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Part 5
as gathered by Dennis David

The Boom Years
In 1963 the Wall Street Journal estimated the value of the model car racing market at 100 million dollars. The Boom Years of slot car racing lasted barely two years from 1966-1968, and was never to approach that level of popularity again. During those two years you could visit any medium-size town and there would probably be a slot car raceway where you could buy cars and parts from companies like K&B, Russkit, Riggen, Classic, Dynamic, Mura and Champion. In front you would probably find a dozen bikes haphazardly parked while inside you would hear the scream of high pitched motors, the sound of laughing voices and later the smell of Oil of Wintergreen, used as a tire additive. In America it was like a wave that had crested and washed over the country, gone but not forgotten for many of those that had grown up during that time, a lifetime love of the hobby would survive Vietnam, college, marriage and kids.

In 1959, 34 year old Jim Russell, a local accountant and management consultant was looking for something to do on a weekend when a friend introduced him to a novel new hobby called slot car racing. Russ, as everyone calls him, was hooked. Then, in early 1963 while refinishing a coffee table, some Behr varnish spilled on one of Jim's cars. He didn't notice until after it dried but the effect was dramatic. Ever the entrepreneur, Jim decided to market his discovery as a way to improve and protect the finish of models and a new product and company were born.

Russkit was incorporated in November of 1963 but its first product, Russ-Cote, actually hit the shelves in the summer of that year. Russell had quit his job in April to concentrate on getting a product line together for the new company so he started selling out of his car while he put together the financing and organization for the enterprise. The timing couldn't have been better as interest in slot cars was just starting to climb. After manufacturing styrene body kits to use on Strombecker chassis, Russell introduced his own car kits featuring injected bodies.

Working with Hank Rose and attorney Russell secured a six-month exclusive sales deal with Mabuchi giving them enough time to market their newly labeled Russkit 22 motor. When the Russkit 23 came out the company still had a large inventory of 22s at the warehouse. Russell's wife came up with the idea of why not packaging two motors together. Russell quickly had his racer/developer Mike Morrissey create the 'Black Widow' which just happened to have a four-wheel-drive chassis using a Russkit 22 powering each axle.In little time the oversupply of old motors was solved. Besides their parts and car kits, Russkit is also famous for a tool in building cars, a chassis jig, the 'Adjusto-Jig' sold in the thousands. Hobby salesman came up with a pistol-grip controller design that proved to be a definite improvement over Russkit's thumb-actuated models. Russell seeing the opportunity produced the controller which would become the company's greatest success, eventually selling the controller business over to Parma when the company wound down. Russell would continue in the slot car business working for

Brooklyn native Lewis Glaser started a California plastics company, Precision Specialties, just weeks before the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. In the 1930s and 40s, “serious” models were made of wood. That began to change in the early 1950s, when Precision Specialties enjoyed huge success with “Highway Pioneers” plastic car kits. Glaser changed his company’s name to Revell Inc. They had entered the slot car business producing components including a aluminum chassis, wheels tires and gears for scratch builders. Soon the company began issuing 1/32 and 1/24 kits, initially using injection-moulded bodies as well as well regarded home racing set including track, considered by some as the best ever produced. Having Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth under contract they naturally released 'Rat-Fink' and 'Mister Gasser' slot cars. Eventually they got into the commercial track business where they served customers throughout the world and opening a raceway in Los Angeles with six tracks of their own design that would serve as their showroom.

Another company in the plastic kit business that sought to cash in on the slot car craze was Monogram. Bob Reder and Jack Besser who had worked together at Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. in Chicago started their own company in 1945 producing simple die-cut balsa wood ships. The first Monogram car kit was the Hot Shot jet car kit in 1948, powered by a CO2 cartridge. In 1964 they produced their first series of high quality slot cars consisting of two 1/32 kits and seven 1/24 scale kits. The 1/24 scale kits used recycled static model bodies attached to a 3-piece brass chassis. Later Monogram would also produce a home racing set including their own high-quality track. In 1967 Monogram issued a three car series of thingies, one of which, The Assassin used a stamped aluminum chassis and a sidewinder Mabuchi FT36D motor and a vacuum formed body designed by auto stylist, Tom Daniel. In 1968 Monogram stopped producing slot cars and only issued static model kits.

While producing slot cars, Monogram recognized the fact that groups of enthusiasts were gathering to race their model cars, so they made sure they also supported slot car racers with a fairly complete line of racing parts and accessories under the Tiger brand. The 'Tiger' line of 1:24 and 1:32 racing parts included everything from machined aluminum wheels with better tires to 'hot' motors (like the Tiger 100 and Tiger 200 can motors) and complete aluminum and brass frames. During the late 1960s, Monogram and Revell were rivals for the scale model market but in 1986, after declining profitability in a new era of video games and cable television, Monogram now owned by Odyssey Partners of New York was merged with Revell and folded into Monogram Models of Morton Grove, Illinois.

A company that specialized in model airplane accessories since the 1940s, Robert 'Hi' Johnson and Dynamic entered the field of slot car racing accessories in 1963 gaining fame with their die-cast aluminum DynaMite adjustable slot car chassis. By 1964, they entered into a joint venture with AMT, the plastic model kit manufacturer. This collaboration allowed Dynamic to have the use of AMT 'purple' Mabuchi-sourced motors as well as access to the AMT injected moulded line of bodies. One of their most popular cars were root-beer colored Bandit first issued in late 1965 and the black bodied Super Bandit which used a rewound and balanced 'Green Hornet' motor produced under contract by Mura and also included a Cox inspired 'quick change' guide flag. In 1969, Dynamic would have their own professional racing team composed of Bruce Erickson and Jack Garcia who had by then worked for Johnson for over twenty years. AMT dropped the partnership with Dynamic in 1970, however Dynamic continued building slot cars and accessories. With interest in HO scale cars and tracks at it’s peak, Dynamic quickly shifted gears and refocused all R&D efforts on a new HO design. After some internal debate, it was decided that the new HO racer would be based on the Dynamic anglewinder design. The cars were marketed as DynaBrutes. Tragically company principal Hi Johnson was killed in a hang-glider accident in 1979.

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