Just received this the other day from a guy who has had this on a shelf for the last 40 some years. It looks to be about 1/8 scale and has a 19 Mccoy. It's crazy how much detail this car has for it's age. The body is fiberglass and the chassis and suspension are aluminum.
Love it!. You can tell that just about everything on that car is hand made-right down to the tires. They look to be machined from solid stock! Where did you find it?
The pictures really don't do the car justice. I have not tried to start it but the engine compression appears fine although I don't really plan on running it. I will probably just leave it as is. It has made it this far untouched so I would hate to change anything. If anything I would sand the body down and give it a better paint job.
You might destroy the original untouched value of this if you paint it. You may want to check with some antique toy appraiser and also collect any information on its history from the previous owner. This car being all hand made makes it quite collectible by true antique and vintage toy collectors. In the 1:1 car collector hobby this would be called a survivor and the same is true of antique furniture in that as soon as you refinish it you cut the value by way more than half. Also it looks like a hose clamp was used to make something I'm not sure what it is maybe a brake band. Really cool find you've got there Doug.
Guys, I really appreciate the comments. The car will absolutely stay just like it is. Changing anything about the car would really subtract from it's history. The paint job is a far cry from matching the level of engineering but it definitely gives the car it's character. From what the seller has told me, this car was made in the mid 60's by a tool and die maker for his grandchildren. The DN on the front is actually the builders initials. The seller was good friends with this guy and they were in a model boat club together. Sometime in the mid 70's he traded him for the car and it sat on his shelf ever since. It is a really unique piece and I am lucky to have had it passed along to me. Jeff, I was thinking it would have been really cool if it still had the original radio gear. Does anybody have any suggestions as to a period correct system? The only brand that comes to mind is Kraft.
I heard a saying that fits peaces this, it said that we are only caretakers of these peaces of art to carefor for a short time before we pass on to the next person to then care for them.
Just wondered if anybody has a set of arms made by Quarter Flash, for the RC10 way back when? I had one set, nip, which I traded to a friend in Australia. They were the most interesting things, being that the hinge pins were actually...
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theres another mcmaster style site that rocks. but i cant for the life of me remember what the heck its called... they deal more in material stock.
dammit, its gonna drive me crazy not knowing the name to that place... i used to order from it quite...
Ok so have been seeing a bunch of chatter about old Klein midget plates on Ebay. Picked up a chassis and motorplate. I've been searching the Internet (DO.com, Google and here) but having no luck. I know vaguely there was an issue and Dennis doesn't...
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Thanks for the links. I didn't find much on dodc. I liked the FB page. Wonder how long it'll take me to track down a cage.
The Bantam Midget was the servo that Novak used as a base for their own. Here is one in kit form
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The Novak mailing address was 2709-C Orange Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92702. I wonder if being on Orange Avenue influenced Bob to make orange products.
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I got 2 sets of rc10 arm mounts in a lot purchase. Unfortunately they were drilled out for bearings like the Quarter Flash arms. Has anyone ever seen the arm mounts done by them? I know I haven't. I also know doing this is not hard.... I've done it...
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You can't rule out that they are 'home-made' but I am 99.9% sure they are Quarter Flash items. I have a set of the front and rear arm mounts on my Fibre-Lyte RC10. Definitely cool pieces but the stock arm mounts work just as well imo :wink:
I got the rolling chassis of a 1/12 FWD kyosho Peugeot 205 over 10 years back. It had been in a display cabinet at the belgian Kyosho distributor for many more years. It had never been run, but the body was painted with a toothbrush. (Well, it looks...
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I had completely forgotten about the poll that was at the start of this thread.
Whatever you choose guys, I'm not going back: the foams have dried up somewhatwhich makes the car drift a bit,but that kind of helps to keep it shiny side up too.
It's...