Scalextric Restoration part3

The last (possibly?) of these posts where I try and improve some of my old Scalextric cars using the skills and techniques I've learnt through my hobby journey. These two were quite straightforward as I really only wanted to improve the appearance of these pretty ugly vehicles and see if I could also improve the performance too. Here's the two finished cars:

A Metro and an Escort Xr3i were chosen, which originally looked like this:

And this:

I wanted to change up the colour scheme of the Escort, using yellow, quite simply because none of the other cars are yellow and because I wanted to try and improve my masking tape and aerosol technique. After a bit of work with the paints and the decals (and a couple of Lego bits for fog lights) I ended up with this:

I also put a bit of lead weight in the front end to improve it's performance (I'm very much against magnets...)

And for the Metro I ended up with this:

Where I created a spoiler out of plasticard, added exhausts, resprayed the trim and repainted the interior. But no matter what I did it still runs badly as it's way too top heavy and does not like cornering at all. I see that as a challenge to race against my sons magnetised Sierra Cosworth!

Back to some miniatures next!