[Fot] TR4/4A badge bars

[Bob Bownes]

So you are saying you'd favour Vintage Slot cars? :-)


Aside from the 1/72 Shadow and 917 AFX cars I had, my personal fav was,
and still is (in a box in the basement) my 1/24th scale M8B McLaren with
the hand built brass chassis. I remember saving and saving to get the $22
it cost me Way Back When.

Now if I only had a place to race it.

iii


On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Bill Babcock wrote:

> Controllers were always the weak spot for hot cars. I tried to build
> a transistorized one, but didn't really know enough to do it right.
> Had the right idea though--use the controller variable resistor to
> control power transistors. Unfortunately my funky electronics usually
> quietly expired just when I needed them most--when I was trying to
> crank it up to "eleven". Now you can buy controllers the size of a
> postage stamp that witll control 30 amp brushless motors. Thank god
> we didn't have those motors back then. We would have been killing
> people with runaway cars.
>
> On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:34 PM, jcjcarrera at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > I've tried all the usual sources for badge bars for the front of my
> > street TR4's, Moss, RF, Victoria Brit, etc. No luck, only TR3's.
> > Anyone on the list know of a source? Please contact me off list at
> > jcjcarrera at comcast.net
> >
> > Enjoyed hearing everyone's comments on slot cars. My GPA would have
> > been much higher in college except for this addiction. Still have
> > my two cars, Jim Hall's Chapparel and a custom job--"Guy Farley's"
> > stock car converted to road course setup. Had an electrical
> > engineering student re-wind the motor for me in exchange for
> > letting him use my TR3 for a date. One fast car, had to wire two
> > "D" cell batteries in line to beef up the braking. Burned through
> > my controller in a hurry, but did place in a 24 hour enduro at the
> > track in Williamsport, PA 1965!!
> >
> > Thanks, John James
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