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Jealously saying congrats . See a few of the bodies I used to race. Looks like good times. What kinda track you race on there Rod?

Todd

He has a 10 lane Tomy AFX track, but we were only using 8 lanes and rotating lanes each heat, for 8 heats!

Those pictures are staged BTW! Can't take pics and race at the same time!

must be huge to get 10 lanes an not in an oval . Would love to see some overall pix of the track if there are any. If not no big deal. be a good reason to go race again though

Todd

I will get some full pics of my friends track next time I race there! Never thought of it at the time, but I will be going back . It's only an hour away at an "average" 80mph!

Here are some pics of some of the buildings and cars on my track. Please forgive the dust as I have not used it in two years . It's a 4'x10' table 2 lane layout with only one 9" hairpin. All the other corners are 12" and 15" radius for a nice flow. You need this flow when you are running T-Jets with no traction magnets and you have to drift through the turns! Good fun! I will show a full picture of my track much later as I still store RC stuff on it! Another member asked many years ago to see pics of my track! Here ya go Resto!

The Start Finish with some T-Jet Chargers



The Judges Towers and Grand Stand



Pit Lane





The Parking Lot, Back Straight Grand Stand and Service Garage



The Infield Bleachers with a CANAM Shadow on the apex!

Looks good. What did you use on the outside of your turns. I was going to use some train cork road bed but what you're using looks a lot better.

That sure brings back memories, slotcarrod! I was digging through some old boxes a while back and turned up all my old AFX slot car stuff, including a track layout I designed that was completely fair. A "fair" track has a number of turns so that each car has the same number of inside & outside lanes. When you're on the outside lane making a turn and you have the guardrail holding you in, you can floor it, but you have to be a lot more careful when you're turning on the inside lane. My layout design had the same number of 90-degree turns for inside & outside for both cars. I never got around to building it though, but I still have that scale track layout on graph paper.

I loved those old AFX cars, because they didn't stick to the track like glue; they fish-tailed and you could use this to knock your opponent out of his slot or right off the track, but it required a lot more driving skill. Good times!

Another member asked many years ago to see pics of my track! Here ya go Resto!

Great Stuff Rod

SMOKE-DOG wrote:Looks good. What did you use on the outside of your turns. I was going to use some train cork road bed but what you're using looks a lot better.

Thanks, A friend of mine who is a cabinet maker, made them for me out of I think MBS board! I did the cork thing first and it looked ok but was not smooth enough for T-Jets hanging their asses out! They would flip off the track!

Those are some really nice cars Rod. I remember way back, going to PM (when it was PMS, and old old location )and picking up my first AFX cars.That had to have been 25+ years ago.

Still have em all, and many boxes of track. Tempted to dig them all out and have a few friends over and do some racing this weekend.

Fantastic collection you all have.

Dude you should have seen what I had! This is nothing! I was needing some cash in 2006/7 and sold most of it on eBay! Got over 30K $! At the time I only thought is was worth a couple thousand! I just kept a few runners and one of each body type that Aurora made!

Be careful running, because some of yours could be worth some good coin!

Wow! That much money hey! I will be much more careful with them. I will say that mine are not all packaged and in as good shape as yours.

No where near as many either. I like the way you have them displayed, and the track. Even if you are using it for storage, cool stuff.

Thanks Dave, if you ever need me to look at your cars, I can tell you what to run and what not to! Hope to meet you one day!

Sounds good Rod. Thanks for the offer. I think I am going to treat them gingerly from on.

I am not sure about this, but I think we have met. A handful of times at the hobby shop.

A few of my drag slots at race night.

Wow, been so long... Nice pics.