Any slot car fans here?

Check this out...<g> http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/racing/08inews/010405a.html Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote > Check this out...<g> > > http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/racing/08inews/010405a.html > > Eldred > -- Also in a bizarre coincidence I was sent this link earlier this evening, you may enjoy it :) http://www.tv4.se/lattjo/kojan/bilbanan.asp Cheers Phil -- http://www.legendscentral.com http://www.geocities.com/f2_festival GPL Handicaps: F1 -3.09 secs, F2 +115.11 secs

Interesting, but fairly small. Scalextric had some similar ideas in the early 80ies but their electronic gas/pit stop unit didn't sell very well as far as I know. /Jens P.S: How is your own 4-lane Artin track coming along? EldredP wrote: > Check this out...<g> > > http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/racing/08inews/010405a.html > > Eldred

[email hidden] (Phil Lee) wrote in <2Roz6.1992$IP5.355012@news2- win.server.ntlworld.com>:

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>Also in a bizarre coincidence I was sent this link earlier this evening, you >may enjoy it :) > >http://www.tv4.se/lattjo/kojan/bilbanan.asp > >Cheers > >Phil

That's cute. I used to be a total slot car junky, spending all my time and money hanging out at commercial 1/24th scale slot car tracks. This was nearly 35yrs ago, there were national slot car champions, magazines, it was huge. I still have the gear that I've been saving waiting for 1/24th scale to come back, but I don't know of any tracks, at least not in the Vancouver B.C. area. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C. GPLRank -11.67 Come see how you rank, at the GPLRank site http://gplrank.ringlord.com/

Interesting... Here's our home slotcar track... http://hometown.aol.com/wozmon/myhomepage/index.html Mike Loos Gasoline Alley...The Fastest Show In Radio... WWW.GASOLINEALLEYONLINE.NET

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>Interesting, but fairly small. Scalextric had some similar ideas in the >early 80ies but their electronic gas/pit stop unit didn't sell very well >as far as I know. > >/Jens > >P.S: How is your own 4-lane Artin track coming along? >

I haven't set it(them) up yet. No room right now. When I buy my house, I'll setup a corner of the basement for a slot car table. And another corner for my music studio...<g> Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

On Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:52:31 GMT, [email hidden] (Don Scurlock) wrote: >That's cute. I used to be a total slot car junky, spending all my time and >money hanging out at commercial 1/24th scale slot car tracks. This was nearly >35yrs ago, there were national slot car champions, magazines, it was huge. I >still have the gear that I've been saving waiting for 1/24th scale to come >back, but I don't know of any tracks, at least not in the Vancouver B.C. area. I remember it back then, too. I have two tracks within 20 minutes of me here in Houston, but for some reason they don't appeal to me at present. Check out this club in your area. The images should make you a big nostalgic... http://ca.geocities.com/scaleelectricracer/ There's also this place where they race: http://www.archerplastics-signs.com/archpl/slot.html Two great web links for slot racing are: http://www.scaleautoracing.com/index.html (my friend John Ford's magazine) http://www.oldweirdherald.com/index.html (probably the most comprehensive slots web 'zine) Here's a first-rate mail order site with a walk in store a few hours south of you in Tacoma, WA. http://www.fantasyworldhobbies.com/ Hope this helps. BTW - check out eBay for slot racing stuff. That old stuff of yours could be worth some serious $$$$ today. Regards, Brett C. Cammack brettDOTcammack@worldnetDOTattDOTnet (remove the DOTs from my return address to reply privately)

how about these?? http://www.valu-soft.com/Pages/3dslotcar.html free version here here http://www.ohmikron.com/downloads.html "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Check this out...<g> > > http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/racing/08inews/010405a.html > > Eldred > -- > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

In the 1st Slot boom (1960's) I was a kid with no money ( i was only 13 in 1966) Here in Texas in 1985, slot cars made a comeback with the standardized 155 ' Blue King track and I was hooked !!!!!!!! I raced everything that I could including Group 15, Group 7 and 1/32 group 32(?) Those 2.9 second laps with a Kolford )name?) powered Group car was wild with glue lines, computerized races (8 lane times 3 to 5 minute heats) which was 24 to 40 minutes of wild racing plus the 3 or four minute "pit time" between lane changes/ The local track finally died and I competed in RC cars for a few years See http://www.timdeatheragecpa.com/timdeatherageracingchapter3.htm for the rest of the story Thanks Eldred for reminding me of fun times Tim A. Deatherage [email hidden] www.timdeatheragecpa.com "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Check this out...<g> > > http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/racing/08inews/010405a.html > > Eldred > -- > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Build your own track, it's simple: http://www3.sympatico.ca/art.mcewen/ "Tim Deatherage" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Mr9A6.6574$[email hidden]... > In the 1st Slot boom (1960's) I was a kid with no money ( i was only 13 in > 1966) > > Here in Texas in 1985, slot cars made a comeback with the standardized 155' > Blue King track and I was hooked !!!!!!!! I raced everything that I could > including Group 15, Group 7 and 1/32 group 32(?) > > Those 2.9 second laps with a Kolford )name?) powered Group car was wildwith > glue lines, computerized races (8 lane times 3 to 5 minute heats) whichwas

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> 24 to 40 minutes of wild racing plus the 3 or four minute "pit time" > between lane changes/ > > The local track finally died and I competed in RC cars for a few years > See http://www.timdeatheragecpa.com/timdeatherageracingchapter3.htm > for the rest of the story > > Thanks Eldred for reminding me of fun times > > Tim A. Deatherage > [email hidden] > www.timdeatheragecpa.com > > > "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Check this out...<g> > > > > http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/racing/08inews/010405a.html > > > > Eldred > > -- > > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 > > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > > F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... > > > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats > you > > with experience... > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply. > > >

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>In the 1st Slot boom (1960's) I was a kid with no money ( i was only 13 in >1966) > >Here in Texas in 1985, slot cars made a comeback with the standardized 155 ' >Blue King track and I was hooked !!!!!!!! I raced everything that I could >including Group 15, Group 7 and 1/32 group 32(?) > >Those 2.9 second laps with a Kolford )name?) powered Group car was wild with >glue lines, computerized races (8 lane times 3 to 5 minute heats) which was >24 to 40 minutes of wild racing plus the 3 or four minute "pit time" >between lane changes/ > >The local track finally died and I competed in RC cars for a few years >See http://www.timdeatheragecpa.com/timdeatherageracingchapter3.htm >for the rest of the story > >Thanks Eldred for reminding me of fun times

Hey, no problem...<g> 2.9 second laps on a 155' track? That sounds too fast to even SEE. What did you do, just FLOOR it?<g> JCPenny had a sale for Artin 1/32 track 2 months ago. I bought *4* sets... Ooh, so much for budget... :) Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

FYI Eldred, do you know about alt.hobbies.slotcars? Its still active. -- Tony Whitley Former 1/32 scale scratch-builder :-)

> I was also a big fan of slotcars in my youth (mid-1960's). There were three large 1/24th scale tracks within a couple of miles of where I lived in Torrance/Redondo Beach, California. I remember racing even before I had saved up for a controller - just touching the wires to the terminals (kind of like trying to play GPL with the keyboard). I had a futuristic concept car called a Manta Ray, a Cobra Daytona, and later the Cox Chaparral 2E (or was it a 2G? - one of those two winged winged Can-Am cars). The Chaparral wasn't the fastest - a little too heavy with too much drag, but as a huge fan of Jim Hall/Chaparral, I had to have one. There was also a track in nearby Hermosa Beach that had a 90 degree banked turn (i.e., completely vertical. I also had a couple of home sets. First an HO one, and later a deluxe Revelle 1/32nd scale, four lane model - very cool. I believe the latter came with a Gull-wing Mercedes, a Corvette Stingray, a Jaguar XKE and one other I can't recall. Those were the days. Dave Ewing -- ***************************************************** David A. Ewing Xilinx Boulder [email hidden] *****************************************************

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:16:51 -0600, David Ewing <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I was also a big fan of slotcars in my youth (mid-1960's). There were three large >1/24th scale tracks within a couple of miles of where I lived in Torrance/Redondo >Beach, California. I remember racing even before I had saved up for a controller - >just touching the wires to the terminals (kind of like trying to play GPL with the >keyboard). I had a futuristic concept car called a Manta Ray, a Cobra Daytona, >and later the Cox Chaparral 2E (or was it a 2G? - one of those two winged winged >Can-Am cars). The Chaparral wasn't the fastest - a little too heavy with too much >drag, but as a huge fan of Jim Hall/Chaparral, I had to have one.

I was stuck in Anchorage, Alaska, but they did manage to have a couple of tracks, too. God, I used to drool over every issue of the Auto World catalog I could get! >There was also a track in nearby Hermosa Beach that had a 90 degree banked turn >(i.e., completely vertical. Los Angeles was like "The Promised Land" for slot car racers back then. >I also had a couple of home sets. First an HO one, and later a deluxe Revelle >1/32nd scale, four lane model - very cool. I believe the latter came with a >Gull-wing Mercedes, a Corvette Stingray, a Jaguar XKE and one other I can't >recall. If you were into Aurora HO, then search on "Model Motoring" and you'll find someone's bought the license to the name and is manufacturing track, cars, and complete kits once more. There is also about a billion new-old-stock Thunderjet chassis out there and you can buy them all day for less than $10.00 a pop. Several folks are casting drop-dead gorgeous replicas of the original bodies as well as some that never were, but darned well should've been. You can still buy Revell track! They sold the stuff to R.E.H. Distributing in Ohio and he makes it and sells it as Riggen. I think North Coast Hobbies sell them. R.E.H. is also the one who bought something like 3 full tracter trailors full of the Aurora chassis when the company bailed out of the market. (imagine how many chassis it would take to fill three tractor trailers!) >Those were the days. And some are reliving them today. Although if you want another Manta Ray or La Cucaracha in mint condition, be prepared to hock an offspring or something, the collectors market has gone nuts because of old farts like us getting nostalgic about this stuff again... LOL Regards, Brett C. Cammack brettDOTcammack@worldnetDOTattDOTnet (remove the DOTs from my return address to reply privately)

"David Ewing" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > and later the Cox Chaparral 2E (or was it a 2G? - one of those two wingedwinged > Can-Am cars). The Chaparral wasn't the fastest - a little too heavy withtoo much > drag, but as a huge fan of Jim Hall/Chaparral, I had to have one. If it was the GAS powered STring guided model, that would be the open top jobbie with the moving rear wing...I 'think' that was the 2c. I had that little sucker... I grew up a fan of slot cars and surfing..trouble was, I lived in a small tiny town in the far north eastern corner of Washington State...I was surrounded by desert and no population base to support such things as slot car track or RC races. so...I never got to do either... dave henrie > >

He knows, Tony. He even posts there occasionally. It is a bit like r.a.s. in maturity, tone, etc. with several nice guys answering questions from newbies and others. They even have a longish FAQ (cut'n paste) for the monthly "Which set should I buy?" question. :-) Cheers, Jens Tony Whitley wrote: > FYI Eldred, do you know about alt.hobbies.slotcars? Its still active. > > -- > Tony Whitley > Former 1/32 scale scratch-builder :-)

"Don Scurlock" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:907BDEDD9dscurlock@news... > [email hidden] (Phil Lee) wrote in <2Roz6.1992$IP5.355012@news2- > win.server.ntlworld.com>: > > >Also in a bizarre coincidence I was sent this link earlier this evening,you

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> >may enjoy it :) > > > >http://www.tv4.se/lattjo/kojan/bilbanan.asp > > > >Cheers > > > >Phil > > That's cute. I used to be a total slot car junky, spending all my time and > money hanging out at commercial 1/24th scale slot car tracks. This was

nearly > 35yrs ago, there were national slot car champions, magazines, it was huge.I > still have the gear that I've been saving waiting for 1/24th scale to come > back, but I don't know of any tracks, at least not in the Vancouver B.C.area.

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> > > -- > Don Scurlock > Vancouver,B.C. > GPLRank -11.67 > > Come see how you rank, at the GPLRank site > http://gplrank.ringlord.com/

Ah yes, I remember those days well and nightly said a prayer to St. Oscar Koveleski. Guess what my very first 1/24 slot car was? The 1967 Eagle as raced at Spa. I painted it in Swiss national colors though because I was a Siffert fan. Was I born to drive GPL or what? KFG

Yea I Race 1/32 slot cars on braided timber tracks Brett C. Cammack <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:16:51 -0600, David Ewing <[email hidden]> > wrote: > >I was also a big fan of slotcars in my youth (mid-1960's). There werethree large > >1/24th scale tracks within a couple of miles of where I lived inTorrance/Redondo > >Beach, California. I remember racing even before I had saved up for acontroller - > >just touching the wires to the terminals (kind of like trying to play GPLwith the > >keyboard). I had a futuristic concept car called a Manta Ray, a CobraDaytona, > >and later the Cox Chaparral 2E (or was it a 2G? - one of those two wingedwinged > >Can-Am cars). The Chaparral wasn't the fastest - a little too heavy withtoo much

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> >drag, but as a huge fan of Jim Hall/Chaparral, I had to have one. > > I was stuck in Anchorage, Alaska, but they did manage to have a couple > of tracks, too. God, I used to drool over every issue of the Auto > World catalog I could get! > > >There was also a track in nearby Hermosa Beach that had a 90 degree

banked turn > >(i.e., completely vertical. > > Los Angeles was like "The Promised Land" for slot car racers back > then. > > >I also had a couple of home sets. First an HO one, and later a deluxeRevelle > >1/32nd scale, four lane model - very cool. I believe the latter camewith a > >Gull-wing Mercedes, a Corvette Stingray, a Jaguar XKE and one other Ican't

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> >recall. > > If you were into Aurora HO, then search on "Model Motoring" and you'll > find someone's bought the license to the name and is manufacturing > track, cars, and complete kits once more. There is also about a > billion new-old-stock Thunderjet chassis out there and you can buy > them all day for less than $10.00 a pop. Several folks are casting > drop-dead gorgeous replicas of the original bodies as well as some > that never were, but darned well should've been. > > You can still buy Revell track! They sold the stuff to R.E.H. > Distributing in Ohio and he makes it and sells it as Riggen. I think > North Coast Hobbies sell them. R.E.H. is also the one who bought > something like 3 full tracter trailors full of the Aurora chassis > when the company bailed out of the market. (imagine how many chassis > it would take to fill three tractor trailers!) > > >Those were the days. > > And some are reliving them today. Although if you want another Manta > Ray or La Cucaracha in mint condition, be prepared to hock an > offspring or something, the collectors market has gone nuts because of > old farts like us getting nostalgic about this stuff again... LOL > > Regards, > Brett C. Cammack > brettDOTcammack@worldnetDOTattDOTnet > (remove the DOTs from my return address to reply privately)

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>He knows, Tony. He even posts there occasionally. >It is a bit like r.a.s. in maturity, tone, etc. with several nice guys >answering questions from newbies and others. They even have a longish >FAQ (cut'n paste) for the monthly "Which set should I buy?" question. :-) > >Cheers, >Jens > >Tony Whitley wrote: > >> FYI Eldred, do you know about alt.hobbies.slotcars? Its still active. >> >> -- >> Tony Whitley >> Former 1/32 scale scratch-builder :-) >

Hmm... I never saw Tony's original post...<shrug> Hey Tony - where do you think I got the original POST from...?<g> Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26... Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.