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I have a Carrera digital 132 track and always enjoy creating new cars - especially in the 1960 to 1975 time frame.
The digital Carrera Ferrari 365 P2s run great on my track. I was fiddling around and found the wheelbase and tires on them were dead on fits for my old 1960s Eldon bodies.
The Carrera Ferraris have a two piece body - the main part with 4 body screws and a lower rear part with a separate body attachment screw. When you unscrew and 'snap off' the lower rear part, the remaining hole that held the rear body part screw is in a perfect position for the Eldon body's rear body post. The two Eldon body posts are 84mm apart from center point to center point. That means the front Eldon body post needs to be right behind the slot guide. I drilled and countersink'd a hole there and then used a flat head screw to attach the front of the body. On any given body the height of the body posts will need tweaking.
The Carrera head and tail lights are pretty close to where they should be on the Eldon bodies. Close enough that I took the solid chrome plastic headlights out of their slots for the LEDs to shine through. I drilled out the molded tail lights for the Carrera LED tail lights to shine through. Not perfect alignment, but I like it.
My first 4 attempts are shown in the photos. The first pic shows two Eldon Lotus bodies with similar, but different liveries. Liveries are fantasy ones. I painted the wheels green and yellow. No windshields. Heads are from Immense Miniatures.
Second pic shows a white Eldon Ford J Car and a yellow Eldon Chaparral with fantasy liveries.
They drive just like the donor Carrera Ferrari 365 P2s. Very low centers of gravity.
A great addition to my stable. In work are two Eldon Ferrari P3s.
thanks for looking.
jeff
The digital Carrera Ferrari 365 P2s run great on my track. I was fiddling around and found the wheelbase and tires on them were dead on fits for my old 1960s Eldon bodies.
The Carrera Ferraris have a two piece body - the main part with 4 body screws and a lower rear part with a separate body attachment screw. When you unscrew and 'snap off' the lower rear part, the remaining hole that held the rear body part screw is in a perfect position for the Eldon body's rear body post. The two Eldon body posts are 84mm apart from center point to center point. That means the front Eldon body post needs to be right behind the slot guide. I drilled and countersink'd a hole there and then used a flat head screw to attach the front of the body. On any given body the height of the body posts will need tweaking.
The Carrera head and tail lights are pretty close to where they should be on the Eldon bodies. Close enough that I took the solid chrome plastic headlights out of their slots for the LEDs to shine through. I drilled out the molded tail lights for the Carrera LED tail lights to shine through. Not perfect alignment, but I like it.
My first 4 attempts are shown in the photos. The first pic shows two Eldon Lotus bodies with similar, but different liveries. Liveries are fantasy ones. I painted the wheels green and yellow. No windshields. Heads are from Immense Miniatures.
Second pic shows a white Eldon Ford J Car and a yellow Eldon Chaparral with fantasy liveries.
They drive just like the donor Carrera Ferrari 365 P2s. Very low centers of gravity.
A great addition to my stable. In work are two Eldon Ferrari P3s.
thanks for looking.
jeff
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