"STAR DAYTONA" custom-painted Daytona (pictures)

[pettybird]

I would say that he copied the slot car, I think that the slot car was out in the early 70's. Guess I can't be for sure, as I didn't make it into this world until the late 70's.

It was new for '74.


And now for information no one asked for, but I felt compelled to type anyway--wing car slot car history!

The first Tyco Superbird released is EXTREMELY hard to find--it was sky blue with a flat black hood and 43's on the doors.  Back then, Tyco cars came warrantied--if yours broke, you sent it to headquarters (in Brooklyn, NY, no less) and one of the cars you MIGHT get back was the new Superbird casting.  It was never sold in stores.  The next couple years, the car was available in burnt orange metallic or an orange pretty close to Vitamin "C."  The red/white/blue scheme, first released as a Tycopro brass chassis car, and later as a Curve Hugger with Tyco's first traction system (metal tabs transferred magnetic energy from the motor magnets to the rail area,) the car was available in chrome with red and black stickers, with "429 CI" on the hood, and a curve hugger 2 chassis (a minor improvement over the curve hugger, most notable for having realistic-width front tires on an axle rather than skinnies on plastic stubs.)  After this car, subsequent releases saw the casting changed to eliminate the deep front spoiler and trim up the rear bumper--Superbirds wouldn't go upside down.  Due to their length, the cars would get to the top of the loop, the bumper and spoiler would lift the car off of the rails, and it would drop like a stone.  The only way around that was to go full speed, and have inertia reset the car back onto the track past the loop.  The trimmed cars don't have that problem.  In the late 80's, the car was released in Lemon Twist with chrome wheels, black top, nose blackouts and "Plymouth" decals, on an HP7 chassis, which replaced the curve hugger 2 at the lower end of Tyco's chassis lineup.  The car was released soon after in a two-pack Petty setup with the 'bird and the then-current FWD Grand Prix, both HP7 chassis and blue wheels.  The late '90's saw a semitranslucent orange car, with wing decals and the much better 440X2 chassis and chrome wheels.  The last casting was in pale yellow, no black top and much larger wheels (think 18" scale wheels) in a race set with a purple '73-4 Rallye Charger, on 440X2 chassis. 


Life-Like also released truly awful looking Superbirds, in a horrible Barney purple here, and an aqua color in Europe and Canada.  Aurora released Magna-Traction Daytonas in yellow, blue and orange, with the yellow and blue cars also available with Flamethrower (lighted) chassis.  The orange one was not, because it was the first color released and Flamethrower chassis weren't made yet.  The rarest of all in this body is a red model sold by a company that bought the molds from Aurora and sold the car exclusively in Mexico.  It was striped and didn't have the #7 scheme.  Auto World has recently released Daytonas on old-school Magna-Traction type chassis, and they are different bodies, not direct copies of Aurora's.  Polar Lights/Jonny Lightening released Daytona bodies on pullback chassis which would fit the '60's Aurora T-Jet chassis, and Carrera has a large like of totally awesome 1:43 scale 'birds, 500's and Daytonas.

Here are the Tyco cars in chronological order, OBVIOUSLY missing the sky blue car, missing the Burnt Orange car, and needing a Vitamin "C" upgrade...

[nascarxx29]

Nice collection of slot cars .I had alot of those superbirds and daytona.I  remember some of the blue #7 daytonas had working headlights..

[moparstuart]

i have a bunch also  and 71 charger and roadrunner body's to

[BigBlockSam]

Anyone here collect the old HO slots?   

i collect slot cars too, i'll post some pics later. Rene

[pettybird]

I couldn't figure out how to make the headlights show up, then went "oh."

[nascarxx29]

I had scale size matchbox car carriers holding my slot wingcars.Like the acrchive daytona pictures on car carriers.And then tried it on a larger scale

[nascarxx29]

and digging into another stuffed closet .I found the 4x4 stomper superbird and the muscle machine daytona forgot I had.and some purple superbird slot car

[moparstuart]

 I know some people around here make fun of toy's  but there is a guy here local who bought a hot wheels collection.
  He sold one car out of the collection for enought money to buy a brand new viper. It was the proto type 68 vw micro bus ( only pink one ever made )  with surf boards and all. Now he is the president of the local viper club . He buys a new viper every other year of so .  So it aint all just fun and games.

   

[The70RT]

I know some people around here make fun of toy's  but there is a guy here local who bought a hot wheels collection.
  He sold one car out of the collection for enought money to buy a brand new viper. It was the proto type 68 vw micro bus ( only pink one ever made )  with surf boards and all. Now he is the president of the local viper club . He buys a new viper every other year of so .  So it aint all just fun and games.

   

Yeah I remember the article....like 68,000? I guess someone that day put the bus in a different line and it got the odd ball one of one paint job.

[moparstuart]

I know some people around here make fun of toy's  but there is a guy here local who bought a hot wheels collection.
  He sold one car out of the collection for enought money to buy a brand new viper. It was the proto type 68 vw micro bus ( only pink one ever made )  with surf boards and all. Now he is the president of the local viper club . He buys a new viper every other year of so .  So it aint all just fun and games.

   

Yeah I remember the article....like 68,000? I guess someone that day put the bus in a different line and it got the odd ball one of one paint job.

no story goes it was a proto type and never got made in that color   then some guy that worked for hot wheels ended up with it in his home collection ( wonder how ) ha ha

[gtx6970]

WOW, thats an old pic

Dan Gaddis's Limelight daytona - still owns owns it today only painted in vintage Nascar colors
The Petty Blue bird belongs to Jim Walton - still owns it today - Original orange  V code  - now Hemi 4 spd with 2.94 gears
Both local to me, I've been in the bird at speeds many times ,  many years ago at speeds WELL over 150. The bird will do the 55 mph legal speed limit in first gear

[moparstuart]

WOW, thats an old pic

Dan Gaddis's Limelight daytona - still owns owns it today only painted in vintage Nascar colors
The Petty Blue bird belongs to Jim Walton - still owns it today - Original orange  V code  - now Hemi 4 spd with 2.94 gears
Both local to me, I've been in the bird at speeds many times ,  many years ago at speeds WELL over 150. The bird will do the 55 mph legal speed limit in first gear

yes dan's is now the 71 K&k insurance car   nice car  dan and barb are great people