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In the 1960s, TYCO changed its focus from train kits to ready-to-run trains sold in hobby shops and added HO-scale electric racing sets, or "slot car" sets. A wide range of slot cars and repair parts, track sections, controllers and accessories were also available. The slot car rage started in 1963. [3]
Can-Am Car: AFX Magna-traction: White body; Red and black stripes; "L & M" 1908: 1768: 1974: SHADOW "CAN-AM" Can-Am Car: AFX Magna-traction: Black body #101 "Shadow." Earliest release featured shorter and thinner spoiler supports. These also lacked the step edge around the front half of the front wheel wells. 1909 1769 1974 FORD "BAJA BRONCO ...
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.
Total Control Racing (TCR) was a toy brand from Ideal which debuted in the late 1970s, similar to slot car sets, with approximately HO scale cars (and smaller scale semi-trailer trucks) that operated on a slotless track.
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 ...
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.
Pictured is an early example of an approximately 1:64 slot car built by Aurora around 1972, as part of its AFX line. This first-generation AMC Matador coupe NASCAR race car replica is designed to fit on an enlarged chassis for a nominal HO track. The 1:64 slot car lines include Micro Scalextric from the maker of the pioneering 1:32 scale slot cars.
Aurora AFX, a brand of slot car marketed by Aurora Plastics Corporation A replacement for the A-6 Intruder , developed by the United States Navy and United States Air Force (canceled in 1991) Topics referred to by the same term