slot cars

[TrevL]

Like most, I suspect, I had a scalectrix set when I was a kid.  Personally I couldn't get the hang of it and lost interest, couldn't get the cars to stay on track..  Today YouTube, in it's wisdom,  recommended this little Aussie gem to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1xSLrkAGA
Blown away by the speed of these things. Much prefer my Class 08 trundling around at 6 feet per minute.

[port perran]

Scalextric was a "phase" for me. Like Trev, I thought the big failing was the ability to keep the cars on the track. Maybe that was down to poor track construction or , more likely, lack of operating skills.
Plus, at age 10 or so, it was great fun to see card career off the track on corners.
Still, it was a fun phase while it lasted.

[themadhippy]

Today YouTube, in it's wisdom,  recommended this little Aussie gem to me.

Just a word of caution,the EEVblog  channel can become addictive and many hours maybe lost to it,it may also lead you to watch too many hours of elctroboon ,Franlab and big clive (of fanny flambeaux fame)

[ntpntpntp]

Scalextric never really grabbed me.  I do have memories of a huge circuit at a Butlins back in the late 60s when my folks took me there as a youngster.

[Safety Engineer]

What about Triang Minic Motorways, was 00 scale and even matched Triang Railways with a wagon you could drive the cars onto if my memory serves me right.

[Newportnobby]

There seemed to be 2 types of kid in my day - those who had trains and those who had Scalextric but rarely both. I never had any interest at all in slot cars but my cousins did.

[Gary Burcombe]

I liked both, and still do.  They are very different though, one is a toy and one is a hobby.

[keithfre]

As a child I wanted a Wrenn Formula 152 set, but couldn't afford one.
https://www.wrenn152.com/
I liked the small cars and the buzzy noise they made. They had unusual vibrator motors rather than the normal rotary kind. The shop owner told me the motors tended to burn out easily. Now I have a set, but haven't used it for ages, must get it out and have a go.

[daffy]

I really enjoyed my 'slot car years', adapting models and upgrading motors etc, and my friend had a genius for making brass chassis that, powered by better motors than ever got fitted by manufacturers like Scalextric, shot around our combined circuit at speeds not dissimilar to those seen in the OP's link. He was also the one who had an excellent train set that I envied for many years, and who was the direct catalyst for my own interest in railways large and small.

We didn't use the Scalextric track, but that produced by Airfix, a mid-grey roadway in harder plastic. Happy days. 

[zwilnik]

I was very much into my Scalextric in my early teens while we were all working/playing on Dad's OO model railway layout in whatever room or shed it took over, my Scalextric collection was my thing. Work got in the way when I started my first software company and what was left of my collection got stolen from a friends house after I'd gone bust and was working for another company. After setting up Strange Flavour I wanted to write a slot car racing game and luckily our Mum and her partner had become slot car racing (and collecting) obsessives for a bit, so I was able to have a proper blast with their set (Ninco track and mostly Fly & Ninco cars in 1/32nd) and got the whole lot off them when they saw the N gauge set I was researching for our model railway game and decided to clear out all the slot cars and build a huge railway layout instead

Among the bits I've got is an old Airfix 1/32nd set with Ackerman steering that I plan to refurbish at some point.

[Bealman]

Yeah, I had a Minic racing set which I expanded with extra sections and a road junction. It also has a windup frontier post which lowered a barrier at random intervals. Great fun.

If you wanted to play 'roads' instead of racing, you could screw a little peg on the rear of the car which would allow you to reverse the car, as it guided it in the slot when going backwards.

I had an Aston Martin DB5 and a Porsche.

When my parents died in 1990, I went back, and all my Triang railway stuff was sold, but I shipped the Minic gear to Oz (along with an old desk I used to do me homework on).

My daughters used to play with it when they were kids ( including the Bealette who just got married in Palm Cove).

This thread is tempting me to get it out again!! 

Problem is I've nobody to race  :'(