Historical Comments by Jim Allen
Here is Car Model Magazine, September 1968, pages 16 and 17,
which Phillip Niyazi used to build the John Cukras chassis. The pictures
on the lower left and lower right show the chassis.
This article, by Mike Morrissey, traces the
development of the pro slot car chassis in the 1967 Los Angeles Car Model race series, and
is considered one of the most important articles ever for slot car historians.
Here's what Morrissey says in the article about the Cukras chassis:
"[Here is] the car John Cukras built two months later [April 1967] for the
coupe race. John was on the Riggen Team at that time and this was their first big win. John was
fastest qualifier at 6.25 on the American King 155-foot track and won the Main after a great fight
with Terry Schmid.
As you can see in the photos, Cukras' chassis was a simple four-rail,
all brass rod frame with a lightly weighted five-rail swinging arm. One of the lightest cars
in the race, it handled perfectly for John and he would have utterly dominated the race if it
hadn't been for the amazing Schmid."
The picture caption on the left says:
"The second race was a John Cukras show and this is the four-rail chassis he used to stage it.
It mounted a special Ferrari coupe body made by Riggen."
The picture caption on the right says:
"Cukras used no piano wire on his car. Every part of this frame is brass."