[Fot] SLOT CAR RACING SYSTEM

[Terry Stetler]

Vibrator motors, oh yeah.
When I was young we had a 1/72 scale set (I think, they were pretty tiny) that
had a ratcheting type vibrator motor.  The rear axle was a serrated drum and a
metal follower on a flat piece of spring steel that vibrated up and down on
it.  Was it ever noisy!  Then we upgraded to normal rotational electric motor
types.

Anyone remember the Cox 1/24 scale Chapparal 2E with the wing that would
increase it's angle under deceleration?  Now that was a slot car.

The photo is of the real Chaparral 2E.

Terry Stetler
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Fubog1 at aol.com<mailto:Fubog1 at aol.com>
  To: fot at autox.team.net<mailto:fot at autox.team.net>
  Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] SLOT CAR RACING SYSTEM


  In a message dated 12/16/2006 8:48:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
  rkramer3 at austin.rr.com<mailto:rkramer3 at austin.rr.com> writes:

  What is  the
  best way to go buying a slot car set these days, something not too  serious
  but that won't have cars flying off the track.


  I still have my "Thunderjet 500" set from the mid-60s. It's laid out on
  plywood, we set it up every year at x-mas time in the shop. Slot car races
today!
  Glen
  ps- anybody remember the early vibrator  motors???
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