Scalextric Late ’80s Legendary Group A Touring Cars

＜#10  TWR-JRA Jaguar XJS / 1985 Bathurst 1000 Winner＞
＜#  6  Eggenberger-Texaco Ford Sierra RS500 / 1987 Season＞

As for these two Scalextric Group A cars themselves, I made no major performance modifications.

Both still use the stock motors and stock axles. The only functional upgrade was replacing the tires with appropriately sized Paul Gage urethane tires and truing them.

As usual, I trimmed the outer edges of the chassis slightly to allow more body float.

For the Ford, I added the characteristic color shading to the Eggenberger-Texaco car’s headlight lenses, repainted the BBS wheels by applying gold only to the mesh centers instead of leaving them entirely chrome, and lightly shaded the driver’s face using heavily thinned paint. 

I also added a thin-wall brass pipe for the right-side exhaust. Recently, adding Patto’s tire decals at the very end has become a favorite little ritual of mine ― a sign that the project is truly complete.

For the Jaguar, it required more work because the light boards ― especially the rear one ― are unusually wide. I cut away the lower portions beneath the front and rear bumpers from the chassis and glued them to the body instead. This narrowed the openings and made body removal slightly more inconvenient, although it allowed better body float. I carefully adjusted everything by sanding the edges of the light boards and slightly enlarging parts of the body opening.

The chassis trimming and body-fit adjustment consumed the most time. After running tests, I also set the ride height considerably higher than stock.

Beyond that, I only added a thin-wall brass pipe to the left-side exhaust and applied some matte black shading around the wheel center-lock nuts. And finally, just like the Ford, I finished it off with Patto’s tire decals.