slot car sets - own up if you had/got one

[jphanna]

For those that are over 30 years old, well before XBox, PS2, WII..etc, the main form of indoor entertainment for me and most of my friends back then was a slot car set. if you were not so rich, you had a 'no name' brand that you could get from most Toy stores etc, and took 4 D cell batteries. If your parents had a bit more cash, you got AFX or scalextric with a transformer (never ending power!). i only gave mine away a few years ago to a neighbor, and i bitterly regret that now. i may ask for it back...

Own up all you X generationers...

[minux]

I still have about 30 metres of scalextric in the cupboard. Been offered thousands for it. I plan on making a major train/slot car setup using paper mache once the new house is built.

[Tom_1569]

Im only 18 but I have one.

Had the Auroo AFX kit since I was a little kid, now my nephew is older enough to play with it, I've got it back out to relive my childhood. I've made tracks all over the lounge room, probably have 30+ metres of track

[nemesis_adrasteia]

i rememb e having the bathurst track and cars and heaps of track lenghts? slot car meet anyone? hell yes

[delcowizzid]

both trains and cars here wish i still had them now used to be lots of fun would spend any spare pocket money on lengths of track when i could back in the day

[ScoHar]

yea I've got a scalextrics, with a couple of cool cars rs500 cosworth..... cool how the lights go too, well thats what excited me when I was a young lad

[Doctor Sodways]

Yup, i had multiple sets, still got them somewhere i think

[tanner892]

Scalextirc, out back in the garage, my old mans set, ive used it a few times, really good quality stuff, works perfect decades later, couple porsches, benz and an F40 :P oh and heaps of like old school F1 cars, and other bits and pieces, heaps off tyres

[Smitty]

slot cars...???
hell yeah

in the late 60s there was a great track set up in the front of the
squash court building in downtown Oakleigh...Melbourne

Smitty was a local legend with his homebuilt racers
souped up engines, lever adjustable suspension
locked diffs and gumball slicks

[stocky]

yeah i got one of those tracks somewhere. used to have one setup in the garage. im sure its around the house somewhere

[ghog1726]

I'm only 19 but i had an AFX Thunderloop thriller i remember that, was great fun. Still have it somewhere

[Robbo_c]

Yeah im 16 had an AFX one since i was little still got it in a cupboard somewhere.

[Escape-The-Fate]

yeah i have 2 still and im only 18..i had the bathurst one and the one that went up the wall..think its called the thunderloop thriller?..anyways i used to sit there for hours making differnt tracks and wat not..cleaned the tracks with a rubber eraser so the cars had better contact and everything

and i never did it but was told if u took a few coils out of the copper coil they went even faster?

[jphanna]

yeah i have 2 still and im only 18..i had the bathurst one and the one that went up the wall..think its called the thunderloop thriller?..anyways i used to sit there for hours making differnt tracks and wat not..cleaned the tracks with a rubber eraser so the cars had better contact and everything

and i never did it but was told if u took a few coils out of the copper coil they went even faster?

those AFX cars are tiny, how would you be able to make changes to the motor without wrecking the whole car? anyway i think it was best you didnt try...

[doms3]

Yep got one my 4 year old son loves it(me more though)

I paln on building something like this eventually down the shed

YouTube - Racing w/ the Powerbase Pro

[GREGWATKINS75]

got a few meters upstairs to.. afx and scaleletrix... with the afx if you get some tweasers you can unwind the motor, then turn on 3 or so turns of heavy gauge wire,, for insane speed, they dont last long though, usually end in a cloud of smoke after 20 or 30 minutes, but they are eay enuff to built,,, and the hot wheels speed radar gun thing is great to mesure there speed,,, fastest so far is 1160 scale kms an hour.... oh im 34 by the way, just havent grown up

[Escape-The-Fate]

got a few meters upstairs to.. afx and scaleletrix... with the afx if you get some tweasers you can unwind the motor, then turn on 3 or so turns of heavy gauge wire,, for insane speed, they dont last long though, usually end in a cloud of smoke after 20 or 30 minutes, but they are eay enuff to built,,, and the hot wheels speed radar gun thing is great to mesure there speed,,, fastest so far is 1160 scale kms an hour.... oh im 34 by the way, just havent grown up

thats wat i was talking about to make them go faster haha

[tivoom]

Im 24 and gave my afx tracks to my nephew then about 3 months later found the 05 brock car out side and and half the track turned in to a tonka truck jump so now it all sitting back in the shed

[arrow224]

21, got a Scalectrix set. Dunno how many metres, but would do me enough. 2x V8 Supercars, one Dick Johnson Ford, one some random Nokia racing.

[pugga]

i'm 22 and a manager of a hobbie store, Scalextric FTW

[Lumps of cheese]

Yep, bathurst one here. Also have hornby trains.

[STEALTHY™]

I have about 100 metres worth of track (2 sets and some extra's)

Had it setup in the spare room at my old house, but cbf getting it out again for 5 minutes of fun. If back in the box sitting in a cupboard at my parents house.



Had a shitload of trains, but forgot them when i moved out of a mates place.

[Philthy]

Have a few afx sets in a cupboard at mums place somewhere, along with random bits and heaps of cars.
When we were kids we used to all get together, combine sets and make massive tournaments.
Hmm...maybe I should hunt them down and take them to my place

[jphanna]

Im 24 and gave my afx tracks to my nephew then about 3 months later found the 05 brock car out side and and half the track turned in to a tonka truck jump so now it all sitting back in the shed

kids today...no respect! (just kidding) i would have done the same as you. i hope the Brockmobile wasnt damaged.

[Ozzie]

I had a hugeee santa fe setup when I was younger but wrecked it (as kids do)
Now I regret it

I recon bring back the matchbox cars! Now days hotwheels actually does lead the way lol. And hotwheels is shit!
Matchbox used to be the lead brand and design but now their just plastic metal crap.