Adjustable chassis with extras by Gar-Vic Aluminum used Vintage Original 1960

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Special Adjustable chassis with extras , 2 drop arm for the pick-up guide and 2 brass oilite axle bearings, fronts and rear chassis sections by  Gar-Vic Aluminum used Vintage Original 1960
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 metal flake colors, very popular in the sixties.
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.
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