MON-SR3203 Monogram Porsche 904GTS kit MIB This kit is complete and sealed in its individual packaging. It is composed of a NOS body kit complete with instructions and decals as well as a NOS chassis kit also with instructions, as well as a NOS X100 Tiger motor. The outer box is in good condition with some flaws.
Ford MKII RTR This K&B ready to race slot car, produced in the summer of 1967 by the famous company, is also its rarest today. In over 15 years or search, the LASCM has only been able to find two mint and boxed examples. Apparently, very few were produced and fewer survive. A pity because this is a beautiful slot car with a very nicely detailed interior. The vacuum formed body is painted in a shade of blue-green, the only known color, and is subject to the form of electrolysis transfer of the tire's rubber to the body as many vintage slot cars are.
The chassis is a lot easier to find, as this inline K&B unit, part of the "Kanguro" series, was produced separately. The motor, as in the K&B Chaparral 2D, is a Mabuchi FT26 unit dubbed "Jaguar" and fitted with a unique end bell molded of yellow plastic.
The clear-plastic box is identical to that of other K&B, BZ, American Line and even some AMF cars, but the inner tray and box are simply unobtainable.
When K&B shut their doors, hundreds of these Ford MKII in incomplete condition were liquidated and ended as rental cars in at least one raceway, then surfaced at auction. Unfortunately their condition was beyond salvation.
Now out of print and hard to find! Electric Dreams has a very limited supply! By Philippe de Lespinay. The Bible for slot car collectors. The history of the hobby primarily in the U.S. Fabulously illustrated, forewords by Dan Gurney and Jim Hall. Inside stories about the hobby and the players, many period pictures. Get yours now while they last!
Famous Slot Car Pro Racers Visit the LASCM!
1960s slot car heroes Terry Schmid (1966-1967 USRA Champion), Howard Ursaner (former Team Russkit and Team Cobra top-notch racer), Keith Tanaka (Team Rolling Hills) and Dave Fiedler, all now competing in the D3 retro races, were given a tour of the museum by Electric Dreams owner Scott Bader on January 13th. A really nice illustrated [...
LASCM Website now open, or is it?
On behalf of Scott Bader, without whom none of this would have been possible, please let me welcome you to what promises to be a great website for the vintage electric model car racing enthusiast. This website is presently and slowly being filled with what will be the world’s largest bank of visual and technical [...
The Art of Keiji Kanegawa
In 1972 and 1973, one body painter in the San Francisco area disputed honors for best pro-racing painter in the nation. His inventive and creative art was unique and since then, copied by many. His name: Keiji Kanegawa, familiarly known as "Keiji". Kanegawa introduced accurate portraits, carefully applied with multiple shades of mixed colors, as [...
Steve Okeefe Marvelous Replica
An incredible re-creation of the most important slot car in pro-racing history.
Steve Okeefe was so enthralled by the recent publication of pictures of Gene Husting’s historically-first pro-racing angle-winder chassis that amazingly, survived for 37 years, that he decided to build a perfect replica for use as a display piece in our museum. When I received [...
Lancer Retailer Display, circa 1967
Anyone who knows anything about vintage slot cars also knows that Lancer vacuum-formed bodies were the best, most accurate bodies available in the 1960’s, regardless of material used, and often had greater detail than the best injected bodies.
in 1966, Lancer made several hundreds of dealer display frames with a selection of their bodies, factory painted [...
