Gordon Piszar’s Plastic Chassis Dirt Modified

by Arie Viewer

Photos by Gordon Piszar

The slot car hobby recreates in miniature the whole world of motorsports, from the Monaco Gran Prix to the Daytona 500 to the 24 Hours of LeMans and on down the line to every local road circuit, drag strip, and oval track, reflecting the life-size racing interests of slot car builders across the world. 

Gordon Piszar’s model of a dirt modified, built on a styrene chassis, represents a corner of the slot car world bypassed by the slot car manufacturers.  Gordon, from Ballwin, Mo., exercised a lot of creativity in building it.   It's a non-magnet car, powered by a Falcon motor and kept settled down by a nice chunk of lead. The body is from a Dollar Store “Low Rodz” toy car.

This was Gordon’s first attempt at building a styrene chassis.  He obtained an assortment of Plastruct styrene building materials from his local hobby shop and waded into the project without a clear plan. Gordon says, “I knew what body I was going to use and built the chassis to fit it.”

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