My Favourite Nissan H:O Scale Slot Cars

I haven't done a slot car post for a while, so here goes.  Inspired by Alex Harmer's article on Nissan's greatest sports car on motorsportmagazine.com I thought I would share my favourite Nissan 1/64th scale slot cars.  The Motor Sport article is well worth seeing even if just for the pictures of the Can-Am inspired R381 of 1968 which won that year's Japanese GP.

When we had some good friends around for the weekend recently I set up a 4 lane slot car circuit for us guys to race on whilst the girls took the dogs for a walk.  Thus the circuit forms a back drop for the Nissan slot cars.

BRE Datson 510.   I love these cars as they have the magnasonic chassis which means they are fun to drive as they are slow but tail out and make a silly noise!   The real BRE Datsun was a creation of Peter Brock and BRE stands for Brock Racing Enterprise.  The 510 was from 1971 and 1972 and BRE's driver John Morton was very successful in the SCCA races in the USA. 

Group C Nissan VG30ET powered March 85G.  The car on the right represent the Weaver/Hassemi/Hada driven car that finished 16th at Le Mans in 1986.

Tyco Datsun 280ZX.   The car on the right represents the Bob Sharp Racing car that Paul Newman drove to win the SCCA C production championship in 1979. The car on the left comes from an era when you could advertsise cigarettes on a kid's toy!

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