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27/10/2023 11:02 pm
These are some additional Aurora Super Model Motoring (1/48-1/43 scale) items that I still have. I also have track sections, too.
Here, the car is a really cool 1929 hot rod pickup and the driver at the controls is "the man with no lower body !"
The grey wheel controller is an additional alternate to my tan one and the button controller is one of two I had.
28/10/2023 1:01 pm
Awesome!! Aurora tried (..and why not? ) but the public just didn't like this scale. These cars/scale represents a unique little chapter in slot car history and here's proof, from one of my most cherished books.
28/10/2023 4:46 pm
I don't remember who made it but it was HO scale and it came in four sections that put together like a puzzle.
It was a scale model with an Aston Martin and a Mustang and it was of the James Bond movie Goldfinger and it was supposed to be the cars chasing each other through some mountainous areas.
If I'm not mistaken Marty Johnson has one of these sets.
I remember seeing it in the Christmas window at Sears when we were shopping at an outdoor mall in the general Buffalo area.
Christopher Moroni and Charles Rockett reacted
28/10/2023 5:26 pm
This is very interesting stuff Mike and Chris. I have been looking at the Aurora mechanism for driving your '29 pick-up rod and am struck by how solidly built it all is. And equally this precious book with its landscaped slot-car scheme. As kids - indeed I guess all kids did - my brother and I had a modest Scalextric set.
But I have also remembered there was a set-up, perhaps manufactured by Matchbox, which operated like Scalextric but which had a continuous spring-coil in the slots so that instead of the metal strips in the track being charged, there was a single toothed cog at the power point that drove the entire spring through the track. Small plastic pins could be self-adhesed to the baseplates of any 1/64 model and popped anywhere on the track with the pin embedded in the spring-coil. And at the flick of a switch, they'd all go around at the same speed.
Anyone know more about this system?
David Green and Steve Jacobs reacted
28/10/2023 7:36 pm
28/10/2023 7:57 pm
@chris Chris, thanks so much for finding this. Seeing it again, every detail is exactly as I remembered. I never had one, but obviously a mate must have done and only by seeing your book and thinking about these tracks, reminded me. I wonder if David has a set?
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