Beachside 24 is a part of the Beachside Model Raceway club it is the 1/24th scale racing site to view the 1/32 scale racing please go to the links page.   The following pages are photos of recent meetings and paragraphs explaining the car classes and there rules .  Below are some photos of  some slotcars built to represent some Pre1980 Australian Touring cars .  These slotcars are built using "Sunset Bodies" vacuum formed lexan bodies (80mm super competition type bodies).  The chassis in this class at Beachside Model Raceway are open to the slotcar builders choice, Either home made (scratchbuilt) or chassis can be of the laser cut stainless steel type from Parma (Flexi chassis) or MJK chassis Australia.  Basically the chassis are open in design but all cars in this class run the "China" motors like "Little Rippers" or "Cheetah II Plafit".  The chassis can have the motors mounted inline or as sidewinders/anglewinders and the gearing is up to the builder.   The only real limit to this class is the slotcars all run the same type of rubber rear tyres .  The slotcars must have numbers displayed on the bodies , They must have an interior with a driver either a vacuum formed interior or a hard plastic moulded driver and interior seats/dash and steering wheel.  The bodies can be painted to copy a real scale car that was raced in the era  or  to have a look to be appropriate to the era that the class is representing . The chassis under these bodies can be fit with other types/class of bodies as in Sports Cars or post 1980s Australian Touring Car bodies .

The FJ Holden Class is a slotcar class that is raced widely across Australia .  The basic chassis is open but the motor must be mounted inline and the body is a vacuum formed plastic with a vacuum formed interior. Beachside Model Raceway took its lead from Adelaide Model Raceway in the rules for this class ,where the motor is to be of the made in "China" type -"Little Rippers" or " Plafit Cheetah II"  At both BMR and AMR raceways the gearing is open but everyone must use a "control" rubber tyre . The car is to have racing numbers on the body .  The slotcars are to represent the era of the early FJ Holden racing but as these cars in the real world have been racing since the late 1940s the paint schemes can vary from almost bland in colour to "full hotrod" type pearlessant/metallic colours. These slotcars race on narrow tyres and the "china" motors are no slouches in performance it is a fast and furious type of racing and the slotcars perform very evenly giving everyone a chance to win. This class is an excellent entry class to 1/24th scale slotcar racing , giving the builder an appreciation of how to set up a slot car to handle and the builder can run with a bought stainless steel laser cut chassis "MJK  number "020" type or build there own chassis if they like.  Below are some photos from a recent FJ Holden race meeting at BMR - O'Sullivans Beach S.A.