SLOT CARS

When I started this blog, I did it only to know how to do it and what I could do. I did not wait for many visits. But I was sure people who read these posts would participate and give their opinions. With them, I could adjust my blog to make it more interesting and to write about things people like. Now I am completely disappointed, after three months and more than 500 unique visitors, NOBODY has written a comment, so I do not know what to do now? Could anybody write anything? Thank you very much, after this lapsus, I think I will go on writing about HO and 1/43, the things that surprised me more in USA.

Hello everybody: Today I went to the only slot cars shop I know close to my house, it is in Burlington Mall in CR-541, close to I-295 Exit 47 in South Jersey. Talking to the clerk, he told me slot cars is going to be important for them again, they are improving their webpage ( http://www.alliedhobbies.com/ ) and they will include all their slot cars stock. They will focus in Carrera ( http://us.carrera-toys.com/ ), with all the three different scales (Go 1/43, 1/32 and Exclusiv 1/24) and they will keep working with HO (Tomy and Auto World http://www.autoworldslotcars.com/ ). I think this could be a good opportunity for all the people in this area to go there and convince them to begin something like a club ( http://www.budshocars.com/ ) with their permanent tracks. I have already tried but only one voice is not enough. I am sure we could get it. Thank you for your help.

The first Chaparral was a small, lightweight, tubular-frame, Chevrolet powered, front-engined car designed and built by Troutman and Barnes in California. While it performed well, it didn't produce the overall results Jim wanted, so in 1962 Hall set out in his Midland, Texas shop to design and build an all new car, Chaparral 2. Chaparral 2 would be a mid-engine design to put more weight on the driving wheels, lower the center of gravity, reduce weight, and reduce frontal area. Hall reasoned that a fiberglass monocoque chassis, using fewer body parts, would be lighter and stiffer than a tubular steel space frame with full body panels. It would use an American stock block V-8 and a European transaxle for an extremely high power to weight ratio. In Detroit, Bill Mitchell, GM's Vice President of Styling, had one of his designers, Larry Shinoda, toying with mid-engine sports car designs. Over at Chevrolet, the head of the Research and Development Department, Frank Winchell, had one ...

Some years ago, the original Viper concept was unveiled after some Chrysler engineers went to work with a V10 truck engine and a simple chassis. Three years later the Coupe appeared and the car has gone on to become a proper modern day muscle car in the US, and a successful racer in GT series in Europe, including impressive displays of durability at Le Mans. The Dodge Viper GTS/R keeps the spaceframe, aluminium suspension, 8.0 litre aluminum V-10 engine and high-performance six-speed manual gearbox used in the current Viper. However, like the race cars, this version has a dry-sumped engine producing five hundred horsepower, up fifty from the current road cars. Torque is also hits the magic 500 lb-ft. The body is a single moulding of carbon-fibre. Fourteen-inch ventilated disc brakes with four-piston calipers all-around will bring the car to a halt, whilst the 19-inch wheels with P285/30 ZR Goodyear tires up front and 20-inch rear wheels with P335/30 ZR tyres hit the tarmac. Here I have...

The Cooper Car Company was founded by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper in 1947. Together, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey . In the late 1950s and early 1960s, they reached the highest levels in auto racing as their rear-engined, single-seat cars altered the face of Formula 1 and the Indianapolis 500. Thanks in part to Cooper's legacy, U.K remains the home of a thriving racing industry, and the Cooper name lives on in the Mini Cooper production cars now owned and marketed by BMW. The first cars built by the Coopers were single-seater, 500cc Formula racing cars driven by John Cooper and Eric Brandon and powered by a JAP motorcycle engine. Since materials were in short supply, the cars were constructed by joining two old Fiat Topolino front-ends together. According to John Cooper, the stroke of genius that would make the Coopers an automotive legend -- the location of the engine behind the driver -- was merely a practical matte...