by RichD » Sat Nov 24, 2018 8:33 am
If you a stickler for accurate scale "HO" scale is not the one for you, 1/32nd cars are mostly made to scale, but even those may be somewhat distorted in one dimension or the other. As long as you have to use a standard chassis with a fixed length and at most a couple of wheelbases cars with different bodies are not likely to be the same scale. When the Mega G car was introduced some performance was sacrificed to get a modern sports prototype car that was at least more realistic, even if it was not actually HO scale. If you are into trains HO scale is 1/87th, few HO slot cars have been nearly that small. The first popular HO slot cars were the Playcraft ones that Aurora introduced into the US market as their Model Motoring cars. The earliest cars were actually 1/76th scale, over the years HO cars got bigger and some people now refer to them as being 1/64th scale. The newer cars are still not to any scale however. There are a lot of 1/64th diecast cars around, compare those to the same thing as an HO car. If you compare a diecast 1/64th NASCAR body to any any HO scale NASCAR type slot car body you will probably find that it is longer and narrower.