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?

what is the white stuff on the track?

rosin...:biggthumpup:


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That is a good question :hmmm:. I looked at the picture a bit closer and it looks like my older brother was doing something but I can't remember what. Probably gumming up my electric motors and the pick up brushes. I had little clout back then and usually just kept my mouth shut or I would get a bop on the head.:frown:

Love the Ker-Plunk! :)

I noticed that also.
I had forgotten that those even existed.

Got that for Christmas too, as well as this "wonderful" game....

Loved Tyco, but IMHO the Aurora AFX sets had cooler cars. I also had the Sizzlers track and bought my son his own Sizzlers track a few years ago. Between those toys, my Evel Knievel wind up jump bike and Sonic pull race cars, I was all about wheels even from a young age.

Playing cards clothes pinned to the frame of your bike for the spokes to make the "motor" noise ?? Man, I got my butt chewed for taking a couple of those, but in the end, I got the whole deck because I had ruined it. 2 cards in the front and 2 in the back made a HECK of a racket...:grin:

loved those pull string cars. my cousin and i would get about 10ft apart and see if we could crash them into each other.

Christmas Past
 

Had a few of those Tyco & Aurora sets. Loved them as kid. They didn't survive. Lasted longer than those Kenner SSP Racers going over the cliff with M-80's in them though...

I do still have the Dodge Scat City 1970 Challenger Drag Racing Set though, with the little 4-speed shifters.

Related, and waxing somewhat nostalgic, I recently purchased a modern slot car set for sale on the Hammacher for a "dueling mustangs stunt loop set". Google it, it's a cool setup.
It's a cheap gift to really make a kid's Christmas. Even a big kid.

I thought nothing would ever top the present that my dad gave me when I was 14 and we were just finishing up building the 302 motor for my 69 Z28.
I bought the car without a motor- and we built a 302 for it the old school way with a 327 block and a 283 crank. I sure do miss him.
My dad wrapped up the oil pan we needed for it- and put it under the tree.

When my daughter was about 13, she bought me a vintage Evel Knievel Stunt bike. I put it on display at the top of the stairs and I look at it every day and just love it. What a great kid she was to buy me that.

For Christmas when I was 10, my mom and dad got me a go cart. It was a used home built cart. Dad sand blasted the frame and put on the good ol red primer and painted the wheels white. It came with a 340 cc snowmobile engine on it, so that was promptly removed for something smaller. He didn’t find an engine in time for Christmas, so I got it without a power plant. That night I went down in the basement and spied the snowblower in the corner with an 8 hp Tecumseh engine. I promptly started to tear things apart to see how I could rig things up on the cart to get the throttle cable and chain lined up. Several days later it snowed, so dad got up at 4:30 in the morning to blow off the driveway before he left for work and guess what?? Somebody had some explaining to do. That was in 1982. The temperature out that Christmas morning was 60 degrees.

My 3 year old granddaughter-wants to play Ker-Plunk every time she comes over -I think we had bought it for one of our kids in the 80's-still lots of fun!
Keep on Cruising!
Dave

I still have my Set from Xmass-1974. We took the Amtrack Empire Builder #8 from Seattle to Spokane for a White Christmas and my Cousin Todd and I badgered our Fathers to NO END to get a pair of different Tyco sets! The Best part was Our "Uncle" was working the Mechanical Steam B unit as a "Traveling Mechanical Department Employee" operating the Heating Car Boilers and we were able to go up front of the train set to visit in the B units amongst all the Fire and piping's, Good Luck doing anything like that Now days.

So, taking that thought a step further... we used to use hockey cards...

And get this, the one year I really, really collected hockey cards was when I was 9 in 1979... we used those in our spokes...

Just in case you want to know why this stings a bit more than it should:

https://www.latimes.com/sports/hocke...on-sale-record

How many of those did I chew up?!

gah.

Not sure how to post a link, check this out on ebay: Auto World HO Scale 14' Showroom Shootout Electric Slot Car Set

Here's one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393698278990

Got the Aurora Golden Gate Bridge set for Christmas in 1969. Still have all my slot cars but sold the track in 1985.

(Photo via eBay.)

Toys-R-Me
 

Toys of the 60’s.

I received complete slot car tracks and cars as a kid in the 50’s - early 60’s for Christmas, plus I’d buy my own from mowing lawns over the years.

I still have a few displayed in a stacked book case.

Those were the days.

^ VERY cool!

that wheelie bar is cool. is it still in the box?

Remember these? https://youtu.be/rVnlbvFIi9U

https://youtu.be/GtwkRd6zHwg

Yes, 1966 NOS complete unit.

Also 4 NOS clay wheels for building your own skate board.

That's cool

My father got me a slot car set every single year for Christmas and my mother alway got me the latest remote control car. My mother told me all other gifts I always requested hot wheels! Cars cars cars lol

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Love the Wham-:headbang: Wheelie Bars, even Rat-Fink had one!
:beers:
~ Pete

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they had a lot of cool set ups. here is another one someone posted.

Batman and Robin taking a break.

Very Funny song performed on the Tonight show on December 15th 1966,watch the expressions on Carsons' face too.

Notice how everything was made in the good old U.S.A.?

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