got this body in a lot of runners. had soem spare chrome from some extras a seller gave me years ago. Make shifted the rest with AFX F1 parts and AJ rims. I'm thinking about makig it a lighted car

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Nice save indeed!!! On a scale of 1 - 10, I'll give it a 12!!! I like the blue :thumbsup: :thumbsup: RM

VJ,
Nice one for sure! :thumbsup: rr

Dang nice save, VJ! :thumbsup:

Time well spent VJ. Definatly a vintage classic!

I got some tricks for working with those acrylic sticks/rods that you get at the hobby store should you chose to proceed with the lighting idea.

thanks, fellow slot dudes... Normally I would try to trim the pipes before gluing them to a body, but this time I glued them on as they were and just dremelled them up to the rear wheel wells. I like these pipes better than the orignals. I guess I could have bought a tyco driver's head from RRR, but since I was stealing the chrome pipes from and AFX LOLA AF1, I figured I might as well use the driver's head too.

My only regret on this one is that I wished I stripped the body and hit it up with some Testors candy transparent blue. That technique worked well with the tyco s Red Wagon I saved a while back, for some reason, I didn't think of it until too late on this one.

Oh well, time to add lights

I made the headlight lenses out of Testors window glue, and since the body had small holes that held the original lens in, I was thinking about just widening them some and using 2 AFX bulbs.. but Bill's idea sounds interesting... and you know, cool.

Bill, oh guru of cool tricks unknown ... will you tell this weary slotahualic about your idea?

Blue by you....Vrooooooooooooooooom! Nice job VJ :thumbsup:

Bob

That must look really sweet running around your track, VJ. It's a nice historical monument to our slot past. You should've gotten a government grant for it... :freak::dude:

very nice VJ
Jim

Very nice car. I like it. Randy.

Acrylic sticks can be purchased at most hobby stores VJ. They are rod shaped. I used scads of them in my Model RR days to illumnate buildings, passenger cars, exterior lighting such as poles or signs and lots of other weird applications.

Comes in various diameters usually about a foot long. Same stuff they make then lens/emitters for slot cars. Tubular dude! I prefer diodes over incandescent illumination due to the fact that heat build up can distort the pick up end of your acrylic transmitter. However the incandescents produce a warmer glow than the stark white diodes. Depends on what yer trying to prove.

Cut it with a cut off wheel or fine saw. Ends must be polished to transmit light. I used wet and dry paper then regular automotive compound.

It can be bent using heat/lighter. You'll lose some efiiciency after every bend so three er four is about the limit if yer really trying to broadcast a beam or puddle of light. You can also tickle a polished end with your lighter and it will mushroom into a suitable half globe with practice. Sticks are best painted white (once shaped) along their length and overcoated with a darker color to prevent bleed out.

One can also use an acrylic manifold to route multiple fiber optic wiskers from. The possibilties are huge VJ. If ya remember my Lincoln coupe from last year it had front lamps fashioned from acrylic, but fiber optic fired and the tail lamps were fiber optic. The lens was prepolished then spun in a cordless and lathed to shape with an exacto blade. The optic wiskers can also be globed on the end with a tease from your lighter and then touced with red paint. They must also be globed on the pick up end for maximum efficency. Unfotunatly I CA'd the fiber optics and they brittlized thus destroying the project. In testing they were AWESOME. Guaranteed I'll revisit it again with the lessons learned.

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SWEEEEETT!!!

Wes

I remember when you were working on that one Bill...an all time Hobby Talk classic!

Thanks for the info!

Nice job Jimmy!