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06-16-2019, 06:45 PM
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But my local track closed and I moved away to a different state, I still have my cars and all the motor building stuff Tyre cuter, com lathe the power supply to run everything plus to break in motors. I think I still have about 12 to 14 1/24 scale cars in my tech box and maybe 6 1/32 cars. The 1/32 cars are from the 60's P.S. those are some classic car's you have in your photo
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06-16-2019, 07:26 PM
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06-16-2019, 08:32 PM
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Bought the (Cox) Ford GT - my first slot car - in '66: real magnesium wheels/chassis, big Mabuchi 36D chrome sidewinder motor, and rear tires that wouldn't even hook up on concrete; wrecked that hard styrene plastic body in a particularly nasty spinout in early '67 (in spite of the fact that I had a healthy pair of sponge slicks by then), rebodied the chassis with the Chaparral coupe but didn't run it much after I bought a second-generation Classic Asp. TMK one of the original tracks is still in business in Brooklyn, in an unmarked storefront in West Flatbush; still have all my '60s gear, still in reasonably good shape, thinking of taking it out for the first time in over 50 years just for the heluvit - should drop some jaws among the younger guys who've only read about this stuff online...
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06-17-2019, 05:13 AM
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In the 1960s I built the AMT McClaren Elva 1/24 scale slot racer. This is someone else's build of the same kit:
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06-17-2019, 07:13 AM
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Oh man, that brings back memories. I was really into slot cars back in the 60's.
The town I grew up in, (just west of Toronto) had two really big tracks. I'd go caddy at the local golf course to earn money to go race at those tracks. I've not seen anything to do with slot cars for years, until this post, I've often thought it would be a big hit these days.
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06-17-2019, 07:34 AM
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Wow had not thought about slot cars since th 60"s
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06-17-2019, 09:44 AM
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Yes, I was as a kid. I had a big HO plastic snap together track setup in a room in our unfinished basement designed to be a scale model of LeMans. As a practical matter, you really didn't scale it down, because the real proportions of the actual track wouldn't be interesting in room size, but the basement Mulsanne straight was over 12 feet long in memory. Every holiday gift list or paper route savings went toward "more track".
My experience with the 1/24th scale stuff was more limited. There was a commercial track over in another town 20 miles or so away. For maybe one year I would drive there after I got my driving license and compete at a weekly meet. I tried winding my own armatures (never successful) but I eventually afforded a Mura 16D motor I put in a chassis I built myself out of brass rod. The one full season I competed I finished third in the final standings mostly from being there every night, never winning a race. Pendant alert: I think the Cox racing models mentioned above had 26D motors, not the bigger 36D ones, but who trusts memories that old...
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