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The Thunderbolt Prototype This is the original prototype car that started it all, the working title was Enigma. From this car we came to what the Thunderbolt is today. This prototype car made its debut at the Velodrome Nationals 2003 in Indianapolis, which is a demanding high banked, high speed oval. Two prototypes where run that day, one of them finished 2nd in the A-Main, not bad for your first time out. The Velodrome Nationals usually draws about 12 F1/Indy cars still to this day, this year it was one of the largest classes that raced out there on this large high speed banked oval. This race was also the testing ground for this new chassis. We had two of the prototypes race there, which turned out to be a great success for it's innagural race, coming home with a 2nd place in only its first race. Now as the Velodrome season comes to an end we turn our focus to the carpet racing and will see if the chassis can perform on the carpet as well as on the high speed asphalt.
From this prototype came the car of today called Thunderbolt. As you can see from some of the pictures, the front butterfly is not as versital as the current Thunderbolt design. Instead for the prototype we worked on the width of the front brace making a narrow and wide from butterfly chassis plate. We found that the wide chassis plate was too much and have not produced any additional front plates that are that wide. Some of the changes that we have made from this prototype include moving the battery slots up to move the weight more towards the middle of the chassis equaling out the weight to give the car more forward weight and bite. We also narrowed the chassis to accomodate different bodies that are out in the market today. We took out the rear body mounts located on the rear cross brace and moved them to the outside of the battery slots, the ones that you see there were hand drilled to allow the body mounts. 
The Spitfire Prototype This is the 2nd prototype car that is now known as the Spitfire. This our first attempt at a more comprehensive hit, providing you with more parts. It also gives you less additional parts to purchase if you do not have a 10L type pan car. It has an inline battery design to allow you to run a stick pack battery configuration. 
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