It’s a gorgeous car Rob. Give it the full treatment.

Well Rob I think the community has voted 😊 but I'm in the same boat as everyone else. We love to see you exercise your model engineering skills ...full rebuild mate 🤗

Rob I vote for a full upgrade, terrible product.

No shelf queens, no compromise :)

I'm not sure anyone would really like to preserve just how questionable build quality used to be on some cars. Team Slot wheels were often a weakness - I have a Stratos whose wheels seemed to be formed by someone with an egg fixation. However, if you really did want to be able to revert to the original, you could take a cast of a wheel, make four new copies from which you could take the centres as inserts and add those to your Staffs wheels and new axles, bearings, and crown gear. That way you could retain the whole original rear axle assembly and swap it out as one piece whenever you want a smooth usable one and then swap back to the original if you want bigger cousin to your Hot Wheels cars. I'd probably change the pinion on the motor too just to be sure that it meshed properly with the crown gear and was properly shaped and centred too, but that's also a reversible change. Front axle location is a bit more tricky in terms of making something that could revert to original - especially with the weird side play restrictors. Maybe friction-fitting a piece of tube between the front axle supports to provide vertical location, rather than drilling out and adding bearings. It really does depend on whether you or anyone else in the future would really think there's extra value in a fully original, but unusable car over one that's been sympathetically and expertly upgraded to run as well as it looks.

Now,there’s the question! I would always make it run to its best capabilities and know that you can too. It’s fairly similar to the Fly car conundrum because the body is beautiful. I think that you could preserve the original parts and then use Slot. It replacement parts to tune and then if you wanted to sell it, you’ve still got the complete original.

I like my cars to run well, even if they stay on the shelf most of the time. So yes I'd do as you suggest, change wheels ,tyres, axle and gear but leave the body as it is.

All change, Rob. You won’t be happy with it in original form, and maybe I can get some clues on how to fix a TeamSlot Lancia!

Rob! Fix it cause you have mad skills!!! As hobbyist that fix things, I say fix er up and enjoy it making fast laps! Cheers!!

It's got to be the full rebuild Rob. Do your magic sir 👍👍👍👍

Yes Rob. Please rebuild as you suggested.

Rob, would love to see you work your magic and produce a really stunning runner as I am sure it deserves to be.

Make it a runner Rob, keep the body stock and go nuts on the chassis.

Go for it…… those wheels are shocking 😮 but a lovely looking car

Hi Rob, you know the answer to this without my comment, but since you asked..... I want to see you make the proper fixes to the car it's to pretty to leave as is

Yeah please do the upgrades as i know i would like to see how you do simple changes that improve the car

Upgraden and enjoy the car.

That car needs to see some track time. Tune it up to full race specs and send around your track.

Give it some love and then you can continue to enjoy it and occasionally run it around your track for even more enjoyment. Have fun and good luck!

Fix it enjoy the car 😊