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Anyone into these still? Spent many weekends in my teens racing these with friends. Trying to agree on a price with the seller. Seems to think one could be worth 100$ I just want to give them to a friend from that era of my life. Not that that changes the actual value of them.

I Think they are all afx some horizontal motors some vertical. I'm not well studied in them.

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Used to be when I was a kid. Dad and I raced on this TYCO set that had a huge banked turn that that powered. The momentum of the car is was kept it on the track around the turns. I guess they don't make the track anymore.

I'll be getting a set soon enough for kiddo and I. Think I'll get one with a plunger-style remote and put some washers or something on it so he doesn't pin it the whole time launching the cars off the track.
 
Yea i got a pretty decent size track for my kids, they love it. I need to find some more cars. Mines a tyco setup.
 
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I got a HO setup when I was a kid. The tracks had rods (install 2 per end) & a clip to fasten.

I discovered slot car racing, yuge tracks! There was a place in Elmsford, NY & Cloister(?), NJ that I frequented.
A place in Fishkill or Wappinger Falls had races that was so fast even I couldn't see the cars.

And lastly, some place in Chester has offroad racing inside a barn. The racing vehicles ran off some kind of petrol.

Dunno if they exist anymore-​​​​​​
 
there is a slot car racing place in the shopping plaza I am moving to.

I look forward to playing with the cars soon.

I do not know anything about them.

Out of curiosity how much is the seller asking for that collection?
 
Sent the picture to a friend that is serious into that stuff, he has thousands and two big tracks in his basement. He said they are worth about $25 a piece, the police car being the most valuable at $100 give or take.
 
oh hell yeah. Loved our slot cars and train sets..
 
I paid $160. :homer: My first set I got for Christmas when I was 11 was a tyco race n chase cop car and red car no magnets as the idea was to drift, the outer curve had clip on extensions. Got a few others here and there hp7's and 440x2's but packed it all up when I started driving. I think they ended up with the same friend, he's gonna be a grandpa soon thats the reason I had for getting these.

Me and the friend I shipped these to spent hours every other weekend racing laying out tracks, his older brother rigged up a power pack for each lane, kept people from letting off to make the opponent crash from the surge in available power.
 
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Yeah, I was into them big time as a kid. I still have several of them and figure some day I will run into an Aurora track set at a garage sale.
 
det107 said:
I got a HO setup when I was a kid. The tracks had rods (install 2 per end) & a clip to fasten.

I discovered slot car racing, yuge tracks! There was a place in Elmsford, NY & Cloister(?), NJ that I frequented.
A place in Fishkill or Wappinger Falls had races that was so fast even I couldn't see the cars.

And lastly, some place in Chester has offroad racing inside a barn. The racing vehicles ran off some kind of petrol.

Dunno if they exist anymore-​​​​​​
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The barn in Chester is still there. I went with a friend a year or two ago who is big into rc stuff. The have an indoor and outdoor track.
 
Brings back memories. There used to be a bunch of hobby shops that had tracks you could race your cars against others on, this was the 1960s. I had 1:32 scale.
 
woods said:
Used to be when I was a kid. Dad and I raced on this TYCO set that had a huge banked turn that that powered. The momentum of the car is was kept it on the track around the turns. I guess they don't make the track anymore.

I'll be getting a set soon enough for kiddo and I. Think I'll get one with a plunger-style remote and put some washers or something on it so he doesn't pin it the whole time launching the cars off the track.
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we had that too. Tyco TCR slotless. It was so awesome.
 
Kyle said:
we had that too. Tyco TCR slotless. It was so awesome.
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TOTAL CONTROL RACING!!!!!!!!!!

Lol I remember that tried it once didn't like the slowdown while changing lanes.
 
Click image for larger version Name: C2B3A9DE-35A2-479A-9F7C-59273686ADF7.jpeg Views: 0 Size: 433.9 KB ID: 351964 I was into the 1:24(I think) scale ones when I was 10-12. Nextdoor neighbor was a local “famous” painter of slot car bodies.
 
I have a big box of aurora track and some cars from the 60's. Haven't opened it in 20 years. What's the market like on this stuff?
 
I put a 11' x 6' slot car track on the ceiling in the garage. I used a Warn Pullzall (mounted on the wall) to raise and lower it. Vids are with a 1/43 CarreraGo setup when I first put it up... CarreraGo sucked! I replaced it with about 90' of AFX track on it. I have probably around 18 cars for it. Its fun when we lower it down and "race".





Only photo I could find of the AFX track... probably about a 5 year old photo.

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I mounted some folding sawhorses under the track and then spent a few hours cleaning it and scrubbing the rails with a 600 grit sanding block. Actually several of those. My youngest was interested and wanted this to happen so she even helped. Watched a YT vid and the guy used the same/similar sanding block and then he wiped the track with WD40. So I did the same. I still need to even out the track and I want to build some more bridges to make it more level. But the biggest bang for the buck was the AutoWorld 2 amp variable voltage power supply. The AFX 1A 3 position voltage power supply sucked in comparison. I did spend some $$ on a couple new "high speed" cars. One was a hopped up Wizzard (pink one) and one was a Viper (blue one). Blue one was about $50 more... but fuck that Wizzard is faster... or maybe its that my daughter was running it WOT without a thought as to it flying off the track and breaking like I was with the blue one. LOL

And yes, my garage is a fucking pigpen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1By781VT8o

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Funny you mentioned the smell.. after about 15 hot laps I could smell it! lol The new powersupply made the cars come alive, best $30 spent on this track.
 
I’m waiting for the “hot slut cars” spin-off!

I had that black and yellow tramsam but I would have loved that stp car
 
Silverback07 said:
I mounted some folding sawhorses under the track and then spent a few hours cleaning it and scrubbing the rails with a 600 grit sanding block. Actually several of those. My youngest was interested and wanted this to happen so she even helped. Watched a YT vid and the guy used the same/similar sanding block and then he wiped the track with WD40. So I did the same. I still need to even out the track and I want to build some more bridges to make it more level. But the biggest bang for the buck was the AutoWorld 2 amp variable voltage power supply. The AFX 1A 3 position voltage power supply sucked in comparison. I did spend some $$ on a couple new "high speed" cars. One was a hopped up Wizzard (pink one) and one was a Viper (blue one). Blue one was about $50 more... but fuck that Wizzard is faster... or maybe its that my daughter was running it WOT without a thought as to it flying off the track and breaking like I was with the blue one. LOL

And yes, my garage is a fucking pigpen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1By781VT8o

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Them cars are faster then I remember....wow
Good deal.
 
I still have my Tyco set. Last time it was set up, it was on a 4x8 sheet of plywood and the race set and train sets overlapped in a couple spots. I found a crossing track and never set it up.

I extended the controller wires with some speaker wire. There was a 7 1/2 foot straight into a banked curve, my nephew would stand at the end of the straight and watch the cars coming down the track right at his face. Had a couple pieces of plexiglas wrapped around the ends of the table to keep the cars from flying off the table.

I will probably clean the track up and give it to my nephew and his sons. Maybe get them a couple new cars.
 
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Funny you mentioned the smell.. after about 15 hot laps I could smell it! lol The new powersupply made the cars come alive, best $30 spent on this track.
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Couple days ago I had a random thought about the smell of those. Like those random... huh, wonder what Ronnie Millsap is up to?

Weird... haven't seen a set since the early 90s.
 
woods said:
Used to be when I was a kid. Dad and I raced on this TYCO set that had a huge banked turn that that powered. The momentum of the car is was kept it on the track around the turns. I guess they don't make the track anymore.

I'll be getting a set soon enough for kiddo and I. Think I'll get one with a plunger-style remote and put some washers or something on it so he doesn't pin it the whole time launching the cars off the track.
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We had the set that had the crazy high banks without power. The cars would find a track and somehow they knew which controller you had.

It was a tyco slotless track.
 
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