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pacesetter 60's sprint car sidewinder version

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:30 pm
by bentley marshall
just picked this up thought it would make a good project .....i think its been home made but some of it looks factory not realy sure who made it

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:31 pm
by bentley marshall
more pics

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:32 pm
by bentley marshall
more

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:56 pm
by Mike Casey
Thats for sure a pacesetter 60's sprint car. Its a special one... Thats a sidewinder version. Very few of those left the factory. Awesome find!!!! thats a keeper.

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 4:12 pm
by bentley marshall
THANKS mike you made my day :D

what do you think its worth ???

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:09 pm
by Mike Casey
2 million bucks.... :)

seriously, hard to say in that condition. Certainly $600-$800 as is. Once fixed up, well over 2k.

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:15 pm
by bentley marshall
thanks mike will get to work on the resto

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 6:17 pm
by M.R. Ogle
Wow... Did you find this in New Zealand? There's several photos in the Legends sections of similar ones, but not that exact model. Rare bird!

http://www.quarterscalelegends.com/pace ... tter60.htm

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 7:19 pm
by Mike Casey
jeff schmidt confirmed this type of model. He did for sure make it. Lucky you....

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 7:55 pm
by RCI
Hmmm no wonder Bents was so keen to buy this off me this morning! :evil: :mrgreen:

I brought this car 2 years ago and has been sitting in my garage ever since, the guy advertised it as a home made car and got it from someone else as it was! I only wanted it to take a mold of the tail section for a 1/5 sprintcar which has yet to be started.

Just as well Bents is a mate and glad for his good fortune! I told him if I put it on here everyone would of said it was a pce of Shyt and worthless... live and learn :?

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 8:48 pm
by bentley marshall
M.R. Ogle wrote:Wow... Did you find this in New Zealand? There's several photos in the Legends sections of similar ones, but not that exact model. Rare bird!

http://www.quarterscalelegends.com/pace ... tter60.htm
yep i did find it in NZ when i bought it off RCI who has posted above i didnt know what it was.... i thought it was home made the same as RCI did i was going to just do it up and put it on the shelf next to my WCM GN its amazing what you find in such a small country theres got to be more 1/4 scale cars here i just need to find them :D

has any one got a manual for one of these or any thing close ???

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:17 pm
by Mike Casey
probably wont find a manual for a sidewinder model... Actually, i am not sure if he even had manuals for the regular cars either...

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:27 pm
by bentley marshall
ok bugger was worth a try is there any pics out there of them ?? other than whats on qsl web site ??

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:24 am
by bobjeffreson
Bentley,
Mate what a find! I know of 7 running Pacesetters and 1 body that definitely made it to Australia in 1986.......just trying to locate them. That's has been a task. Newspaper adds placed all over the place. No luck so far.
Mine is the #8 on Mike's Legends page, that was found in Texas last year. It has a lot of the same running gear as yours.

Re: old 1/4 scale sprint car ???

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:48 am
by bentley marshall
hi bob would love to see more pics of your car with the body off if you have any
or even any pics of a car the same as mine would be very helpfull to see if there are any bits missing other than i allready have found
the body i have looks like it hasnt been fitted to this car befor and has never been painted im not sure how the body is fixed to the car so pics of that to would be handy as well

i striped the car tonight right down... cleaning and polishing will start tomorow :D