Slot car drag racing

JoeSBP said
one of my favorite childhood memories are with my pops running the smaller AFX/TYCO slot cars in the garage.
We built the track on a hinged table mounted to the wall like a fold up bed, for when mom's Galaxy needed to be parked inside..
we had a whole box of cars but two I remember well..
The first was AJ Foyt's orange #14 F1 car. I literally drove the little foam wheels off that car.
The second one was pop's car. Roger McCluskey's #1 Superbird. Since McCluskey was somewhat of an aggressive driver, pops used his middle finger when he drove the superbird, called him "Dirty Finger" McCluskey...
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Wow great minds think alike. I made my current 4 lane to fold out of the wall. But i put wheels on the legs and made the hinges to where the pins slide out, then i rotate it around so it faces long side out. Then lock the hinge pins back to receptacles on the table end in so the track wont move around while racing. Theres a drivers station on each corner. I am running a trakmate computer tap timer program with windows 95 on an old dell desktop. My son was about 1&1/2 in the pix, shortly before i folded it up for now. Heres pix.