(1 ONLY) Deep Rear 5 Spoke Wheels Gar-Vic 5:40 1/8" axles slot car NOS #218

Description: NOTE: NOTE: ONE (1) ONLY, PICS SHOW 1 PR, BUT I ONLY HAVE 1 LEFT, 1 ONLY FOR SALE. PICS ARE WRONG. For this listing we offer one (1 ONLY) Deep Wide Rear Wheels by Gar-Vic #218 for 5:40 thread 1/8" axles NOS 1/24th and 1/25th scale. Knurled and Raised Center on Wheels for Center Grooved Tires. (See Pics) Measurements: Wide 3/8"Tall 3/4"OD 7/8" GARVIC Competition Mag Wheels 1/25 Scale Rear Machined aluminum competition mag with 5-40 thread center hub for all 1/8" Axles, bright aluminum rim with dull center spoke to stimulate the prototype American mags. #218 Gar-Vic This California company is typical of the period’s “fast buck” artists. Founded by Gary and Victor “X” (name withheld by request), the company began by producing, wheels, tires guide flags and frames for various motors, from Kemtrons to Pittmans. When the “boom” started, they issued their first kit, a Ford GT40 with a vac-formed copy of the K&B car, along with a Revell-supplied SP90 blue Mabuchi FT36. This was fairly poor, to say the least, and did not sell well. But their next offering was substantially better. Following in Classic’s successful footsteps with the Manta Ray, Gar-Vic issued the Firebird RTR, a double bubble-canopied caricature of General Motor’s turbine car. It had a sidewinder chassis with drop arm, and Gar-Vic’s version of the Mabuchi FT36D, with double-ended shaft. Each end carried a pinion, so you could change the ratio by turning over the motor in the frame…The designer should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for superior engineering. The gold or black anodized chassis had the typical Gar-Vic aluminum non-descript wheels with sponge rear tires that have dried-up on all cars found today, to the point of rotating on the rims when turned…The fronts were nice hard rubber treaded tires. Motors were dark metallic silver, then pink, with a label showing Gar-Vic’s emblem, a black panther.The body, originally blue, was later painted in many color combinations including metalflake colors, very popular in the sixties. A version in blue, orange and black depicting a bat was Gar-Vic’s answer to the licensed Batmobiles produced by Classic, BZ and K&B, this without paying a cent in royalties of course. It also was issued in a scarcer gold and black color, both sold as body kits only. Several body variations followed, all using the same components, and sold in square boxes with full color illustration: the Coronado, a shark-like design; the Sonic Needle, a green or red pointy thing; the Ocelot, the closest thing they offered to a realistic 2-door coupe; the X-Stream, another coupe very similar to BZ’s Banshee, and one of the hardest Gar-Vic cars to find, and the Lunar, a bubble canopy open-wheel affair (sounds familiar by now?) with its own frame, an inline design in gold-anodized aluminum. It seems to be hardest to find, along with Gar-Vic’s last car, produced in 1967: a red and silver McLaren MKII mounted on a blue-anodized inline frame. It is also known that they produced an H.O. set, using styrofoam as track background (but the author has been unable to find an example to date) shortly before the company folded. My Dad owned a Hobby Shop that closed in the early 1970's, and he kept some of the more interesting slot cars and accessories from that era. The items I am listing are in most cases, near new or gently used. I have taken many pictures to show every angle and have tried to describe all features and/or flaws to the best of my ability. Please email with any questions specific to something I may have missed. Please check my other listings as I will be selling many cars, accessories and track in all three scales-- HO, 1/32nd, and 1/24th. If you don't see the car or part you are looking for, please email me. If I have it, I will list it for you. Many of the items in my inventory are NEW OLD STOCK. These items come from a non-smoking environment. Please look carefully at the pictures. We do our best to accurately describe each item, condition of the item and any defects. What you see in the picture is what you are buying. "SOLD AS IS, AS PICTURED" If you have any questions regarding shipping or the item, please email us BEFORE you bid or buy. The Shipping/Handling Fee, includes our cost for packaging materials, postage and Delivery Confirmation, but NOT insurance. Fees shown are for USA Delivery ONLY. **FOREIGN BUYERS please email for correct shipping fees BEFORE PAYING FOR YOUR ITEMS** PLEASE NOTE: If we over-estimate the shipping fee we always refund the overage back to you. Thanks for looking and Happy Shopping! :)

Price: 14.99 USD

Location: Indianola, Iowa

End Time: 2024-04-13T21:50:02.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.75 USD