[chrisguyw]

Now to cut the necessary body bits from the chassis, and glue them to the main body.

Is that for appearance or performance reasons?

Hello Jeremy,....the answer to your question is , both !!

All "clamshell" designs results in visible seams  where  the upper and lower body (chassis)  bits meet , and in order to to have any movement between both, the screws generally have to be  fairly loose, enough to result in rather large gaps between the upper and lower,..worse, the mouldings of the time were never particularly straight/flat so the gaps varied along their length,.... so esthetically not very pleasing at all,....

Secondly, and every bit (actually more ) as important to me is to try and improve the performance of the car, and the twisted/flimsy chassis in this SCX car (and many older vintage plastic chassis cars), does not cut it, so a new brass/wire chassis will be built. Fitting the newly built chassis does require that the front/rear valences, and the side sills of the body be cut off of the chassis plate in order to fit.

Cheers
Chris Walker

The chassis will be a simple design, and, similar the the ones I build for all vintage 1/32 Strombecker/Monogram etc. bodies.

This one under a Strombecker McLaren Mk1B



And this under a Strombecker Chaparral 2D