by crossovercrazy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:29 pm
For folks scoring at home, I looked up some specs on Bill Elliot's TBird of the era, and although the street version wheelbase would only translate to 82.7 mm scale, they stretched it for NASCAR to 100 inches, or 87.3 mm (which i believe would to be roughly what the Monte Carlo used, being no less than the 108 inch street WB, or 85.6 mm scale). However, NASCAR used a stock overall TBird length, of 197.6 inches (156.8 mm scale), with the Monte being 202.4 inches, or 160.6 inches scale. The Scalextric Monte total length I measured was around 162 mm. Therefore, for both cars, their wheelbase and overall length is within what I would call a 2 mm "forgiveness zone". Therefore, I guess we should owe our Limey friends an apology, not for burning down our White House (although we did burn down their Canadian capitol first), but for judging with our eyes versus the real data. However the difference in track widths (56 mm or so for the Monte versus TBird), the squarish look and thin rear quarter panels of the Monte, and the long wheelbase of the Camaro, are "now for something completely different".