SCALEXTRIC WANTED

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Looking for scalextric. Cars and accesories mainly.
Although i do like the occasional boxed set..

What ya got? ;D

[omegod]

Got given a big old set as a kid, coopers, lotus and the like with all the pit set, tv crew, cafe etc with curse word loads of track. This stuff worth much these days?

[MiataMark]

I've got a small collection, some of which could be up for sale. Have a look here;

www.jumare.freeserve.co.uk/cars/slots.html

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Sept 12, 2012 22:12:42 GMT omegod said:

Got given a big old set as a kid, coopers, lotus and the like with all the pit set, tv crew, cafe etc with curse word loads of track. This stuff worth much these days?

Suprisingly its weird, Ive got quite alot of scenery parts too, And the old lotus /cooper/ brm's and they don't seem to be worth a great deal.

I personally want them to build a collection i used to have.

And tbh i pretty much had all of them at one point or another..

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Sept 13, 2012 10:05:40 GMT MiataMark said:

I've got a small collection, some of which could be up for sale. Have a look here;

www.jumare.freeserve.co.uk/cars/slots.html

Nice little collection you have there. Nice shot too

How much for the csl??

[grifterkid]

Just bloomin' bought some 70's Scalextric from eBay, damn this forum...

[passmethegun]

I had that TR7!!

It was mustard yellow, black and maroon from memory. I wondered whatever happened to my set I had the "Mighty Minis" with a couple of extra cars, I had a pair of Stock cars (F2's?) that spun 180 degrees and a white Firestone Capri with working lights.

Ahhhh the memories!

[simes]

The 70's stuff looks good but once you've dabbled with Digital and modern cars with mags and without you won't look back.

[WillCarter]

I have more sixties and seventies track than you could ask for, various accessories and some cars in various states of repair. PM me what you're after.

[waveman1500]

Sept 20, 2012 21:09:19 GMT simes said:

The 70's stuff looks good but once you've dabbled with Digital and modern cars with mags and without you won't look back.

I only have limited experience from racing at a friend's house as a kid, but in my experience the magnatraction just completely ruins the fun. On his track, you could hold a modern F1 car with magnatraction at flat chat almost all the way around, I think there was only one tight corner where you had to back off slightly. On the other hand, bring out the old sedans with no magnets and they were all over the place. You barely got to full throttle at all and your speed was determined by your skill in feathering the throttle all the way around. Much more involving.

[sambaman]

Hi I have fond memorys of Scalextric, in the 70's had FWD minis, vintage Bentleys and Alfa Romeos,along with Austin Healeys and Mercs, used to have enough track to lay out a good circuit round the garden, the factory was about 10 mins from where we lived and one of the neighbors was a nightwatchman, so I was never short of cars and motors.....

[MiataMark]

Sept 21, 2012 12:28:40 GMT waveman1500 said:

Sept 20, 2012 21:09:19 GMT simes said:

The 70's stuff looks good but once you've dabbled with Digital and modern cars with mags and without you won't look back.

I only have limited experience from racing at a friend's house as a kid, but in my experience the magnatraction just completely ruins the fun. On his track, you could hold a modern F1 car with magnatraction at flat chat almost all the way around, I think there was only one tight corner where you had to back off slightly. On the other hand, bring out the old sedans with no magnets and they were all over the place. You barely got to full throttle at all and your speed was determined by your skill in feathering the throttle all the way around. Much more involving.

Quite, the older cars are much more fun, even worse are the Fly cars the speed they run at and don't fall off is ridiculous. Some of the group C racers were a good compromise.

[MiataMark]

Sept 15, 2012 15:47:47 GMT @teeone said:

How much for the csl??

It's not in very good condition so not worth selling, also it's part of the BMW collection (CSL, M3, 320, M1).

The Fly cars are available for the right price.

Re the TR7, that one got re-bodied into a 911 (or the other way round) So probably got a spare body somewhere.

Mark

[simes]

What I was trying to say was with or without mags the newer "Sport" track has less grip than the old flexi stuff meaning more sliding / drifting. Take the magnets out for more fun.

Allied with the fact the digital you can run up to 6 cars at any time!

Here's some of mine

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Bloomin eck thats one nice set up..

Gunna say too, If you think magnetraction is bad. You should try the parma womp style cars..

I bought one cheap and ran it at ringwood slotcar track when i was younger. STUPIDLY quick... never un-sticks from the track... can hardly see them some times..