Well, I took the plunge! And a razor saw to my Nascar COT body. After a lot of planning then cutting, I have the semblance of what I want. For now it is just taped together and I still have to finish trimming the wheel-wells. It turns out that while it was 2.25" across at the front, back and along the bottom edge, the tops of the wheel-wells are more like 2.5. The two middle sections of the car will need a thin strip cut out to make the whole thing legal, but I can keep the front and rear uncut.
This picture shows the body as it is right now, taped together, and sitting on the chassis of my Sprite build. I wanted it to have at least 2.5 wheelbase and I think it will be 2.75 or more when finished. The body is about 4.25 long as it is now. I still want to trim a little off the bottom to give it a really slammed look. I'll give updated photos as I go along.
The Caterham 7 is intriguing me. I am looking at diching the drive shaft and moving the motor back to the axel.
The question now is to build a complete chassis and make the body a shell...
Or do a hybrid build and use the Scalextric front end and custom build a scratch build rear end.
There is a plus and a minus to the last option. Plus , you don't have to recreate all the open wheel bits, fenders and headlights etc. Minus , you still have the Scaley guide flag system. Now if you run a chassis up to the front with a new guide-flag, move the motor back, and can still incorporate the plastic bits, then you've got it! maybe I'll try that for SLOP 4.
Post #66 shows the COT cut and pasted. Now I have finished the shell and am ready to paint. I sanded off most of the paint and all of the decals. There were a few uneven points that needed a bit more work. I used Testors plastic model glue to join it back together and also to fill in a few booboos. I had a piece of black plastic window screening and I laid it along the joints on the inside. I was a bit worried that it wasn't going to set hard enough, but it just needed time to harden up. The shape is pretty much there now, and I have started on a brass chassis for it. I have an NSR long can motor on a Slot.it pod and will use the extra front end from my Racer Sideways Capri. The interior has been cut up and just needs a flat sheet of plastic to mount the upper part of the driver, wrap-around head-rest, roll cage pieces etc. In post # 62 you talked about finalizing the rules. Please don't do anything drastic so my car is illegal. That would be very frustrating after all the work so far. I assumed the rules to be the same as this year.
Starting on my SLOPpy Catetham build tonight. I am most likely doing a full custom chassis. The biggest question is how much of the original body/chassis is going to remain.
Well it is getting about that time... Time to be BRAVE like retro racer 44!
Time to take out the dremel and cut off disk and start eliminating the un-necessary bits off of what was the scaly Caterham chassis and adapt it to the Caterham body for my SLOP III build.
and a minus 
to the last option. Plus 
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