Slot Mods

[PittsburghTiger 6,174]

Since Surly is made up of independently wealthy gentlemen with time and $$ to spare I thought I'd throw this link here.

https://slotmods.com

Seriously, if I had some extra room, and $$, I'd look into getting one of these made up for the house. Looks like fun.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

I love the smell of ozone in the morning ......... smells like............... slot car heaven.

[markstanco 12,570]

Put a thin layer of vaseline on your opponents side in a turn.  

I was a rebel back in the day. 

[NYTransplant 145]

There's one, locally, that I've had the privilege of checking out.

 

 

Edited January 4, 2019 by NYTransplant

[CleverNickname 1,308]

I almost bought a Scalextric or Anki kit for christmas. Anybody do that? 

[Braff Zacklin 13,551]

I've modded a slot or two in my day, if you catch my drift.

[Pescado_Rojo 19,412]

I modified your mom's slot last night. 

[PittsburghTiger 6,174]

11 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

I almost bought a Scalextric or Anki kit for christmas. Anybody do that? 

I bought a Scalextric for the kids a long time ago. It was a lot of fun. It's a good kit.

[TornACL 7,698]

7 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

I've modded a slot or two in my day, if you catch my drift.

OOOOH HAHA I GET IT

YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE SEX

[Braff Zacklin 13,551]

2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I modified your mom's slot last night. 

Does that mean she's one of the Wachowski Sisters now?

[El Diablo 4,232]

Aren't the slots more of a Yankee thing? Something to pass the time in the basement during the winters?

[PittsburghTiger 6,174]

5 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Aren't the slots more of a Yankee thing? Something to pass the time in the basement during the winters?

When I was a kid there were a bunch of places around where I grew up that you could go and race them. I'm not sure if it was just a Yankee thing. I do know for certain that they were fun.

[El Diablo 4,232]

2 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

When I was a kid there were a bunch of places around where I grew up that you could go and race them. I'm not sure if it was just a Yankee thing. I do know for certain that they were fun.

Only people I know who grew up taking them seriously were guys from up north. We ha a track when I was a kid, came from Monkey Wards. 

[Ths71 472]

Between 1961 and 1966 – the golden age of slot cars – there were around 3,000 commercial slot tracks built in hobby shops and corner stores across the U.S., with an additional 200 in Europe. Kids could go to their local raceway and pay about $2.00 for an hour of racing on tracks that often filled the room with twists, turns, and as many as eight racing lanes. One company, American Model Car Raceways, even made a business traveling the country to build tracks. Their biggest, nicknamed “The Purple Mile,” was 220’ long.http://mentalfloss.com/article/27229/little-engines-could-brief-history-slot-cars

[Carl Spackler 3,479]