I need a little help.. I found this body at a toy sale that I want to customize but it didn't have a chassis that would fit on this odd body. I finally found a chassis that fits this body I have been playing with. Its a Marchon MR1. Does anyone know where to get parts for it.
Thanks
Bill
Try SCJ or Jag Hobbies. If you have a hobby shop in youur area with a nice supply of parts, see if they have the multi-colored display that has little baggies of parts from the various makers. They usually have Marchon parts on them.
Try SCJ or Jag Hobbies. If you have a hobby shop in youur area with a nice supply of parts, see if they have the multi-colored display that has little baggies of parts from the various makers. They usually have Marchon parts on them.
Montoya1 maybe means if this chassis is an original Marchon chassis (with classic pickups) or the later Hornby with braided wires pickups
Hornby/Scalextric bought Marchon in 94 or 95 and use first the classic Marchon chassis and then replace with their own built chassis, Hornby with braided wires
i think the marchons and tomys use the same type of mabuchi can motor already. i used to buy MR1's just for the can motors, because for awhile you could get an entire MR! MkII for $3, and a replacement mabuchi motor was $4.
actually, according to SlotCarWorld's website, they still stock the Marchons for $3-4.50 depending on which chassis you buy.
i like the 22463 chassis. it has screwposts on the top of the chassis that can be used to very quickly mount a lexan body to the chassis. $3.50 for a chassis and $2 for a lexan body, so for less than $6 you have a really fun magnet car.
I have always wondered why this car was not more popular with racers. On the same voltage one of these with a red Tomy motor will keep with a Wizzard P3 over a three minute race. Not bad for a toy!
I find a lot of tyco parts (p/u,tires/wheels,gears, motor,guide pin etc.)can interchange depending on which marchon chasis it is.The old MR-1 is a copy of the tyco hp7.A lot of Marchon bodies are copies of tyco bodies as well if you look close.Marchon was a basicly tyco ripoff.
These chassis are actually real fun to mess with. We have experimented with them and found out if you trim the fat off the chassis,ind. fronts, silicon rears, and a green can from HO train store these babies will fly.some body post and a lexan does wonders.They need a class for these for us diehards who enjoy the odd stuff.
The Artin HO chassis is the same thing, a HP7 clone. I've used the HP7's pu shoes and guide pins as replacement for the Artin odd ball stuff. I use Artin bodies on Tyco pan chassis also. Raunchy
Your right the Artin has neos and I was "trying " to get one with a Slide Guide(TM) to go around my Artin 1/43 track that has the rails flush with the track and the thing just crawled ,too much df. If I had taller wheels and tires it may get off the ground... LOL RCH
A few years back someone did a book on Marchon MR-1. I remember the early chassis were very similar to Tyco's HP7 including the body mounts. Later they changed the mounting system a few times but they can be made to work. The chassis went through some simple and other were more dramatic. The first ones used a Mabuchi motor like the HP7 then they went to a Tomy Turbo type can motor. Improved on the magnets to neo type and were fairly quick for a bargain slot car in the day back in the 1990s.
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