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An older photo, but have been buying more of these Banpro beginner cars and donating their chassis for my other project cars.

So where do you buy these Banpro cars?

Apologies for the loooong delay in answering this, had only just seen it as I was going back through looking at all those lovely purchases people have made this year.  I will make a separate thread about these models as I have a few of them now.  Short story is that Banpro (tracks) and Plafit (cars) are pretty much the same company operating out of Yokohama in Japan.  There is a line of toy stores here called Hakuhinkan, and in a couple of their stores they have a Banpro track that you can use to race your new purchases on in the store.  Plafit has teamed up with the store to make a cheaper line of cars to be sold in store that are easier to drive and will not break easily if they leave the track.

Unfortunately it does not look like these cars are listed in their online store for the toy shop - in fact it looks like very few things are, they do have a lot of cars for sale, mostly Carrera, Scalextric and Slot.it.

https://www.hakuhinkan.net/?mode=cate&cb...d=2&page=1

Similarly if you go to the Banpro/Plafit site you will see pretty much all the parts for the main Plafit line, but not these starter cars.

http://www.bp-online.net/

You can drop them a mail if you want to buy some of them, and when I spoke to them previously they did seem open to selling them in quantity to other stores.  If interested drop me a note and I can forward on the contact I have there and the prices they gave to me last year when I spoke with them.