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03-13-05, 04:11 PM
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| | 4 Tenths 
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Rep Power: 9  | scalextric track
Dont have a real one yet? (like me [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]), here's how i fill my time waiting.........
A 5.5m x 2.7m mezzanine in my garage. I keep my Lotus7 rep. underneath, on it's trailer. | 
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03-13-05, 04:18 PM
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| | 4 Tenths
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Rep Power: 9 | Re: scalextric track
track | |
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03-13-05, 04:21 PM
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| | 4 Tenths
Join Date: Dec 2003
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track2 | |
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03-13-05, 05:24 PM
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| | ahirsbrunner Administrator 
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago, IL USA GT40: RCR-40 #24
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Rep Power: 8  | Re: scalextric track
Nice garage Tim!
I'm waiting too - here's mine - about 160 ft of track. It's not nice and permanent like yours. That's what we call a "rug racing" over here!
Regards,
Al H.  
Waiting for RF #129 - can't wait!  | |
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03-30-05, 09:46 AM
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| | Stefan Waumsley Rookie 
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Derbyshire UK GT40: Trying to find time to build one
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Rep Power: 4 | Re: scalextric track
two verynice setups i have lots of track about 150m but no place to leave it setup so have to do it when the girlfriend is working late shift. I have the black No2 GT40 as well. | |
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03-30-05, 10:56 AM
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| | huntsen 5 Tenths
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: High Wycombe, U GT40: Factory-built G
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Rep Power: 11 | Re: scalextric track
I have tried to build a Scalextric Le Mans circuit, but can't find 8.53 miles of track. . . . | |
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03-30-05, 01:33 PM
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| | ahirsbrunner Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago, IL USA GT40: RCR-40 #24
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Rep Power: 8 | Re: scalextric track
It's not 8.53 miles long, and it uses Ninco instead of Scalex, but it is gigantic! - check this track out: http://mgpmrc.org/Articles/JDinGA.htm
About 2 scale miles long (or 6 scale miles long if you count each pair of lanes)
Regards,
Al H. | |
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03-30-05, 04:29 PM
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| | 4 Tenths
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 419
Rep Power: 9 | Re: scalextric track
WOW [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Gee, now if i just move all of the cars out of the garage.... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] | |
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03-30-05, 10:26 PM
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| | iraceone Silver Supporter
Join Date: Aug 2002 GT40: Tulsa,OK RF GT40
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Rep Power: 11 | Re: scalextric track
Nice tracks guys. That long straights on both are awesome !
Here is my old strombecker set I had when I was a kid. I dug it out of my folks attic, bought some more track, built 3 tables (4x6 each, for a 6 foot by 12 foot ) with 43 feet running in each lane. We slowly added scenery and such along with a old 386 laptop for timing. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Lots of fun too! | |
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03-30-05, 10:31 PM
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| | iraceone Silver Supporter
Join Date: Aug 2002 GT40: Tulsa,OK RF GT40
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Rep Power: 11 | Re: scalextric track
Sorry I dont have a better overhead pic , i'll have to shoot one sometime. Here is a good gt pic, I painted all these people till my eyes would start to go blurry then decided I had enough LOL ! | |
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03-30-05, 11:50 PM
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| | Ken Mason A Tenth
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Norwich England GT40: KVA/GTD hybrid
Posts: 147
Rep Power: 7 | Re: scalextric track
When I was in my teens I used to travel all over Britain racing slot cars. Some of the tracks were awesome. One at Southend had, if I remember correctly, eight lanes with a huge banked corner at one end. The cars used to reach about 60 mph actual at the end of the straight.
In those days (late sixties) there were actually professional slot racers in America and they occasionally used to travel over to Britain to race in the big events.
One race I did against them had a full size Ford Cortina as first prize (second prize was two...) I think I came fourth and won about £50 which was a hell of a lot of money back then.
I used to build the cars myself and wind the electric motors by hand. Hot engines for sprint races used to last about five minutes with the armature wound in what felt like cable!
Happy days but then I discovered girls and life was never quite the same again.... | |
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