New Car: Thunderslot Ferrari Can-Am 350 Riverside 1967

Well, I'm back from my summer vacation and all rested and ready for another fantastic slot car season. A lot of it was spent playing guitar, which is a pretty great way to do it. A few trips, but nothing special. Mostly solving musical loose ends. And now that they are completed, we can get back into it. Right after I went on vacation, I got two cars that have been patiently waiting to do stuff. 

 This one kinda goes in the "need to own" pile, along with the Revoslot Datsun 510, Slot.it Ferrari 512M, to name a few others. Cars that are being released that are absolute must-haves. And this Ferrari is another one of those cars. 

Thunderslot already makes great cars...maybe even the best cars...so picking up this one is a no brainer for that fact alone. Great looking and absolutely solid build quality. It'll be nice watching all the new converts to Thunderslot, although it'll make finding cars more difficult due to their popularity. That's okay. 

This is a Ferrari, although licensing issues prevent them calling it one. That's okay. It's still a great car and it's not going to effect me in the slightest that it might be missing a badge or two.

The view most competitors will get of this car. Nice of them to display everything.

Performance-wise, I expect this car to handle and perform similarly to the McLaren M6A. Longish nose, short but boxy back end. Probably not quite as adept as the Elva, but should still keep up with it. Of course, being a Thunderslot car puts it in an instant contender status, which is a good place to start. 

Slot cars these days are so well made that you can depend on them almost completely to be what they claim to be. And this is not just in design, which is getting much better, by the way, but also in production. You can rely on results telling you things and you wouldn't have to factor in excuses like "maybe this car is a dud." I haven't found any duds. Like, none. I can pretty safely say that the brands of cars that I own meet up to all expectations of them. There isn't the floppy, wishy-washy thing where you're hoping to get a good one and not a bad one. 

This is kinda the reason why I decided I didn't want to review slot cars on YouTube. There's nothing to say about them. They're all tuned to the hilt, they all have top shelf ingredients, and they all come from manufacturers that have built reputations on making quality slot cars for hobby racing. So for me to come on here and say that "Brand X is definitively the best" doesn't really work. That's why we race them. But for you to be able to take a car out of the box today, give it a little oil/lube and tire sanding and THAT'S ALL you need to do. 

I expect that I won't have to replace or upgrade a thing on this car, or any other of the 55 or so cars I have now. They're just that good. This car is no different.