Are you referring to the little black tracks that run 2 cars next to each other? Each car has 2 contacts that it rides on, and a guide pin.....cars are about 3 inches long? I had the cliffhanger set - the one that ran up the wall and back down. I had lots of fun with it....until I found real cars!:Brow:
I have the AFX Golden Gate Bridge set in the attic somewhere. Damn, now I might have to go up there and dig it out!
I've still got about a dozen or two feet of track and about 10 or 20 cars with tons of miscellaneous spare parts that I0 still tinker with. I need to do SOMETHING when Im not driving the Buick.
I actually had the AFX "slotless" that allowed you to change lanes. Gave it to an ex-girlfirends little brother. Kind of hard to ask for it back after the break up. Jeff
Yep! still have mine....AFX with thirty-some feet of track! Took the set to college with me in the 80's....we had a blast racing with the newer magna-traction and G-Plus cars! Especially after a few Beers!! Okay, sometimes more than a few! :beer
I still have mine from when I was a kid. I passed it on to my son. We had hundred's of feet of track. I found some adapter's that let you mix AFX old style to the new style AFX, and new style to Tyco. Now I can't wait until my Grandson get's old enough so I have an excuse to get it set up again.:Brow: Cal
I just sold these for a friend last week. Some of them were SCREAMING fast, and sticky too! I have a pretty good sized track set up for my 4 year old. I enjoy setting up the track for him in all kinds of weird shapes and loops and up the wall stuff, but don't really enjoy racing them that much. I'll leave that part for him. I'm too lazy to walk across the room every time I wreck. :gt: ou: I actually set up every piece of track once. It took like an hour to figure out how to use EVERY last piece, and when I was finally done, it wouldn't work right because there must be a few bad pieces of track, and you couldn't hardly walk through the room to get your cars when they wrecked or stopped. That lasted about 1 day. Now I only have about half of it set up. :gt:
I finally took my track down last year. Do I still race? I do more than that. We use mostly Tyco 440 chassis's with aluminum foil bodies. We mold the bodies over a die cast car using thick foil, then we laquer paint then and use black markers for window detail. Sometimes we scrape the paint to make chrome trim. We attach the bodies with two pieces of rolled up duct tape on the sides. They actually look really good. We even cut the hood, trunk, and doorlines most of the way around for added realism. We run 45 volts to each lane! Are setups are pretty big (one had three thirteen foot straightways), and they always include one or two HO train crossings with a running train. If you race to kill your car, it won't even last a few minutes. But if you race to race and just let accidents happen, the aluminum bodies will last an hour. The speeds are incredible. With the volts we run, we destroy pick-up shoes every 4 or 5 hours of use. Brushes last about twice as long as shoes. Besides that, in one winter we destroyed about a dozen chassis's, one locomotive, several railroad cars, and about 15 controllers! I also built three custom wheelstanders. One was a failure so we lit it on fire and did a full throtte fire-burnout till it expired! It lasted 45 seconds. The other two work, but they are different designs. Meaning one is way faster than the other. AS you can see, when I decide to slot car race, I get pretty violent!
I've got alot of the older stuff - the Aurora ThunderJet HO stuff......prolly about 25 cars and chasis, some track, and ALOT of misc. car parts. Growing up, my neighbor worked for Aurora and about once a month he'd bring home a box full of returned / defective cars. The bodies were usually fine, but the running gear wouldn't work for various reasons. IDad bought me a large parts bin - 'd strip them down and sort out all the parts and then have plenty of rebuild material to play with. When I got married and cleaned out my parents house of my belongings, I found that Dad had thrown out quite a bit of the stuff - I prolly had 4 large boxes of it. Most of the track, the controllers and transformers etc. were gone but I had "hid" the box with the cars and parts in another place so those survive today. A few years ago I priced some of the cars on Ebay......between that and my 69-73 baseball card collection Im sitting on enough to prolly buy another Buick !!
You mean these? I am an avid collector and still have a giant layout set up in my "man room" in the basement, though it currently is covered by some finishing the basement type supplies. These were my favorite toys as a kid because they actually encouraged you to take them apart to modify them, etc. And the red oil smelled great when you got em nice and hot!
I'm a TYCO guy. I've had my track setup for the last two weeks, that's probably the reason for the lack of posts lately. My college buddy brought over more track this weekend...................my entire living room is filled with the stuff. I'm a single guy so I can get away with it!! I've got another freind who is going to bring over more track. My favorite cars are........................you guessed it!! The TYCO 25th anniversary Buick Grand National and the classic Richard Petty #43 Grand National. Yep, I'm Buick Sick. Nothing like drinking:beer and doing a little racing when the weather stinks!!
