Slot Cars? Go them? Show them!

[Steven Vaccaro]

Its a small world I met my second fe boat guy from the OSE forum on the Slot Car Illustrated Forum today. I'm wondering if any more of you guys have tracks?

[ED66677]

I bought two Carrera Go! set (1/43 Formula 1 and Spiderman) to my daughter for christmas last year, these are small but pretty fast and not too expensive for the Carrera quality, plus they are funny with loops and bank/stall curves, bridges... the Formula 1 is really fast!
The two sets together represent something like 10 meters of track, still need to fix them on a large wood table!!!

[Tech Head]

Hey Steven,

Used to race group 12 and group 20 "Wing" cars.

1/24th scale piano wire and brass plate chassis, balanced armatures, ball bearings on the motor and rear wheels, special winds etc:

G&D Model Raceway at Parramatta, Sydney. 3 tracks, 8 lanes each 1975.

The koford chassis in the second picture is responsible for a 1.5 second lap on 155 foot, five turn track. That's almost 70Mph, true speed! "Average".

The first picture shows two, 1962 Scalextric "Listers", found them in one of our council cleanups!

Love the slot's!

Cheers, Brett.

[Ocean Racer]

that is amazing a 70 mph average

[Tech Head]

Have you watched an open class 1/24th scale Wing car running?
Well now that is something to see!

Ever seen 8 of them doing the same speed & racing each other?

That's Priceless!

Regards, Brett.

[A32Limited]

Those are my slot cars. The Mustang was my racer, the Skyline was a WIP. The mustang, I forget the motor it has, but it's a high RPM one, it's got the Scalextric racing tires, and an extra magnet. On the track I used to race at (place closed down, sadly) the owner of the track got it to run just under 5 seconds per lap.

[Tech Head]

Nice cars, Real nice track.

Is that your track or is it a hire car track?

[A32Limited]

Nice cars, Real nice track.

Is that your track or is it a hire car track?

I wish it were my track...it was at a place called Toy Tech, here in Bellevue, WA. He's closed down now, but I still have all the cars and my Professor Motors controller.

Oh yeah, and the F1, was actually my fastest car, and Ron (the owner) started to build up his F1s the way mine was, because it's actually rather fun now. It handles great. All I did was a medium thickness nose magnet, and stickier rear tires.

[Tech Head]

Hornsby Slot Cars. Sydney, Australia

8 Lanes, 147 foot of track, 8 cars doing up to 120Kph/70Mph.

PRICELESS!

See the picture.

Cheers, Brett.

[Basstronics]

Used to race @ North Coast Performance Hobbies.

https://www.ncphobbies.com

I mainly raced 1:32 scale Sprint Cars. I used to make and sell jig bent pieces as RAW Racing.

On OWH...

Was going to race last winter but nobody wanted to play. Seems that "hobby" has taken a serious turn for the worse...

I had an all new Spritn Car chassis designed and ready for production. Ditched the project a I could only loose money on each unit. No interest and nobody seems to have $$$.

[Grimracer]

Slot car racing is how I got my nickname.. Grimracer.. Its also the reason I refuse to race anything for money.

I use to race for Ron Herschman and under the Fast Ones name.

Box Stock 15 was my main squeeze.. i was also pres. of the north central USRA for a short time.

Truth is i started hating the people.. always yelling. always bitching.. At the ranks I did this the people were very hard to put up with.. I bailed out and cut my losses after about 6 years of racing.

I have raced every type of hobby toy you can think of.. Table top pulling included but racing 1/24 scale slot cars was the most expensive type of racing I have every done. 1/8 scale on road was close.. but not quite..

I still have a nice collection of HO stuff.. 4 lane track laying around here too.. but.. it will likely never get used..

Keep in the slot..

Grimracer

[Tech Head]

Hey Michael,

Do you have any pics of the HO cars?

Cheers, Brett.

[Basstronics]

Yes it is amazing how much money you can invest into slot cars.

People start out thinking its a cheap way to race.

Then you start adding up your 'slow' cars that run $50-70 race ready. Then about 3 motors per car... lol

Now lets not even talk about the Open Gr 7's... I got a motor off a national racer to use for drag racing...

Sounded like a welder going down the track, lolz.

[Steven Vaccaro]

This is our Family's track. The table is 10' x 6' in size and made out of hollow core doors. Strong, but light. When its done it "should" be hoisted up and down by a 110v winch. I haven't got that far yet. The track itself is a Carrera Digital 132 System. For you guys that are not into slot cars, the digital stuff is a ton of fun. It has electronics lap counting with many stats of track times. The "fuel" can be programmed so at some point you will start to slow down and need a pit stop to "fuel" up. Ghost cars can be set to make more traffic to have to race around. And upto 6 drivers can play at the same time. The Mobil tower is actually the infrared pickup for the wireless controls. Its a great winter hobby while things are frozen around here.

[Tech Head]

Looks like there would be some close racing on that track.

2 lanes and 6 cars running, priceless fun! Bet they go real fast too.

How does the fantom car work?

Cheers, Brett.