Not midgetracers but 1/24 dirt track/champ cars
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:51 amThe 3 colored cars are built with Big Donkey dirt track bodies, the white ones are bodies I made a few years ago.
I wanted some cars to run on my home track that would run good and be easy to drive. I wanted something visitors could run and have fun with. I first got a set of Monogram Greenwood Corvettes and put urethane tires on them. They were really shi**y cars. without a magnet you wouldn't even be able to make a lap. I thought about fine tuning them and maybe putting brass chassis under them, but I came to my senses and realized I could build a new/better car just as easy, so I decided on the dirt trackers. The other factor is that on a 4 lane Carrera track those little Monogram cars look lost, a bigger car is much more visually satisfying on a wider longer track. These cars are fun and pretty easy to drive. They all run the MT (Mark Thomas) motors that we used to run in our commercial track cars.
They are mostly geared around 4 to 1. The frames are all brass, either Sprintsplus cut and extended or just motor bracket and front axle bracket soldered to 1 inch wide brass. No more urethane tires, silicone coated sponge is a little quicker and stickier and it's what we run on all our cars, so other guys cars grip fine, too.
These cars are fun to race and easy to drive and anybody that comes in can have fun with these cars. I have molded a "T" track roadster body and built a similiar style car for the home track and it looks really promising in the first trial runs. It is pretty small, but still 1/24 scale. I'll do some pictures of this car when I finish detailing it.
Building these cars also gives me a chance to use a lot of the 1960's parts I have that don't get used on a commerial track cars.
P1010006.JPGP101000733.JPG
I wanted some cars to run on my home track that would run good and be easy to drive. I wanted something visitors could run and have fun with. I first got a set of Monogram Greenwood Corvettes and put urethane tires on them. They were really shi**y cars. without a magnet you wouldn't even be able to make a lap. I thought about fine tuning them and maybe putting brass chassis under them, but I came to my senses and realized I could build a new/better car just as easy, so I decided on the dirt trackers. The other factor is that on a 4 lane Carrera track those little Monogram cars look lost, a bigger car is much more visually satisfying on a wider longer track. These cars are fun and pretty easy to drive. They all run the MT (Mark Thomas) motors that we used to run in our commercial track cars.
They are mostly geared around 4 to 1. The frames are all brass, either Sprintsplus cut and extended or just motor bracket and front axle bracket soldered to 1 inch wide brass. No more urethane tires, silicone coated sponge is a little quicker and stickier and it's what we run on all our cars, so other guys cars grip fine, too.
These cars are fun to race and easy to drive and anybody that comes in can have fun with these cars. I have molded a "T" track roadster body and built a similiar style car for the home track and it looks really promising in the first trial runs. It is pretty small, but still 1/24 scale. I'll do some pictures of this car when I finish detailing it.
Building these cars also gives me a chance to use a lot of the 1960's parts I have that don't get used on a commerial track cars.
P1010006.JPGP101000733.JPG