"IT BECAME LEGEND ! "
No.2 
"Tamiya's slotcar kits" are the most exciting a slot car  I've ever seen!!
I'm impressed. And they were so beautiful. 
So I could get many Tamiya's kits in 1966.
Top left: An advertisement by a "Shounen" of a comic magazine in 1965. 
This is the nicest it!
Top right: An advertisement by a "The Model Speed Life"magazine in 1965.
People call this "McLaren M1A". It was a revolution of slotcar !! Because it had a brass-chassis with a spring suspension. And still more it had a ball-bearing axles,too.
Top left: An advertisement by "The Model Speed Life" magazine in 1966.
My secoud car(?) was "PRINCE R-380". It was a present for me from my parents!
Top right: "Lotus 30" was the best !  It was the best of 1/32 scale's slotcar. 
I want to said, Tamiya's "Lotus 40" had a strong better than Cox's "Lotus 40". 
But a cox's Lotus 40 had a reality body. 
Why did a tamiya's Lotus 40 gets a strong? Because it had a "Side-Wainder Die-Cast Chassis" with a spring suspension. And it used for another models ( "King Cobra", "Porsche Carrera 6", and "Three Stock cars" ), too.
"TIPE 30 LOTUS"
 
1/24scales "LOTUS 30"
 The 1/1 scale "Lotus 30" was born 
in January 1965 after "Lotus 29 got
a success of The Indianapolis 500.
It presented at "LONDON RACING 
CAR SHOW" in January 1965.
 It had a Big Block Ford 427, and a
FRP's body.
 "Lotus 30" was one of the fastest a slot car  I've ever seen !
 By the way, how was a performance of the 1/24 scale "Lotus 30" ?
It was a good slot car. And "Lotus 30" by Tamiya was the best  I've ever known !
 
 
SCALE
1/24
LENGTH
175mm
WIDTH
73mm
HEIGHT
38mm
WHEEL BASE
95mm
COLLECTOR
SWING ARM
FRAME
DIE-CAST CHASSIS
PRICE
800YEN


 
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