Monogram Kingcobra

autoavia · 2nd-Jan-21, 06:10 PM

I hink the LOLA GT does have a bit more room under the interior. I have several bodies and a chassis for the Lola to build up.

The Kingcobra is probably far stiffer than any other 1/32 vintage chassis that I have ever built anyway. The track used for Double Trouble and our club track are both fairly twisty so I think it will be ok. Just have to give it a go and see what happens. Any improvement will be a step in the right direction and I can move on from there.

Gordon Steadman · 3rd-Jan-21, 09:37 AM

The King Cobra was quite nippy at the Green Monster in Champagne Mouton the year before last. Don Siegel and I raced it in a six hour event. Got pole and were going well in the lead when wrong slotted by someone at the beginning of a 16 metre straight. Charity suggests it was an accident. It never seemed quite the same thereafter Bigsmile

The opposition were all Scalex cars though so not the fastest in the world but then the Cobra was basically an RTR car too with the same sort of 16D motor.

autoavia · 3rd-Jan-21, 01:02 PM

Mine was standard before the rebuild and I had raced it at Rockingham and at our club vintage evenings. It has the standard motor so it tends to get left behind on the straights but it has always been quick in the corners probably because it is fairly wide compared to some of the other cars from that era and the low body helps stop any tipping.

A real shame your one got so badly damaged. I remember MRDC in Westcliff had a big straight that was allegedly 100ft long. My only car at that time was a 1/24 Monogram Porsche 904 and I hadn't worked out just how long it took to slow a 36D. The car came off at the end of the straight and hit the window so hard I thought the glass was going to break. The body was even more secondhand after that.

Gordon Steadman · 3rd-Jan-21, 02:50 PM

(3rd-Jan-21, 01:02 PM)autoavia Wrote: Mine was standard before the rebuild and I had raced it at Rockingham and at our club vintage evenings. It has the standard motor so it tends to get left behind on the straights but it has always been quick in the corners probably because it is fairly wide compared to some of the other cars from that era and the low body helps stop any tipping.

A real shame your one got so badly damaged. I remember MRDC in Westcliff had a big straight that was allegedly 100ft long. My only car at that time was a 1/24 Monogram Porsche 904 and I hadn't worked out just how long it took to slow a 36D. The car came off at the end of the straight and hit the window so hard I thought the glass was going to break. The body was even more secondhand after that.

Fortunately for me, the car was Don 's Cool

We took several cars, my best one was a Revell GTO but, as you say, the Cobra was more stable because of the width so we used that.

This year....nope last year now!! , they didn't allow anything but the Scalex cars as our was obviously too quick!