Airfix VW Beetle on Scalextric Escort chassi

The body is from the Airfix plastic 1:32 kit. The chassi is from an old Scalextric Ford Escort and was bought from http://www.pendleslotracing.co.uk/. It has the perfect wheelbase but needs a lot of trimming to fit to the body. The green colour on the body is airbrushed with real car paint. The paint job was made by my friend Håkan Thörngren. The rest of the coloring details are painted by me with airbrush and normal hand brush.

The wheels, axles and gears are from the Ninco Classic Porsche. Interior is actually made of paper, has chairs and backseat folded and then it’s painted black. The steering wheel comes from the Airfix kit. The driver from Ninco. The body posts are made of styrene tubing.

The Scalextric motor was a a little too powerful for this car. It goes well but rolls out quite easily in the curves. And the car is very light so I changed motor to a weaker one. See the pictures below. Another thing I have done to stabilize the car is to mount the front axle in brass bushings so the axle doesn't tilt.

The only thing I’m not to happy about are the windows – I wanted to have a strong glue so it should be crash resistant so I choose normal plastic glue which of course came out on the clear glass – I have polished them so they are quite ok, but a white board is still visible around the windows.

I thought the Scalextric motor was a little over kill in the VW. It was simply to quick. I took the small rectangular motor from a Pinkkar Ferrari 250 and built a steryne motorcasing so it fitted in the Scalextrics chassi holder without modification to the chassi.

Here you can see the new motor in the chassi.

I modified the guide and installed the TSRF guide instead which is much better than the original one. Deeper blade and also better braid and sits in a brass tube so it is free of play and doesn't rock back and forth. Also noticable is that the old motor is back since I needed more power to be able to get the car moving on my wooden home track, the braid on it has higher friction resistance than the steel rails on a plastic track.