EditInline Slot Car Chassis
An "Inline Car" is a type of slot car or other motorized model car in which the motor shaft runs lengthwise down the chassis, perpendicular to the driven axle (usually the rear). Power is transmitted through a pinion to a crown gear on the axle, or through bevel gears.
It also refers to the longitudinally-mounted motor or the motor arrangement of such a car.
Historically, the inline is the most common type of slot car motor arrangement, powering cars since the earliest days of the slot car hobby, when individual craftsmen in the mid-1950s were installing small model railroad motors into converted static models or handbuilt bodies to race on the first club tracks.
In 1957, Scalextric, one the first two commercial lines of modern-style slot cars and track, used inline engines to power its pioneering cars.
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