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Scalextric is a brand of slot car racing sets which first appeared in the late 1950s. Scalextric was invented by engineer B. Fred Francis, [1] when he added an electric motor to the Scalex tin cars that were produced by Minimodels Ltd, his own company. [2] The first "Scalextric" were first made in Havant, Hampshire, in 1956.
Whilst this did prevent TCR from having the stop/start, run-to-fetch-a-spun-vehicle nature of Scalextric (particularly in young hands), it did mean that a TCR race required no particular skill and the user of the faster car would always win. (Speed equalisers and power boosters were later made available to attempt to level the playing field).
SearchTempest is an aggregator of online classified advertisements that allows users to search results from craigslist, eBay, and Amazon.com together. [1]Created in 2006 by Nathan Stretch, SearchTempest was originally named Craig's Helper and was made to help users search more than one craigslist city at once. [2]
The Mercedes-Benz W196 (sometimes written as the Mercedes-Benz W 196 R [1]) was a Formula One racing car produced by Mercedes-Benz for the 1954 and 1955 F1 seasons. Successor to the W194, in the hands of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss it won 9 of 12 races entered and captured the only two world championships in which it competed.
A typical, 1:32 scale, Audi R8R slot car by Carrera Slot cars are usually models of actual automobiles, though some have bodies purpose-designed for miniature racing. Most enthusiasts use commercially available slot cars (often modified for better performance), others motorize static models, and some "scratch-build", creating their own mechanisms and bodies from basic parts and materials.
It seems both the later racing cabs (with chromed plastic fifth wheels) have this and most of the US-1 series Truck Cabs can be found both with and without. So far no Army Green version has been found with the lettering, one theory being that the change was made after the Army set was produced. 1985 is a date suggested for the change.
Formula One portal; A Shadow Mk.I Can-Am car The Embassy Hill Shadow DN1 from 1973 being demonstrated at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed Matra-powered DN7 driven by Jean-Pierre Jarier as a one-off during the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix The DN9 was copied by Arrows before a court order banned Arrows from racing their version, the FA/1
Formula Easter (or Forma Easter) was a single-seater, open wheel, open cockpit circuit car racing series during the 1970–1980s, specifically created for drivers from the communist bloc, [1] driving cars created solely from parts manufactured by the COMECON industry or created from scratch as a citizens' initiative by Eastern Bloc residents.