In case you didn’t know, Chase-Cars has been making a chassis for the last 4 years with steering and suspension, because sometimes realism is more fun than outright speed.



Together with a range of body shells from 1970s America, it’s everything you need to recapture the golden age of car chases from the movies, just add your own tyre squeals! The chassis fits under a range of barge-like body shells, but if you want to build a 1960s European rally car you can now choose a chassis which is narrower.



The new chassis measures just 27mm across the front hubs, so with a typical 7mm wide wheel you can fit it under a 42mm wide body shell. The chassis pictured above is for a VW Beetle which is 45mm wide, so it uses 7mm wheels with an inner hub.



The wheelbase is adjustable from 103mm right down to 66mm so most saloon cars can now corner with more realism.





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Just as with the other chase-cars chassis it’s available in 3 levels of build
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Chassis Kit 1 includes all the custom parts you need, the plastic chassis components, stainless steel linkages, alloy front stub axles, coil springs and all fasteners. You need to add your own S-Can motor, 3/32” rear axle, guide, bearings, wheels and tyres. It’s £25 plus postage.

Chassis Kit 2 includes everything you need to build the car yourself right down to low-resistance silicone motor wire. It’s £64 plus postage.

Chassis Kit 3 is fully assembled and ready to go, just e-mail the wheelbase length you need and it’ll be shipped ready to fit. It’s £80 plus postage.

For more details, full assembly instructions or to place an order head over to www.chase-cars.com.

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IBB AutoRacing, parent to both ScaleAuto and MSC Competition, have announced that the two brands will be rationalized under the one name. This will see the rally fan favourite MSC disappear from the market with their production absorbed under the ScaleAuto trademark.

The last cars that we will see released under the MSC Competition name will be the forthcoming Kenya Rally Subaru Impreza and Camel liveried MG Metro 6R4. Previously released models and spare parts will retain the same model numbers under the ScaleAuto name.

Official family photo from Pioneer showing the new addition to the family, P041. This gorgeous '67 Camaro in black on golden yellow with Jack Douglass Chevrolet as major sponsor. No word as to when we can expect this beast will hit the streets down here. But we hope it will be soon.

Here's a couple of pictures of an actual Slot.it Matra ready for distribution to the retailers. Really looking forward to getting this one on the track, release date announced as the 20th or March.

Later this month we finally get to see a new model from Slot.it which has been talked about for a while. The McLaren M8D from the American Can Am series should see some satisfied Slot.it fans.

First pictures of the SCP201 series of controllers.
One significant external change is the new dual length, soft trigger system, another is the introduction of a simple three way switch replacing the two dip-switches on the top of the controller.

SCP201d -SCP-2 Universal digital controller
SCP201fg - SCP-2 Analog controller, high current, common ground
SCP201h - SCP-2 Electronic controller, Oxigen cartridge
SCP201i - SCP-2 Analog controller homeset version (common positive, negative wiring)

Are all due some time in November

The SCP201a ( positive polarity standard controller) is due later in December.