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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:43 pm    Post subject: Slot Cars Reply with quote

Found a great site if you are into slot cars (scalextic etc).
They specialise in a 'retro range' plus a few you wouldn't expect.
Also do a range of die-casts too.

http://www.traffic-modelcars.com/

A few examples...


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

top stuff, wonder if they do an A40? could re-create some Goodwood grids with a collection of different saloons quite nicely!

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

interesting! the 1800 seems to have scale depth rear seats also! i do miss mine though. still have the engine.....
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:48 am    Post subject: Spotswood Reply with quote

Cool

Anyone who likes slot cars should see an Australian film called Spotswood....not about slot cars as such, but featuring a slot car club in a small industrial town with a moccasin factory undergoing rationalisation. It's an oldie worldie (mid-sixties Australia), feel good movie about traditional values...about community and people rather than big business. Anthony Hopkins, very young Russell Crowe, Toni Collette and Ben Mendelsohn star.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, I know I posted some of this elsewhere on the forum, but back in 67 I joined an American company in the UK called 'AMF International'. They had started the manufacture of tenpin bowling machines in the UK but had also bought a US company called 'Raceways'. Raceways had designed a slot car racing system where an inverted 'T' slot and a specially designed peg on the car ensured the car did no leave the track... boring! I hear you say? not so. There was also a 'drivers station' with a seat a throttle pedal and a steering wheel.
The track came in 4 or 8 lanes, the largest track 155ft long, on each bend the voltage supply braid was interrupted for a couple of feet and in order to get power to this interruption the steering wheel had to be turned a the right moment; believe it or not, it gave an incredible impression of being in control of the car.
The cars themselves were fantastic, the standard car for the commercial setups was a nicely constructed model of a GT40. Also available were Dodge chargers and, my favorite, a 57? Corvette.
I believe I still have a couple in the loft somewhere, will try to find them.
Don.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wing Commander Ken Wallis, the chap famous for designing, building and flying Little Nellie in You Only Live Twice (an autogyro) designed a slotcar system in 1942 when he was serving on bombers, building his first track on the black-out board from his billet. The cars were 3" long with self-steering front wheels. He improved the design and increased the car size in 1945....employing parts from German Kurskoppler navigation and bomb aiming kit from Arado 234 aircraft. The bodies were brass sheet fromt the case of a British photo-electric, experimental air-to-bomb firing system.

Both photos are shown to scale next to a 10p piece!


details andf pics from Ian Hancock's biog of Ken Wallis, The Lives of Ken Wallis, Engineer and Aviator Extraordinaire (2002)
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