oldviolin wrote: I'd invite you all over.
It's just I'm a long ways away.

 Imagined wrote: Amen!

 GeneP59 wrote: Oh yeah.
Hobby shops all over back in the very early 60's had these.
I was enamored by a few in Anaheim, California growing up. Way out of my price range since I was only 6-10 years old at that time.
And my parents couldn't afford to buy me one of those frivolous toys. "Not practical!"

Still haven't grown up... but still want to have fun! 

 oldviolin wrote:
Childhood dreams materialized. 
As in Bonbon-Kocherei.

 Imagined wrote:

Looks like the one by the bowling alley near where I (partially) grew up.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

I know I know. I guess some people just have to learn the hard way. I saved the cars. They're perfect. The road was destroyed along the way. Something about lag time and lifetime warranty reports.
If I'm being honest my life kinda looks like that except the car didn't come out perfect. Hey! The race is still on, so there's that. 

In life, there's a time for everything.
Eating, drinking, sleeping, ...and even racing slotcars.

When I was young there was a racetrack club in the basement of a strip mall that had a Hugh track 1:24, 8 slots wide I believe. I fell in love. And when my local YMCA purchased one for the kids.  

 Antigone wrote: Well, come on over and show me what you got! 

 Oswald.Spengler wrote: Well, now that I'm way older, I can afford to make them run!
What's stopping you? 

 oldviolin wrote:
Oh yeah.
I had some friends who liked to destroy stuff.
My parents "ruined" me with their favorite line... "This is all you get. You better take care of it." 

Grab that burger!

 GeneP59 wrote: I do have the ability to make 12 lanes...

That would require 12 controllers. Those boogers cost a bunch and I don't have the room to put 12 people around my table.

I’ve got a nice HO & N gauge train set that’s packed away in the basement too. Had a nice setup with mountains made of plaster of Paris with a tunnel and trees with handmade buildings and the car track with train crossing. My dad made me a nice power supply to run it, thanks Raytheon, and the statute of limitations is past so I can say that now. 

 oldviolin wrote:

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

Ahh the ohhh.. some folks never grow up! Like the Lord said, let them kids come to me.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:


My brother loved slot car racing, and organized the neighborhood kids into teams! I was pretty good at it, actually. 

 oldviolin wrote:
Beautiful pity.

At 5 or so, I was gifted a track where the cars never ran, regardless. It was mounted on a wooden sheet with trees and houses. Beautiful to look at, but what a bummer it was! 

 GeneP59 wrote:

Awesome. I never had such a nice track or cars but what I did have I loved. I still have a pair of Lotus cars to it. I ruined the track a long life ago squirting lighter fluid on it and racing thru flames. Stories stories stories. I blame it on my older cousin. He was a professional firebug but I guess I was a learned student and willing collaborator. I never said I was smart. lol
Anyhow I just saw him this morning. I picked him up from where he rehabbed from a five-way bypass a couple of weeks ago. All he wanted was a bacon double cheese burger and onion rings. Life going on man.