Just a quick ? for more experienced collectors. Who used HO tires with "Continental" molded in? I was going through a pile o' stuff from the 'bay and found a set of these. Also found a pair of Aurora pickup shoes with the contact portion only about 2/3 as long as a regular shoe. Are these for the slimline cars? Thanks.

I looked at several slimline chassis including one NOS and the pickup shoes all look the same as standard t-jet. Could they be hop-up shoes? I have a couple similar though the contact portion looks shorter than 2/3, maybe 1/2 standard. I am pretty sure they date from the early 70's/AFX time frame.

Don't know about the Continental tires.

Continental tires, if I'm not mistaken, were on Faller cars. And I think those short contact patch shoes are just early Tjet shoes. I have a few sets. A collector once told me I should take them off the runner I was blasting around the track at the time and put them on a solid rivet chassis under an early body like a Riviera or a Falcon... makes it more "correct"...

--rick

??? Maybe so, but I've got my own original Tjets, Jag XK 140's with the factory spacer to fit the Tjet chassis, and several other very early Tjets - #1's with and without the nylon gear and #2's, and they all have essentially the same copper pickups. I guess I need to pay big bucks for a NOS hopup kit to see the replacement shoes that came in it.