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

jphanna

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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...
 

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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.
 

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Im only 18 :p 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 :)
 

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

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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
 

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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
 

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

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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
 

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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 :)
 

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