8 COLLECTING FEATURE JPS
The black and gold livery that adorned Lotus F1 cars
during the 1970’s and 80’s also appeared on some
other cars too, or did they? We spill the beans.
16 PRODUCT REVIEW
The cars of three world champions, from 1978 –
1987 which fittingly includes a JPS car. All recently
released by Scalextric.
18 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
FRANKENSTEIN’S FLIVVER
Ray Lego from New Jersey has sent us his take
on Frankie’s mode of transport. A ghoulish mix of a
Polar Lights static kit and a custom brass chassis.
22 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
THE BATMOBILE ’89 FROM SCALEXTRIC
Margate revisit the caped crusaders ride as featured
in the highly gothic Tim Burton directed movie.
24 WORKSHOP – LOTUS 76
We take a 1970’s toy like slot car and try our best to
fill a gap in the JPS Lotus collection. It was a bit of a
Horror story!
28 PRODUCT REVIEW – THE DAVID PIPER 330 P4
FROM SCALEXTRIC
We look at this interesting car that Piper has
champagned in classic sports car racing for decades.
32 PAST FORWARD – THE CARS OF DAVID PIPER
The Green livery of David Piper Racing has been
around since the early 1960’s and since 2000 there
have been many offerings of his cars by the slot car
manufacturers.
36 PRODUCT REVIEW – SLOT CAR TEST BENCH
Ray Lego gives us a wonderful insight into this
amazing piece of slot cat tech. Perhaps not for the
average slot racer, but then Ray is not your average
slot car racer!
39 PRODUCT REVIEW – THE HARRY POTTER FORD
ANGLIA FROM SCALEXTRIC
You will believe a car can fly, well you did if you were
10 years old and watched the movie “Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets”.
40 REAL EVENT – THE GOODWOOD REVIVAL 2024
I dont think I have missed one of these since the
inaugural event back in 1998. Unfortunately this
year’s meeting was dampened literally by the bad
weather.
44 PAST FORWARD – “BIRDS OF A FEATHER”
Our foreign correspondent Richard Hills sent us this
charming piece on some classic 1960’s American
slot cars, including fitting a Willys coupe body on to a
Dynamic chassis!
46 REAL EVENT – GAUGEMASTERS 50TH
The company known as Gaugemaster, who imports
much of what we buy in the world of slot cars, turned
50 this year. To celebrate their golden anniversary
they held a motorsport themed event during August
– where even real classic cars were for sale there!
