American Line Ho Slot Cars
#1 
Posted 07 September 2010 - 09:54 AM
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Fred Correnti
#ii
Posted 07 September 2010 - 10:01 AM
Even if this chassis is from the "golden age" (at least based on the body and the motor in it) and may not have worked as well as the prevailing engineering at the time, it is very humbling to wait at the engineering idea and workmanship that went it the building of it.
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#3
Posted 07 September 2010 - 10:xiii AM
One of the nicest period cars I have seen. And remarkable workmanship, The trunk would date the automobile to 1967, but the motor could date it a year earlier.
And then was the original body that aforementioned Hawkeye or was information technology something else?
Love that anti-sway bar that goes effectually the Weldun crown gear... The Ulrich wheels look great, also. A splendid case of teenage learned talent.
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Philippe de Lespinay
#4
Posted 07 September 2010 - 10:29 AM
Human being, that's actually prissy work. 
Phil Smith ® © ™
#five
Posted 07 September 2010 - x:33 AM
I call up the motorcar was congenital in '66 or '67.
If I call back correctly Roy simply made a couple of laps before a half shaft bankrupt and a wheel came flying off! He seems to have epoxied the half shafts together for force. The front inboard coil springs and bulkhead are near impressive.
I recollect that the Eagle was the original body.
Phillipe, peradventure you should plan a trip north to SF to run into it in person?
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Fred Correnti
#six
Posted 07 September 2010 - 11:09 AM
Mayhap we can talk Roy into paying united states a visit at the LASCM where he tin can see several of his one-time cars... 
Philippe de Lespinay
#7
Posted 07 September 2010 - eleven:49 AM
WOW! What a car. Then many more details the more than yous look!
Those Ulrich wheels are non that wide which means I believe he had to remove the inner lip to get bigger meats on (done this myself a few times). How nigh those bearings on the inner axle carrier! Looks like outboard ones are there but it's difficult to tell. Wonderful wire routing. What is that blood-red thing attached to the endbell?
To my eye everything looks perfectly scaled.
Thanks for sharing.
Joe Lupo
#8
Posted 07 September 2010 - 12:06 PM
I recall Roy thought he was posting this:
The 1967 Gurney Weslake Hawkeye has got to be my favorite F1 motorcar. It was the merely F1 car to be designed, built and driven to a F1 victory (the Belgium GP) by and American. In a Road and Rails commodity a few years back, that featured Dan Gurney and the car, the article states that the Weslake Eagle is arguably the "virtually beautiful F1 car ever built".
I was always inclined to the mechanical aspects of the cars that we modeled in ane/24 scale. This particular car was inspired by the Hawkeye that Jose Rodriguez built for the NAMRA series in 1967/1968. Jose was a great one for detail.
What a beauty! I wanted to build one, too. Unfortunately, for my machine, I never had the time to paint and particular the body. I wasn't sure how I would model the frazzle system, with the top of the rear suspension springs being so high.
I built the chassis in three weeks, during the summer betwixt my freshman and sophomore years in higher. I started the project by cartoon the chassis at 2:i calibration (drawing beingness two times the bodily model). I took measurements of the Lancer torso to make sure that the front suspension and rear trailing arms exited the body at the right locations. The rear break has six ball bearings, 2 half-shafts, four universal joints, working anti-sway bar (adjustable), coil over "shocks", adaptable spring pinch (past turning the threaded washer at the top of the shock), and adjustable ride height (by turning the jump). Since I really don't have shocks, the bound compresses in the upward and downward motion, so every bit to act similar a shock absorber.
The forepart intermission has pseudo rack and pinion steering. The guide is mounted on an arm. Every bit the guide move off of the center of the slot, the rack turns the front end wheels towards the slot, centering the car in the lane. The front end coil-over "shocks" works the aforementioned fashion as the rear. The guide as well drops.
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Fred Correnti
#nine
Posted 07 September 2010 - 12:x PM
... adjustable shocks and rack and pinion steering... 
Fred Correnti
#10
Posted 07 September 2010 - 12:32 PM
At present nosotros know that is non going in any tumbler. 
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Joe "Noose" Neumeister
Sometimes known as a serial despoiler of the clear purity of virgin Lexan bodies. Lexan is my canvas!
Noose Custom Painting - Since 1967
Chairman - IRRA® Trunk Committee - Roving IRRA® Tech Dude - "EVIL BUCKS Painter"
"Team Evil Bucks" Racer - 2016 Caribbean area Retro Overall Champion
The only thing bad about Retro is admitting that you recall doing it originally.
#11
Posted 07 September 2010 - 12:37 PM
Howdy,
Much nicer than the one I did! Mine was a scale Lotus 18. Didn't work. Sigh.
But sometimes ya gotta build. Cheers for the photos!
Fate
Rocky Russo
3/6/48-1/i/12
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#12
Posted 07 September 2010 - 12:56 PM
Human, could he fabricate.
What a craftsman.
Among other things, expect at how tight that crown gear fits in the rear.
Mike Swiss
Inventor of the Low CG guide flag 4/xx/18 17B West Ogden Ave., Westmont, IL 60559, (708) 203-8003, mikeswiss86@hotmail.com (as well my PayPal address) Note: Transport all USPS packages and mail to: 5858 Chase Ave., Downers Grove, IL 60516
IRRA® Components Commission Chairman
Five-time USRA National Champion (ii G7, one G27, two G7 Senior)
Two-time G7 World Champion (1988, 1990), viii G7 main appearances
Eight-time G7 King track unmarried lap world record holder
#13
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:sixteen PM
Yeah, Roy read Noose's communication on gear-mesh settings...
Philippe de Lespinay
#14
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:21 PM
Not to be picky but there doesn't appear to be any meridian mounts for the rear coil-overs. With nothing to hold the springs the suspension would have merely bottomed out.
A wheel came off? Guess the slot car version of rules didn't crave total floating rear hubs.
It is cute workmanship!
Don Hollingsworth
xi/6/54-two/xiii/18
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#15
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:36 PM
An astonishing car, and I'1000 very glad to get a closeup! In that location was an article almost a NAMRA race with a photo of a suspension car by Roy, but don't know if it was this i, and information technology was manner too minor to run into any details.
Everything I love in a slot motorcar...
Don
#16
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:42 PM
Don,
Evidently Roy never finished the car, and so the 1 at the NAMRA race must be the i currently surviving as a chassis at the LASCM.
With Roy'south help, maybe I will be able to get it dorsum together some day...
Philippe de Lespinay
#17
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:43 PM
The adroitness and detail are amazing!
Cheers for sharing the photos, Fred!
Ernie
Ernie Layacan
#18
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:49 PM
Hey Mike,
Yous think that gear's close... HO 4 wheel independent to follow... 
Fred Correnti
#xix
Posted 07 September 2010 - 01:56 PM
Boy, he must not of been too impressed with the smoothness of any of the slot car tracks back in the '60s...
Mike Swiss
Inventor of the Low CG guide flag 4/20/18 17B West Ogden Ave., Westmont, IL 60559, (708) 203-8003, mikeswiss86@hotmail.com (also my PayPal address) Note: Send all USPS packages and mail to: 5858 Chase Ave., Downers Grove, IL 60516
IRRA® Components Committee Chairman
5-fourth dimension USRA National Champion (2 G7, ane G27, 2 G7 Senior)
Ii-time G7 World Champion (1988, 1990), eight G7 primary appearances
8-time G7 King track single lap earth tape holder
#20
Posted 07 September 2010 - 02:08 PM
Yikes, that'due south wonderful.
I don't care how well information technology worked, or even if it worked at all... that's amazing!
-john
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John Havlicek
#21
Posted 07 September 2010 - 02:12 PM
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Fred Correnti
#22
Posted 07 September 2010 - 02:thirteen PM
That's amazing! That big picture show loses perspective on how pocket-size that machine actually is. Incredible craftsmanship!
Phil Smith ® © ™
#23
Posted 07 September 2010 - 02:23 PM
Amazing! VERY cool. It doesn't matter if it was a practiced "racer" or not, just Building the matter was a triumph!
Richard L. Hofer
Recollect, two wrongs don't make a right... just 3 lefts do! Simply you're a block over and a block behind.
#24
Posted 07 September 2010 - 02:35 PM
Ouch... my eyes hurts from looking at these beauties! 
Welcome back, Roy. 
Bob Suzuki
8/19/54-8/?/21
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#25
Posted 07 September 2010 - 03:04 PM
Fred, thanks for the photos.
Régis Baron
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