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Hey Rico, If you have the room I'd help you route a 1/32 track. I've got some ideas, I'm just out of room!!!!  ----------------------Bill

Here are some of the chassis that fit the "lightweight, 36D sidewinder" category:

Revell

Monogram

Classic

Garvic

Champion

We need more discussion and research on this proposed class. Larry and I have talking about it for sometime now, so we are probably a little ahead of everybody. Rico, I like the spec tire idea, although like larry said, getting the tall old style tires is a crap shoot. But,  I do have quite a stockpile of tires I have purchased over the years! Yes, probably enought to outfit everybody. So at this point I propose we have more discussion to determin which chassis would be competetive and what bodies we would like to use. I will check through my stockpile of slot car crap and see what I've got and how much/many. I may even have a stickpile of "spec" motors. We maybe able to put this class together as an RTR class, with the cars either complete or in kit form.  ------------------Bill

More from Larry:

  I only have this one Classic chassis.. Garvic, Monogram, Revell & classic aluminum 36 d sidewinder car isn't what I like to build & collect so I have sold all the one I have ever had.  I got this car after you said we might try running them. These cars run like big T-JET's and you can drive a truck under one of them.. They have 1" to 1 1/8 rear tires just so the gear won't hit the track. I think we should just allow the 4 type cars.. I can look up the chassis stock numbers and list them and the cars that came with them in kit or RTR.. The Classic and Gravic only came as RTR, but they did sell just chassis as parts. Now Monogram and Revell sold RTR, Kits and Parts.
  I think any stock 36 d motor would be legal as long as it has no ARCO magnets. I would like to do some RD on this Manta ray and see if I can make it work.. As far as adding some weight to the chassis I think I will try some?? Wish I had a track ...  If you have one of these cars why don't you play with it and see if you can make it work and let me know. You have a track to test it on.
This might be fun trying to make these cars work good enough so we can race them.. What I remember is that they go like hell wheeling down the straightaway and tip over in the corners. Well let me know what I have to do to post..  Larry

Hey Monte, How about some moving targets?????........Didn't you say you had some "strays" around the neighborhood????...............

Well the NASCAR flexis made it through another race! This time we KILLED one, but there were no other problems. Two of the seven handled like crap, but oh well, they handled like crap for everybody! These things were a lot of fun on the Cape Horn 6 lane track with it's narrow lane spacing!!!   -----------------------Bill

We are planning to race the crap out of that track!!!!!! It's a great track!!!!   ---------------Bill

You're right about it being tough to do the low dollar mods using only Slot.It parts. To me that was one rule that handi-capped low dollar mods. None of the Slot.It parts are low dollar! But there are alternative parts that could have been used. Two things dampened that line of thought, 1) the rules allowed modifications as approved by the membership. So, you could take a chance with a modification hoping the membership would in turn "allow" it (big chance!). 2) The class series was not long enough to allow a great deal of time to develope modifications. Buying a better/faster bolt-on mod was more effective in the time sensitive aspect.

As far as your R&D skills, they appear to be pretty sharp to me!!! ......and oh by the way, nice job on your pit skills during Howie's OSCAR 962 Enduro!!!!