PokS2k

Time to start a new subject.

I was cleaning my basement recently and came across my Aurora HO racing set (it is very old). I still have the metal pins and plastic clips to hold the track together. I even have cars that still run. Some of the cars were prior to the type that could race up walls.

I also remember that my neighborhood had a Slot Car Raceway with 3 large tracks set up. I had a Mako Shark. Several of my friends built their own with Thrush (?) motors and built their own frames with the thin metal rods.

greybeard

yep, I remember rewinding the motors, epoxying the windings, turning the poles down in a drill motor, balancing the armatures on a pair of razor blades..................very light piano-wire chassis.......my ability to solder came from that............yep, it's been a while.............

greybeard

dlq04

Jim,

Slot car racing has made a big come-back. For example, check out this model car store site http://www.sportcraftcars.com/scaleracinghome.htm

PokS2k

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dlq04
Jim,

Slot car racing has made a big come-back.

NNY S2k

Reminds me of my early teen years. Me and a few of my buddies built a slot car track in my parents basement, was about 16'x16' i I remember. I can still rember routering out the slots and wiring the thing up. Also got a large piece of fake grass from the local lawnmower dealer, made the thing look really neat. Made for years of fun.

Woodson

I loved these things. Did anybody have a Strombecker (sp.?) set?

Sorry for posting in your fourm - I am two months shy of membership.

DaveFromSydney

Slot cars were big here in Sydney when I was about 16, in 1967.
We used to have a track in every suburb.
I was at the track just about every day.
Used to rewind motors etc.
My car was a Ford GT40 replica.

Ten years ago, for my son's 10th birthday, we hired out one of the few remaining slot car tracks for his friends to have a party.

Can't say that I would get much thrill from it today.
It doesn't compare well with my 240hp slot car.

PATHFNDR

I had a blast with these things when I was a kid. Then about six years ago in a strip mall near San Francisco, I drove by a new slot car track. Went in and watched for a little bit and was hooked all over again. I spent the entire winter racing, modifying, air brushing new bodies, rebuilding motors every week for the upcoming race, breaking in new tires, cleaning the contacts on the controller. Man I had a blast I couldn't believe how fast the cars have become, since my childhood. The racing is very intense. I came in third place in the GTP Advanced class and took first in the GTP Novice class. It was a very satisfying winter. It was a LOT of fun. Just wish I could find another track here in Denver.

Popeye

I still slot car race !!! However we dragrace 1/24 scale drag cars;and since it's raining here in Central Ohio again I'm heading to the "track" in Attica to do some since today begins the points series.
I used to race as a kid back in the 60's and had forgot all about it untill '91 when a co-worker brought in a chassis on a home made jig with a clear lexan body on it and said there was some scale 1/4 mile drag strips in Cleveland and Fairborn that had opened up.
I was the first guy in Ohio that I know of that race 1/24 scale Honda drag cars,and getting the models from Japan was and still is expensive. We have real christmas trees that have both 5 tenths bracket and 4 tenths pro lights.Lots a fun and at a lot of tracks you can win money just like real drag racing.
My current "drag race" stable is 4 Honda S2000's ,all started life as Tamiya 1/24 hardshell models and 2 lexan 1/24 Funny cars.

That's what I do for fun from November-March here in Ohio for fun every other Saturday