Same here on plastic track. But it was fun..

 

Cool looking drag car. I am into 1/10th R/C Trucks. I see that the R/C drag racing is getting popular again

 

In 1962 in my home town, there was a place that had 2 tracks. 1 was a figure 8 and the other was a large can am track. I had a Lacookaracha slot car and we would pay 25 cents for 15 minutes on the tracks. There were many, many people that went there to either race their custom slot cars or watched people race. I remember buying some sponge wheels when my regular wheels wore out. 1 person had a Willys that would pop wheelies down the track. I believe I had seen the can am track on some web site in the last 15 years.

 

I used to race on one of these, but with longer straightaways...





Tracks back then were all custom made, and mostly by the same guy. They were custom built on location. Guy and his crew built them all over the US. Some still exist... Cars I raced were 1/24th scale, Group 20 and Group 22. Group 22 allowed hand built chassis and hot motors. We had to use silicone "glue" in the braking zones to keep them on the track.

I had an HO track at home, several buddies would come over for racing once a week.

 

I had the flat figure 8 track from Eldon in 1/32 scale with the centre piece in blue plastic from Christmas 1960, and an HO Gran Prix set don’t recall the manufacturer.

 

scalextric ?

 

Aurora and Tyco were the most popular HO brands in the states....

 

Thunderjets, HO scale slot cars. I used to go every Friday night to the races with about a dozen "old guys' like me who never out grew all this fun, as recent as last year.
I still have all the track and HO trains plus about 50 or more HO slot cars in big tackle boxes ready to go when someone want to race.
I found all of this stuff in the attic about 15 years ago and had forgotten how much fun they were when I was 12 years old back in 1964.
Still have some new in box never opened Camaro slot cars, now valued at over $300.00, original cost was $2.99 back in the sixties.

Yea I remember.

 

Aurora AFX , rings a bell. From about 1966 or maybe as late as 68, after that it was real cars and girls, girls, girls! They had softer curves!

 

The Aurora AFX were souped up versions of their earlier cars... Hotter armatures, stronger magnets, bigger tires... Mostly Mustang/Camaro/etc type bodies on the AFX "Tuff" series... Everything was "Tuff" back then.

I used to cut these things apart, add another magnet, rewind the armature, add brass bushings, silver brushes, belly plate for lower center of gravity, even bigger tires.... Body styles were almost exclusively NASCAR and TRANS-AM as per "Home Track Rules".

I did have a couple of Tyco cars when they came out with the Pro Series... Those things were FAST. I had Can-Am bodies and wings on those.... Raced them at the commercial track where I raced the bigger cars, they had HO, 1/32, and 2 X 1/24 scale tracks in that place. The Tyco Pro were way too fast for my home track.