Fly Riley MKXI "Gainsco"

The new Fly Ferrari 250 GTO is one of their best, with fine detail, smooth finish, and great lines. There are delicate grilles beneath the transparent hood scoops, true to the actual cars. Hood latches are photo etched. Yellow discs were placed on the doors of this car at Le Mans, 1962, to alert rescue crews to the aluminum bodywork

The Fly 911S is a beautiful looking model. The paint work and detail is excellent, and the proportions of the body capture the look of a 911 very well. Body width scales about 4” to 5” oversize for this car, although the extra width appears to be in the rear wheel flares. As the real cars were modifed with wider flares by their owners, this is acceptable. Wheelbase scales to 91”, perhaps a few inches long, but still within limits acceptable to most. Wheels are 15” diameter. The actual Porsche 911 began racing in 1965, and was progressively modified over the next decades. Le Mans records for 1966 through 1972 show 911S’s as entrants. Variants competed in Trans Am. A 911 slot car is most welcome, and is appropriate to race against many cars.

The FLY Venturi 400 has been in the FLY stables since the very beginning, yet it has managed to stay out of mine, until now. Scalextric-USA has sent me the latest Venturi, the A242 for testing, and I have to say that the livery is certainly a striking one. Based on the 2000 Spanish GT entry of Vicente Saez-Merino and Javier Ugalde sponsored by Lois Jeans, the car is certainly one of the best looking Venturi Liveries FLY could have chosen to produce.

The car FLY have offered as our first taste of their new 3.5 CSL is that Daytona 24-winning car as driven by the late-great Peter Gregg and international endurance-racing legend Brian Redman. The car is handsomely turned out in the BMW factory racing colors of blue, red and purple over white (fittingly for Gregg, who's usual Brumos Porsche rides were VERY similarly colored) and reveals possibly the highest level yet of exterior detail offered by FLY. The car seems a little smaller than I was expecting but seems very well proportioned.

Because I was lucky enough to test the A542 Z06 Corvette a few months back, I thought it would be fun to let someone else review the newest Corvette from FLY. My daughter, Kayleigh, fell in love with the silver convertible with the two girls along for the ride, so why not get her impressions of this car? You can read my review of the C5 Corvette HERE. Kayleigh is eight years old, and a veteran slot racer already. Here is her take on the C5 Convertible.

The FLY A542 C5 Corvette arrived with very little fanfare. Not being a racing livery, this car may get overlooked in favor of future releases with numbers and sponsors. This car, in my opinion, will be favored by Corvette lovers and collectors of Corvette memorabilia. Though this car represents a "stock" non-racing car, don't be deceived, the real car has the heart and soul of a race car, and the fact is, Corvettes are raced all around the world in autocross's, amateur road events, and street races.

The FLY GB Track racing trucks are not new, and one might be inclined to think they are all the same, with the exception of the body work. This would be a great oversight, and I'm here to say that the trucks from GB Track have only gotten better and more detailed. One of the latest releases from GB Track is the MAN TR 1400 Jarama FIA ETRC 2001 version driven by Fritz Kreutzpointer. Available in lighted or unlighted versions, I would be testing the latter. Advertised as having a Suspension Effect, I was anxious to check this feature out.