Slot car racing.

[ted]

Any others here ever tried slot car racing?

IROC HO slot car racing at my place in San Diego.

[HobieMarty]

I have some sets but they are basically toys to me. Zack loves the slot cars and that's the main reason I have them, that, and the fact that I'm just a big ol kid!!! I have an Eldon set, (Dodge Road Race set) that the Dodge dealer gave my Pawpaw when he bought the truck in 1968!!! Had it since I was 3 years old.

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[KFC911]

I had a 2 car figure-8 track in 1968 ... never failed to launch them suckerz!

It wasn't as nice as yours !

[Scott Douglas]

My brother and I had a Cox slot car set in the early '60's. We had a lot of track, or so we thought. Our then neighbor invited us over to see his slot cars which he was building from scratch using piano wire and pin tubing with Pitman 65 motors for power. He kept them in a cool wooden fishing tackle box that he'd take to the track that was down by the high school at the time. This was big time racing to us.

[Steve Carlton]

I was into it in the mid-'60s. I remember asking for slot car stuff for Christmas. The local hobby store had a track that I would go to, but I never really raced anybody. I remember going to Playland at the Beach in San Francisco once.

https://www.hrwforum.com/forum/hrw-all-scales/vintage-slot-cars/24134-san-francisco-playland-at-the-beach-slot-car-tracks

[jyl]

I was really into 1/32 Scalextric in the 90s. I went to Spain which was a slot car mecca, found all the hidden warehouses where the locals raced. They raced “rally” cars with bumpy tracks, jumps, even suspension. Pretty dang cool. I still have my Scalextric stuff.

[berettafan]

have a scalextric set in the garage boxed up. Should probably get it out over the holidays.

[Jeff Higgins]

A hobby shop at our local mall had what I think I remember to have been about an eight lane 1/32 scale track when I was a kid. They sold car kits, from what I remember we could not buy a "ready to race" car. We could rent their cars for essentially no cost, just to encourage kids to race.

I think cheap, reliable R/C essentially killed it. My youngest son and I started racing 1/12 scale four cell electric pan cars and then 1/10 scale 4wd touring cars, six cell electric indoors and .12 ci glow fuel outdoors when he was eight years old. He had no interest in slot cars after that.

I have since had occasion to drive some serious "adult" slot car. My God, I cannot even begin to think fast enough to have any hope of doing that. I have also had the opportunity to drive far slower, far more sedate HO scale, with recognizable scale cars. Much more my speed, and actually an awful lot of fun. A good buddy has a fully sceniced, like model railroad level, HO scale Spa Francorchamps in his basement. Great good fun.