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Ok so since I’ve been stuck at home with Covid, decided to break out my old slot car track as something new and different for the kids to play with it. I got this back in 1998 for Christmas. Played with it barely at all cause mom hated me having it set up in the living room. We moved that following spring and it never made it back out of the box until yesterday.
It’s an old Tyco HO scale NASCAR version. Two cars, both are junk, tires crumbled, corroded from sitting in the attic all these years. So I’ve ordered new cars, one a 1964 Max wedge version hehe.

but my question is, is there a good way to check the track while I wait for those to come in?
 
I have a lot of extra track, and about 6 66 Barracudas, a couple 67 chargers plus more. But they are all 1/32 scale. Been quite a while since I set those up and had fun
 
FISHYPETE said:
Clean all contacts and hope for the best?
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Yup and a rubber eraser on the rails. I still have a ton of model motoring track and cars and they still work. Chris make sure your power supply workd first and also you can test the cars on it also.
 
halifaxhops said:
Yup and a rubber eraser on the rails. I still have a ton of model motoring track and cars and they still work. Chris make sure your power supply workd first and also you can test the cars on it also.
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I still have around 40 cars and 100+ft of Aurora model motoring track. Used to have more but my brother stored it for me in the 80s and lost a bunch .
 
Use a volt meter or a small flash light bulb wired up to test for continuity around the track.
When the tracks get really big you will need 2 transformers feeding opposit ends of the track .
 
mbaird said:
I still have around 40 cars and 100+ft of Aurora model motoring track. Used to have more but my brother stored it for me in the 80s and lost a bunch .
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I have a ton of it still. Started out as my brothers he gave it to me and just keept adding to it. Prob the same here.
 
halifaxhops said:
I have a ton of it still. Started out as my brothers he gave it to me and just keept adding to it. Prob the same here.
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Even as a kid in the early 70s my favorite cars were the muscle cars. I seldom played with the race cars even though I had them. Of course my 68 Charger R/T was my favorite. I also have Mustangs , Cougars , Vettes , XKE , Cheetah , Dune Buggys ... I even have a Zamboni ! Lol

Thunderjet 500s / AFX / G-Plus and a few Tycos. All well played with and many are modified of course. Day 2 slot cars .lol
 
mbaird said:
Even as a kid in the early 70s my favorite cars were the muscle cars. I seldom played with the race cars even though I had them. Of course my 68 Charger R/T was my favorite. I also have Mustangs , Cougars , Vettes , XKE , Cheetah , Dune Buggys ... I even have a Zamboni ! Lol

Thunderjet 500s / AFX / G-Plus and a few Tycos. All well played with and many are modified of course. Day 2 slot cars .lol
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Amazon has a 13 ft drag strip with return track and Christmas tree I may have to get after Christmas
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Amazon has a 13 ft drag strip with return track and Christmas tree I may have to get after Christmas
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Thats cool ! I have a 68 Cougar with a rewound armature / super magnets and aluminum wheels with silicon tires that will pull the front tires . Of course it losses power when the pickups leave the track . Its like front wheel hop because it will do it all the way down the track .lol
 
I get a little more serious and enter the time machine back to the 60's when these places were all over. Actually, this was taken this past spring.


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Race these every Friday night on their oval track.

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And then there's some drag racing too.

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