And more junk.

[olcowhand]

In the late 60's I had a large track, I think was 1/24 scale. The cars were possibly up to 8" long, but soon after the HO scale came out and was near impossible to find parts for my cars, so I bought an HO set. After having the large scale set, I just never liked the HO nearly as much. Larger seemed like you were almost in the driver's seat!
The pickups on the big cars were actually woven metal fibers.

 

[Sawdust]

Daniel I was into the 1/24 scale pretty deep growing up. We had a very large hobby shop about two miles from home that had a 6 lane competition race track. We would saddle up on our bikes and be gone for hours. It cost .25 cents an hour to race all you needed was your car and a certain type of controller that the Cox company made. I won a lot of stuff I was very competitive with these two cars. They gave away a lot of prizes but the free race passes was what I liked sometimes those quarters were hard to earn. Lol

VINT 60'S 1/24 COX LA CUCARACHA SLOT CAR - NEAR MINT IN BOX W/ PAPERWORK RUNS | eBay

VINT 60'S 1/24 COX LA CUCARACHA SLOT CAR - NEAR MINT IN BOX - RUNS - HERE I HAVE A COX 1/24 SLOT CAR FROM THE 60'S IN EXC+ TO NM IN THE BOX WITH THE PAPERWORK AS PICTURED. CAR DOES RUN OFF A 9 VOLT BATTERY.

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Vintage Cox 1/24 Slot Car Ford GT 40 Sidewinder Magnesium…NIB | eBay

<p>Cox 1/24 Ford Gt 40 slot car Kit new in box….box is still in very good shape as you can see in the picture…</p><br /><p>This vintage COX Ford GT 40 slot racer is a must-have for toy and hobby enthusiasts. Made by renowned brand COX, this slot car is great for racing and display. Its classic...

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[Cvans]

I can remember running those little cars until the pickup shoes were worn through. I don't know how many times I rode my bike up to the Gateway shopping center to Darlene's toyland for parts. Our source for everything from control line airplane kits to HO stuff. Loved that place.

 

[MFDAC]

Thanks Doug. Nice work on the customs! The Porsche is an Amrac. I think the other two are Tyco. I would be interested in parts and track if you have them, let me know.
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I also have this chassis with no body. It’s the same as the Buick.
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I remember Amrac now! They were the predecessor to Lifelike! There may be one or two in my junkyard boxes. No parts available for them now but some Lifelike parts may fit.

The Wrangler car chassis and the no body ones are Tyco 440 chassis. Some parts are available for them. That indy car has the best chassis in it. That's a Tyco 440X2. We would modify those things until they would drive almost full trigger around various tracks. When they would let go, usually the car was broken beyond repair---LOL! Definitely my favorite Tyco. We called them "no see ums" as they were so fast after a lot of modifying. We never ran Indy bodies though. Indy's got used as a base to build a dirt late model on. This was my fastest one and it never got destroyed. It was repainted several times through the years. Started life as one of those Indy cars.


What chassis are under the '40 Ford and '57 Chevy? Tyco there too, but there are several variations.

The ones you pictured are in pretty bad shape. Might take an awful lot of work to get them to run again. The corrosion looks pretty bad and they are not real easy to take apart and clean up. The commutator brushes may be stuck inside the tubes too. Things don't corrode that bad out here in the dry country---LOL! Might be several days before I can see what I have for parts and track, Nick.

In the late 60's I had a large track, I think was 1/24 scale. The cars were possibly up to 8" long, but soon after the HO scale came out and was near impossible to find parts for my cars, so I bought an HO set. After having the large scale set, I just never liked the HO nearly as much. Larger seemed like you were almost in the driver's seat!
The pickups on the big cars were actually woven metal fibers.

8" long sounds like 1/24th for sure Daniel. By the late '60's early 70's that's what I was racing too. Didn't have my own track though.
The brushes were braided copper or silver wires.

Daniel I was into the 1/24 scale pretty deep growing up. We had a very large hobby shop about two miles from home that had a 6 lane competition race track. We would saddle up on our bikes and be gone for hours. It cost .25 cents an hour to race all you needed was your car and a certain type of controller that the Cox company made. I won a lot of stuff I was very competitive with these two cars. They gave away a lot of prizes but the free race passes was what I liked sometimes those quarters were hard to earn. Lol

VINT 60'S 1/24 COX LA CUCARACHA SLOT CAR - NEAR MINT IN BOX W/ PAPERWORK RUNS | eBay

VINT 60'S 1/24 COX LA CUCARACHA SLOT CAR - NEAR MINT IN BOX - RUNS - HERE I HAVE A COX 1/24 SLOT CAR FROM THE 60'S IN EXC+ TO NM IN THE BOX WITH THE PAPERWORK AS PICTURED. CAR DOES RUN OFF A 9 VOLT BATTERY.

www.ebay.com

Vintage Cox 1/24 Slot Car Ford GT 40 Sidewinder Magnesium…NIB | eBay

<p>Cox 1/24 Ford Gt 40 slot car Kit new in box….box is still in very good shape as you can see in the picture…</p><br /><p>This vintage COX Ford GT 40 slot racer is a must-have for toy and hobby enthusiasts. Made by renowned brand COX, this slot car is great for racing and display. Its classic...

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I was like you Jim, raced at a big commercial track downtown after I "graduated" from HO to 1/24th. They would have 8 hour "enduros" and us kids were racing mainly adults in them. When I first started racing there the owner was a widower and my Mom was recently divorced. He took a shine to her and it helped me get into the 1/24ths pretty cheap! My first one was similar to the Cox cars you posted, Jim. It was called the "Stinger". When the controller was lifted a big wing opened up on the rear and under throttle it would close back down. Mine was green like that one.

Was fast in it's day but all those "old" guys that started racing had custom built "plumber" chassis cars with brutal little motors in them that ran circles around it. I had to get into those too. Back then a race ready plumber chassis car with a group 20 motor would cost 40 to 50 bucks! My sugar daddy that was sweet on mom sold out so I lost that free ride---LOL! managed to get a couple saving money from working for the trailer park owner. I only have a couple 1/24th bodies I raced, a 1/32 scale plumber chassis and a Cobra "Fun Car" that we found after the '72 flood. The Cobra would do Wheelies down the straightaways at that big track. Was too slow and handled poorly for racing. The cobra still runs. Cleaned the flood mud out of it right away back then. Yeah I ran stock car bodies while everyone else ran can-am looking bodies.


Got the computer work done to start lettering those Camaros.

DAC

 

[Cvans]

Doug you were into this way over my head. We had a guy start a slot car business a few blocks away and that was far better than HO. It was a 2 bit an hour track and my allowance was 50 cents a week. Needless to say things were very tight in my racing world.

 

[UncleWillie]

Nice miter box.

 

[IHCubCadet147]

I remember Amrac now! They were the predecessor to Lifelike! There may be one or two in my junkyard boxes. No parts available for them now but some Lifelike parts may fit.

The Wrangler car chassis and the no body ones are Tyco 440 chassis. Some parts are available for them. That indy car has the best chassis in it. That's a Tyco 440X2. We would modify those things until they would drive almost full trigger around various tracks. When they would let go, usually the car was broken beyond repair---LOL! Definitely my favorite Tyco. We called them "no see ums" as they were so fast after a lot of modifying. We never ran Indy bodies though. Indy's got used as a base to build a dirt late model on. This was my fastest one and it never got destroyed. It was repainted several times through the years. Started life as one of those Indy cars.

What chassis are under the '40 Ford and '57 Chevy? Tyco there too, but there are several variations.

The ones you pictured are in pretty bad shape. Might take an awful lot of work to get them to run again. The corrosion looks pretty bad and they are not real easy to take apart and clean up. The commutator brushes may be stuck inside the tubes too. Things don't corrode that bad out here in the dry country---LOL! Might be several days before I can see what I have for parts and track, Nick.

Thanks for the info. That late model looks great! I would have thought it was factory made if you didn’t say anything.

Here are the Ford and Chevy…

Those cars were in my grandparents attic for years, probably the worst place they could have been. I was thinking if I can’t get them to work, I could just put those bodies on different chassis. I’d like to keep them period correct though.

No rush on the parts and track, I have enough to keep me busy for a while.

 

[MFDAC]

Doug you were into this way over my head. We had a guy start a slot car business a few blocks away and that was far better than HO. It was a 2 bit an hour track and my allowance was 50 cents a week. Needless to say things were very tight in my racing world.

The 1/24th cars were a blast that's for sure, Chris. Downside was the size of the cars and space needed for a track at home. I never raced then again after that flood.

Nice miter box.

Thanks Willie. Be nicer if it plugged into an outlet!

Thanks for the info. That late model looks great! I would have thought it was factory made if you didn’t say anything.

Here are the Ford and Chevy…
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Those cars were in my grandparents attic for years, probably the worst place they could have been. I was thinking if I can’t get them to work, I could just put those bodies on different chassis. I’d like to keep them period correct though.

No rush on the parts and track, I have enough to keep me busy for a while.

I built that Late Model quite a long time before bodies were being produced, Nick. They are out there nowadays, but I don't know if anyone makes them for Tyco.

Those chassis are Tyco HP-7's. Very reliable runners but don't handle very well. Can't do much to help them either. I can probably come up with correct replacement chassis for those bodies.

Had an emergency sticker job come up so the slot cars are being put off for a couple days.

DAC

 

[MFDAC]

Finally got those slot cars done. They will go home tomorrow.




Would have been better pics had the flash worked!

DAC

 

[MFDAC]

Didn't have any commitments for once today so during the race I dug out the slot car boxes and started looking through the stuff in them.
This one is mainly bodies and body parts. Kind of a junkyard!


Mostly Tyco 440X2 cars.


Most of the tools are stuck in this hole along with parts.


Parts and containers.


AFX and AFX Magnatraction cars.

Lifelike cars and one 4 gear Aurora AFX.


More parts!




Slot car tools.


Found one of those cases Jim said he used to build truck trailers out of.


All this crap and no track set up to play with!

DAC

 

[Cvans]

Wow Doug that's an awful lot of fun setting there. I never knew anyone with a collection like that. Amazing!

 

[chieffan]

I nee to get a photo of the closet of what used to be the train room. Wine shelf with I think 4 shelves full of old model train cars mostly and a few engines. There are parts of a hobby that some of us just can't let go of.

 

[4getgto]

Finally got those slot cars done. They will go home tomorrow.
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Would have been better pics had the flash worked!

DAC

Boy Doug you really got to get creative. Got watch you don't get two the same..

 

[Toomanytoys84]

That’s quite the collection of cars. I wish I still had my old sets….

The sets on eBay really aren’t that bad. But I’d set it up once and be like ok this is neat then just sit and look at it.

 

[MFDAC]

Wow Doug that's an awful lot of fun setting there. I never knew anyone with a collection like that. Amazing!

Thanks Chris! There are another 35 or 40 cars sitting on shelves in my office collecting dust. Those are the main ones I used to race competitively. We ran a lot of different classes so it took a lot of cars. My collection of these cars is tiny compared to my brother-in-law and Karl's, the guy I did those 36 Camaros for last week. They both have literally thousands of them. They are both collectors and racers and I was just a racer and builder.
Karl bugs me about buying it all every time I see him, but I ain't ready yet. He buys entire collections all the time. He bought the 6 lane track I used to have.

I nee to get a photo of the closet of what used to be the train room. Wine shelf with I think 4 shelves full of old model train cars mostly and a few engines. There are parts of a hobby that some of us just can't let go of.

I have a few boxes of HO train stuff that was given to me through the years, but never did anything with any of it, Roger. You are right. I'ts hard to let go of some things that gave a person so much enjoyment at one time.

Boy Doug you really got to get creative. Got watch you don't get two the same..

That was the goal, Bill, no two cars the same. There were two other factors in choosing the sticker colors. Each car had colored gears that are visible through the windows, and the wheel colors varied too. He didn't have the chassis yet when I did this but he had a list I went by.

That’s quite the collection of cars. I wish I still had my old sets….

The sets on eBay really aren’t that bad. But I’d set it up once and be like ok this is neat then just sit and look at it.

Thanks, Aaron. Sets and cars can still be bought brand new. A couple of companies have re-invented the old Aurora Thunder Jets, AFX Magnatractions and have brand new designs as well. I understand your sentiment on trying it again though. People like me did it through adulthood so it's easier to want to race them more. They really aren't hi-tech enough for most folks now.

DAC

 

[Cvans]

People like me did it through adulthood so it's easier to want to race them more. They really aren't hi-tech enough for most folks now.

They also don't come all set up and running which eliminates the instant gratification crowd. In other words 50% of the population.

 

[Sawdust]

Brings back many good memories Doug seeing your collection. All mine were the Aurora Thunder Jets. I had a few Tycos. It’s funny me and my friends would sometimes buy the same cars but one would always run better than the other one out of the box. That box is exactly what I use to use. I’m trying to remember the truck cab I used I think it was the Aurora Mack. It came in different colors of coarse sometimes I was never satisfied with factory colors.

All my focus now is on trains. We meaning me, Carol, and our son had a massive HO scale layout at our other house. It’s all in boxes now just waiting for me to get busy. Just an extra bedroom this time I’m too old to go wild again.

 

[chieffan]

Container yard. Switch yard and yard control panel.


Business district of town. Note the white power lines. Housing part of town.


Showing most of the length of the layout.

Couple photos of my last HO layout. Was built in a 14' X 70' trailer house. Full walk around the outside. Double main lines could handle 4 or 6 train at once, depending on the experience of the operators. Digital Command Control to all engines by radio signal. Both mains were block signal controlled so the operator of each train had to watch where their engine was and obey the signal lights. Switch yard was 10' long with 8 tracks. Well over 800 feet of track and countless turnouts. All cars were equipped with brass wheel sets and Kadee knuckle type body mounted operating couplers. Eyesight got bad enough it was difficult to keep up with the maintenance required to keep everything operating properly. It was a ton of fun to build and run trains through the winter months but in 2007 I had to make the decision to sell it off and make room for the
woodworking equipment.

 

[MFDAC]

They also don't come all set up and running which eliminates the instant gratification crowd. In other words 50% of the population.

Isn't that the truth, Chris! If someone had a track already set up and that crowd were to get to walk up to it and try running a car, the first time it would de-slot or crash they would be shocked that a person has to put the car back on the track. They'd probably try looking at their phone while driving too. Sad world.

Brings back many good memories Doug seeing your collection. All mine were the Aurora Thunder Jets. I had a few Tycos. It’s funny me and my friends would sometimes buy the same cars but one would always run better than the other one out of the box. That box is exactly what I use to use. I’m trying to remember the truck cab I used I think it was the Aurora Mack. It came in different colors of coarse sometimes I was never satisfied with factory colors.

All my focus now is on trains. We meaning me, Carol, and our son had a massive HO scale layout at our other house. It’s all in boxes now just waiting for me to get busy. Just an extra bedroom this time I’m too old to go wild again.

Glad you get good memories from this stuff, Jim! I thought there was a conventional Mack truck in the early '60's but the only pics I could find were of cabovers like this.


Guess I skipped over the T-Jets in previous posts. Here's 25 of them that were collecting dust. Gave me a good excuse to wipe the dirt off of them. These are ones that got raced through the years. Some are customs, others I didn't alter or made time to do the paint jobs and lettering. There are a few that didn't get raced I think I pictured earlier.


Got a bunch of chassis and chassis parts that never got completed and there's plenty of bodies in that one box to finish them.


Fun fact---the little wheels in cassette tapes were easily adapted to be front wheels on HO scale cars---LOL!


Looking forward to seeing a train layout at your place someday Jim!

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Container yard. Switch yard and yard control panel.

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Business district of town. Note the white power lines. Housing part of town.

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Showing most of the length of the layout.

Couple photos of my last HO layout. Was built in a 14' X 70' trailer house. Full walk around the outside. Double main lines could handle 4 or 6 train at once, depending on the experience of the operators. Digital Command Control to all engines by radio signal. Both mains were block signal controlled so the operator of each train had to watch where their engine was and obey the signal lights. Switch yard was 10' long with 8 tracks. Well over 800 feet of track and countless turnouts. All cars were equipped with brass wheel sets and Kadee knuckle type body mounted operating couplers. Eyesight got bad enough it was difficult to keep up with the maintenance required to keep everything operating properly. It was a ton of fun to build and run trains through the winter months but in 2007 I had to make the decision to sell it off and make room for the
woodworking equipment.

Wow Roger, that is a beautiful layout! Don't think I ever saw pics of it before. I sure hope the owner now is having a great time with it!
I remember your garden railroad, but I forget what scale it was.

DAC

 

[Cvans]

They'd probably try looking at their phone while driving too. Sad world.

Isn't that the truth!