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Riggen Industries (and other "Brass") Vintage Press and Advertising
Here is a listing of articles and ads found in vintage Slot Car magazines relating to Riggen and HO brass generally...
Model
Car and Track Magazine
November 1966:
Riggen
large scale ad p 13
Car Model Magazine
January
1969:
Project
Wrap Up by Pat Dennis--The Aurora HO Cobra pt 3 p 39, great custom work in brass
(Oct 68 pt 1 and
Dec 68 pt 2)
Riggen promo p 60 for large scale wheels
and tires
February 1969
Not much brass HO in this issue
March 1969
Not much brass HO in this issue
April 1969
Riggen 1/32 Tune Up article p17
(lower the motor, improve front axle, new pinion)
May 1969
p 62, Mention of the Mura "postage stamp"
motor, the basis of the HT-50? later used by TycoPro, Riggen, Cobramite and
Dynabrute...
July 1969:
HO Racing with Jack Ayres p 56 article about brass
pans
August 1969
Turning a TycoS Red Wheelie truck
into a sidewinder! p 34
September 1969:
Champion ad p 67
November 1969
Not much brass HO in this issue
December 1969
How to airbrush p 44
January 1970:
HO Racing with Dale Flanagan p46--good
discussion of brass handling pans
February 1970
TycoPro ad p9 introducing TycoPro
"Aurora West" controller ad for Russkit
controllers...p11
Cobramite HO ad, p 15 6 body styles
"Comes the Revolution: TycoPro" p17
3 page article--very good read!
March 1970:
TycoPro ad p5--introducing the TycoPro 1st four
bodies
Cobramite ad p14--New HO from Cobramite
A New Standard in HO...Dale Flannagan Track Tests
TycoPro p33
April 1970
New TycoPro ad p5 shows orig box style packaging
Riggen (large scale) ad for plumber style chassis
Gorski HO Micro Controller, p 52
Mura ad p 61 with their brass pan for the TycoPro
May 1970
Full page TycoPro ad p5
p53 Flanagan tip on "TP slipping pinions"
p58 Cobramite ad
June 1970
Mura ad showing the bat pan (with motor cooling
hole) and availability of custom rewinds for HO p10
Carl Dreher Tames the TYCO PRO p17 ...."it
doesn't go around corners"
Intro to HOPRA p43
July 1970:
Inside cover TycoPro ad, the next 4
p10, long column on the HT50 motor specs
p11 Champion HO ad
p36 AutoWorlds HO Champions, great pics of various
scratchbuilts
p42 How to advance and HO armature
p 62 Cobra clip ad and and LaGanke HO ad
August 1970:
How to build an HO Anglewinder by Tom Malone p18--Scratchbuilt!
HO Racing with Dale Flanagan p46--good
discussion Scratchbuilding
Mini Hell Driver Decal offer p54
September 1970
TycoPro ad inside fr cover "Now there are
12"
Flanagan TP tips (controllers) p13
HO Concourse p42
October 1970
Pic of Dave Walker HO Anglewinder (brass pan)
p13
How to make the TP Vette do Wheelies p17
4 Wheel Drive Tjet p48
November 1970*
Cobramite mods
HO Racing with Dale Flanagan p48 Challenger Anglewinder
....good
thread on this story on Old Weird Harold forum (poss broken link)
December 1970:
AJ's Panhandler ad p 9
Cobramite Dragmite ad p 54
Riggen 1/32 ad p58
Jim Kirby HO Bodies ad p 58
Cobramite Supermite ad p60
January 1971
Cobramite Dragmite ad p10, p60 Supermite ad
February 1971
Tom Malone column re Cobramite version 2, Mura
rewind cans, p8
2 page TycoPro ad "The souper chargers",
on the new trick pan chassis
Flanagan column: "riggen is coming out with
an HO car...." also mention the Cobramite "Supermite" p50
says that
the car was supposed to have a detailed interior and the (epoxied) rewind motor
March 1971*
Riggen Prototype mentioned in Flanagan
column p 48
April 1971
Flanagan Intro TP chassis revision
p27
Dynabrute ad p55
May 1971
Twinn-K TycoPro Hop Up kit ad p8
Flanagan critiques
the Riggen, confirms Kirby bodies, Harsh on the GEAR MESH
square teeth on
the pinion and hypoid placement are mentioned as the problems (later corrected
with the drop down chassis and a rounded (TycoPro???) gear)
2 page TycoPro ad: Pat Dennis explains the re-design.
New pan and shoe, new packaging
The Dynabrutes are coming ad p11
Great 2 page spread
p36-37 on the 1971 Hobby Trade Show:
Picture of a Riggen Can
Am Racing set (I heve never seen this, don't believe it ever went commercial)
with THREE lane track, double Microswitch controllers with jack, built in brakes
and accessories!
Picture of aTycoPro display case
with domes
Pictures of the Supermite HO Dragster, the Aurora
AFX in box packaging, the Riggen H0 and the Dynabrute
June 1971
Track testing the TycoPro p18 (Ed Bianchi
in detail)
Flanagan column p40 discusses the Dynabrute and
the Cobramite
July 1971:
Race Reports p 15--Tony Porcelli
at Buzz-a-Rama
Mini HO ad p51 featuring A/FX, Riggen, Dynamic,
TycoPro and Cobramite
TycoPro "Trade In" ad inside
back cover-
August 1971
p
8, ad for Riggen Tractor trailer! 1st ad to mention new style drop down chassis
p12 Flanagan Mini Mods
for Riggen, gear mesh and pinion gear as usual!
TycoPro Trans Am Camaro body mod
p41
September 1971
Dynabrute ad: The "Harpoon
Principle" guide flag
p 16: Powerslicks motor in a Riggen chassis for
a Lil Red Wagon dragster...
October
1971
How to paint clear plastic bodies p12
Bamberg HT-50 rewinds p52
November 1971
p10 column discusses Riggen gear
mesh and hypoid alignment
How to build the Kircher Lead Sled p45
TycoPro new cars p25
Brass in full swing: Mini HO ad
p 61
December 1971
Aurora Pit Kit ad p2
good Riggen ad p 10 shows the VW bus and
the early Mini Cooper
January 1972:
Riggen Industries Inc advertisement p6
(the ad has different model numbers for three Hot Rods...)
(HO Proving Ground: Track Testing Aurora's A/FX
p 23)
2 page TycoPro color ad p38
(Setting Up Bob's HO Lead Sled by Bob Kircher
p 39)
p52, Flannagan discusses the Cobramite "Scratchmites"---3
types
Dynabrute ad p59
Riggen 113 VW Bus and 114 Mini Cooper--both very
rare p 67 ad
February 1972:
HO Model Proving Ground: The Boss Riggen p35
Turning the Dynabrute into a Dynamic HO Funny
Car p28
March 1972:
Howard Kilgore article, AFX handling Mods p39.
Uses a "Brimhall Body" with details and wing on his AFX car
Phil Bamberg Mabuchi motor tips p58
April 1972
NOTHING?????
May 1972
Kilgore reviews the AFX Super 2 p21
Hopping up the TycoPro w AJ's parts p41
June 1972
Bianchi tests HO Controllers p27
August 1972:
HO Model Proving Ground Track Testing the Dynabrutes
by Ed Bianchi p 33
HO Mini Mod: long drop arm pan for a TycoPro by
Tom Malone p 32
Dynabrute ad p 55
Custom Jerobee by Riggen Industries ad (Radio
Control) p 9 "What Carroll Shelby does to a Ford, Riggen does to Jerobee"
AJ's
BP-2 Brass Pan Stabilizer ad p 9
September 1972
Endurance proofing your copper wipers (Bianchi)
p 12
October
1972:
How
to Build a Riggen HO Anglewinder by Ed Bianchi p17
November 1972
p39 intro ad 8 White Boots
p52 picture of a Kemp pan car
p58 MAC Lexan bodies ad
December 1972*
TycoPro Anglewinder p 38 pics
of the Tycopro pan car prototypes
January 1973
p1 TycoPro column on fixing the white
boots...
p29 Testing the Super2
p45: a NEW CAN MOTOR: K&S SS-9--I've never
seen one!
p46, the K&K RTR pan car
February 1973
p9, Flannagan's can clip helper for the
HT50
p61, Creepy Riggen ad for 1/32 German military cars
March 1973
p1
Tycopro column on COLOR
p22 static balancing an HO armature
p33 front pin tube body mount
*****p47 K&K product review, great column by Kilgore,
also mentions Bronze man Products
p 61 THE BEST RIGGEN HO AD! has a picture of the very
rare VW Delivery Van
April
1973:
HO Racing with Howard Kilgore p 15--column mentions
magnet cars, HOPRA, Bamberg, Riggen/TycoPro dragster
Pin Tube body mount for A/FX pt 2 by Howard Kilgore p20
September 1973:
Kilgore's HO World p 13--Carl Dreher
SB Pan Car with magnets
October 1973:
Kilgore's HO World p15--Marty Thalison spec TCP SuperPro
IN-LINE chassis w pictures
mentions Bamberg
rewind
November/December 1973:
Kilgore's HO World p9--announces improved Riggen
chassis by Dick Megugorac
January 1974
****Pictures of 4 TRUE Pro Built Chassis in the
style of 1/24---these are ridiculous! P 6
February 1974:
Marty Thalison's "New Yorker"
p 15
p37, AJ's ad with the ISO pan
May 1974:
p41--picture of 4 great A/FX based pan cars in
race results
June 1974:
Building of a New Yorker by Marty Thalison and Jaye
Saarinen--TCP Open Class Pan car
Kilgore's HO World p 19--column about HO Lexan
bodies incl Parma, Thayer, K & K, Trojan, Snake
July 1974:
p12,
The Racers edge column builds and AFX with Shaker...
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