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NWP Chassis for CanAm Class - now in 3D !!!

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Since The German White Point company stopped producing their simple, but popular chassis, I have been makinga small production of a carbon- and grp-reinforced resin chassis to keep the Danish WP CanAm class alive: Here the Carbon strand is clearly seen in the white resin. The bottom in reinforced with GRP cloth, and the chassis need a lot of cleaning up before its ready to race. Also the holes for the front axle has to be drilled. The finished chassis with the handmade motor plate and the guide tongue, which is sourced from the US. The chassis with the 18V Black Carrera motor, sigma gears and alu wheels with foam tires. A simple but fast racer, which is extremely cheap in operation. My team won a 10H race with a similar car. A new set of tyres and the car was ready for the next race - cheap :-) But its pretty time consuming to make the chassis and I was looking for an alternative. I had to be simple in layout like the original and not too expensive. For some time