Dynamic hot rewinds…
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In the hot days of slot racing, Dynamic sold the following 1/ Standard purple FT36D as used in the “Series 2″ AMT kits and RTR’s with the brass inline chassis, the Dynamic “Renegade” RTR and the ultra-rare Dynamic Mustang and Cobra RTR’s. Motors were plain with no sticker. 2/ Standard purple FT16D as used in the AMT 1/32 scale kits and the Dynamic “Bandit” RTR cars with the root-beer or dark-red bodies). This motor was called “Hornet”. No sticker on motor. 3/ Standard purple FT26 (EBD) motor, sold separately and used in Ferrari 330P3 kit car produced by Dynamic. Called “Mad Hornet”. Gold sticker on motor, “Dynamic Models”. 4/ Standard FT26 as above, but the can is now nickel plated. Gold sticker on motor, “Dynamic Models”. 5/ Rewound FT36, based on the leftover “Russkit 33″ that were purchased from Russkit for sale in the rare Dynamic “Swinger” kit, a black AMT Hussein-Cooper body with molded slots to receive the same stamped brass body mount as on the Renegade, and an in-line chassis specifically designed for this car). 6/ Rewound FT36, with up-graded FT36D end bell with brush heat sinks, rewound and balanced. End bell is affixed with two pin tabs on the now metallic red can. I have no stock number on this one and only have seen 7/ Rewound FT16D painted light metallic green right over the purple color, rewound stock arm with clear varnish over the stock gray stack, drill-balanced. This was used on the original version of the “Super Bandit” (black body, Dynaflex chassis)and is called the “Green Hornet”. Sticker on motor, “Dynamic Models”. Some have two self tapping assembly screws as the fastening tabs broke when the motors were opened or shut after the rewound arm was fitted. 8/ Rewound FT16D as above but with MURA-built arm, machined stack, “broken” Champion-style magnets, sold in later versions of the “Super Bandit”, called “Green 9/ Dewound (10 turns per pole) FT26 motor, stack as on #7. Stock mags. Can and bearing painted metallic green right over the purple paint of the Mad Hornet motors. Sold separately, never sold in ANY car made by Dynamic or AMT. Called “Green Hornet II”. 10/ Rewound FT26 motor, same as #9 but with MURA-built arm. Same name and stock number. Not mentioned here are the G.E. motors (stock and rewound) and the MURA “16D” sized motors sold as “Bruce Erickson approved”, or the rewound FT16 arms sold on cards or in bags. |
Mabuchi sold only stock motors to all the slot car companies. The cans MAY look intact in many cases, but in fact they were opened, repainted, the arm dewound or rewound, then balanced, and the thing shut again. If the employees broke the tabs, the cans and end bells were summarily drilled and crude self-tapping screws, then later, cleaner pin-tabs were fitted.