Slot Cars? Go them? Show them!

[Steven Vaccaro]

Racing 6 cars is a crash fest. I like 3 racing three cars and maybe one ghost car. With the ghost car you program a set speed, than it travels around the track at that speed, randomly switching lanes.

[Basstronics]

Ahhh into the plastic "slot cars" which is a different beast that what Grim & I are talking about.

In comparison that fastest plastic slot car would be slower that any of our "slow" slot cars (cheetah powered).

Heres a quick vid I found. Its of Grp 12 cars, which are way slower than a 24 or 7...

Be surprised:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9cJuM34e4

I guess this is a vid of Grp 7's Looks to bein slow motion... :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPU3OMDFuo&feature=related

[Steven Vaccaro]

Ahhh into the plastic "slot cars" which is a different beast that what Grim & I are talking about.

In comparison that fastest plastic slot car would be slower that any of our "slow" slot cars (cheetah powered).

Heres a quick vid I found. Its of Grp 12 cars, which are way slower than a 24 or 7...

Be surprised:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9cJuM34e4

I guess this is a vid of Grp 7's Looks to bein slow motion... :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPU3...eature=related

Ya, I'm not into the race stuff. Although I enjoy watching the high speed cars. I really enjoy the scale apperance to the toy stuff. We have our ralley car race nights, than our street car race nights. And sometimes mix in the go karts. They are still plenty fast for the small track we race on. Plus they can be drifted like real cars.

[Tech Head]

See post #3.

Love all slots, each type have there merits and are totally different experiences.
Though i totaly enjoyed myself racing my group12 Koford.

There is another slot car track opening in Sydney soon. It's called King Raceway, at Farfeild.

Cheers, Brett.

[racer66]

I too was into slot cars back in the late 90's. I think this is when slot cars really picked up, big boom in the industry then. Started with HO. There was a MAX Trax in Oxford MA owned by a great guy named Bob. He had a large collection of T Jets and AFX cars.

Then I found another place to race in Cambridge MA, Catfish Speedway. Great guys there. Real serious HO racers. These guys liked speed! They raced mod Tomy cars and super strong magnets in them. These little cars screamed!

My interests went to 1/24 which I really miss. I found a great 1/24 track in Manchester NH, Queencity Spreed Way run by a awsome guy named Matt K. Here I ran group 16 motors on Champion chassis. Did real well with them, I loved to build these cars! Also did 1/32 IRL cars, man these were sweet slot cars. Also did 1/32 with $5.00 motors, if mod right they would scream!

I had a Huddy tire turner, Huddy comm lathe, Ruddock DR 40 controller and a Difalco. I spen lots of time building chassis. Painting bodies was fun.

There were tracks in NY, Maine, and Conn. Also a track in Ashland, MA. The owner there was great too!

I did not enjoy racing at all. Seems these guys take it way too serious, like Grimm said. Unplesant to race with, these guys were rude and loved to yell at you. I lasted 3 years and did 4x's a week, bad addiction! I do not have any cars, as I sold them.

Only wish I could go back to the 1960's when this was born, a great hobby.

[NitroVal]

Holy thread resurrection, Batman!!

[NativePaul]

No idea if it is fast or not but while looking at basstronics links I found This one with good camera work so you can actually see the car.

I admire the speed but like Steve I'd rather have 4 wheels on my wagon.

[AlanN]

Got alot of old HO and some scale electrix and fly cars. Too many to count right now. Many were from my older brothers and neighbors collection. There are some pretty vintage rides there. When the wife and I first bought our house I set up (2) 4'x8' tables and setup a 4 lane HO track. The back straight was pretty much 13-14 ft and each lane had it's own power supply. We would run 5 laps per lane. If you wrecked you were out. 4x per type of car and add up the points. One point for 1st 2 points for second and so on. The least points was the circuit winner. Maybe if I get the chance to post some pics I will.

[damfurst]

All I had to start with a figure 8 two lane track that was battery powered made by Aurora. That was the late 60's and a few xmas's and birthdays expanded a little with pieces of track and a few cars and even a transformer. I think I still have a batman car Thunderjet car. When I was in High School I ran into an older student who said he wanted to sell all his track and cars and stuff that he had. I looked at it and asked him how much and he said $45. I had $43 with and he said that was enough. There were 3 cardboard boxes of track, 6 transformers, 30-40 cars in various states of repair, controllers of all descriptions, etc.. I was a regular customer of Autoworld and HO center of the world. I still have all of this stuff along with a few other newer cars, but I sadly have not done much with them over the years. Maybe they'll get used with grandchildren when not running boats with grandpa down on the creek.

[BHChieftain]

Here's my outdoor setup-- it is Carerra track, built into a 6'x12' table which I cover with a tarp-- it is waterproof. Been running great for the past 7 years. The elevated corner is trying to simulate the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca (about 1.5hrs from my house).

-Chief

[bigwaveohs]

Jim,
That's awesome...Chris can't wait to see it (hint, hint)
P

[bwells]

Tech head post #9 reminds me of my slot car days, mid 60's and a very large track. Pay 1 buck for an hour of time and plug your controller in and run. Pitman motors were the choice and Castor Oil on the rears was the trick!

[Ken Haines]

Home Slot Car Track

This is my small 1/32nd home track.
Just thought I would share the pics when I saw this thread.
Ken

[Ken Haines]

Slot Cars

Anyone else have any interesting tracks ?