Super-quick mid-week post here to follow up on last Saturday’s “T-Jet Dev-Ops” drop, in which I revealed that I purchased an entire car-and a limited edition some might call “rare”- just to rob the chassis from it. I mentioned that, far from being a mere cannibalistic feast, this was a great purchase, because it not only gave me the white chassis I wanted for my black ’67 Chevelle, but it also gave one my friends a ’70 Chevelle, which his own fleet of T-Jets was missing. My buddy Shanon is who I race my “Super Stocks” against: my case of cars that are completely factory-stock, no modifications at all, and since this essential car was missing from his collection, it made sense for me to help a brother out and gift him this limited-ed pearl white body.
I’ve said in the past that I’m not a big fan of Auto World’s “all white” cars (which they once referred to as “i-Wheels,” although they seem to have dropped that name over the last couple of years…hmmm, I wonder why?) and that’s true, but-“as opposite as black and white”- I do like a black and white combination on a slot car! That, after all, is why I took the step of buying a whole car just for the chassis when I wanted a white chassis under a black body, but it equally applies to a black chassis under a white body…especially when the white body is accented by a black top and SS stripes!
So…here’s how that ’70 Chevelle looks now!
It did pretty well its first time out, with a standard brand new Auto World Ultra G chassis that Shanon provided, although I admit I did “breathe on it” a bit, using a couple of my tricks that aren’t exactly “cheats” and keep the car completely stock!
What “cheats” am I referring too? Welllllll…….
OK, I’ll spill it: really simple; picking the best set of stock tires I could find that were matched in size down to the micrometer and had the best consistency of “stickiness,” and loosening the screws ever so slightly to allow the body to rock just a tiny bit on the chassis. And that’s it! Because when you’re racing stock, stock means stock!
I like it. My racing buddy likes it. And I feel like the price I paid for this car was a bargain at twice the price! Two classic Chevy Chevelles both dressed in formal black and white? Find me the gearhead who doesn’t approve of that arrangement!
One last remark for this post, which I will elaborate on further this weekend: if you don’t recognize this member of my “Super Stock” fleet, this ’41 Willys goes waaaaay back to early in my “slotting days,” and she’s got a future to look forward too as another “fleet change” is on the horizon!
I think your “cheats” are just fine! Even the old moonshine runners made modifications to their stock cars at the birth of stock car racing. Looks like great fun and am eager to hear of the changes in the fleet you have planned!