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Fish
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: Slot cars Vw Bugs and Porsches |
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| Blue Baron wrote: |
Here's a shot of my VW and Porsche runners.
The cut wheelwells were not done by me! |
Years ago a guy at work use to bring in die cast cars for me to open up the wheel wells for adaption to slot car bases.
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ToolBox
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Location: Detroit, where they don't jack parts off my ride in the parking lot of the 7-11
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Slot cars Vw Bugs and Porsches |
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| brass gears wrote: |
| Christmas time & slot cars go together for me. Ever since I was a little kid, I 've always wanted a fully scenic slot-car & train set layout. Now, years later I've realized this. The Porsche 550 is a model made by MEV with T-jet chassis. The 904 is Aurora and two 911s by Bauer. More images in my gallery. Happy New Year. |
There is a local company that builds mega dollar custom slot car tracks. very impressive work.
https://slotmods.com/pages/rahal-road-america |
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brass gears
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:01 am Post subject: Re: Slot cars Vw Bugs and Porsches |
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-Toolbox. Thanks for that link. Very cool. That's a gig I think would be very rewarding. Slot cars have come a long way since I was kid in the '70's.
My set up is in HO (1/76-1/64 scale). The 1/32 scale offers a lot more detail in the models and you can race digitally with decoders allowing the racers to change lanes, run in the same lane, run ghost cars, run out of gas ...pit stops.
Cool stuff. |
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Fish
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:53 am Post subject: Re: Slot cars Vw Bugs and Porsches |
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Not sure where else to post this. Did anyone have this set?
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Hacksaw-BoB
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Slot cars Vw Bugs and Porsches |
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No . . . Fish, I only have 2 VW Track Sets by TIPPCO . . . like this large set 
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Blue Baron
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Location: Southeast USA
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Slot cars Vw Bugs and Porsches |
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Revell did a nice job on those EMPI Imp buggies.
My electric slot cars were limited to the smaller HO stuff. Revell was one of the bigger players in 1/32, but the main focus of their business was on plastic assembly kits, and lucky for them they didn't go all in on slot cars, because companies such as Strombecker went belly up when the slot car craze fizzled in the late '60s. To this day there is lots of old warehouse stock that was never used.
Thanks for reviving this thread.
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