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2. Pancake (slot car) - Wikipedia

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   An Aurora "Thunderjet 500" HO chassis and integral pancake motor, 1963-1971. History. In 1963, Aurora introduced the now-legendary Thunderjet 500 motor, an innovative design by British-American engineer Derek Brand. The Thunderjet was intended as a high-performance, high-reliability replacement for Aurora's successful but finicky vibrator motor.

3. Aurora Plastics Corporation - Wikipedia

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   The Cigarbox car line was a combination of rather bland plastic slot car bodies with metal chassis. [17] Models were claimed to be HO scale, but the cars were larger than HO – yet a bit smaller than Hot Wheels. Cigarbox cars were packaged in small yellow cigar-like boxes which had fancy red serif lettering and gold trim.

4. Slot car - Wikipedia

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   In only a year or two, Scalextric's 1:32 cars and Aurora's "Model Motoring" HO line had set off the "slot car craze" of the 1960s. [24] An Aurora "Thunderjet-500" HO chassis and motor, 1963-1971. The slot car craze was largely a US phenomenon, [25] but, commercially, it was a huge one.

5. Aurora AFX - Wikipedia

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   Aurora designed the AFX cars with interchangeable car body shells usually compatible with each chassis they released during these years. The original 1971 A/FX chassis utilized an updated version of the existing pancake motor design of Aurora's "Thunderjet 500" line, popular in the 1960s. [2]

6. Slot car racing - Wikipedia

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   A vintage Aurora HO slot car, the AMC Matador stocker, approx. 1:64 scale, circa 1975. There are three common slotcar scales used for competition: 1:24 scale or 1/24, cars are the largest slot cars commonly raced. A typical 1:24 car might be 7 to 8 inches long (18–20 cm). 1:24 cars require a course so large as to be impractical for many home ...

7. What a merger between Nissan and Honda means for the ... - AOL

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   Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida, left, and Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe, center, and Takao Kato CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, right, arrive to attend a joint news conference Monday, Dec ...