Not just any treasure

When I was a newbie to slot car, I used to watch foreign websites one after another every night.
One day I hit the Mark Gussin’s page, I fell in love with his collections, especially this racing transporter.

I was searching for it for 4 years or so, finally I got this in March 2009.

I've been so lucky to have it since then and still feel happy.

A joy of little reworking

Scalextric released Ferrari 330 P4 a few years ago.
That was a very good runner even in straight condition OTB and non magnet,
also cheaper than RACER’s resin car and appropriate scale size.

At first, I sanded down tyres to make their shoulders round.

Rounded shouldered tyres showed more old fashioned appearance
and gave mild handling to cars.

Scaly P4 has one piece chassis and no rolling movement, I cut out the chassis
to let it move freely between the chassis and the body, and a little lowering down.

At last, I created headlight covers from plastic bottle.

Ideal state

Carrera had released two monumental porsche GT racers.

The old one was  RSR turbo, and the recent one was 935/78 "Moby Dick".
Both of them were inline-drive as carrera's usual standard.

They unfortunately couldn't compete with FLY RR 911 or 934, I decided
to convert their stock chassis into FLY chassis, to be how the porsche

should be.

 

They were needed a little work to be fit FLY chassis to Carrera

bodies because FLY had a shorter wheelbase than Carrera's.

Then, I gave them some adjustment on their wheel arch and

they were done! 

I have respected a character of FLY RR chassis, it is why I didn't

use Slot-it HRS universal chassis.

Lexan tinkering

A few years ago, I got a little bored of racing with stock Scalextric NASCARs,
so I modified a lexan body NASTRUCK.
I got it from www.HotLapsRacin.com known as "marair23" on eBay.

The original cars they sold were below.

They were nice cute livery RTR, but I picked a clear lexan body to
start my project.

I tried to make it something different on lexan, then I worked some
tinkering on the body here and there. Also, I used ALPS MD-5500
printer to make some water slide decals.

Here is the result.  My fantasy livery.

Front,

and back.

The chassis pan was from Scalextric camo taurus with SCX NASCAR
dodge charger axles.

I enjoyed working on this.