Still have mine

and obtained in the late 60s to early 70s.

controls with little steering wheels. Loved it.

BTW, it was officially named Aurora Model Motoring.

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.

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.

you don't still have that problem on the interstate, deb...

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.

I had one back in the day, but I recall it being much more basic. I also recall it rarely worked reliably.

This one does look rather deluxe. The one I owned was about half the amount of that track. Still lots of fun though!

fly off.

Just video games? sigh...

The Tyco cars were too fast.
It was like replacing a Dunlop Maxply with a composition raquet. The finesse was lost.

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

There was a place that had tracks so you could race your cars. For a fee of course. Loads of fun.

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!!

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.

So the neighborhood kids would gather over and we would have competitions all with rounds and eliminations. We spend hours playing this.

Thanks, Tyco!

I loved my train tracks/trains: straights, curves, switch tracks, bridges, very late 50's, early 60's.
They probably added items later.

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.

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.

No. I had many scale model cars and some Hot Wheels, but never received a full race track.

Hours of fun even if my racer slid off the tracks around the dead man curves because of the need for speed!

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.

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