These guys have been slot car racing since the sixties and seventies. Even though they look older, there's still a kid inside still enjoying what we enjoyed doing over forty+ years ago. Keep racing boys - it will keep you young.
Yes, they look just like me. I played with slot cars in the late 60s. Love it. We may be old, but we still are kids at heart and a little bigger belly.
All these comments are spot on. I raced in the mid 1960s, scratch built and rewound my motor. It did well but was like a slow golf cart compared to the cars of today. Unbelievable how fast they go through the curves. That track is beautiful. It was a wonderful time back then. I can almost hear The Lovin' Spoonful or Herman's Hermits in the background.
I remember doing this in mid 60s with my dad, brings back memories, just showed my dad your video he's 87 and lives with us . thanks for walk down memory lane, dad liked also
I didn't know that these were still around. Back in the 60s we spent hours racing slot cars. These seem to corner much better than the ones back then. Thanks for the memory bump.
I remember this very well from Reginald Denny's hobby shop in Hollywood California. I remember the Pittman engine being what everybody wanted to use in their cars. The rheostat controller had just come out too. 👍
wow fantastic. i remember tracks back then had steep sides and the coloured track slots. hell yeah the steep banks on the corners were awesome, they were the best days ever.
O my God, we did this back in the 70's, this was very big. Customizing your cars and tires and engines. Loved this fantastic. Thanks for posting this vid
Loved it myself too! But all that fun customization is still here with RC cars, that became super cheap now. I’m hooked into small rock crawlers 1/24 scale. So much fun, and no tracks to disassemble after playing! ;)
Back then it was $0.20 per half hour running time. When you did repairs you could turn the timer off. So easy to fill my Saturday mornings at the slot track. Loved my FT36D Chaparral 2.
Reminds me of myself and my father in the early to mid 80's. We never did anything like what you see in this video but we had a decent sized Tyco track. Only two slots but you could redesign the track layout and I even believe at one point we had the track literally go vertical up the wall and turn back down again. And the loops. I loved smelling the little bit of ozone oder coming from those tiny electric motors. Good times... 🥲
Yea. Even tho I was born way longer than you, we had racing set from Carrera with Chevrolet Camaro as an police car and Lamborghiny Aventador. And when we drove too fast, the rear shifted as an drift. Yea, those were good days.... Bet yours too 😉
Me too. I had the AFX set with this cool flex track you could bend in whatever configuration you wanted. HOURS of fun with my dad and with friends. Had a catalogue of all the different cars you could get and there were some very cool cars available. Funny cars where the body would lift when you accelerated them, cops cars with flashing lights, various muscle and sports cars like roadrunners and porsches. And yeah, I can still remember the smell you're talking about.
This is so cool. I can remember seeing places where you go and do this as a child. Today kids are sitting on the couch playing video games and talking and playing on their phones. I miss the 60's and 70's.
We had a real decent slot car place by us when I was a teenager, That place would be packed on the weekends , This brings back old memories, Thanks for posting.
These were roller rinks. They were everywhere in the 90s! I remember the dragster tracks and the advanced tracks like the ones in this video. Miss those times!
Let's go!!!! My older brother,, never I mean never let me win back in the early 70's. Then my dad saw this and bought me this new magnetized race slot car. 🤣 I didn't know why my brother stoped racing me? My father just smiled and said "looks like you're winning some races now?" This brings back memories 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
When I was a kid, back in the 60 and 70's they had a track at Hobby City in Buena Park, Ca, it was a big track but how big I cannot remember, I always wanted to run a car there but NO money.
That brings back memories. I still have my controller and GTO that used a counter weight that would lock down the axel for breaking. It was old school. That was 50 years ago.
So cool watching old guys with beer bellies playing with toys we played with back in the 60's when the only non LAN line phone was a Dick Tracy watch phone or a Maxwell Smart shoe phone.
I'm a fan of the Blue King tracks. My cousins and I raced for years. In my last few years of racing I was competing with Parma Flexi-cars and JK chassis cars with unlimited motors. Fun Fun Fun.
Back in the 60s, I was really into it. I had a motor with an armature wound with silver wire that hit over 30k rpm. The frames were soldered brass tubing... It's all coming back to me now... Hadn't crossed my mind in decades. Thanks for the memories!
Back in my mid teens, in the 60s, there were 2 slot tracks in the town I grew up in. I spent hours there, even though I didn't often have the money to play. Also, slot car sets were an often desired Christmas gift for kids back then.
Brings back memories of 1968. I didn't know that tracks even existed any more. Otherwise, I would retire and start a new business and do this. They had clubs, that you joined, and an adult had to be accompanied by a child! Miss those days. My dad and I each built our own. And, when his didn't do well, he would steal my car and win with it (I was just lucky...I managed to get a very competitive motor...luck of the draw out of a box.)
It's still around gotta do a search to find a good place. People are very competitive don't see alot of kids anymore. I take my nieces & my neighbor takes his son. Nothing competitive it's too expensive.
Brought back some good memories, one of the few activities I did with my dad. He was an electrician and would constantly rebuild our cars, rewinding the motors making his own hand controls, it could get really expensive with all the parts and the car caddies. We had the Tom Thumb franchises in Hawaii back in the late 60's. Really miss those times. It was a lot more innocent back then.
I used to race at Modelville when they were in downtown Framingham. We would take a bus from Hopkinton every Saturday morning. I started out on the HO track before moving up(after my older brother let me). I'm 66, and every time I smell ozone after a thunderstorm, I go right back to walking into Modelville. And yes, I get all warm and fuzzy.
I used to compete tamiya 4x4 in my childhood. I even keep my champion car till now. But I never see this toys before. It is even faster than tamiya 4x4.
Where is this track located? I raced in early 90’s as a kid. I remember 2 size cars one was like 4.5 inches other I think 6 inches, I also got a drag car, shortly afterwards the track closed. It was in Augusta Ga. I walked in with a friend before they officially opened, the owners really helped me get into the sport. My friends dad actually raced slots cars in thr 70’s and still had some of his racing gear/cars….. where are the best tracks located? (Region, northwestern? Southeastern?)
I spent my youngest years in Aurora Ont. Canada. At a small plaza, couple doors down from the variety store we called the gyp joint 😂 there was a slot car enthusiasts shop. Had a really amazing track set up inside, high banks, maybe 6 lanes wide, it was huge. Amazing place. Would stop in occasionally after we went to the gyp joint to spend our quarter. Times have changed! So fun. HI John. Hi Stephen 🖐
Wow, all of a sudden slot car videos are popping up in my feed. I had no idea this was still going on. It's cool to see this again. I raced quite a bit in the late 80 and early 90's. The two classes I raced were hand built cars using plastic Nascar model bodies. We built the chassis from scratch using brass and steel wire. The other class was Flexi with off the shelf parts and no major modifications allowed to those parts. I wish there was a a track near me, I would jump back into this hobby.
If I was super rich, I'd have a room dedicated to such a fantastic track :) Bowling Alley, HUGE slot car track and massive big screen TV, super cold beer keg - Now that's a Game Room :)
Didn't know such a nice track was in operation. I had a track on my bedroom floor, it was designed so i could seitch the layout. I spent endless hours on that.
We had this exact track in the slot car/poolroom where I worked in the late 60’s. My memory tells me the big turn was much larger and steeper, but that was over a half century ago and I’m not a sharp as I use to be.
I love the older high banked tracks. Raced on and worked at a raceway in Douglasville Georgia that had the last Revell track in the USA (that we know of). It was originally over 300 feet in length and had a high banked curve over 6 foot tall. Had a drop down and a rise on the other side...It was a paper clip shaped track. It has sadly passed away and was destroyed when it was lost due to no storage fees being payed. It was pulled out and no one bought the track so it was cut up and trashed. I had some great times on that track. We also had an original American Black track that was also high banked similar to the one in this video. It was sold and resurfaced and has since been sold and nobody knows where it went. It was resurfaced at some point and the high bank was no more. I would love to have a small 4 or 6 lane high bank from the 1906-70's for my basement. I can dream can't I ?
@@nilla003 No, It was The Slot machine and then sold and changed the name to Slot Car World. Located on Hyw 92 in Douglasville...West of Atlanta. Georgia Slot Car sounds familiar...do you remember where it was ??
I can recall in '65, timing the slot cars down the 40ft straight on our plywood built club track, and we reckoned our 1/32 scale brass chassis cars were doing 700mph scale speed just before the big banked corner!!!!! 😎🏆
It was originally at Playland, San Francisco. There were a few other identical tracks built, not sure where they were located or what happened to them.
Yep I was a huge nut in the 70’s with my tyco tracks. Now that I’ve sold off my real drag car 68 firebird. and my show car and crazier 1971 Dodge challenger. I’m coming back to this!! At 50 I’m going to give it a go!! It’s gotten so scary technical wow !
Will that brought back some memories. There was one store in a strip mall that had a huge track set up. Our cars were a little larger than those here. From the looks of those guys here, it's the same 15 year old group, just older now. Now to go check Amazon for race sets.
I needed an idea for a booth at a contractor trade show next week, the theme is "off to the races". my wife said, why don't you do race cars, that's what we called them 50 years ago, race cars. Ho scale then consumed me for about 4 years. so i went online and bought two sets of Carrera 1/32 I think with 1/24 track and I bought two extra 1/43 cars. The size of this stuff blew me away, each track is a triangle just under 9 foot per corner. This is so cool, got one up and running and I can see this is going to go over huge at the trade show but also with my grandchildren when i get back. I am amazed at how smooth these cars are and you can actually race them. HO scale got so stupid fast that you can't even keep them on the track, no fun anymore in my opinion, but this, wow.
Hell yeah they are fricking way, way faster than even slot cars from the '90's even. I think you'd be hitting 100 mph safely, regular scale speed, but, actual 1 to 1 speed would equate to 500 mph!!! Killer video, come out to Cali and open a sister store, I can run it for you guys!!!!!🤜🤛
Yeah. Group 15 was much like that. Mylar wings on the back & sides. I think I still have it in my big pit box. And stacks of cars and vintage bodies. Like a stack of McLaren MK20's.
Beautiful track! As a kid in the 60's I had the super fast Garvic. But I never liked the steering wheel tracks. I wish a duplicate track like this one could be made with a smooth surface for RC racing with precise throttle and steering.
When I was about 7 yrs old my Mom bought my older brother (8yrs old) and me a slot car race set. On our first few races I kept winning but my brother’s car flew off the track because he didn’t slow down for the turns. He got mad and grabbed my car and through it against the wall and broke it, then calmly continued to race his car and never losing a race again. I’ve been mad my whole life…lol. My brother passed away a few days ago, if he was still here, I’d send him this video and ask him if it reminded him of anything. He probably would laugh and say “yes and then say I’m little brother.”
I still have all of my Cars, Parts, Tires and Wheels, Extra Chassis, Controllers and stuff. All in my Special Box that I built myself when I started racing them. We had a Big Store with 2 Road Courses, a Huge Oval and a Drag Strip within Biking Distance of my house as a kid... I was about 12 years old then I think. That was 53 years ago. I started with 1 Car and a Crappy Controller.. Now the Box is pretty full of stuff that I've acquired over the years....lol. Every now and again I'll see a Track somewhere and I'll tune a couple Cars up and run them. It's like Riding a Bicycle. You fall a few times but eventually you get the hang of it again. Only as time goes on my reflexes aren't as good and I'll sail one off the Track into a wall and screw it up pretty good...so it's back to the box to rebuild it to race once again. I haven't seen any Tracks in awhile though. Surprised that they aren't much different now than they were back in my day... And I'm surprised that I still know a few tricks...lol.
Had a slot car track next to our dirt track, in my hometown, where you could rent and buy slot cars. My dad bought the craziest one they had, and told them to keep it until he came back. He came back with his buddy to race the rental slot cars, and the guy gave my dad his. Needless to say, but he whooped that ass lol
I loved this as a kid back in the 70's. A brand new one opened in my town in SoCal in about 2017 or 2018, it ended up closing probably within 6 months. I guess these old classics just cannot compete with the likes of Xbox, Playstation or Netflix.
We use to go to the slot car tracks in the early 70's a lot like this one. It was 5 cents a minute for track time. You could bring your own car or rent one of theirs. Ours were 1/32 scale.
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s there were about 3 places near me to race these kinds of cars. It was fun! I still have my car. Now there is only one track that is pretty far + a toll road away...and it's expensive.
I came to know about this from one of the episodes of Batman 1966 tv series. Adam West and Burt ward were shown playing one of this. We never had these in India but I can still enjoy this from the video.
wow cool! this video poped up in my feed and i clicked it. looked alot like a place a i took my nephews a few times. turns out its the same exact place.
Kind've reminds me of the one and only time we drove go-karts on a banked oval track at Atlantic Speedway in Nova Scotia back in the 70s. Every kart track I'd been on prior was flat, so having the banks was rather unique and more exciting.
We had a place in Wallingford,Ct. in the sixties that had several tracks.It was just wonderful! From running on your home track, which was small, +then to race on the big tracks was the ultimate for a kid!Anyone know where this place is??
Same here exactly 50 years ago I was 13 and back in Cleveland Oh. on Biddulph rd.used to go and have a blast.I wanna find a piace now somewhere in Arizona maybe.
Reminds me of Continental Hobby Center back in the day. I used an orange picker motor. I remember painting the bodies on the inside. They were clear. Then we would use tiger milk on the tires. I think I had a 5 ohm controller with heavier wires than came with it. I had to race in the minimum novice class. Not allowed in amateur.
These guys have been slot car racing since the sixties and seventies. Even though they look older, there's still a kid inside still enjoying what we enjoyed doing over forty+ years ago. Keep racing boys - it will keep you young.
Yes, they look just like me. I played with slot cars in the late 60s. Love it. We may be old, but we still are kids at heart and a little bigger belly.
Oooh the memories...I need to get back into this hobby, I loved it !!!
Cool but what really is the challenge?
Better play sims it seems. Good old simple fun ofc
I'm so in love with this comment
All these comments are spot on. I raced in the mid 1960s, scratch built and rewound my motor. It did well but was like a slow golf cart compared to the cars of today. Unbelievable how fast they go through the curves. That track is beautiful. It was a wonderful time back then. I can almost hear The Lovin' Spoonful or Herman's Hermits in the background.
No man can ignore this in his TH-cam recommendation page
I remember doing this in mid 60s with my dad, brings back memories, just showed my dad your video he's 87 and lives with us . thanks for walk down memory lane, dad liked also
I was born in 1960 and i also remember slot car racing and fine tuning . 😊
I didn't know that these were still around. Back in the 60s we spent hours racing slot cars. These seem to corner much better than the ones back then. Thanks for the memory bump.
Brings back a lot of memories from almost 60 years ago. Us kids saved our quarters hoping to by a Globe.
I remember this very well from Reginald Denny's hobby shop in Hollywood California. I remember the Pittman engine being what everybody wanted to use in their cars. The rheostat controller had just come out too. 👍
I just remember the wintergreen smell of that stuff they used to make their tires Uber sticky.
Used to love slot car tracks when I was young. I have all rc cars and trucks now but still awsome
wow fantastic. i remember tracks back then had steep sides and the coloured track slots. hell yeah the steep banks on the corners were awesome, they were the best days ever.
😭miss you dad .. ust to do this all the time in the late 90s and early 2000
O my God, we did this back in the 70's, this was very big. Customizing your cars and tires and engines. Loved this fantastic. Thanks for posting this vid
Lots of fun!
I did it back in the 60s as a 10yr old!!! Fun indeed!!
Loved it myself too! But all that fun customization is still here with RC cars, that became super cheap now. I’m hooked into small rock crawlers 1/24 scale. So much fun, and no tracks to disassemble after playing! ;)
Back then it was $0.20 per half hour running time. When you did repairs you could turn the timer off. So easy to fill my Saturday mornings at the slot track. Loved my FT36D Chaparral 2.
Reminds me of myself and my father in the early to mid 80's. We never did anything like what you see in this video but we had a decent sized Tyco track. Only two slots but you could redesign the track layout and I even believe at one point we had the track literally go vertical up the wall and turn back down again. And the loops. I loved smelling the little bit of ozone oder coming from those tiny electric motors. Good times... 🥲
Yea. Even tho I was born way longer than you, we had racing set from Carrera with Chevrolet Camaro as an police car and Lamborghiny Aventador. And when we drove too fast, the rear shifted as an drift. Yea, those were good days.... Bet yours too 😉
I remember the ozone smell also coming from the power transformer as it heated up. We melted down a few transformers back in the day.
Same i love that smell
Me too. I had the AFX set with this cool flex track you could bend in whatever configuration you wanted. HOURS of fun with my dad and with friends. Had a catalogue of all the different cars you could get and there were some very cool cars available. Funny cars where the body would lift when you accelerated them, cops cars with flashing lights, various muscle and sports cars like roadrunners and porsches. And yeah, I can still remember the smell you're talking about.
Thank God for dads.
You never grow up, just get older. This bought back so many great memories. Universal hobbies, 441 in fl.
Yakuza brought me here and I regret nothing. This was awesome!
This is so cool. I can remember seeing places where you go and do this as a child.
Today kids are sitting on the couch playing video games and talking and playing
on their phones. I miss the 60's and 70's.
We had a real decent slot car place by us when I was a teenager, That place would be packed on the weekends , This brings back old memories, Thanks for posting.
These were roller rinks. They were everywhere in the 90s! I remember the dragster tracks and the advanced tracks like the ones in this video. Miss those times!
That brings back a lot of memories from the 60s and 70s when we'd spend hours racing slot cars. The cars in this video are about twice as fast.
Today's wing cars are even faster. . .
Did alot of slot car racing in the 60s & 70s. I race on a track in my garage now. Miss going to the hobby shops and race.
Let's go!!!! My older brother,, never I mean never let me win back in the early 70's. Then my dad saw this and bought me this new magnetized race slot car. 🤣 I didn't know why my brother stoped racing me? My father just smiled and said "looks like you're winning some races now?" This brings back memories 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
It was great watching it. The only sad part was, that I didn't see any you racers.
I hope it never stops.
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This is so AWESOME!!! What a great track.
When I was a kid, back in the 60 and 70's they had a track at Hobby City in Buena Park, Ca, it was a big track but how big I cannot remember, I always wanted to run a car there but NO money.
Slot car racing.... This brings me WAY back
My grandfather had a couple of these cars, and around 15' to 20' of track to run them on. So much fun! :)
That brings back memories. I still have my controller and GTO that used a counter weight that would lock down the axel for breaking.
It was old school. That was 50 years ago.
So cool watching old guys with beer bellies playing with toys we played with back in the 60's when the only non LAN line phone was a Dick Tracy watch phone or a Maxwell Smart shoe phone.
I'm a fan of the Blue King tracks. My cousins and I raced for years. In my last few years of racing I was competing with Parma Flexi-cars and JK chassis cars with unlimited motors. Fun Fun Fun.
Back in the 60s, I was really into it. I had a motor with an armature wound with silver wire that hit over 30k rpm. The frames were soldered brass tubing... It's all coming back to me now... Hadn't crossed my mind in decades. Thanks for the memories!
Back in my mid teens, in the 60s, there were 2 slot tracks in the town I grew up in. I spent hours there, even though I didn't often have the money to play. Also, slot car sets were an often desired Christmas gift for kids back then.
Brings back memories of 1968. I didn't know that tracks even existed any more. Otherwise, I would retire and start a new business and do this. They had clubs, that you joined, and an adult had to be accompanied by a child! Miss those days. My dad and I each built our own. And, when his didn't do well, he would steal my car and win with it (I was just lucky...I managed to get a very competitive motor...luck of the draw out of a box.)
It's still around gotta do a search to find a good place. People are very competitive don't see alot of kids anymore. I take my nieces & my neighbor takes his son. Nothing competitive it's too expensive.
Man,.. takes me back to my AFX racing days
Brought back some good memories, one of the few activities I did with my dad. He was an electrician and would constantly rebuild our cars, rewinding the motors making his own hand controls, it could get really expensive with all the parts and the car caddies. We had the Tom Thumb franchises in Hawaii back in the late 60's. Really miss those times. It was a lot more innocent back then.
No it wasn't dude.
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Maybe not for you...but it was the best of times for me. Sorry you had a sad childhood.
@@BBBoy990 lolol bruh I grew up in the 90s wayyy better than the 60s
@@BBBoy990 my point is, it wasn't innocent back then.
I wish I still had my afx cars and track still man I loved those cars
I used to race at Modelville when they were in downtown Framingham. We would take a bus from Hopkinton every Saturday morning. I started out on the HO track before moving up(after my older brother let me). I'm 66, and every time I smell ozone after a thunderstorm, I go right back to walking into Modelville. And yes, I get all warm and fuzzy.
Had a great place with 4 tracks a mile from the house as a kid. 60 years ago. Great fun.
This track was originally located at Playland at the Beach, in San Francisco, CA.
I use to do this up in Hampton Beach NH in the 80s. I’m going to bring my son to this very track in the next couple of weeks.
I had an Aurora set when I was a kid, and would spend many hours playing with it...loved it to death!
I used to compete tamiya 4x4 in my childhood. I even keep my champion car till now. But I never see this toys before. It is even faster than tamiya 4x4.
and these arent the fast ones!
My dad and I used to go to a great place just like this in Pasadena, Ca back in '68!
Where is this track located? I raced in early 90’s as a kid. I remember 2 size cars one was like 4.5 inches other I think 6 inches, I also got a drag car, shortly afterwards the track closed. It was in Augusta Ga. I walked in with a friend before they officially opened, the owners really helped me get into the sport. My friends dad actually raced slots cars in thr 70’s and still had some of his racing gear/cars….. where are the best tracks located? (Region, northwestern? Southeastern?)
Racing for kids before there were video games....such fun...
I spent my youngest years in Aurora Ont. Canada.
At a small plaza, couple doors down from the variety store we called the gyp joint 😂 there was a slot car enthusiasts shop. Had a really amazing track set up inside, high banks, maybe 6 lanes wide, it was huge. Amazing place. Would stop in occasionally after we went to the gyp joint to spend our quarter. Times have changed! So fun.
HI John. Hi Stephen 🖐
Wow, all of a sudden slot car videos are popping up in my feed. I had no idea this was still going on. It's cool to see this again.
I raced quite a bit in the late 80 and early 90's.
The two classes I raced were hand built cars using plastic Nascar model bodies. We built the chassis from scratch using brass and steel wire.
The other class was Flexi with off the shelf parts and no major modifications allowed to those parts.
I wish there was a a track near me, I would jump back into this hobby.
We used to race our slot cars at friend's tracks in the '60s and we also went to a large indoor track in Joliet, Il.
If I was super rich, I'd have a room dedicated to such a fantastic track :) Bowling Alley, HUGE slot car track and massive big screen TV, super cold beer keg - Now that's a Game Room :)
Didn't know such a nice track was in operation. I had a track on my bedroom floor, it was designed so i could seitch the layout. I spent endless hours on that.
Good fun! Bought one for my 2 year old granddaughter for Christmas, turns out me an my son we’re the only ones who liked it .lol
Love slot racing ! So much fun
We had this exact track in the slot car/poolroom where I worked in the late 60’s.
My memory tells me the big turn was much larger and steeper, but that was over a half century ago and I’m not a sharp as I use to be.
Is the track designed do all lanes are the same distance?
Yes, that is why there is a crossover - takes care of that problem.
the difference between a child and an adult is the price of their toys
True. Wkwk
This is what I am waiting
I still have my slot cars that me and my dad built
@@Husky1run Remember you don't quit playing because you're getting old, you get old because you quit playing...
The difference is the run-on sloppy title to this video.
I remember TCR slot cars as a kid. Freaking loved it.
TCR wasn't slot cars - it was slotless lane-changing, but no skill. Just hold the trigger down, and if you did change lanes, it lost you a car length.
スロットルレーシング懐かしすぎ、五反田にあった吹原産業ビルにあったレーシング場でミッキー・カーチスとクリアボデーで作ったR380と走った事を思い出した。
I love the older high banked tracks. Raced on and worked at a raceway in Douglasville Georgia that had the last Revell track in the USA (that we know of). It was originally over 300 feet in length and had a high banked curve over 6 foot tall. Had a drop down and a rise on the other side...It was a paper clip shaped track. It has sadly passed away and was destroyed when it was lost due to no storage fees being payed. It was pulled out and no one bought the track so it was cut up and trashed. I had some great times on that track. We also had an original American Black track that was also high banked similar to the one in this video. It was sold and resurfaced and has since been sold and nobody knows where it went. It was resurfaced at some point and the high bank was no more. I would love to have a small 4 or 6 lane high bank from the 1906-70's for my basement. I can dream can't I ?
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Yes you can dream....... And You Can Have It! WHY NOT? Were Not Getting Any Younger....
Georgia Slot Car? Raced plastic model kit Stock Cars there in the '80's.
@@nilla003 No, It was The Slot machine and then sold and changed the name to Slot Car World. Located on Hyw 92 in Douglasville...West of Atlanta. Georgia Slot Car sounds familiar...do you remember where it was ??
@@raythackston1960 mid-late '80's.
I can recall in '65, timing the slot cars down the 40ft straight on our plywood built club track, and we reckoned our 1/32 scale brass chassis cars were doing 700mph scale speed just before the big banked corner!!!!! 😎🏆
Was this track formerly in Douglasville Ga.?
It was originally at Playland, San Francisco. There were a few other identical tracks built, not sure where they were located or what happened to them.
Yep I was a huge nut in the 70’s with my tyco tracks. Now that I’ve sold off my real drag car 68 firebird. and my show car and crazier 1971 Dodge challenger. I’m coming back to this!! At 50 I’m going to give it a go!! It’s gotten so scary technical wow !
Will that brought back some memories. There was one store in a strip mall that had a huge track set up. Our cars were a little larger than those here. From the looks of those guys here, it's the same 15 year old group, just older now. Now to go check Amazon for race sets.
I needed an idea for a booth at a contractor trade show next week, the theme is "off to the races". my wife said, why don't you do race cars, that's what we called them 50 years ago, race cars. Ho scale then consumed me for about 4 years. so i went online and bought two sets of Carrera 1/32 I think with 1/24 track and I bought two extra 1/43 cars. The size of this stuff blew me away, each track is a triangle just under 9 foot per corner. This is so cool, got one up and running and I can see this is going to go over huge at the trade show but also with my grandchildren when i get back. I am amazed at how smooth these cars are and you can actually race them. HO scale got so stupid fast that you can't even keep them on the track, no fun anymore in my opinion, but this, wow.
Would love it if you could mount a small camera to one and see it from the cars perspective.
I still have 6 cars from the 80s, no track though.
We need more of this kind of fun !
Couldn't agree more!
Boy that was fun, we had a place called Speed and Sport in Lynwood Ca good old days!!!
Great TH-cam Diamond Creator Award Movie.
Greetings from switzerland
The Christmas present that I always wanted and finally got, a slot car set.
They are a hell of a lot faster than they were in the 60's when I was racing.
Hell yeah they are fricking way, way faster than even slot cars from the '90's even. I think you'd be hitting 100 mph safely, regular scale speed, but, actual 1 to 1 speed would equate to 500 mph!!! Killer video, come out to Cali and open a sister store, I can run it for you guys!!!!!🤜🤛
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Since when? Since they started using nuclear powered motors? These things are lightning fast.
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I seen those wing cars race and you can't even see them they're so frickin fast!
Yeah. Group 15 was much like that. Mylar wings on the back & sides. I think I still have it in my big pit box. And stacks of cars and vintage bodies. Like a stack of McLaren MK20's.
Beautiful track! As a kid in the 60's I had the super fast Garvic. But I never liked the steering wheel tracks. I wish a duplicate track like this one could be made with a smooth surface for RC racing with precise throttle and steering.
There was a place in Toronto in the late 70s/early 80s called the Purple Mile. What a trip seeing this. :)
Fun memories i remember entering the toys r us in Brooklyn NY and the first thing I saw was Tyco racing cars they were on the wall.
When I was about 7 yrs old my Mom bought my older brother (8yrs old) and me a slot car race set. On our first few races I kept winning but my brother’s car flew off the track because he didn’t slow down for the turns. He got mad and grabbed my car and through it against the wall and broke it, then calmly continued to race his car and never losing a race again. I’ve been mad my whole life…lol. My brother passed away a few days ago, if he was still here, I’d send him this video and ask him if it reminded him of anything. He probably would laugh and say “yes and then say I’m little brother.”
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I still have all of my Cars, Parts, Tires and Wheels, Extra Chassis, Controllers and stuff. All in my Special Box that I built myself when I started racing them. We had a Big Store with 2 Road Courses, a Huge Oval and a Drag Strip within Biking Distance of my house as a kid... I was about 12 years old then I think. That was 53 years ago.
I started with 1 Car and a Crappy Controller.. Now the Box is pretty full of stuff that I've acquired over the years....lol.
Every now and again I'll see a Track somewhere and I'll tune a couple Cars up and run them. It's like Riding a Bicycle. You fall a few times but eventually you get the hang of it again.
Only as time goes on my reflexes aren't as good and I'll sail one off the Track into a wall and screw it up pretty good...so it's back to the box to rebuild it to race once again. I haven't seen any Tracks in awhile though.
Surprised that they aren't much different now than they were back in my day...
And I'm surprised that I still know a few tricks...lol.
I miss my Eldon slot cars. Great video.
Had a slot car track next to our dirt track, in my hometown, where you could rent and buy slot cars. My dad bought the craziest one they had, and told them to keep it until he came back. He came back with his buddy to race the rental slot cars, and the guy gave my dad his. Needless to say, but he whooped that ass lol
I loved this as a kid back in the 70's. A brand new one opened in my town in SoCal in about 2017 or 2018, it ended up closing probably within 6 months. I guess these old classics just cannot compete with the likes of Xbox, Playstation or Netflix.
There’s a couple new tracks in SoCal right now. one in Whittier and one in El Segundo
@@MxAxRxK Thanks, I hope they fare better than the Santa Clarita one did.
My brother had a car back in the early 70' s.....very cool....
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We use to go to the slot car tracks in the early 70's a lot like this one. It was 5 cents a minute for track time. You could bring your own car or rent one of theirs. Ours were 1/32 scale.
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s there were about 3 places near me to race these kinds of cars. It was fun! I still have my car.
Now there is only one track that is pretty far + a toll road away...and it's expensive.
No tracks here in Michigan area anymore my dad was good me not so much but loved doing those
Nice to see slot cars haven't totally went out!
But, all the ones we had as kids ALWAYS came off track when in corners
The adults knew how to fish tail their cars in the turns, bounced mine off the track and into a wall a few times.
Wow ! How much fun is this!
I came to know about this from one of the episodes of Batman 1966 tv series. Adam West and Burt ward were shown playing one of this. We never had these in India but I can still enjoy this from the video.
wow cool! this video poped up in my feed and i clicked it. looked alot like a place a i took my nephews a few times. turns out its the same exact place.
Neat! My kitty would love this place also.
Greatest hobby as a kid. Sadly, high rent has closed down these tracks in Cali just like drive-ins and bowling alleys. Mine was a "Riggen" slot car.
Kind've reminds me of the one and only time we drove go-karts on a banked oval track at Atlantic Speedway in Nova Scotia back in the 70s. Every kart track I'd been on prior was flat, so having the banks was rather unique and more exciting.
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We had a place in Wallingford,Ct. in the sixties that had several tracks.It was just wonderful! From running on your home track, which was small, +then to race on the big tracks was the ultimate for a kid!Anyone know where this place is??
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What would be the "equivalent average speed" to real cars ?
As a kid I loved slots at 'Merri Five' hobby shop, 50 years ago, glad to see they still exist ! great times, these look a little faster !!
Same here exactly 50 years ago I was 13 and back in Cleveland Oh. on Biddulph rd.used to go and have a blast.I wanna find a piace now somewhere in Arizona maybe.
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This reminds me of an old AFX Race car set that I've had for ages that's still locked away in my closet
Scotty and Sulu both there. Time travel is real.
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Reminds me of Continental Hobby Center back in the day. I used an orange picker motor. I remember painting the bodies on the inside. They were clear. Then we would use tiger milk on the tires. I think I had a 5 ohm controller with heavier wires than came with it. I had to race in the minimum novice class. Not allowed in amateur.
Jeez, I raced in 1966, but no cars were this fast back then.
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OMG how do I miss racing my batmoblie on Saturday and Sunday