Removing paint from old Scalextric cars

At Scalextric Car Restorations we’ve been in the Scalextric car restoration business for many, many years and we’re often asked this question, “I have an old Scalextric car and when I was younger I painted it, how do I remove the paint?”.  There is only one reliable answer, you can’t remove the paint.  Don’t waste your time.

Sure, we did remove the paint off one car as a test and it took ages and ages, and we only did it because it was a car body moulded from Polypropylene or similar material so the paint didn’t stick too well.  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’s been painted is to sand the paint and the body 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 cars too so it’s OK for us too.
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