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Slot Car Chassis build of the month
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Hello Slot Car Builders, Collectors, & Racers:
 This month I went back to my favorite body maker Doug Haynes of Resilient Resins for this build. The body is a Chaparral mk1 of driver / owner / builder Jim Hall ( another fan favorite).  This chassis was built for the Chaparral mk1 car body only I do not expect the chassis to fit any other body, but I really do not know or care, because I do not use specific built chassis for one car body to fit other car bodies (it rarely ever works). The chassis is finished and was tested with the body on, at Tom's World in Bend, Oregon. I have surface primer painted the body in white and it is now ready for final white paint / decals and final clear coat then the interior, windshield, etched metal, roll bar, final detail paint and new rear tires. I will add the picture to this post when I get the paint finished. 
 I am slow at getting the cars painted because I am building chassis for myself or other racers in the club.
 As always, if you have any questions or need more pictures, let me know and I will do my best to answer them.  Jim

Hello Kevin,
Here is a you tube video that may help in building slot car chassis. I have not met you, so I do not know if you have seen this video. There are four parts to the video, and it does have some good ideas. The guy is building a 1/32 chassis, but a chassis build is the same idea as a 1/24 scale build. If you have not seen it, you may want to take a look. (I first saw the video about six years ago).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6PbSx … mp;index=2

Jim

Hello Steven,

The track looks cool and challenging. Very nice work on the track build, setup and it looks great.
When is the next race and what are you going to be racing?

Jim

Slot Car Chassis build of the month
#5
Hello Slot Car Builders, Collectors, & Racers:
 This month I went back to my favorite body maker Doug Haynes of Resilient Resins for this build. Doug always had great affordable bodies that you could never find anywhere else. This body is a McLaren mk1B some people call it a McLaren mk2 of owner / builder / driver Bruce McLaren (always a fan favorite).  This chassis was built for this Mclaren mk1B slot car body only. I do not expect the chassis to fit any other body, it may fit other Resilient Resins bodies, but I really do not know. The chassis is finished and was tested with the body on, at Tom's World in Bend, Oregon. After testing, I surface primer painted the body in Tamiya white, with the final Tamiya flat white paint then added the lime accents and new rear tires. The roll bar is .063 K&S wire with a used hard plastic windshield from a Strombecker lotus 30, there was some old glue from the previous body. It is hard to find good clean windows. I will add the driver later & new rear tires before it is raced next. I have already cut the excess wire on the rear.
 As always, if you have any questions or need more pictures, let me know and I will do my best to answer them.  Jim

Hello Kevin,

The front wheels that I used on the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe are Pro-Track #248 from any slot car parts seller.

I hope this helps.

Jim

Slot Car Chassis build of the month
#4
Hello Slot Car Builders, Collectors, & Racers:
 This chassis was a test for me to see if I can build a brass & wire chassis for a hotrod body, without having the guide hanging out of the front in order to pass tech of "no guide flag beyond the bumper". 
  I started with a Jimmy Flintstone Resin body 1/24. I scratch built the chassis for the 1927 Ford roadster. I tried to make it look like it was built in the late 1960's early 1970's using some old vintage parts available at that time in history.  This is how it looks like today. The body will get full paint, interior & photoetched grill whenever I get time to finish it. I will add the picture in this writing after it gets painted. 
If you have any questions, let me know and I will do my best to answer them.

Jim

As soon as I can get enough people interested. We can also run teams of two if racers want to run the race and do not have the proper car and chassis for that race. Loads of Fun ...

Jim

Hello Steven & All Slot Racers,

I will try to get the 1/32 - 1/25 six lane routed track set up and running this summer if all goes well. The track was purchased from Rad-Tracks in Las Vegas back in 2005. This will give us options on the different tracks to run like clubman and early Can-Am hard body cars & possibly vintage Lexan soft body races if there is enough interest in the early slot cars.

Jim

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Hello Slot Car Racers & builders,                                                                                                   

I started with an old Doug Haynes Resilient Resins McLaren M8A body, made in the 1990's which I won at auction on e-bay in 2005, NOS in the original bag. The body sat until 2022 when I scratch built the chassis for the Resin Mclaren M8A CAN-AM. I then painted the body. This is how it looks like today.

The car has some practice time so there is no driver installed. (The car ran very well at 7.461 seconds on Tom's track in Bend, Oregon during practice).

If there are any questions, I will do my best to answer them. 

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-Jim

Hello Bill,

What is a good day to swing by? Earley or late?

Thank you,
Jim -=Professor fate