of the bodies from a Monogram slot car kit.
This looks like a Daytona Cobra Coupe body that would have come in the same Monogram slot car kit as the previously pictured Lola T70. The kits offered the builder a choice of two factory painted bodies.
This is just a nicely painted Pontiac GTO vintage clear body.
This 1/24 scratchbuilt car was one of the cars from Norton Gaston's collection. Norton's father, Jerry Gaston, worked for Cox with another engineer designing and building slot cars. As I have been going through the collection I have been looking for scratchbuilt cars that may have some early chassis designs that became production cars. One thing I noticed was the drop arm on this particular car. A rubber band is used to "spring load" the movement of the drop arm and guide flag. This is similar to the design of the La Cucaracha and Chaparral 2E chassis. I have no way of verifying this, and there's no way to know which came first, the Cox production cars or this scratchbuilt. Nevertheless, this one is very nicely detailed and extremely cool!
At one time this one was probably a very nice 1/24 Ford GT40. It's still not too bad, a little dirty, and needs some re-assembly. It looks like it was someone's favorite and raced quite a bit.
This is a 1/24 Chaparral 2G model car body mounted on a Cox Chaparral magnesium chassis. This car was part of the "Goose" collection and unfortunately I have no idea who built it. It is however very nicely done!
This 1/24 scratchbuilt car was one of the cars from Norton Gaston's collection. Norton's father, Jerry Gaston, worked for Cox with another engineer designing and building slot cars. As I have been going through the collection I have been looking for scratchbuilt cars that may have some early chassis designs that became production cars. One thing I noticed was the drop arm on this particular car. A rubber band is used to "spring load" the movement of the drop arm and guide flag. This is similar to the design of the La Cucaracha and Chaparral 2E chassis. I have no way of verifying this, and there's no way to know which came first, the Cox production cars or this scratchbuilt. Nevertheless, this one is very nicely detailed and extremely cool!
At one time this one was probably a very nice 1/24 Ford GT40. It's still not too bad, a little dirty, and needs some re-assembly. It looks like it was someone's favorite and raced quite a bit.
This is a 1/24 Chaparral 2G model car body mounted on a Cox Chaparral magnesium chassis. This car was part of the "Goose" collection and unfortunately I have no idea who built it. It is however very nicely done!
This is a scratchbuilt car that I believe was built by Jerry Gaston and raced in southern California. The Strombecker Hemi motors seemed to have been a favorite of Jerry and Nortons. This car is very nicely detailed. My plans for this car include restoration of the chassis.
This is a nicely painted and detailed Ford GT40 in 1/24 scale. It is either an Aurora or K&B, but the manufacturers I.D. is missing from the bottom of the chassis. I don't know if it was removed, or if this was maybe a home racing set car sold by sears or the like?
Marx actually made some pretty nice 1/24 cars. This Chaparral is a prime example. This one is clean and complete.
This original 1/24 Monogram Ferrari body was also re-released as a model kit. This original is really clean.
1/24 Cox Lotus. This has got to be one of the most popular slot cars ever produced! Through my years of collecting I have bought and sold a bunch of these! This one is a pretty clean build.....I've seen many that weren't!
A nicely painted 1/24 clear Ferrari body mounted on a Cox Chaparral chassis. I just like this one.........
In the early 1980's I raced HO cars with a group of guys throughout Oregon. We raced Aurora Thunderjet, A/FX Magnatraction, G-Plus, and Tyco 440 cars on tracks in the Portland area, Salem, and Eugene. This was one of our club patches (HO Racers of Oregon). It was the best of times!
This cool looking 1/24 Lotus is from the Norton Gaston collection and features a simple scratchbuilt chassis.
1/24 Monogram Scarab. This is another body style Monogram re-released in model kit form. The paint/plastic detail is much nicer on the original bodies than it is on the newer re-released kits.
1/24 K&B Chaparral. This one looks like it was used and loved. The chassis is original, complete, and clean.
1/24 Cox Cheetah. The body is almost complete, just missing the side pipes, and headlight covers. It has a very nice chassis and the correct wheels.
1/24 Revell Corvette Stingray. A very clean and complete example of an early production car from Revell.
Moving on down to the third shelf from the top. This is one of the 1/24 scratchbuilt cars from the Norton Gaston collection. It's a clear body, nicely painted and detailed. 
1/24 Ford GT Roadster body on a Cannon chassis. This one is clean!
Another pretty nice Cox Ford Galaxy stock car. The hard plastic body is rough, but the chassis is very nice!
I don't consider the Strombecker 1/32 cars to be great slot cars. But some of them do look pretty good. I think this really clean Ferrari looks pretty good!
This flagman figure was painted and detailed by Larry Anderson and sent to me from Canada.
Oh yeah.....Aurora Thunderjet 500 HO slot cars....My favorite! Two new in the box, Mustang 2+2 fastback Tuff Ones! One new in the box Ford J Flamethrower, has working headlights and taillights. And one new in the box Corvette Hardtop Vibrator. Vibrators were the precursor to the Thunderjets.
Aurora Flamethrower Cobra GT a.k.a. the Daytona Coupe. New in the box.
1/32 Monogram Ferrari F1. Complete, unpainted, and in very good condition!
Another example of an early Monogram 1/32 home racing set car with the funky guide pin/flag set up. The Ford GT40 body on this one is actually pretty nice.
This is K&B's version of the Ford GT40 in 1/32 scale. The body is not nearly as well detailed as the Monogram cars. The chassis on this one is really clean.
The later versions of Monogram's 1/32 home set cars used a two piece brass chassis. Definitely an improvement over the originals and features a real guide flag. This chassis is well used, but the Ferrari body is very nice.
This Strombecker 1/32 Ferrari GTO is in here mostly because I like those bullet wheel nuts! It is a clean example of an old Strombecker, but honestly it IS those wheel nuts that got it into my display case!
1/24 Cox GT40. The body on this car is a little rough, but the chassis is pretty clean.
1/24 Monogram Chaparral 2D coupe. Monogram re-released this Chaparral in model kit form, but this is an original slot car version. This car features a working rear wing.
A few years ago at the Portland Swap Meet, I met and made friends with Hal Tacker. Hal is an incredible artist (Google him!). He does a lot of drawings of WWII planes and Bonneville Salt Flat race cars. Anyway, we kept in touch through email through the years. Hal told me he still had some of his old slot car stuff, including his original wooden race box (I have already posted photos of it in this thread). I ended up buying what he had left and he shipped it all up to me. This was one of the last remaining cars he built and raced. I love the early style scratchbuilt chassis and the padlock type motor! Hal also painted and sold new clear plastic bodies for slot cars. Behind the slot car is one of the boxes he used for packaging of his painted bodies.
Here's another iconic "Thingie" manufactured by Classic Industries. The Stinger featured a large "wind brake" mounted to the rear of the body. Under braking the brake would deploy, popping up to almost a 90 degree angle from the rear deck of the car. Under acceleration the brake would drop back down into position level with the rear of the car. This car also featured a unique chassis, different from most of the other Classic chassis. This one is in pretty good shape. The body is undamaged, the chassis is near mint, and the "wind brake" still works.
1/24 Monogram Chaparral. The body on this one is a little rough, but the chassis is very nice.
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