[Graham]

Well I thought I would'nt..... and then I could not help myself and sucummed to yet another Pan Americana Road Race Car, but this time a new one.

   

And with my PSR Coupons I had saved up, made it affordable.

So would it remain on the shelf, not likely 

I run it with and without magnets, and without you definitely need some added ballast, but it does run fairly well. I never owned a Top Slot RTR model before, but althought the resin body is heavy the weight distribution of it is interesting with most of the weight seemingly biased towards the bottom half of the body, the sills and inside wheel arches seem to carry much of the weight. So with the Scaleauto 20K slimline motor and powertrain it run remarkable well. The tyres were good also and offer good grip.
 I compared it against my Ninco based Corvette with 3d chassis and Predator18K rpm motor and it ran with very similar lap times for a model which was significantly heavier. The Scaleauto chassis is also very low, as it is making a track clearance of only ~1.3mm.

But a nice realistic scale looking model.

The other pre Christmas spend was on the new Scaleauto Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 1973'ish white kit.
   

Rediculously wide at 65mm across rear wheel arches, it will be difficult to find a competition permitting this beast. But even without tuning this car was on the very..very fast level. Probably will have to be run it in a series of similar over scale cars of the period, perhaps I will have to leave this one on the shelf until they release other stable mates.