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OT: anyone remember this?

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PhilRamone

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hey guys, anyone here remember this track?

my dad and uncle added pieces to it when they were kids, and now its miiineeee hahaha im still in the process of restoring it... the cars are running but need an overhaul before they can race, and i still need to go over the track again :jump:

the original cars it came with (and a whole tot of others) are still in storage back home... the ones showing are ones my dad bought in the 80's (the ones with the short shoes and different chassi)
 
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The best way ever to say SWEEEEEEEET!!!!!:

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Owwwhhh!! I still have mine boxed up the the storage room. My beautiful wife thinks it needs to be moved out, given away, sold on Ebay.

Kevin
 
Wiens said:
Owwwhhh!! I still have mine boxed up the the storage room. My beautiful wife thinks it needs to be moved out, given away, sold on Ebay.

Kevin
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if it fits mine i can give it a new home:gossip:

:engel016:
 
I had the earlier version, from the 60's, Model Motoring. I had tons of track, the pins, center connectors, crossings, and 2 dozen vehicles. Sold it all as a lot about 7 years ago.
 
Ahh yes.... I bounced more than a couple cars off the wall hitting the corner to fast :)
 
I had a Dukes of Hazzard one when I was a kid. It had a big grap in the track somewhere that you had to jump. Good times.
 
all my friends think thisi s a bore too, but i love it.

i have the devils ditch track (bought it for parts) and didnt get into it, i like the Aurora bc its 'realistc' like model trains i guess hahaha

if anyone has parts or sets or anything kicking around, let me know please!!

:ernae:
 
I had one with a Jag and a Vette. Wish I'd had 2 so the track was longer. A lotta fun, but we had no place to leave it set up. Play... take it apart... put it back together and play. A never ending cycle. :costumes:
 
Oh my word yes. Had one in the sixties, but from 1976 through 79, a crew of us got together and pooled all of our old and new AFX track and built a four-lane identical scale replica of Watkins Glen. We wasted so many hours drinking cleaning products and racing heats. I was one of the first to be disqualified for cheat bu lowering my magnets for better traction. It got to the point of being the same political manure that exists today in motorsports. But we all cheated, drilled out chassis, gummed the tires, lowered the magnets. Here was a bunch of 20 and 30 somethings acting like 12-YOs. It was our simulator!

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
Oh my word yes. Had one in the sixties, but from 1976 through 79, a crew of us got together and pooled all of our old and new AFX track and built a four-lane identical scale replica of Watkins Glen. We wasted so many hours drinking cleaning products and racing heats. I was one of the first to be disqualified for cheat bu lowering my magnets for better traction. It got to the point of being the same political manure that exists today in motorsports. But we all cheated, drilled out chassis, gummed the tires, lowered the magnets. Here was a bunch of 20 and 30 somethings acting like 12-YOs. It was our simulator!

Caz
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LOLOL.....


I remember going with my dad once when I was a kid to a big track meet, set up in a rented out small store. It was about 8PM at night, tons of people in there, and tracks that were perhaps 8 lanes wide going from the front of the store to the rear, 2 different tracks... Cars everywhere, the smell of hot motors, crashes being heard.. Man, that was wild.. Must have been back in the 1960's.


My track, I have no idea who made it, had the old Indy cars. My fave was the white Dan Gurney Eagle. But........ These cars were big! They had the big rectangular motors and tires about an inch in diameter. You could brake down all the parts (totally disassemble them). Man, when one of those babies whipped off the track, duck! You had to slow down in some turns.



Fun times... :d



Bill
 
Shucks me and my brother got a HO set of Aurora cars back for I think it was the Christmas of 67. We ended up with our Dad building a deal like a train set with hills, a town, etc. He built it to where it could be folded up and put away when not in use.

We got several different cars too. I remember having a Mako Shark (68 Vette prototype), '41 Lincoln Continental and the Green Hornet's car. My brother had an early Mustang, the TV series Batmobile and a few others.

I'd clean forgot about having that thing. We spent a lot of hours racing those cars against each other.
 
Slotted race cars are very popular down at my local hobby shop. Hobbyists here will kit build their own race car, superdetail it, race it once, put it in a display case somewhere, and then start the whole process all over again. People will come in with the most arcane knowledge about tires, chasis (?)(Don't know what the plural of 'Chasis' is.), etc..

JAMES
 
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