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When I was at boarding school in the 1960s, four or five of us brought all our Scalextric track, cars and other stuff to school, and every weekend we would buil
by zabzonk 6y ago
When I was at boarding school in the 1960s, four or five of us brought all our Scalextric track, cars and other stuff to school, and every weekend we would build a giant layout in one of the classrooms (this used to really piss of the people who's form-room it was, because we didn't always put the desks and tables back). We didn't just use Scalextric cars, but Revel, (I had a Strombecker, which was crap, which my dad picked up in Singapore) and very popularly Airfix Mini-Coopers, which were cheap, and went fast if you fiddled with track brushes and the motor commutator.
Oh, happy days - when you weren't being bullied and being sent out to play "rugger" in the rain and mud.
- King-Aaron 6y agoIn the early 90's we had a Scalextric set, with several cars that my brothers and I raced against each-other. I later bought myself a really cool Lancer Evo V car, that had a 4WD system and 'grippy' tyres. I soon binned the 4Wd and standard motor in it, and replaced it with a high (high!) speed brushless motor that spun to some 25k rpm, got some 'competition' sticky tyres for it, and added a neodymium magnet to the nose to 'try' and keep it on the track. There's still a Mitsubishi lancer shaped dent in the back wall of my Dad's shed, haha.
- zabzonk 6y agoA friend of mine had a 4WD grand prix slot car - I can't remember what it was, but I do remember it was slow because it had steerable front wheels with the power being applied to them via universal joints, which was way over-engineered. It looked beautiful, though. I also used to smash cars into walls - I had a Scalextric AC Cobra, that was basically just a flexible plastic shell with a big motor inside - couldn't corner worth a damn, but the fastest thing we had in a straight line. We set up a drag strip and fired it and others off the end.