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This is 1/24, but I encourage everybody to add any scale car to this thread. I have a few cars that are special to me and will post some of them. First off is a complete replica, nothing original except the frame. It's the International Tijuana Taxi.
This is pretty much an impossible car to find. Years ago I got a body from Speed and Sport that was made on the original mold. I plugged that body and sent it to Bruce Patterson who made me 10 bodies for the gift of the plug. I made stickers, not decals just stick on yellow paper on the sides and made a sombrero from a screwdriver handle and a Dremel. I molded the hats and got a great painter to paint the 10 bodies. I got 10 NOS International frames from Gary Nowlin. They were the universal 36 D s/w frames. The production taxi used a frame about 1/4 inch wider and the universal frames needed to be spaced to fit the body correctly. I got motors and tires and wheels from Ed Sourbeck and built all the cars the same. I gave one to the painter, gave one to a buddy in OZ and kept one for myself. I made nice displays in clear cases and sold the other 7 at the Dolton slot car show around 1990. A few years later I actually got an original which was one of only 3-4 I had known of at that time. I carefully peeled stickers to get exact copies made and made a mold for the hat. Once done I sold my original to the Los Angeles Slot Car Museum and was happy with the nice replica for myself.
I actually got pictures from a young guy in Az who had one sealed in the package that was his fathers, I had no luck buying it. It is only the second one known to be in a package.
I have tracked about 4 other real ones for sale over the years and a couple of my repros have shown up but not called repros. These cars were all hand painted by Bob Kovacs, so if production was 1,000 I would be surprised, plus they came out late 66/67 and are a basic 36D chassis, so not at all competitive with rtr cars from most companies.
The bubble for this car is just a vac formed 20k plastic. I supplied what I could to another collector that is great with paint and photoshop and he came up with a very nice copy of the original packaging. He based his work on pictures I had of the original the young guy sent me from Az. This is one of the pictures he sent me. When Scott Macleod was still doing vac formed bodies,he actually had the mold to do the bubble for this package.
So this is not a great performance car and not a detailed hard body like a Cox car, but it is my favorite outside of my scratchbuilt old Chaparral 2D from 1965.
One of my favorites, what are some of yours?
This is pretty much an impossible car to find. Years ago I got a body from Speed and Sport that was made on the original mold. I plugged that body and sent it to Bruce Patterson who made me 10 bodies for the gift of the plug. I made stickers, not decals just stick on yellow paper on the sides and made a sombrero from a screwdriver handle and a Dremel. I molded the hats and got a great painter to paint the 10 bodies. I got 10 NOS International frames from Gary Nowlin. They were the universal 36 D s/w frames. The production taxi used a frame about 1/4 inch wider and the universal frames needed to be spaced to fit the body correctly. I got motors and tires and wheels from Ed Sourbeck and built all the cars the same. I gave one to the painter, gave one to a buddy in OZ and kept one for myself. I made nice displays in clear cases and sold the other 7 at the Dolton slot car show around 1990. A few years later I actually got an original which was one of only 3-4 I had known of at that time. I carefully peeled stickers to get exact copies made and made a mold for the hat. Once done I sold my original to the Los Angeles Slot Car Museum and was happy with the nice replica for myself.
I actually got pictures from a young guy in Az who had one sealed in the package that was his fathers, I had no luck buying it. It is only the second one known to be in a package.
I have tracked about 4 other real ones for sale over the years and a couple of my repros have shown up but not called repros. These cars were all hand painted by Bob Kovacs, so if production was 1,000 I would be surprised, plus they came out late 66/67 and are a basic 36D chassis, so not at all competitive with rtr cars from most companies.
The bubble for this car is just a vac formed 20k plastic. I supplied what I could to another collector that is great with paint and photoshop and he came up with a very nice copy of the original packaging. He based his work on pictures I had of the original the young guy sent me from Az. This is one of the pictures he sent me. When Scott Macleod was still doing vac formed bodies,he actually had the mold to do the bubble for this package.
So this is not a great performance car and not a detailed hard body like a Cox car, but it is my favorite outside of my scratchbuilt old Chaparral 2D from 1965.
One of my favorites, what are some of yours?
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