I.R.O.C. anyone

Some years back I picked up a bunch of Ferrari 355's at a swap meet.

They were made by Pro-Slot / Policar who has been out of bussiness for quite some time.

I grabed them for 2 reasons ... 1) they are cute & ... 2) they were under $10.00 each.

Now a new car for $10.00 seems too good to be true, & in most cases, it is. But these cars need all kinds of repairs before they'll even go around the track.

After getting them home I played with them for awhile replacing broken parts & getting them to run.

Then, like a lot of things, they got stuffed in a box & just sat on a shelf. As the years went by I would dig them out & play with them & then again they would wind up back on the shelf.

One day some months back I was reading an article a guy wrote on the Porsche's he had (made by Policar) & when I saw the pictures he posted with all the body detailing & the paint schemes he put on them ... I went & got my box off the shelf ... again.

I guess sometimes you just gotta spend some money ... and really like the car ... so I did.

I took 4 of then all apart & made a list of parts I needed to make these cars what I wanted.

I ordered rear brass bushings, front & rear axles, pinion & spur gear from Slot-it. I also ordered 15' Pro Race front & 17' Pro Race rear wheels from Ninco. I got the front tires from Fly & the rear tires from PPR.

As I started to put the 1st car together (all I had kept was the body, motor & chassis), I destroyed one of the chassis figuring out what needed to be done to really make them right. Lucky for me I have plenty of spares.

I put the 2nd car together using what I had learned on the 1st one & with some testing & a little bit of tuning the car was a total dream to drive. And the more I drove it the better it got. It went from being a parts car at best ... to one of the nicest cars I own. I finished the other 3 cars & as with the first one ... a little bit of tuning & they run great.

I decided to turn them into Iroc cars so I painted each one of them to match one of the lane colors on my track.

We have raced them on several ocsasions & everybody loves them ... & they are still some of the best cars I own.

By the way ... the Pink car behind the Yellow car ... that's the body from the chassis I destroyed sitting on a aftermarket chassis ... but that's a different story.

Stay Tuned & Thanks for Lookin' ... J Y D