HO slot cars

Tom Dunlap

Tom Dunlap

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From about 5-9th grade my buddies and I ran Aurora HO slot cars. I still have me set. I should see how many cars still run.

three of us had sets and lots of track. Other guys would buy their own cars or borrow our second-string cars. Lots of fun in a cool basement in the summer time.

We kept combining track to build bigger tracks. Then we saw that at one section the carhttps://coolmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/shelby-slotcar-race-track.jpgs would slow down then speed up. One of the guys figured out that we should add a second transformer. Worked perfect. Race is on

That guy went onto become a Master Electrician.

My brother had Hot Wheels which were fun...but not as much fun as hot slots.

 
Did the same! My cousins (who lived near Annandale Minnesota on a horse farm) had a track in their basement. You had to slow down on the corners, or fly off the track. We would notice a decline in performance over time, so would pit stop and clean the brushes from time to time. Their mom would bring us a big bowl of cherries during the pit stops. Their dad had a Western apparel store in the Twin cities, and we kids would ride in the covered truck bed telling corny jokes on the 1 hour ride to the store. Good memories.
 
Thanks for the memories. Slot cars were a big thing for us back in those days. We had a business that built commercial slot tracks for us to bring our cars in and race them. It was about five miles from where I lived and I would pack up my cars and bicycle over there to test them out and race with other kids. Always stopping at a gas station on the way home to get a cold Green River soda.
 
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Gordo

Was that Schatzlein? If so, they closed the doors down on Lake Street a year ago. They had been there for a LONG time.

There were a couple of tracks at hobby supply stores. Those were for the bigger cars not HO.

We liked how easy it was to make up some crazy tracks. After we got the two transformers figured out we'd run two cars on each track. Kind of like juggling. One car might be in the straight and the other in S curves.

Other times we were tear-a$$ing around the woods on our bikes. A little tree climbing too.
 
No, sadly My uncle used to raise award winning Appaloosa horses and was trying to run the western apparel store also, but thief's cleaned him out one night (he had alarms and bars, but to no avail), so he rebuilt his stock and got a guard dog, but the dirty low down thief's killed the dog and wiped him out again. That was the end of the store, which only lasted a few years.
 
We fought with the brushes, braided and solid and no one informed us about the model train corrosion removal erasers. We branched off to drag cars i.e. just ridiculously loading them up on higher voltage transformers and then we invented(?) foamy tires - strip of soft foam wrapped around rear tires, upped the diameter, width and grip. Ozone, anyone? The drag strip was open ended - airborne! I think we smoked one pistol grip.
 
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