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gay texan
(3,029 posts)Still have mine
marble falls
(67,018 posts)House of Roberts
(6,121 posts)and obtained in the late 60s to early 70s.
mobeau69
(12,076 posts)controls with little steering wheels. Loved it.
BTW, it was officially named Aurora Model Motoring.
House of Roberts
(6,121 posts)until I didn't need any more track. IIRC the sets were about $30.
Later on they came out with a hop-up kit to make the cars faster and put bigger softer tires on them. They really screamed after that. When I moved up to 1/24 scale cars at an amusement center, I gave the little ones to my younger brother.
mobeau69
(12,076 posts)to take them apart and clean or replace the little copper brushes and they would run like new. Built mountains with plaster and put a tunnel through one. Good days.
debm55
(48,386 posts)
True Dough
(23,685 posts)you don't still have that problem on the interstate, deb...
debm55
(48,386 posts)
mobeau69
(12,076 posts)FSogol
(47,418 posts)patphil
(8,087 posts)i was in my teens when they really got going during the 1960's. By then I was looking forward to driving the real thing.
Shermann
(8,952 posts)I had one back in the day, but I recall it being much more basic. I also recall it rarely worked reliably.
True Dough
(23,685 posts)This one does look rather deluxe. The one I owned was about half the amount of that track. Still lots of fun though!
Borogove
(195 posts)debm55
(48,386 posts)fly off.
hlthe2b
(110,687 posts)Just video games? sigh...
cachukis
(3,328 posts)The Tyco cars were too fast.
It was like replacing a Dunlop Maxply with a composition raquet. The finesse was lost.
Marthe48
(21,254 posts)My husband and his brother went out one day in the late 70s and bought a small set to play with. A little bit of drinking going on. And I think we got a set at a sale. My brothers had them too. It seemed awfully hard to get them set up and working
marked50
(1,505 posts)There was a place that had tracks so you could race your cars. For a fee of course. Loads of fun.
sinkingfeeling
(55,915 posts)Lunabell
(7,309 posts)My wife bought me one when we first got together when she found out my parents would not buy me a "boy's toy." We played with that thing for hours!!
electric_blue68
(22,409 posts)dai13sy
(563 posts)No one would let me work at the office so I got a stay-at-home job and still did office work but on my breaks I played with my track.
drray23
(8,303 posts)So the neighborhood kids would gather over and we would have competitions all with rounds and eliminations. We spend hours playing this.
True Dough
(23,685 posts)Thanks, Tyco!
electric_blue68
(22,409 posts)I loved my train tracks/trains: straights, curves, switch tracks, bridges, very late 50's, early 60's.
They probably added items later.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,385 posts)But, it was decidedly smaller. The funny thing is all of the stuff I used to do with the power supply. The tracks and the cars never lasted long, but the power supply had many applications.
LogDog75
(635 posts)This came out when I was in my later teens but my two younger brothers, ages 10 and 11, had one. I'd help them set it up and show them how to keep the cars from flying off the track.
wcmagumba
(4,365 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,843 posts)Nanuke
(781 posts)Mike 03
(18,562 posts)No. I had many scale model cars and some Hot Wheels, but never received a full race track.
Niagara
(10,804 posts)Hours of fun even if my racer slid off the tracks around the dead man curves because of the need for speed!
JoseBalow
(7,937 posts)
Archae
(47,245 posts)The cars had motors inside them.
We also had a "Matchbox" racing car set, no motors were in the cars, rather a peg that projected underneath the car would engage with a coiled stiff wire, that was driven by a motor on one segment of the track.
Since the Matchbox set was from a basement, I ended up doing a lot of work on it to get the coiled wire back in action.
https://www.onesourceauctions.com/auction-lot/vintage-1967-matchbox-motorway-no.-12-slot-car-ra_8B944D7AE6