Yep i pulled out the HO slot cars a couple years back and built the dream layout i always wanted as a kid. I was hosting races with friends on friday nights, even hooked up an old Dell desktop for a lap counter / race timer. The old aurora afx i restored to running condition, but the new super G plus, Tomy SRT, and Mega G 1.5, and 1.7 cars will spank the old pancake motor stuff badly. I even wired my new track up with 4 independent 26V power supplies, and dynamic braking. My little boy is only a year and a half old in the pic. He is holding my black n red tomy SRT dodge daytona.
Round 2 is now making the old pancake motored stuff, and makes nice bodies that fit old afx, and the new tomy afx.
I stopped doing the races as my middle 2 kids would come into the garage wanting to play too. I had good intentions they each had a car i bought them. It always devolved into an argument about cheating, and other assorted sundries. The end was when one of em threw one of my parma controllers at the other. I figure by the time my boy is old enough to play with these with me, my older kids wont want to be bothered. It sucks my middle 2 kids are such a buzz kill to each other and us, but the only thing i can do because of this is to put it away for now. It folds up into the wall for storage.
Matt
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