Captain Fred
10-08-2006, 10:52 AM
My story isn't as great as Marty's, but my wife just brought home a few old slotcar sets for me. They are all Tyco sets. One is a Cliff Hanger set with the 70s style glow Vettes. There is also a Richard Petty set. She picked up a TCR set as well. All sets are pretty much complete. They included all of the cars and original paperwork, which is how I was able to inventory all of the pieces. I think we have a little over $20 into these. All of the 440x2s are narrow chassis. The 70s Vettes look as if they've hardly even been run. The Petty stock cars are in great shape, but show just a little bit of wear on the pickups. There are 3 TCR cars. They are complete, but barely operational. The jam car and one of the F1s need some maintenance.
I own lots of magnet cars, but I've never owned one of those Cliff Hanger sets. My teenage daughters thought it was an impressive looking track and one of them wanted me to set it up, so we could try it out. It has a loop, a separate section of upside down track, a 90 degree curve that runs up the wall and a jump ramp with a special 15" straight that has an extra wide slot. The curve pieces have double thick rails too. Anyway, I set the Cliff Hanger track up just as the instructions directed (whew, no wonder this one didn't have much use). THIS IS A BLAST! It's quite a challenge just to keep the cars on the track. We proceeded to have a contest, who can do the most laps without overshooting the jump or flinging the cars off of the wall or dropping off of the loop. Those of you who think the magnets take the fun out of slotcar racing need to try racing on this track! You have to really watch what you're doing. Too slow and you stall on the wall & the loop. Too fast and you overshoot the jump or fling yourself off of the wall.
BTW,
so far, I have only been able to do about 24 laps without messing up. There's something to be said for magnet cars and the crazy track layouts!
I own lots of magnet cars, but I've never owned one of those Cliff Hanger sets. My teenage daughters thought it was an impressive looking track and one of them wanted me to set it up, so we could try it out. It has a loop, a separate section of upside down track, a 90 degree curve that runs up the wall and a jump ramp with a special 15" straight that has an extra wide slot. The curve pieces have double thick rails too. Anyway, I set the Cliff Hanger track up just as the instructions directed (whew, no wonder this one didn't have much use). THIS IS A BLAST! It's quite a challenge just to keep the cars on the track. We proceeded to have a contest, who can do the most laps without overshooting the jump or flinging the cars off of the wall or dropping off of the loop. Those of you who think the magnets take the fun out of slotcar racing need to try racing on this track! You have to really watch what you're doing. Too slow and you stall on the wall & the loop. Too fast and you overshoot the jump or fling yourself off of the wall.
BTW,
so far, I have only been able to do about 24 laps without messing up. There's something to be said for magnet cars and the crazy track layouts!