Dual Armature 36D Mabuchi Motor by Revell or Garvic Slot Car Vintage 1960 NOS

REVELL One of the most prolific and important slot racing companies of the 1960s, Revell was already one of the world’s largest model kit company when they decided to immerse themselves into the new hobby in 1963. They began by issuing components that included a simple aluminum ladder frame chassis, wheels, tires and gears, and various other items for the scratch builders.  They also made an agreement with Pittman to sell their motors in Revell-Pittman packaging, under the RP66 and RP77 names. Next were complete kits in 1/32 and 1/24 scale, with injected bodies of good quality and accuracy, of typical sports and racing cars of the early 1960’s. Their 1/32-scale Corvette Sting Ray, Ferrari 250 GTO, Aston-Martin DB5 and Mercedes-Benz 300SL kits were quickly joined by a Cobra roadster. All were sold in colorful boxes with the parts sealed under shrink-wrap and presented on a colored card tray.  On the 1/24 front, a Lotus 23 and a PORSCHE RS60 followed the original BRM and Lotus-Ford F1s.

Unusual motor-less BRM sent to many potential raceway investors.) Interesting array of early Revell Corvette body kits, with blue ’65 mixed with ’63 “split-window” in 2 different boxes, and 2 factory test shots molded in gray and clear plastic.)

  These, along with re-issues of earlier kits, were available in new styrofoam trays with card tops, sporting updated graphics.  All these kits used two variations of the ladder frame, and Mabuchi’s new FT16 motor, supposedly a Russkit exclusive.  RTR versions of all the 1/32 cars were also available in sets, with simpler one-piece stamped aluminum chassis and pressed-on plastic, later aluminum wheels. Mabuchi’s cheaper 15R motor was later upgraded to FT16. These were sold in several sets, one of them a large 4-lane job in a huge corrugated box. By 1964, Revell added to the line three 1/24 kits, a Cobra roadster, a Ferrari GTO and a Corvette Sting Ray. These had new aluminum chassis fitted with a blue FT36 motor, wider wheels at rear with molded foam-rubber slicks, and actual water slide decals instead of the earlier self adhesive paper decals. All of the above were also available as separate body kits.