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While this car appears to be very crude and poorly built, it was in its time, the fastest, best-handling slot car ever built. Just imagine some balding drag racer suddenly entering the Nats with a wing-car with an inline motor and just plain beating the likes of P.A. Watson, Beuford, Silen, Gramman and the whole open-class crowd. This is exactly what happened, and it will probably never happen again.
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The drop arm has limited drop and the front axle wire is soldered on top of it, very Dynamic-like.
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The motor is a Pactra "Hemi 99" can with a Husting rewound, epoxied and balanced armature, ARCO magnets without shim, Mabuchi FT16D end bell with Champion springs, post sleeves and brushes. Gears are 64-pitch Weldun steel pinion and anodized aluminum spur gear. Guide is a Cox "quick-change", lead wires are Cox. Note the plastic axle spacers straight from regular kits... something that had already disappeared from serious "pro" racing cars for over 2 years...
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The front end shows globs of solder, not because Husting was a klutz, but because he wanted to add weight, as much as possible on the drop arm, and at the same time make the car very impact resistant. It worked.
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The front wheels are threaded Mini-Riggen with O-ring tires with longitudinal treads and brass adapter for 1/16" piano wire mount.
The rear wheels are Weldun with Associated blue rubber.
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The steel plate over the end bell is a glue shield, and there is no problem to remove the end bell, no need to move anything else. However, the motor was never disassembled once in over 30 races this car ran with Husting, then Paschal who absolutely cleaned up with it for weeks, at his local raceway and everywhere he travelled.
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The car appears crude, but is in fact well thought out, and certainly was at its time, the fastest and most efficient ever built, notwhistanding its historic trend-setting quality.
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