Slot car drag racing

I raced R/Cs years ago, and understand what you mean about the cliques and butt hurt guys. We were all out there to have fun, then word got out about our track, and all these deep pocket "pro" guys would show up with thousands of dollars of new high dollar cars and equipment. I guess it was fun for them to beat teen aged kids who scrimped and saved to maybe have $300 in their whole setup. The simple fun of it went away, and so did i. At the time it was about 1984, and i was a 15 years old kid saving to fix up my real car "68 charger".

In 2008 i built a 4 lane slot car track in my garage and started inviting friends to come race rules were simple i provide 2 wire 60 ohm parma controllers. If you want to run brakes track is wired for it, but bring your own 3 wire 60 ohm controller. Box stock Tomy AFX SRT chassis. Tires your choice. Body your choice of lexan, or hard plastic. Hard plastic bodies may be lowered and lightened. We had a blast. Everybody brought food, i set card tables n chairs up in the driveway. We would hang out till about 10:30 pm racin cars.

Eventually i got married, and my wife came with 3 kids the middle and younger child were 18 months apart and they fight over everything, so much so it became not very enjoyable for me to pull this thing down on friday nights. As such i shut it down. This is a shame because my son whos now 3&1/2 would love to play with this.

Maybe someday. I will pull it back down. If there was a slot dragway, or slot road course in my home town, i think i'd go just to have fun.