This is why boys today have no clue how things work and how to work on them. We had to figure this stuff out ourselves. Dad was always too busy working. We spent more time taking the cars apart then we did racing the cars. Great video. More like this would be welcome.

@MYSUPERBOAT

5 жыл бұрын

billrok Same here I had a huge Ho layout in my basement doing the same as you ! I still have all the cars in good running shape

@prezzzrock

5 жыл бұрын

billrok…...very true. These...and the train set also.

@DevaJones03

5 жыл бұрын

You beat me too this exact comment. I had no clue these were this intricate. I'm too young to have played with these but I've seen them. This would have been my kind of toy though.

@MYSUPERBOAT

5 жыл бұрын

@@prezzzrock I have a lot of trains but O scale Lionel

@cannelle3390

5 жыл бұрын

These comments are making me cringe :/

My mom bought me one these in 1977 for 7th birthday it was Tyco, 3yrs I met my best friend and he had one also, so we put them together and got another one and we had a very big track, oh the memories, I shared the video with him he laughed his butt off.

@knighthawk86855

5 жыл бұрын

I was laughing too, especially when the spring went across the table.... LMAO

@kenbrown9094

4 жыл бұрын

My mate and i did the same thing with tyco command control sets, hours of fun

@vitale6633

Ай бұрын

@@knighthawk86855 Right!! Those darn springs... LOL

@knighthawk86855

Ай бұрын

@@vitale6633 lol

67 years old and I still play with slot cars. 👍

@tafsirnahian669

Жыл бұрын

Gigachad

@gameyord7182

Жыл бұрын

Im 17 and im making my own slot cars

@brianreber8842

9 ай бұрын

Good for you! Keep on playing! I myself will never grow up...and I'm 60!😊

Ha! After playing with my 70s AFX set all weekend, my 11-year-old said "toys from the 70s were so much cooler than toys today." Thanks again for the video and the idea to break out my old track/cars.

@ModMINI

5 жыл бұрын

They would never make this toy today. Bare wires that can be shorted out? Never!

In 1965 I was ten years old, and lived outside Centralia, Washington. The slot car craze was going strong, and Centralia had a slot car track called Model Car Raceways. Actually, they had two tracks, and they sold car chassis, bodies, electric motors, and other accessories. You could rent a slot for a set time and run your own car, or rent a car. and they held regular races as well. I loved to be there, and rented a car to run whenever I could. When Mom went into town to shop, I would ride in with her, and she would drop me off there. If I didn't have money to rent a car, I would just watch other people run their cars. and if a car wiped out and came out of the slot it was running in, I would put the car back into the slot for the driver. Mom would pick me up there when it was time to go home. Heady times, to be sure.

@mcscheck2000

5 жыл бұрын

Kim Towner Cool story thanks... In '65 I was being born... LOL....

@notajp

5 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, we had a toy store/bike shop downtown that had a huge 1/24th scale track as well as an HO track in the basement. They also sold cars and parts. It was amazing stuff for a young kid....

@ronrader575

5 жыл бұрын

Lifetime Winlock resident but born in 72. Where was the racetrack located just out of curiosity???

@capnpete1154

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto that story.

@modelleg

5 жыл бұрын

We had Wykoffs in Vineland New Jersey. He had two great tracks and lots of hobby stuff. It was great.

Well after reading about a 100 comments Mustie I think you have a bonafide hit on your hands. Saying that I think you could show us repairing a toaster and most of us would love it! It's the way you present things. You bring us in and talk as tho we're in the room with you. Thanks for the memories and a little bit of pain. When my parents moved they didn't ask us kids if we wanted the "stuff" they just tossed it out or gave it away. One of the comments was about when you pick this stuff up would you do a video on it... Thanks. I love seeing you haul something home and making it work again. It may be old but it's still got a few good years left... Till the next time!

What great memories this brings back. Building tubular frames, rewinding motors, slot car tracks. It was a great time to be a kid. Still think about it today, n was born in 1953. Thanks for sharing.

62 years old and I will never get tired of Slot cars and Redline Hot Wheels. Childhood in the 60’s was wonderful

@vitale6633

Ай бұрын

Yep !!!

I’m 24 and when I was about 12 dad got me a newer set like this and he was shocked at how reliable it was, now I understand why!

Soon as you said "I can smell ozone" it took me back 40+ years ... Great video

I married my wife in Feb of '65 and that Christmas I bought her an Aurora set that we set up on our dining room table in our apartment. We left it up till the spring .....the following December we had our first baby....great memories....Thanks

@Randico1962

5 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised that she didn't kill you on the spot, when you gave it to her. Damn buddy, you found a special women, dude. Nice pick.

@ndawgtkd

5 жыл бұрын

@@Randico1962 Lol I was thinking the same thing. Read it as, I bought myself an Aurora set and gave it to my wife, lol.

@beakittelscherz5419

3 жыл бұрын

@@ndawgtkd exactly! lol

I still remember (55yrs ago) saving my allowance to by soft, foam rubber slicks for the rear end of my H/O racer....new brushes, some sewing machine oil I "borrowed" from my Mom, an eraser and a little square of sandpaper were all in my car repair kit. Then hours would be spent making the race course as real as possible...signs, trees, etc. Good times.

ooh yes Mustie .. i'm 10 again .. more please

I got that set for Christmas in 1967 and my neighbor got one and my best friend also got one and we put all 3 together and made a city with LEGO buildings and trees and water tower mounted on plywood with fake trees and grass and played cops and robbers! What good memories! I was 9 then . My mom would take us to the store to buy new bodies and brushes and foam tires and if you crashed the tow truck would be dispatched!

@evilferret1453

5 жыл бұрын

thats pretty cool dude , sounds like alot of fun

@davekimbler2308

5 жыл бұрын

I am rich because my family loves me !

@vitale6633

Ай бұрын

Right On!! Great Times.

This was videogames before there were videogames, and from the look of it this might have been someone's prized set. Nothing but love for this.

Watching the car disassembly was a long streak of flashbacks one after the other...put a smile on my face and now I want one!

LOVED IT!!! More please!!! Was smiling the whole way through!!! Brought me back to my childhood. I had the slot car track 'stored' under my bed and played with it all the time. At Christmas, Dad would set up the HO trains on a 4x8 plywood with the tree, so the trains rain under/around the tree. Eventually he incorporated the slot cars into the design. He had all the buildings and trees...it was an amazing setup. While we only got to 'play' with it at Christmas, it is a great memory. I have most of the train setup in a box in storage. Someday I'd love to set it up and incorporate the slot cars again. Be well, Don

@deborahchesser7375

Жыл бұрын

We did the same thing, had an HO scale train and race track set-up, what great Christmas’s those were huh ?

@vitale6633

Ай бұрын

Ditto !!! Great Times.

I grew up with those cars and track. 10 Years older than Yo!. Still have My original track and Cars!. Learned to wind armatures at 14. than went on for years without use and no interest, than got back into them years after. I'm now into 1/32 & 1/24 scale cars and track. have been scratch building cars for 18 years, even vacuum forming and building hard bodies. Great hobby to be into. Getting ready to turn over some to my 6 Grand Kid boys. Great video, Your doing things right. Thanks

@builtrodewreckedit

5 жыл бұрын

I think we found something you can start a channel around. Id love to see your home built cars and see what youve done

@onawhim7737

5 жыл бұрын

There were a few girls that liked them too! Had to really, I had brothers!

@notajp

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame companies like Parma aren’t still around. I can remember the magazines that were dedicated to slot car racing. All the serious guys ran 1/24th scale when I was a kid.

Shot straight back to my childhood. Racing Dad, eating Moms pancakes on Christmas morning. Thank you for that!!

I could almost smell the ozone myself watching this! Thank You so much for dragging these out for us. Loved it. I am 64. The biggest years for me were '66-69. I was in junior high and had a much older cousin who was co-owner of a hobby shop so got stuff wholesale. Plus he just gave me TONS of stuff he got as promotional because his shop at the time was the only authorized Aurora dealer in town. AND a regional warranty repair center. I would spend almost entire weekends with him at the shop, racing and repairing and souping up those 1st gen chassis and motors. We even modified the tracks and controllers. I knew all kinds of tricks. Over the course of 3 weekends, 2 buds and I built a layout in one of their basements that was 4 levels high and used up damn near every square foot we could. Even running like bats outa hell, it took over 20 minutes to complete one lap.(when the damn thing made contact the whole way, lol) We only were allowed to leave it for a couple of weeks before we had to take it down and when we did the track sections filled up 1 3/4 55 gal. drums! In the end, I was fortunate enough to have over 150 chassis, 300 bodies and enough spare parts to start my own shop! Of course, by then I discovered REAL cars and GIRLS! so the h/o stuff fell by the wayside. My parents wanted me to get rid of it all, my cousin wouldn't take any of it back so in '75 I donated it all to a boys home in Lansing, Mi. when I joined the Air Force. Spent a Saturday helping set something up and teaching some of the older boys how to work on the cars and stuff. Wow! Thanks again. Those are memories I almost forgot all about. Force

@brianreber8842

9 ай бұрын

Awesome story!😊

Loved me some HO cars when I was a little chitlin. Every winter we would set up the ping pong table and build a race track. Many years worth of yard sales left us with a great variety of straights, curves and loops. Enough to build a sizeable four lane track. As I recall it took a whole day just to located and repair all of the open circuits and buff the track just so it was usable. After that it was a constant struggle to keep it all going through the winter. I recall hop-up kits for the Aurora cars with silver pickups and silver brushes and little bottles filled with 3 in One oil, all used to get that extra tiny bit more speed out of the cars. Once the neighborhood kids figured out that the track was up they'd start showing up at the front door with small tackle boxes full of their favorite cars and controllers and the neighborhood racing league was set for another season. Ah the time before cable tv and computers, it truely was the good old days.

DAMN, that brings back the good old days.Used to race for hours on end, never a dull moment. Im a 1959 model, had one in 1965, loved it.

@PapiDoesIt

5 жыл бұрын

I got a set in 1968 and it provided many hours of entertainment!

Just took me back to the 60s…..later I made a large layout for my son …many great memories

I barely make it through a typical 5min YT post : I have literally sat here for 55min watching this wonderful flashback to my pre-teen youth - the hours we spent tinkering, modifying and problem solving. Pretty sure it taught us valuable skills we have used in our adult life.

Man, when you ended the video, it felt just like your mom called you to dinner. I wanted to keep playing. Let's do this some more.

@albertcee1770

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too

@jackspringer9283

4 жыл бұрын

Mustie!! Dinner time right now!, tell your little friends you can play again tomorrow!!!! Don't make me come in there young man!!! You know I save all those bolo paddles you keep breaking the rubber bands on!!!!

@frankzimmerman5608

3 жыл бұрын

Me and my brother had alot aurua afx sets .and Tyco sets back. In early sixties the early a/c cars had metal flap turns rear wheels have to have a a/c power transformer not the d/c one for the ones with motor.

I still have my 5 sets from 1973 and the "pit repair kit" that came in a small tackle box with all of the extra pieces to build 10 cars, spare parts. I bought extra tires in white, foam, rubber and a weird jelly type material. I would go to a toy/hobby shop by my house called "kiddie-land" several times a week to buy stuff. I used to clean the rails with hobby oil and 0000 steel wool. My mom drank Sanka coffee in little glass jars and I used to used them to store my best race cars and throw them in my book bag for races after school at my buddy's house. I loved customizing the bodies and painting them. The Magna 440 cars were insanely fast and had real strong magnets on the bottom to hold them on the track. Good times

@josephfine3394

5 жыл бұрын

NEVER use steel wool, it gets into the motors and ruins them, very hard to clean it out of the track and everything!

One of many reasons I love watching this channel Is the variety you put on here never a dull moment. Keep up the great work.

The Craftsman screwdriver in the bottom of the box made it for me :) I'll give a thumbs up to doing more of these. It's fun seeing old stuff brought back to life, even if it's not gas powered.

Pretty good, for a cold start after 40 years.

Thanks for this one Mustie1 from the bottom of my heart. Took me back to plastic soldiers and first expensive electric toy, for that era. In a Spanish Harlem tenement . GOD BLESS 😇👌

@robpet4424

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Johnny, how many times did the American soldiers win over the evil German soldiers? In my case, if I recall correctly, EVERYTIME ! Great childhood memories.

@michmvp

5 жыл бұрын

@Martin Luther So, are you saying that the Nazi were really nice guys?

@sonofedmund5004

5 жыл бұрын

@Martin Luther leave your politics at home, we're here for the wrenching.

The sound of the motor struggling when you put it on the track brought back some fond memories. I think I may have known that sound even if I wasn’t looking at the video. Thanks for posting

These are AMAZING! brought back my childhood in one video!!

Thanks for the memories Mustie back in the late 60s there was a storefront by our house that you could go to and race your slot cars it had about 700 feet of track and a dragstrip set up it was so much fun

MOM! I'm going to mustie1's house. Oh for it to be 1970 something

@BILLY-px3hw

5 жыл бұрын

we got a giant AFX track for Christmas in the early 70s my dad set it up and nailed it to a plywood base we set up saw horses in a spare bedroom upstairs my brother and dad were carrying the track upstairs when my brother dropped his end of the plywood the whole set was destroyed most every track was broken my dad just lifted his arms and walked away my brother and I picked up all the broken track we were crushed. this when we learned how to improvise, repair, troubleshoot and problem solve we managed to bandaid it all back together with no help from my dad. we were up and racing in a few days it was a traumatic experience but also an awesome life lesson looking back. eventually my dad cooled down and came upstairs to race I think he was proud of our resourcefulness. wow this video brought that all back.

@tininjin1

5 жыл бұрын

Lol...me too

@terryatkinson3182

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't afford stuff like this when I was a kid and really wanted one. Incidentally I was born in 68. Would play with it today...

@bradrichards6107

5 жыл бұрын

I like it, Mustie. I had a Tyco set as a kid in the early 80’s.

@Kenoscope

5 жыл бұрын

I'll give you a rife on my bicycle. :) Born in '51 to a military family, money was always tight.

What a flood of memories. Clean the brushes and pickups with an eraser. Just a little oil on the gears. Stretch the springs on the pickups to keep then on the track pick ups.

@southofhollywood4199

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, I remember the eraser trick.

@sped6954

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, the eraser trick. I can still see the hand drawn illustration of a hand holding a pencil with an eraser, and that split second before the eraser touches the contact in permanent suspended animation. I forget what we did for the track. Didn't we rub a penny the length of each rail to keep them clean and shiny?

@xrkenny9759

4 жыл бұрын

@@sped6954 a nickel works better than a penny

THERE IS NOTHING MORE SATISFYING THAN THE FIRST TIME 1 CURCUIT IS MADE WHEN YOU SET UP A NEW TRACK DESIGN

I am 44 and miss playing with my brother and dad with my trains and electric cars were so much fun on winter days, when there was not much to do after doing farm chores. Thanks for sharing this fun in your shop and as always take care and God Bless!

@soldierski1669

5 жыл бұрын

We are the same age group, man, got a flash back when he talked about the ozone smell.

when we used to lose the springs under the Shoe's... we made new ones from ball point pens... cutting them down.

@sped6954

5 жыл бұрын

Yep! Been there before lol. My dad got mad when he figured out the reason he never had any pens was because I was throwing them away after taking the spring. I really didn't have anywhere to store the rest of the spring after cutting it so it went in the garbage too. A whole pen wasted for ⅛" of the spring lol! He only had to see one pen in the garbage and he knew exactly what happened to all the others. Not long after that he stopped using retractable pens!

What a flashback. The hours we spent racing, modifying, and repairing those cars. All you needed was an eraser, a screwdriver, and some oil.

I had the Corvette in blue, I remember buying stickier tires and performance hop up kits for the cars. Thanks for the memories😁🏎

I remember going to a local sewing machine repair shop and buying a small tube of sewing machine oil, it was very thin oil, probably 0 weight, and it worked great for lubricating the parts of my slot cars. The 3 in 1 oil was way too thick.

@scottfirman

5 жыл бұрын

My mother was always mad because we used up her sewing machine oil.

@Blazer02LS

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, sewing/mineral oil, These days you can get synthetic turbine oil. I use it on fishing reels year around because it doesn't gel up.

@bentullett6068

5 жыл бұрын

Some model shops sell the correct oil for model trains and it usually comes in a bottle with a thin nozzle applicator. Can be used with slot cars.

Those are the later generation cars with a regular motor. The first generation used a vibrator motor which was an electro magnet with a pushrod that went up and down to open and close the circuit and drove the wheels with a metal piece that drove a gear on the axle. We used to shorten the pushrods to get higher rpm and used dual truck tires for speed and traction. Clean all your tracks with scotchbrite for good contact as well as the motor pickups.

This was a fantastic era. It taught many how important and critical the accelerator is in a car.

Love this! I could smell that smell from Colorado! I'm going to the basement and digging out my set. Thanks!

I used to live about 10 miles from the Aurora plant on Long Island. By "dumpster diving" I was able to find lots of cool parts & tracks!

@GlassByThaddeus

5 жыл бұрын

You lucky bastard!

@wingerfan1

5 жыл бұрын

hatfez I need parts for my porsche! Have any?

@MrBoxer1200

5 жыл бұрын

Great!! The good ole days.

Born in 1964 myself. My friend, Jim had the AFX track with a good selection of cars, including two G-Plus cars. Great fun! I got the lane changing set for Christmas one year. Those were very cool.

Love all your stuff,this its awesome ,I'm from the 60s ..1964 and grew up with all this stuff..capsela,make your own radio,chemistry sets microscopes...telescopes,trainsets etc..no internet or smart phones...great stuff...thanks for posting😊

Wow, that brings back memories, going to have to dig out my old track. Thanks for sharing !

The reason the A/FX cars would't really go was because the guide pin was bottoming out in the slot. Flip the pin over, the round pin is shorter than the flat pin... Also, the vibrator car is supposed to run on AC current.

I had a big set when i was a kid. I wasnt very nice to my toys and most of them were broken. The slot car set lasted forever. I would setup different tracks every dsy and run the cars for hours. I loved the smell of the electricity and the glow from the brushes in the motors sparking.

OMG! You just made my day with this. It's been a long time since we had a track racing our cars. I became a pro at slowing down at the right time and not going off the track. My brother always got mad because I would always beat him.

What an awesome video! I'm 60 but used to play with these through the 70s with all my heart and time. Thank you mustie1!

Thanks for the trip back into my childhood. My track wasn’t as old, but I had the one with the General Lee and a cop car. My Dad even set up a table in the den so I could keep it together. An eraser and steel wool was your best friend.

@grassy-qb6qc

5 жыл бұрын

I had the same track lol.

@piratepete-thetruthisforevery1

5 жыл бұрын

I have that set still to this day... :) Steel wool should not be used because it will fall apart and small strands will get stuck to the magnets of the cars (messing up the motors), in some cases the steel wool can also cause short circuits. I would use rubbing alcohol on a Q tip to clean up the cars motors/parts. Thumbs up! 👍🏼

My track was from the mid '70s however I do remember that one and boy does this bring back some great memories!! Thank you for posting this video because for 55 mins I was smiling and damn near giddy once more watching you bring those cars out of hibernation once more, for nearly an hour I was a kid once more and I cannot thank you enough for that, I have no idea as to what happened to my cars or my set but I am sure that someone had as much fun with them that I did

I almost wrote I'd rather see you wrenching on VW's, but I won't, considering the amount of joy you apparently bring to all these guys.. Keep doing what you do, Darren.

Wow.....man!.........the memory of this with my dad who died recently...he surprised me when I was a kid by having a set like this all set up on the basement family ping pong table. We had a fun time racing our cars together, working on the contact points, using steel wool to clean the track and contacts, exchanging plastic car bodies..we bonded and laughed together oiling the motor shafts, watching the smoke puffs and the cars flipping over the white plastic guard rails...I 'll always miss him and the fun of youth.

I totally loved it mustie. I gave away about 100 ft plus and a bunch of cars semis and even a motorcycle to a buddy for his young son. I have since aquire a new afx set featuring the super g plus cars. I even had the tcr set by tyco. I loved tuning up the AFX cars. We used to rub the brushes on a sheet of paper to clean em. Yes I lost plenty of those blasted little springs, especially the ones for the brushes

Oh, I’m excited for this one.

I was born in 65 and loved these when a boy!!! Me n friends had a race nite once a week. Would tweek the cars n try n make em faster. I remember the local hardware store sold cars separately n always begged my parents to buy me new cars! Lol thanks for the blast from my past! Love this channel!!!!! Lol

I was Born 1963 so we grew up with a lot of the same toys.Brought back some great memories of me and Dad playing with the slot cars in the basement for hours. Thank You.

I enjoy anything you upload thanks for all the great content

If you can find one, a typewriter eraser is great for electrical contacts and even has a little brush to clean up afterwards.

Love this vid! My dad and i had slot sets from the 70s and 80s that we spent hours and hours racing on......makes me smile to remember!

55:10 "You work on the cars 1/2 the time and run them 1/2 time." Exactly! Just like real race cars, LOL. This is a fun video! Nice job! I really like that wooden box also. Somebody put some time into it.

@briansrcadventures1316

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, a lovely wooden box :-) None of this modern day moulded plastic cases back then, just a well put together substantial wooden box :-)

@ModMINI

5 жыл бұрын

1/2 and 1/2? More like 90% of the time fixing, 10% racing real race cars.

@1marcelfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Dragcar racers 99% working on car 1% racing car

Way cool, more please. You just sent everyone looking for an old vintage slot car set

Loved it! Had a 1/32 scale track, and raced the 1/24 scale at a miniature speedway. Never had an HO set, but same principle. I believe that funky one was called "VibraJet"- what a bizarre setup.

Enjoyed the video! Brings back memories for me from the late 80's. I had the Tyco sets back then.

That looked great fun. Dont mind more of this at all. Thanks for sharing.

One of the best toys of my past!!! Love it

Ahh yes. The smell pf ozone and 3 in 1 oil on a rainy day. Brings back memories of the sixty's . Thanks mustie1.

Mustie thank you so much for building this race track it brings back memories of when I was a kid ..lol I never could get that track and those cars to work together very well but it sure was a lot of fun..

Awesome video, please post more! Enjoyed the entire 55 minutes. Thank you!

oh yes, nice change from the other awesome stuff. Keep it going Mustie!

Love old slot track sets. Keep the videos coming.

Great video. All of us old folks who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s had slot car tracks. I remember spending days in friends garage racing all of the different cars that we had acquired over the years. The later models had magnets that were designed to help the cars stick to the track. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.

This episode brings back memories, we had five kids in the house and in the basement we had a sheet of plywood set up with a train track running around the outside and scar track on the inside. With train crossings and little villages set up. With grass and trees and that sort of thing. Thanks for the bit of nostalgia.

Absolutely awesome video!! You inspired me to bust out my old N scale train set. Please share more videos like this. I'd love to see these cars come back to life.

Thank you for the flod of memories sir. God bless you.

HO cars are supreme fun. Countless hours running this stuff as a kid. Thanks for bringing back these memories.

I just came across your channel a few weeks ago and I spend more time on yours than any others. This vid on slot cars took me back to the mid-60s and the joy that those little cars gave me and my friends! I'm 66 years old and love watching you bring things as old (and older) as me back to life. Thanks!

Wow talk about a step back in time. Great content keep it up it's nice to see a mix up of differnt content.

As opposed to you Americans, I, who was born and raised in communist Poland, have never even known such slot cars existed. The closest I had was an East German model train set. The same issues with contact, joints etc. etc. It was in a way, very formative for my interest in electricity and physics. Great video, Mustie, thanks!

@leisergeist

5 жыл бұрын

Now I've got to see what an East German train set looked like, that sounds interesting

@captainofindustry6625

5 жыл бұрын

@@leisergeist piko Model Trains made in DDR

Yes please more of this. Bring Brian and his boy in on this will have a blast. And brought back lots of good memories thanks.

Just found this vid and it inspired me to get out the slot car set my son left behind when he moved. I have been tinkering all day cleaning track rails and fixing cars. Been playing with it all evening. Have 8 cars rolling now. More tomorrow. Thnak you😀

Heat the tires with your lighter and fix your controller! Also, upgrade the xformer to a higher voltage! great fun, brought back MANY memories! It made me remember that Eddie still owes me four tires!!!

When the first car didn’t move, a pencil was the first thing that popped into my head! Went through more of them racing than doing homework!

Love it keep it up, you brought back soo many memories Thank You

Awesome to watch! Made me get my old set out and teach my grandson how to get them going.

Loved slot cars as a kid, I soldered little 12v light bulbs on the motor terminals inside so they would lit up and raced at night :D Great times. My uncle still has his original set from the 70s with some of those very large GT cars. They even have a little steeringwheel on the controller so you could change lanes.

@scottfirman

5 жыл бұрын

We were trend setters eh! after we did that, they started adding head lights. We found the headlights robbed power from the motor so we usually just took the lights out.

get the carbs out clean 'em up and theyll run fine !..

@CheezyDee

5 жыл бұрын

20 minutes in the ultrasonic and they'll be brand new.

@dustinshort6207

5 жыл бұрын

@@CheezyDee soup's ready.

My brother and I had about a half dozen of these HO race car set in 60's and early 70's. Thanks for the great memories Mustie!

you brought me back to the early days thanks for something different that has brought us back to our childhood days Mustie 1 you rock!

Loved the video. I had an Aurora set as a boy in the 70's too. I think Tyco made sets on the 80's.

Nice! Run your track through the dishwasher. Use Cascade soap. Make sure the brushes are perfectly parallel to the car bottom. Glue a nickel (5 grams) to the top-front of the chassis. Replace the back tires with foam rubber slicks. Plug it into 220V. Guard rails are for wimps.

@shanek6582

5 жыл бұрын

220?

@Giblet535

5 жыл бұрын

@@shanek6582 Normal voltage is 110V. 220V in will put 24V to the cars instead of 12V. No, it won't run very long, but it will run very fast. Like injecting liquid oxygen on a Toyota Camry with a solid propellant booster on the back. Very fast, very brief, but you'll remember that ride when you're 95 years old and your memory of every other experience has gone soft at the edges.

@shanek6582

5 жыл бұрын

Giblet535 the one my brother had it wouldn’t stay on the track unless you were really good at feathering the throttle, you must have had yours tuned up good.

@Giblet535

5 жыл бұрын

@@shanek6582 There was a small, but real, risk of losing an eye with my set. It was a lot more fun that way. We used trash can lids as shields as we yelled "Drivers! Start your engines!"

Love it! You gave me the opportunity to introduce my 7 year old into days gone by. Days my dad talked about.

i love this stuff, you really got into detail how it works and how to fix it up

Great video Sir. this was my first lesson in throttle control. Still working on it. BIG THUMBS UP

@vwnut1967

5 жыл бұрын

on my way over to race

Wow! That takes me back down memory lane. We had a club at school and shared track and parts and just like you are doing I took them apart before race day and cleaned and lubed. I also remember some bigger rear tires I had and maybe a different choices of gearing in the middle. Could be wrong on that. Thanks for this, it was an unexpected pleasure to see!

@josephfine3394

5 жыл бұрын

The Aurora Model Motoring accessory gear set was called "Hop Up Gears." It came in a nice box with graphics. AJ's was the biggest fat silicone tire seller. Auto World sold those, along with rewound high-performance motors.

Cheers Mustie, that really bought back my childhood. It was Christmas 1964 and I got a Scalextric, it was a 4 lane track. My brother and I played with it so much, that all the car's got burnt out eventually....lol....Thank you for the memory.

Loved it Mustie, had one as a kid and spent many hours imagining myself a race car driver.