The first thing I did was to sand down and fill sections of the body that needed kit. I then attached the body mounting posts in the rear. It is obvious from the chassis that this was originally motorized or at least provided that option as there is a mount for the electric motor and holes on the underside for the switch and spur gear clearance. Could a slot car be made with this body? Yes indeed as there is plenty of room for all the appropriate components, though finding proper wheels with the 'spider' pattern might prove to be difficult. The kit also provides another chassis with built in interior and engine, though it is not shown as being used for this kit.

Though the kit seems to be pretty simple (and it is in terms of parts used), it has its issues. I found that the wheels were particularly fragile as the spider wheel insides can be easily deformed. I also discovered that the front axle stubs were far too long and so had to cut them with my Dremel. The exhausts will point down if installed as molded as the angle was not taken into consideration during tooling.

I also found that the injector piece, once built, was too large for the opening provided and so that had to be sanded larger to get it to fit. The clear pieces are not very clear and needed a fair amount of trimming in order to fit the openings. The steering wheel attachment point is too small to fit over the steering shaft so is a butt join.

Chaparrals are overall white so painting is fairly straight forward. I used Tamiya gloss white for this. The 2C has a lot of screen areas. I wasn't sure just how to treat those as leaving them white would make things too bland. Painting them black would be overkill so I painted these areas a light grey. I then drybrushed the screen detail white, however the molding in these areas is patchy at best with large areas just flat plastic with no detail. It may not be prototypical, but it does break up all that white.

Once painted, I applied the decals. Despite their age, they worked perfectly. At least most of them did. I was unable to salvage the tire markings. A gloss clear was then applied using Testors lacquer in a spray can. With that done, all the little bits and clear parts were permanently attached with some pieces being glued using either Cementine clear cement or E6000 in addition to standard glue. I then simply snapped the body onto the chassis and that was it.