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How cool would it be to have a 6-lane slot car setup with a few British classics?
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In the lead is MG, followed closely by Triumph!
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Arms out!.....Looks like Fangio driving both cars!
I have a little 4' X 6' layout at the condo to keep me amused in the Winter.
But my pal Bruce (he races a green Mini against me) has a large, excellent slot car track modeled after a European track. It has period-correct signs, buildings and cars or course. I usually drive the Bob Grossman/Masten Gregory Ferrari GTO (Grossman started racing in EMRA....his daughter still comes to some of our events).
Slots are fun....and drinking and driving is encouraged!
Once in a while we go to a friend's foreign car repair shop where he has a permanent 4-lane layout of about 100 feet. It's cool but also sort of intimidating.
My student SAE chapter is collecting old slot car track this summer...they are hoping to build a nice size layout in one of our engineering labs this Fall.
I have a little 4' X 6' layout at the condo to keep me amused in the Winter.
But my pal Bruce (he races a green Mini against me) has a large, excellent slot car track modeled after a European track. It has period-correct signs, buildings and cars or course. I usually drive the Bob Grossman/Masten Gregory Ferrari GTO (Grossman started racing in EMRA....his daughter still comes to some of our events).
Slots are fun....and drinking and driving is encouraged!
Once in a while we go to a friend's foreign car repair shop where he has a permanent 4-lane layout of about 100 feet. It's cool but also sort of intimidating.
My student SAE chapter is collecting old slot car track this summer...they are hoping to build a nice size layout in one of our engineering labs this Fall.
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I have one of the German 1:18 scale sets - about 35' of track - with an XKE vs a Vette. It's pretty true to life - the Vette is much heavier, and won't go round the corners nearly as fast as the Jag...
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Ha, ha, that is very cool /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif !!! Reminded me of the Aurora HO bits and pieces I have in a drawer! I used to modify existing cars int something else, as in XKE to D-Type as in pic. below!! Thanks for the reminder!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
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The TR must be running on three cylinders! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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naah - it gave the mg a head start...
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Steve said:
There's a more straight forward explanation...
Its the Lucas electrics.... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
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Re: In the lead is MG, followed closely by Triumph
My cousin & I had slot cars way back when - we started with the old tinplate Scalextric and later used the plastic ones. The early tin ones were the most fun because they were slow enough to be controllable. They used one hard plastic and one sticky rubber rear wheel that allowed controlled "drifting".
At one point we mixed in some (English) Merit plastic kits and took a few Polaroids. A very weird mix of cars in these obviously staged photos.
My cousin & I had slot cars way back when - we started with the old tinplate Scalextric and later used the plastic ones. The early tin ones were the most fun because they were slow enough to be controllable. They used one hard plastic and one sticky rubber rear wheel that allowed controlled "drifting".
At one point we mixed in some (English) Merit plastic kits and took a few Polaroids. A very weird mix of cars in these obviously staged photos.
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Re: In the lead is MG, followed closely by Triumph
I love those John!!! Some of those models evoke a real memories and a sense of loss for me (Whatever happened to those "lost/misplaced/discarded" toys of our childhoods?) I wish I still had the half of them!!
Those pix look like true California racing of the fifties, with exotic euros mixed in with American "Specials"!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
I love those John!!! Some of those models evoke a real memories and a sense of loss for me (Whatever happened to those "lost/misplaced/discarded" toys of our childhoods?) I wish I still had the half of them!!
Those pix look like true California racing of the fifties, with exotic euros mixed in with American "Specials"!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif