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I have a fondness for front motored cars too. I have a Scaley Ferrari F250 that drives as smooth a silk pair of stockings. I bought her used and it has been tuned by the previous owner so I can't take any credit. The key to having fun with these cars is running like with like. That takes away all of the disadvantages they may have.

I have front motored cars, in fact we have a dront motored class in our Spa class.
I also have a few of Studio 65's cars, All front motored.
They are a joy to drive, although a bit different still good runners.
Bob

I like many front motored models. They can be cantankerous just like any other model, but most of mine all run just fine.

Couple months back, I dusted off a Fly Viper and a C5R Vette. They are great fun on our track, even non-magnet.

Be really interesting to see what you come up with.
Got a couple of front motor cars that are great and a couple that are "challenges" .

Did this Cobra a while back with a front motor....on purpose :D




Its got wooden wheels and still runs great :lol:

Think of it this way... the most famous and loved front motor car was the Monogram-Revell Cobra Daytona. Everybody loved it. There were at least 3 major ways to deal with it, all very effective, everything from remotoring, to differences in coupling, body height, etc. What else do you have to know about how people love it? People will do anything to make these cars go. And they respond with very flattering results. Its one of those cars you feel very good about tuning.

I like front motored cars, and they can be made to run very well.

Maybe cars with incorrect motor placement with respect to their 1:1's should carry a
max weight requirement substantially less than correctly placed motor cars. In other
words penalize incorrect motor placement.

I have a Monogram Grand Sport which has had a bit of a tune up and I run it in our 18k American muscle class on occasion, and it causes the others to drive the nuts off of their cars to stay ahead of it. ... good fun!!!

I have several that I enjoy running around my home track. I've tried to tune several to run in our Classic sports car class, without much success. But then my other classic sports cars don't often run at the front of the pack. I think a class where they would run against each other is a great idea.

We have a front motor class at the GVSCC, even though some of our members wish we didn't. A well tuned front motor can even run well in other classes. I have two front motored cars with brass chassis, one an Alfa sedan and the other a Panoz Roadster LMP. It even uses a D3D pod in reverse to hold the motor and front axle. It can be found here, part way down page 2.

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Cheers,

Keith

I personally enjoy the front motored cars and with some tweaking, some of them run very good! I have had very good performance out of my Scalextric L88 corvette - being able to run in the thick of things in our Trans Am class. :)

I have one of the Monogram Mustangs and it used to run real good on my until I ran the rear wheels off of it. Now it's in my repair line to get fixed so I can run it again. My repair line gets a lower priority than the building process. I need to get that one fixed so that I can enjoy it again. Thanks for bring this up which reminded me of the repair.

My experience is like Mitch; they aren't real competitive on a big, commercial track but on a smaller home track they are a blast. I'm partial to the Fly 365 GTB (I have 2) and Scaley L88.

I meant to ask you about that rear end at the time Keith, and I never got around to it. What you are calling Teflon is polypropylene, like a cutting board in the kitchen, right? Teflon is a powder until its bonded to something as far as I know. Help me understand this, will ya?

And that L88 (in all its forms), is my favorite RTR car of them all, Sarge.

ShotgunDave, I for one really enjoy your builds, you don`t give up anything to get the look your after. Speed is not everything when it comes to enjoying this hobby. The right look is much more important to the true hobbyist/builder.
I recently built my first front motor chassis for a club member, it is a fun good runner, but as front motor cars go they are a different drive. Like said it`s all up to your liking.