I was at a local hobby shop recently, and this was car was in the parking lot blinding me with it's beauty. It made my day. I had to stop and take a pic.

   

I remember seeing a similar car somewhere.

   

I bought a sad beatup Galaxie 500 with epoxied body mounts and a badly fitted chassis for what feels like an over inflated price but these don't come cheap. 

After grinding out the offending infrastructure inside I started designing a 3D SW chassis. 

These are big cars but not massively wide. After easing the wall thickness inside the wheel arches there's 59mm of room which is still going to be tight for a pair of 10mm wide tyres in sidewinder configuration in a plastic chassis (easy with a brass chassis}.

Phase one is print a test chassis and pod, you never get them right first time.
Offer the rolling chassis into the bodyshell and see what needs tweaking.
In this instance, not enough room for the SW spur and wheel...I'll fix that first. 

Tin the rear axle, tap the axle through the spur gear to the right position, reheat the solder and put some in the grub screw holes, grind the spur gear boss back until the wheel slides on far enough to clear the inside of the wheel arch. 
I do this because there's now no threaded holes for the grub screw, the gear won't move! 

So far this is where I am, phase two is print a tweaked chassis, front axle needed moving back 1.5mm, the rear end lengthening 2mm and rotating upwards 4° then sills adding to the edges of the chassis to raise the body 1.5mm

This won't have my normal two body posts one at each end but four side mounts like a Revoslot.

The SW pod has an adjustable height axle and doesn't use normal bearings....

More updates on the coming days

...phase one with test wheels in the photo

   

Hi

Unboxed Scalextric ARC Air Powerbase, controllers x 2, tablet holder (and I think I still have the instruction manual)

Very, very little use, just prefer a wire solution

£50 inc postage to the UK. Payment via bank transfer or Paypal Friends/Family

Hello,
I would like to inform all of you that can be interested in, about the way to connect Ninco Digital track to pc, bypassing the power base.
It is an handly modified Ninco 40 cm. rail with added sensor, electronic new board and USB cable.
Direct connection from Ninco digital track to computer with USB cable. Rail with sensors to achieve a direct connection with the computer, by USB cable, bypassing Ninco power base, for races management. It works together with all versions of the Ninco Digital power base units. Perfect to be paired with Pc Lapcounter software. It allows you to play with all the different options offered by the software (free practice, GP, championship, fuel consumption, lap or time trial races, starter traffic lights, disqualifications for black flags and many other things; all with editable sound effects at will). All this was never been possible with any of the Ninco power bases. In our case, the power base (all models) is used to set the cars with controllers and supply electricity to the track, only.
You are welcome to ask further information.
Also I can provide Ninco compatible Digital chip decoders for slot cars.

A friend asked me to make a purple Ferrari for him, for an IROC series in our club. It was already molded in this colour. It made things simple.

   
   
   
   
   

Thank you very kindly for looking.
Ken

Sound Effects of a motor revving ?

Any suggests or if you have one in place for your track.

   

We're just a week away from the visit of Slot Rally GB to the Barn - home of Worthing HO Racing.

The four stages from our first WHO Slot Rally event have been tweaked and we've added a fifth...

• Friston Forest - Scalextric Classic / SCX
  
• Titnore Lane - Ninco tarmac + Ninco ice
  
• Jupp's Farm - Ninco off-road + Ninco tarmac
  
• Sea Lane - Scalextric Sport
  
• Ford Ice Rink - routed foamboard
  

The first two stages will be run twice to give seven stages in all.

Doors open at 9am, with the action scheduled to begin at 10. Entry is £5 per car, with a maximum of four cars and two in any class. Rules and regs can be found here. Payment can be made on the day, but it would be really useful to know in advance if you're coming. Either reply to this thread, message me or contact Phil Barry directly via the Abergavenny Slot Rally Club Facebook page.

For those visiting for the first time, the Barn is a typical 18th-Century Sussex flint barn and sits next to the modern English Martyrs Church building in Goring-by-Sea. The post code is BN12 4UE. You can type Worthing HO Racing into Google or Apple maps and you'll be taken straight to the Barn...

   

Parking is either in the church car park or on-street in the Goring Way southern slip-road outside the Barn and the church. There are no parking charges or restrictions in Goring. For those travelling on public transport, the Stagecoach 700 Coastliner stops within a few yards of the Barn in both directions. Goring-by-Sea station is 600 yards west of the Barn - a very leisurely 5-10 minute walk.

In terms of facilities, the Barn shares a toilet block with the church, including a fully-accessible disabled cubicle. There is a ramp available at the main entrance for wheelchair access. The kitchen has a fridge-freezer, microwave and a hot water machine for making hot drinks. We'll aim to have tea bags, a jar of coffee, plus milk and sugar available on the day. As indicated on the map, there is a Tesco Express and small parade of shops located about 5 minutes walk to the west of the Barn. The main Goring shops, takeaways and Mulberry pub are to the south east, about half a mile away. There is a shaded grass area at the front of the Barn and a patio area to the rear for those who need a breath of fresh air or a vape / smoke.

Any questions, just ask.

The M1 was rarely used as a rally car. Bernard Darniche debuted with it in the Rallye Du Var 1981, but had to leave the event with a broken suspension.
The following year he took part in several French tarmac events with the by Oreca racing team prepared big BMW. During the Tour de Corse he was laying fourth when an oil pipe broke. He also went to Belgium for the Ypres 24 hour Rally and he even took part in the German Rallye Vorderpfalz.
It must have been a huge surprise for the German spectators to see not one, but two of these 430 hp M1s in action during that event.
The second M1 was driven by German rally driver Klaus Fritzinger, who drove from 1974 till 1991 rallies for Toyota in Germany, and regularly finished into the top 20 of the Rallye Monte Carlo with these Japanese cars.
He would drive the BMW M1, sponsored by Marchal Jeans, only once during the German event. A racing BMW M1 was converted especially for him for this rally.
He had also pulled off a similar stunt in 1980 by renting a Lancia Stratos for the Hunsrück Rallye. Unfortunately, the car turned out to be more difficult to drive than expected due to the short wheelbase. He could only finish seventh overall.
But with the blue BMW M1 he scored a lot better, finishing second behind the Audi Quattro of Harald Demuth. Bernard Darniche finished 9th overall.
Fly has already produced the Rallye Du Var 1981 (no 2) and the Tour de Corse 1982 (no 10) version of the Darniche BMW M1.
They also did the Tour de Corse 1983 M1 (no 3) of Frenchman Bernard Beguin, who drove the M1 during the French Rally Championship in 1983 and 1984.
Here are a few photos of the Rallye Vorderpfalz 1982 BMW M1:

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We're back racing at the Barn with our third Nascar & Legends night of the year. These events are a perfect introduction to our Scalextric digital formats using RCS64 software. Completion of a Nascar team race is a prerequisite for attending any of our autumn Digital Saturdays, including the WHO Goodwood Revival in September.

Simon has designed a new track for this month's action...

   

Doors open at 6.30pm for practice, followed by the Nascar team race at 7pm and the Legends Pairs competition from around 8.30. We aim to finish by 9.45. Entry is £3 for adults and £2 for under-16s. We ask that all racers aged 13 and below are accompanied by a responsible adult.

Post-race coverage will follow, once Mike has crunch the numbers.