Does anybody know which brand they are?

One looks like a Toyota Celica ST1600
The other is probably a Datsun 240Z

There is this strange protuberent bit on the top (which maybe is usable for some lap counte,r I don't know)

The wheels also are strange, they looks like the one I have on my Micromachines slotcars, with the tire just pressed agaisnt the hub....

I recall to have seen recently on ePay one car with the same strange bits on the roof, but can't remember which brand it was....

Hi Zanza,
now you made me curious about these. I have to admit never having seen these, and just having more questions! I assume these were slotcars, otherwise you would not post here. Do you have a pic from the underside?
Maybe you would have to ask Slugger, his site is sluggercan.com, but I assume you know.
Greetings from Germany!
Michael

Michael, no, I have only this picture but may ask the guy for another one of the underside...

Michael I finally receive the bottom view of the car....
I suspect these ar not HO cars despite the seller says it is (don't know a lot about as it seems)

Really weird guide, thing the contacts shoes are outside the V shaped guide....

Zanza, this is one really weird thing, never saw this before. But I would also assume size is rather 1/32 than HO. Hard to tell though from a picture without any reference (but the small bolt on the front?
Interesting is the long guide right after the contacts.

Michael

Michael, I asked the seller about and he told me that it was certainly 1/43....I bought them (8 euros, less than 10 bucks for both cars). Sufficently weird to be in my collection even if they're not HO.
I suspected also the scale to be bigger than HO about the front screw size...But this guide is so strange :drunk:

Zanza, this is one really weird thing, never saw this before. But I would also assume size is rather 1/32 than HO. Hard to tell though from a picture without any reference (but the small bolt on the front?
Interesting is the long guide right after the contacts.

Michael

Michael,
Finally received the two cars.... They are definitely 1:43 scale.... inside there is a can motor Mabuchi type like in HO cars (Tyco, Tomy, Artin etc...) .... And there is also a nickel cadmium little round battery, really strange.

The guide also is kinda Rasant tracks like, with contacts inside the slot of the track.

But the more interesting thing is that they are TOMY branded cars, it's written on the bottom of chassis.

I have made some fast research on Gooooogle and found a japanese website of a Celica 1600ST toy collector. I send him an email resuming briefly the cars with the pictures I posted here previously.
His response was that he don't have 'em in stock (LOL) and he made a visit on some japanese website he knows, but only to find no infos.

I'll clean 'em up both and will make some good pictures to share with everybody interested, here or on my website.

Stay tuned

http://slotcar.zanzaman.com/images_slotcars_big/447.jpg

http://slotcar.zanzaman.com/images_slotcars_big/448.jpg

http://slotcar.zanzaman.com/download/tomybottom.jpg


After some more search and thanks to WorldLingo.com for japanese translation online and Archive.org for dead websites, I've come to the conclusion that this system was possibly called PlaRail...

Plarail or Plaroad or Tomica World is probably the path to follow, but I haven't still found some picts of or infos to these exact two cars.

In fact all the infos I find are for really recent or new items, but nothing found yet about some older stuff like "Plaroad vintage celica"


On the japanese page called Museum at Tomy website I've found this picture !!

http://www.tomy.co.jp/museum/toy_m/IMAGES/b4.gif

It's called Grand Prix Circuit and been issued in 1974...I think this is it (but Grand Prix Circuit is a so common name that it will be difficult to find a better picture through Google or other....)


The japanese version of this page, HERE (http://www.tomy.co.jp/museum/toy_m/gpc.htm)


If some japanese member (are there any one here?) could translate what's written on this page, it will be more than interesting.... because any online translator give such impossible to understand results.

For example, WorldLingo give this (it's pure crap you're warned :) )

Grand prix circuit
Price 8 of that time and 800 Yen

4??????? - ?? - ?The way that it probably will send, it made, large-sized ??? travelling ? - it is the kit. Because it does not run ??? itself, the bull foreward the photograph - it is in the building of the roof ? which turns at full speed - ? - with, pushing out the ? ? mosquito, it was the mechanism which it can send. At that time with the time where price of the plastic has started rising little by little, it will sell also this commodity or, you will stop or, to be perplexed awfully, after putting out idea, also 2 years were required to sale. As for result??????? - ringWith being the same, it was great success, but you were the waste and insult of the material.

I rove the onrine transrator.

Jim