SCALEXTRIC!

[Ratdat]

Check this beauty out... it's HO scale (like Aurora/Tomy AFX)....

[qwerty]

Yeah prolly just can't drive fast LOL. Will practice with my latest ebay aquisition

[Deleted]

I have really got back into Scalextrix lately, it all started when I went to see how much track I had left and found out half of it had gone missing So I have bought a shed load of track off E-bay, just got to buy some of your more fun pieces now, skid-chicane, cross-overs, lap counter etc!

I lent left half my cars to a mate which is where I think the rest of my track is, must get it back.

I agree about the orignal scalex cars being cooler and more fun without the magnets, the pic below is of the best two cars I have at the moment, the CSL arrived off E-bay yesterday, just need to get an SD1 and maybe an old skool Capri touring car to go with it ;D

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Thats freakin awesome Ratdat. I used to have a 'Matchbox Powertrack', often wondered if you could use those Tomy/aurora cars on it.

[spottedlaurel]

I reckon someone could tell our ages from the first Scalextric we had - mine was a '300' set with the red and yellow Mini Clubmans. All here in the loft plus lots of extra track bought back in the day and a load purchased more recently.

It made an appearance at my wedding, though not sure if cars survived too well?......

I got into brass/stainless chassis slot cars a few years back, fitted with super light vac-formed bodies and sponge tyres they are stupidly fast - watching the pro's is something else. Still got all my stuff for that too for a return one day, trouble is most of the local clubs except Ipswich have closed down.

Where is that track Ratdat, and how long is it?!

[Ratdat]

e661301 said:

Thats freakin awesome Ratdat. I used to have a 'Matchbox Powertrack', often wondered if you could use those Tomy/aurora cars on it.

No for some reason Matchbox made the contacts too far apart (or too close together..I can't remember) to use AFX cars. Shame as Powertrack was a cool system. Some of the cars were ace such as the TR7 and Jag.

Johnny Lightning has been selling load of repros of the original non-magnatraction cars (Aurora Thunder Jets) recently as well as repro Magnatractions (now called x-traction). Most are 60's and 70's yanks, usually muscle cars and they are pretty cool. The non magnatracions are way slower but much more fun. Once mastered you can hang the back end out round the corners really well. One day I'll set up a monster layout with all the track I have stashed away

[saitrix]

spottedlaurel said:

I reckon someone could tell our ages from the first Scalextric we had - mine was a '300' set with the red and yellow Mini Clubmans. All here in the loft plus lots of extra track bought back in the day and a load purchased more recently.

It made an appearance at my wedding, though not sure if cars survived too well?......

I got into brass/stainless chassis slot cars a few years back, fitted with super light vac-formed bodies and sponge tyres they are stupidly fast - watching the pro's is something else. Still got all my stuff for that too for a return one day, trouble is most of the local clubs except Ipswich have closed down.

Where is that track Ratdat, and how long is it?!

I have tried Brisca and I really didn't like it. Those vac form bodies don't do it for me, would rahter race a proper scale car with the rear end out!

[Ratdat]

spottedlaurel said:

Where is that track Ratdat, and how long is it?!

It's in Fremont, California and it's called the "Katz Spa Ring". The track is 171ft long which in HO scale is huge! The track itself was made by www.bradstracks.com/ who make custom routed tracks. They did one for a club in Leeds which is a 230 odd foot long replica of Le-mans in HO scale. They do 24hr races on it. The guy who built the Katz Spa ring did have a website but unfortunately it seems to have dissappeared.

This site has lots of pics of custom made tracks on it. Some of them are pretty clever like this hillclimb. It has a loop at the top so you race to the top and back down against the clock. Pretty original idea...

[VW]

we had loads a few years back, the usual pooling of resources saw 75 foot of track set up in our flat.
As for cars, we had a pair of mk3 escorts which were painted, one white with a blue pearl and one silver fading to blue.
We had a few 70;s F! cars and best of all two of the stock cars, remember them? the ones that spin round and go back the other way. They were beat up so we moddded them to look mad max 2 style, painted on dirt n rust n everything.
WD40 on the track is good for a laugh, means you can do burnouts and then fish tail away down the straights ;D

[VW]

these ones

[DarrenW]

Wow!

I never had Scalextric though, my parents thought they were doing me a favour by getting me a TCR set! Still got it somewhere I think!

I forget the name of the one I had, but it was two De Tomaso Panteras and a yellow Stratos, with working headlamps ;D

[tigran]

curse word this makes me yearn to brake out the oodles and oodles of track out of the loft. Once I'm out of uni...mwahahaha.

My weapons of choice were a E36 Emfreee, metro 6R4 and the first car I ever got - calibra DTM.

They had working headlight and everything.

*reminices*

[bmcnut]

i used to have an unhealthy obsession with scalextric when i was a kid, but when i found out about radio controlled banger racing i sold a load of my scalextric but kept afew cars. ive got afew standard ones but most are repaints, when i done them waaaay back i was well pleased with them , and looking at them now they still rock!
i used to love scalextric to bits, but ive set up the track a couple of times since the advent of r/c bangers and now, sadly, scalextric just doesnt have the same appeal, but that doesnt mean I'm selling any cars!

[VW]

R/C bangers?

[qwerty]

I have that csl in White will be getting restored soon I also have a SD1 that i'm modifying. Gunna put a newr motor in better tyres un flare the wheel arches that I flared etc etc.

[Reynolds501]

Qwerty,

That's the Beemer I have! well had, I'm not sure of it's whereabouts these days, but it was a funky sort of cold coffee colour, very 70's! ;D

Matchbox Powertrack/Speedtrack, I actually had one of those sets! it was awesome stuff!

I forget the name of the set but it featured these two:

Corvette:




Porsche:



The lights were bloody bright on these! they looked stunning tearing around in a darkened room!

The Jag and BMW for this track were way cool aswell!

[qwerty]

Mt CSL is white with castrol (I think) colours down the side. Its stripped out with no glass or interior.

We started Scalextric drag racing which I absolutely loved. Have Built a drag racing Escort Cosworth But plan to do more to it. Including shorter axle with wider wheels stickier tyres, quicker motor and different cogs for better acceleration

[Pillock]

i got bought an 'italian job' set by the good lady last christmas, sadly it doesn't get set up much and i've got nowhere for a permenant set but it's huge fun when i get it out (ooh-err). not a bad starter kit, has crossover and narrow bits and the digital timer. the new minis are a bit flimsy though.

it did spur my mate on to get one too for track-pooling purposes, he just got a huuuuuge box of track off ebay for £50. Big enough to cover almost the whole ground floor of his house then i got him a mk3 XR3i for a few quid for the retro feel

[samyboy]

i allways had trains as a boy........still racing trains (and crashing them) is just as fun ;D

and dang this thread could have cost me money, i want some

[TheFrequentFryer]

Me and my brother got the Mini Clubman kit for Xmas one year between us.
Next birthday he got a red BMW, ir was probably the batmobile.
Then he went off it. Later, I started raiding jumble sales for track to add.
Once I had gotten some extra straights, we actually ran head to head drag races.

Had miles of it in the end in several boxes, but i got given to my kid brother (10 years younger), who managed to trash it, sell it lose it or break it.

Since we boarded the loft floor, this thread makes me want to ebay for Scalextrix. need a job first mind.