Slot Car Racing - 1966

This shot was taken in our basement in March, 1966, just after my father finished building this amazing slot car track for us.

Whenever we weren't racing our cars, we customized them with drop pickups, re-wound motors and high-traction sponge rubber tires.

My father encouraged us to burn all the 'sponge-rubber' we wanted. He reasoned that this would eliminate our instinctive need to, as he put it, 're-pave the highway' with rubber from his Galaxy 500.

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Donald,

Great ... ( re-pave the highway, lol ) ... read but all I'm seeing is a red x.
True geometry to building the tracks & defying phyics to hold the cars to 'em.
Still waiting for the time-space-funds to start up my wants of a 6-8 lane HO course.

John

I do not see the pic either.

Slot cars are fun toys yes yes.

T-Jet the good stuff,cut the wheel wells.Add 3 in 0ne oil to the track for a burnout blast.

I like this topic,hope to see some cool electric cars.

Eeric

Oops. I re-loaded the picture on to another site. Hope you can see it now.

I have no idea why it didn't show the first time because it did for me.

Thanks for the heads up.

Yes. I'd love to see other pictures of electric cars and tracks, etc.

Cheers!

DW

Which one is you?

Your Dad was awesome to put that all together. :cool::cool::cool:

[QUOTE=Broilermaker;408187]Which one is you?[/QUOTE]

I didn't make into that picture. The guy in the middle is my brother sandwiched between two of my cousins.

:scooter:

Donald,

Nice pic, bets ( well pretty close eh ) are Don your in the middle.
"Wow" quite the track alright, the time/effort that goes into a build like that.
So what was his final solution to keep you away from the "500", lol ?

John

[B]Gimmee the Galaxie 500, lol!!!!![/B]

[B]Nice setup, my Pops built a 1/24th scale Dragstrip back in the mid '60's, complete with powered return lanes curving around about 2 ft after the finish line of the scale 1320, to bring the cars back for another drag race...........[/B]

[B]Burned a lot of sponge rubber on that strip as a kid, my fav Drag Cars were a 1/24 scale '33 Willys Cox Gasser, and a Cox '57 Ford Fairlane......[/B]

[B]They cost 8.50 apiece, lol, i mowed a lot of lawns[/B][B] to buy those cars, and i was only 7![/B]

[B]Those were the days..........[/B]

Great pic, story, and track! Hey wait a minute, who is the fartknocker that doubled up the cars on the outside lane!? LOL, Thanks for sharing!