Google "routed slot car track" ... but hide your credit cards first. 
Google "routed slot car track" ... but hide your credit cards first.
man....you guys are making me want to go pull my RC stuff out of storage. This is an expensive place to hang out, haha.
In reply to gearheadE30:
GRM: Enablers R Us.
Winter is coming, time to dig out the project that stopped 28 years ago. Wow time flies, now or never my kids are the right age to get them going on the RC stuff. I seriously cannot bring my self to buy them a toy store car even if they are cheaper and faster.
I bet my local hobby store has a track somewhere if not in their basement.
I play with a 10th scale rock crawler as my winter outdoor fun. But i may look for a local slot car dragstrip.
Appleseed wrote: If you were to buy a home set up, what HO brand is the one to get that will last? Back in the day, everybody had Tyco slots, so we mixed and matched track quit a bit. I'm thinking of buying a set for my niece and nephews.
Tomy AFX stuff, but don't buy new. Their retail prices are berkeleying nuts. You can find tons of track sans cars on CL, eBay, etc for super cheap. Then buy some Auto World cars to run on the track. Auto World's dragstrip sets are good buys though.
volvoclearinghouse wrote: 1977...perfectAbout 50 bucks for a car. Not terrible. How much do you end up spending on tires, etc? Also need to see if there's a track anywhere near me...
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I remembered after I got home last night that I had actually bought a 1/32 car from that charity auction for animals I attend every year, a few years ago. So now I suddenly have THREE cars. Hm, probably should get the tiny weird screwdriver someone let me borrow to remove the body to move the magnets. I saw people using some kind of fluid on their tires. I bet I can find other bodies for the cars......
Sigh, here we go. 
(It has to be cheaper than real car stuff, right??)
Jerry wrote: I remembered after I got home last night that I had actually bought a 1/32 car from that charity auction for animals I attend every year, a few years ago. So now I suddenly have THREE cars. Hm, probably should get the tiny weird screwdriver someone let me borrow to remove the body to move the magnets. I saw people using some kind of fluid on their tires. I bet I can find other bodies for the cars...... Sigh, here we go.
i would hope its only 1/32 the cost
You guys know that we have a killer, killer slot car track around the corner from the GRM offices, right?
I was so into this in the 60/70's. Started off with 1/32 to race at the local hobby shop but had HO at home due to the space. Glad to see the hobby is coming back.
David S. Wallens wrote: You guys know that we have a killer, killer slot car track around the corner from the GRM offices, right?
That sounds like a Rolex 24hr GRM package throwdown to me.
I should NOT have clicked on this topic.
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He he he I was going to post this over in the GT6 thread for you.
I bring my kids to this place every now and then. http://www.modelvillehobby.com/index.html
I would like to go more often, but it is an hour plus away. We used to have a similar (but less track) place like this about half an hour away when I was younger (before kids) and I was there a lot. I believe it is 1/24th scale that we race on sheetmetal chassis with lexan bodies. I still even have an old drag car from the old track, but this place doesn't have a drag track. My wife even has an old Womp car from back in the day.
My kids love racing the cars. I gave them each one of my old chassis, and they picked out new bodies. I bought them their own controllers from X-mas last year as they would both fight over who got my (cool) controller which was exactly the same as the rental ones aside from the fact that the rentals were spray painted. They love having their own controllers. I spend our time there chasing the cars that come off the track, and don;t do any racing myself anymore. I miss racing, but the are so bad at driving these things that they would literally spend more time getting the cars back in the groove than actually racing so I help them out. My father used to do this sort of slot car racing as a kid in the 50's/60's, and we brought him a few years ago. He absolutely loved it, and it brought back so many memories.
Duke wrote:akylekoz wrote: Wish I still had my old TCR slotless car track, three contacts and a switch to change lanes.And the JAM CAR!
I still have mine, and the Jam Car, and the Super Boost (double the speed when passing).
Karacticus wrote:ultraclyde wrote: I thought it was massive cool, my wife said every guy in there gave her the heebie-jeebies.When I did high power rocketry, my wife liked to classify the participants as either "That man has never known a woman's touch" or "That man will never know a woman's touch." Sounds like a similar participant pool!
Ha, as a Hot Wheels collector I will agree. My wife went to the Nationals a couple years ago with me and she said it was like a convention of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. I didn't see it so maybe that says something....
So I was just telling Mrs. Kazoo the other day that I need something to do during the winter. She's going to hate you guys . . .
In reply to kazoospec:
Winter distraction is 85% of why I went to check it out. Last year by the end of winter I was pretty sad shape. I remembered seeing something about the league/competitions around Feb or so, almost done. Last weekend I just happened to think "hey wonder when it starts again?" Perfect timing.
Between this, a new Xbox1, finally painting 2 model cars I bought this year, and heavy dose of Vitamin D I think I'll manage. Now if they start up a Warhammer 40K game...
Jerry wrote: I need 1/32 scale GRM decals now.
I made a set in 1/24 scale with a Testors Decal kit from Hobby Lobby. I scaled it and the Oval Speed decal on the C pillar to size in Word and printed them out. They aren't terribly durable so for protection on a slot car I would clear coat the body with acrylic floor wax. It was easy to do. Size them, print onto the paper and spray with a clear sealant in the kit. The floor polish is basically a self leveling acrylic clear coat. Paint it on with a paint brush and let it dry and it makes a nice smooth high gloss coating.
Look up Martin Brundle and slot cars. He just auctioned a crazy sized layout.
Tom
I am curious about the Anki Overdrive more than traditional slot cars now but they arent making cool scale ones
We should have a "show off your slot car" thread... I had some old Tjets that were pretty heavily modified...
I have this a block from my house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yTz8Fs4x1s Mark's Model World in Canton Ohio. People come from all over for big races.
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