Slot cars

Slot cars....you remember those, right?  Aurora, Tyco, electrically powered through the track.  Zoom, zoom!  Some hobbyists have made molds of a 1971 Monte (perhaps from Lindberg) and you can purchase these resin castings and make your own slot car.  They even sell the wheels and sheets of little decals to make Nascar cars that actually existed.

First there is "MEV Originals", seems they've offered this since 1998 or so?  http://www.tjets.com/index.html
They call these 1/76th scale Aurora T-Jet bodies.

And there is (what appears to be) a very nice kit for Aurora slot car chassis' as well,  from "Road Race Replicas", perhaps new in 2011: 

http://www.ho-slotcars.com/2068.htm

  

I have to make me at least one of those!  These are non-year specific as it seems they have no park lites in the bumper or grille.

Here is a picture is picture of a modified one with cut wheelwells, etc - nice!

And another one I found is Jim's Custom Rod Shop has a 70 Monte.  It is also for a T-Jet chassis.

http://members.tripod.com/jims_customs/id14.html

Here is a picture of the resin casting with which you can do your own finish work or have him make a custom one for you.  However now I don't see this on his site anymore.

And, this one, but I'm not sure about where to get it.   The ad stated Auto World (a hobby store), who does have resin slot car bodies, but they don't have this one that I can find.

There are also some clear bodies that have been made...don't have much information on these but I imagine you can trim and paint these to your liking:

And just because I like it so much, I'll have mention this car again, that someone else made for me of the #12 Allison Monte.  It just goes to show you could take the set of decals that are sold by RRR and put them on a Hot Wheels or Johnny Lightning if you are not interested in slot cars....