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Nice looking car AJ!

I think Im giong to have to sell my HO slot car collection.....most of it is afx.....lots of banded mib cars..... lots of very nice loose cars,lots of full carded stuf and some of the newer Jonhhy lightning cars.....if anyone is intrested let me know....im going to start putting things on ebay soon...
I might also have some afx track stashed away...

Hey, you need some more of that LifeLike track don't you?

Cheap?  It's free.

Not really sure, we never set it up but there's probably 50 - 60 pieces of track there including a loop and some up the walls.  Probably sets up in a 4x8 area.

AJ, you'll probably need a tire management system for the "loops" and "up the wall" sections!!!  ----------Bill

i dont know, i might have to pioneer a damage meter

Bryan,

Regarding that AFX track. I am working on a small (4x8) AFX layout and have one 'bus stop' chicane track but not the complementary one. I'll have to dig to see which one I have, but would you happen to have the other one?

Here's another ol' beater of mine. She's a little rough around the edges now, but I was sure proud of her when she was new!

The rules for this "modified" T-Jet class read "T-Jet bodies must be used", or something along those lines as remembered by a RACER...Anyway, I didn't like getting the boot from other cars with the wheels and tires hanging outside the body. So I made the body cover the wider wheels and tires. In this photo the body is sitting on a new style Johnny Lightning Thunderjet chassis...

I used two Aurora Ford J bodies to make this car. The left and right sides of one car were cut off and grafted onto the second car. You can see how much wider the new version is compared to a stock Aurora Ford J.

In this rear view you can see how much of the body sides were used. The bodywork has held up well over the last 20 years, but I can't say the same for the paint. I painted it a metallic and pearl red I custom mixed and sprayed over a black basecoat. It looked pretty good at one time........of course, I looked better 20 years ago too!

-------------------------Bill

Looks like it huh!.......sadly those are what some of the HO manufacturers consider "car tires.........................and you guys wonder why I like "O" rings....

---------------Bill

Best thing about the J was it was hard to get around! The paint chips on the upper rear corners were from getting the body through tech!!! I ran a mildly modified chassis under it with an armature I had rewound. I did win a race with it, but if I remember correctly I was only allowed to race it once.

The Vette was a major mod. Alan Blanchard and I each built one. At the time motor magnets for T-Jets were weak. The only thing available as an upgrade were the 20 + year old blue & yellow hop-up magnets. We had found from racing Aurora Magna-Traction cars that the old Aurora Quadra-Lam armarures really came alive with the bigger stronger magnets. So what we did was mill out the inside bottom of the T-Jet chassis where the motor magnets sat. Then we milled out the underside of the T-Jet gearplate for magnet clearance. With the Magna-Traction magnets in the T-Jet chassis (yes they will fit and I can prove it with photos!) they flew! We also redrilled the rear axle holes higher in the rear of the chassis to lower the car. The car in the photo was rebuilt and the T-Jet gear plate was replaced with an A/FX style gear plate and gears to reduce weight. The A/FX gear plate also had to be milled for magnet clearance. We painted up two lexan Corvette bodies in team colors. The cars were very fast but really hard to control!

-----------------------Bill

YES, rule bending and J cars!

Haven't seen any 1/43 J cars. Haven't been able to acquire a 1/24 J car.........YET!!!

------------Bill