Removing paint from old Scalextric cars

We’ve been in the Scalextric car restoration business for many years and we’ve been asked this question many times, “I have an old Scalextric car and when I was younger I painted it, how do I remove the paint?”.  There is only one real answer, you can’t remove the paint.



Sure, we did remove the paint off one car as a test and it took ages, we only did it because it was a car body moulded from Polypropylene or similar soft plastic material.  We did it really to prove it couldn’t be done, if you understand what we mean.

The best solution for a Scalextric car that has been painted is to sand the paint down and repaint it properly.  We use a spray paint method for the custom Scalextric cars we paint, which looks natural enough and in any case Scalextric now paints their car too so it’s OK for us.

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