I know the 1:1 car but who made the slot car and what is it worth?
Dan
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Posts: 3436 (07/23/08 12:40 PM) |
Scrappy Dan
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Posts: 39 (07/23/08 05:16 PM) |
It's positively an E-Type Jaguar, but you already know that. The wheels look Strombecker but maybe not. And it's worth whatever some ***** is prepared
to pay for it.
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Posts: 8 (07/23/08 08:41 PM) |
I am almost sure it is a "Marks"( not sure if I spell it right).Valued not by many.
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Posts: 34 (07/28/08 08:57 PM) |
Hobby Surplus http://www.hobbysurplus.com/hobbysurplus.htm Trains, planes, and automobils, and
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Posts: 1406 (07/29/08 06:51 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
I did not know that AC Gilbert made this style of car, but it is similar to their earlier cars and that would have been my guess. The first cars had a black
nylon chassis with a swivel front end like the later cars. The early cars had little copper wipers, rather than the spring loaded button contacts of the later
cars. You could see the model train technology in the worm gears and Pittman style motors that were later replaced by a Mabuchi type. The cars were actually
"O" gauge, like the American Flyer trains.
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Posts: 651 (08/17/08 01:53 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
American Flyer was S scale....1/64
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Posts: 1019 (08/17/08 11:16 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
Yep. That's correct. O scale is 1:48
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Posts: 3568 (08/27/08 07:03 AM) |
This is way too big for 1/48
Scrappy Dan
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Posts: 6289 (08/27/08 04:16 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
Thanks, Mark. 1/32d scale by AC Gilbet called Auto-Rama and was 3 rail capable of running 2 cars in one lane. Amazing for the early '60's.
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Posts: 1434 (08/28/08 06:41 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
I doubt tht A.C. Gilbert was very concerned about the scale of their cars. They tended to be rather toy-like, even by the standards of the day. The cars that I
had were smaller than 1/32nd by a fair amount. The tires on that Jag are the same size as the ones on my cars, but the body is not in proportion. If you could
measure the length of the body I can look up the length of the 1:1 car and calculate the scale. I used "O" scale buildings with my American Flyer
trains and they looked OK to me, so I always assumed that the trains were the same scale. I did not have the trains and cars at the same time, now that I think
about it the cars were certainly a larger scale than the trains.
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