The body is a typical one-piece body from the early '60's. Not really that thick. I opened up the tonneau cover for the interior pieces from the donor model to work. I had to stretch the chassis a bit, which wasn't difficult. I had this body for years before spying it in my stash, and realizing that I had just got the Maisto Porsche, and then the wheels began spinning, and well, you know how that goes!
Slot racing is getting popular again, I have some modern 1/24th cars that won't be raced, like the BMW LM V12, the Panoz, and some vintage Mercedes and Audi cars from Carrera. They look good and all cost less than $40 each. The best selection of gorgeous slot cars seem to be in 1/32 scale, but that's still huge. I have an HO scale slot car track in my basement, much more manageable. 1/43 would be the ideal slot car scale IMHO.