on the auction site once in a while, you may have noticed a guy (two actually) from argentina selling slot cars made there ..
i have been in contact with both, and bought a few .. they are lexan bodies, hand painted and detailed, sitting on brass 'womp' style chassis ..
the first one i got was a batmobile ..
then a taxi and a police car .. i now have a dozen or so ..
these are some of lisandro's latest offerings .. i'm not tryin' ta sell 'em, just showing what other countries are doing to get their 'slot car fix' ..
and - even one for alan -
these guys also do a line of 'weird cars' like these ones - there are about 6 or 8 in the series ..
again - i am not tryin' ta sell 'em (really!!) .. but - they retail in the $45-70 range .. contact me if you'd like more info about lisandro ..
pete
Last edited by SlotNovice; 12-09-2007 at 06:41 PM.
the bodies are held in place with velcro on both sides - much better than those parma clip things ..
i wanted also to show the way these guys hook up the electrical for the working 'cherry' on the roof .. am i being naive (or silly) here - why can't the 'big guys' do it this easy??
i have no idea how these cars run - they are made for wood tracks and need some alterations to run on plastic, and all i have (set up at least) is plastic
for comprison, there are these - my parma NAStrucks .. some people think the paint jobs are crazy - but i love 'em
they come with the parma 'deathstar' motor, but these two have been 'detuned' to run on plastic - which i haven't done yet either - these babies are waitin' fer woodie!
Hmmm they look like fun cars, but I think I would rather own a few Slot.its ...
no doubt WCR - kinda hard to argue that! these might be considered 'luxury items' or 'not needed for racing' but i like 'em .. they are just so - unusual .. to go with my other unusual things ..
Check out that axle, made from threaded rod. Chassis are stamped aluminum, it appears, with a rivetted, rattly body mount pan. Interesting improvisations. They look like they could run well. They use wood tracks in Argentina? Not surprising, if one considers that Argentina is more European than other South American countries, and prides itself as a "cultural leader." The wood tracks are probably old US type commercial tracks. I wonder if the Scalextric invasion has happened there (magnets, sectional tracks, plastic cars, etc).
lisandro tells me that slot car racing in argentina is almost strickly limited to wood tracks .. he says plastic is axpensive and virtually unattainable .. his group (club) has a vac-former, and some very talented memebres, who produce these cars "to pay for the electricity" .. i'd love to hear more about racing in SAmerica ..
here are four more he sent pics of - he know i like my emergency vehicles!!
Its too bad the detail is not as good as the european cars, paticularly since our dollar value has declined compared to the euro. I would buy elsewhere.
- these are lexan bodied, so detail (especially compared to say, scalex) is impossible to achieve .. i think of these as 'cartoons' or 'characatures' as opposed to valid interpretations of cars (or ambulances for that matter!)
- argentinians have little access to scalex, fly, scx and the like, as we do - what would they say about a SlotIt?? their ingenuity, imagination, craftsmanship and product line should serve as an inspiration to us who have an LHS next door or down the street (or in the same country!) .. i think they do amazingly well .. and i have chosen to support their endeavors by purchasing a few of their cars .. the run badly on my home track, are a hassle to ship, are reletively costly and aren't 'up to modern standards' (unless compared to wompwomp parmas), but thats not the point of these for me
- these aren't presented as 'for sale' by any means .. lisandro runs a small club, and we correspond .. i thought i'd show whats 'going on' in another part of the world, that we don't often see
cheers .. pete
Last edited by SlotNovice; 12-09-2007 at 09:38 PM.
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