Reminiscing of xmas as a kid
 

i saw this on another site and thought how many of us car guys as a kid circled this in the sears or jc penney catalog hoping to get it for xmas. i got a set one year but not this big.

Cool!

Started w/Hot Wheels here.

thats a big hotwheels set. i got the first one they came out with in 1968?? just the track with the clamp and i cant remember if it came with the loop or i got it later. ive still got all my old hotwheels track, cases, and cars. i got this one in 1971 and it came with a boss mustang and a 69 ta that was pink with blue stripes.

After seeing this, I had to post my picture. Received my figure 8 track Christmas of 1969. I think this picture was taken in January 1970 and devolped a month later. I am the small kid in the blue shirt, my two brothers on either side, mom in the back and my sister talking to one of our cousins.

I still have all my HO and tyco cars and track. I even have a drag racing set w original controllers! Cool stuff

Cool! I think I had the same shirt that you are wearing! :beers:

I received a Marx figure 8 set for Christmas 1960. Cars were a red C1 Corvette and a blue '60 T-Bird. On Christmas Day my older brother and BIL ran them so hard the windshield melted out of the 'Bird.
I expanded on that with Aurora AFX track and various cars including the hop-up kits etc. Had a couple that would launch hard enough to pull the pin out of the groove LOL! :3gears:
Since I grew up in a twelve room Victorian house I devoted one upstairs bedroom to slot cars, set up on an old dining room table with several leaves. Not sure that I have any pix.

Bill W

I got an Aurora set around 1960-62 also. I remember the brushes on the car were woven wire and wore out very quickly. The next cars had metal skis that wore thru almost as fast. The controllers were square with a steering wheel to use for the speed. I wore the windings off the resistor on one of them and it didn't work anymore. When I moved out, the set got relegated to an outside shed and, eventually, rusted away and the tracks got very brittle and broke.

is that powder on the track? or what is the white stuff he looks like he is putting on it?