Vintage Stock Cars

[Chats]

Just found a site dedicated to slot cars and some
of the bodies they make from are card stock.
paperslotcars.com Hope it's ok to post this.

[NStarkel]

As long as there is nothing illegal then it's fine, i think.. i'm no expert!
I looked for the site but can't find it.

[Chats]

sorry my mistake. it's paperslotcar.blogspot.com

[Vermin_King]

Huh, not the site I thought it was. Not sure how they mount the card body onto the chassis, though

[Darwin]

Originally Posted by Vermin_King

Huh, not the site I thought it was. Not sure how they mount the card body onto the chassis, though

Back in the day, we held the bodies on with straight pins (we made the frames from 1/16 inch brass tubing, which a straight pin fit into just fine). I hope paper model industry takes a lesson from what happened to the slotcar industry. When winning slot cars were produced by the individual hobbiest rewinding motors, building space frames, and otherwise modifying inexpensive off-the-shelf parts, the hobby thrived. When the manufacturers stepped in and started putting out off-the-shelf slotcars that cost the present equivalent of $1000 per unit, the hobby collapsed. Aftermarket parts are fine, but if the only way one can become competitive in contests is to buy the win with several hundred dollars worth of etched metal, cast resin, etc., it destroys the hobby quicker than piracy will.

[larry2]

Darwin, I remember well the type of slotcars you're talking about. My brother and I used to save up our change and walk down to the track (about 2 miles) every other weekend for a couple of hours. I think it was fifty cents for 15-20 minutes. If we bought something at the counter the guy would give us time to try it out. They had three big tracks and the were almost always full. One day the place burned down. We always thought it was suspicious, but the track was run by a large bank of batteries, so it could have been and accident.
Chats...that's a cool site. Who'd a thunk....paper bodies. Why not?

[Vermin_King]

There were a couple other sites on a similar vein. They had more card model scenery than cars. The one leaned more to Le Mans style cars and the other was almost entirely scenery. I'll have to see if I can find those links again.

Uh, oh ... There is a lot of material here that looks to be original, but I'm sure Dave didn't give permission for them to post the Lil Red Wagon, and some of the other kits there are also from elsewhere. They did at least give a link to Dave's site, but on their scan of the Truck, there is nothing to indicate the designer of the model or the site it came from. Ouch.

Don't know why people do that. I guess we need to close this.

[Chats]

So what is the verdict. This site gives away
models that their members design and post
links to freebies. No one like the stock cars?

[Vermin_King]

The problem is that they also post other people's stuff. Someone probably should message them about how we would like to refer people to their site, but some of their posts violate our policies. Someone who is much more diplomatic than I am.

[rickstef]

good models, definitely has the midget/quarterscale race car flavor.