1:32 slot car set with Superbird option, 5 1/2 inch cars, w/ '70 Hemi Cuda

[OneBadSuperbird]

I don't know if I have any pics of the Charger I picked up in Thailand. Its a 69, and still in the package. But the package isn't in my spare "toy room" as my wife calls it. It must be boxed up and in the attic.

Either that or she put it on ebay while you weren't looking!   

[cudaken]

 I am getting it bad again. I found this and I think I must have it.

If you want a Dyno Test on your slot cars let me know Would look cool with the stereo gear as well. First time I have smiled today as well, been a bad day.

                                                                 Cuda Ken

[69_500]

Well I doubt she put it on ebay, she doesn't even like to go into that room of the house, let alone go in there to find something. That is the reason that is where I put her Christmas presents before I wrap them. Just put them in the closet behind all the boxes of cars, and she doesn't ever go nosing around.


However I wouldn't rule out here finding it laying around somewhere and opening it up for my son to play with it. She thinks anything that isn't in that room is fair game for him to play with.

[cudaken]

  After 12 year's I dug it out. Looks far better shape than I was hoping. Just did a track count and have the following.

44  15" straights 660 "
9    9" straights  525"
1    6 straight        6" where did that come from.
22  12 curves    264"
14   9 curves    126"
16   6 curves     96" 45 degree bank curves
         Total       1404" = 117 Feet.
     
 

I started buying this track around 1985 and made it bigger around 1989. I just checked and it is TYCO track.

41 Husk, we need more plywood.

                          Cuda Ken

[SeattleCharger]

I am getting it bad again. I found this and I think I must have it.

If you want a Dyno Test on your slot cars let me know Would look cool with the stereo gear as well. First time I have smiled today as well, been a bad day.

                                                                 Cuda Ken

Is that for real?  Where did you get that?      117 ft. of track, wow, nice.

[cudaken]

 Dog, it was listed on E-bay. I did not post that it was listed there for the fact I was watching it. Cool than heck and would run the track as well. On the back of the stand that holds the car there is a HP meter that listed the estamited HP that car would make in scale HP. It is now out of my prices range, it is at $71.00 the last time I looked and reserve has not been meet.

I use to sand the surfaces rust of the track with sand paper, is there a better way to clean the rails? Is there a coating that can be used that will not make the cars skid out of the track?

Is there any websites that you folks know of about HO cars. Going to need tires, wheels, pick ups and other gear.

What is the scale of a HP car anyway?

                 Cuda Ken

[OneBadSuperbird]

Dog, it was listed on E-bay. I did not post that it was listed there for the fact I was watching it. Cool than heck and would run the track as well. On the back of the stand that holds the car there is a HP meter that listed the estamited HP that car would make in scale HP. It is now out of my prices range, it is at $71.00 the last time I looked and reserve has not been meet.

I use to sand the surfaces rust of the track with sand paper, is there a better way to clean the rails? Is there a coating that can be used that will not make the cars skid out of the track?

Is there any websites that you folks know of about HO cars. Going to need tires, wheels, pick ups and other gear.

What is the scale of a HP car anyway?

                         Cuda Ken

I'm kinda outta the slot car loop but I think the big thing nowadays as far as grip is heavy duty magnets...

[cudaken]

 Mine have that, I can stick them on a pices of track and turn it up side down and they won't fall off.

Seems scale is 1/68th from what I was just told. Posted the math in off topic. Seems my Daytona if math is right does 5,000 miles a hour?

                           Getting disssy again, Cuda Ken

[SeattleCharger]

   I wonder how many g's it pulls accelerating and in the corners.      Quarter mile time? 

[Chryco Psycho]

when I was a kid I spent every nickle on slot cars , & I had 5-6 sets & probably 250 feet of track , with a special power supply to feed it , I had 100 cars , & a ton of Mopars
I still have a lot of the old AFX stuff . probably 11 71 Chargers , 2 Daytonas 2 Cudas , a Chall I built from the Cuda , i even have a Cheetah ,, a cab over I built before AFX made them
now I have a bunch of old style Lifelike chassis , the only Mopar body is an Intrepid stocker , I have a buch of highly modified vettes [c5] & they will eat a Super G+  for lunch , 25% or mare faster & it doesn`t matter if the vettes crash !!!
the Carrera car are cool , I post pix of those about a year ago when they first came out but I don`t have any of those , space is much more effectively used with 1/64 scale !!

[TruckDriver]

Check this out.....

>>MOPAR SLOT CARS<<



>>'70 Charger<<



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[SeattleCharger]

  
                                                                     

          

[TruckDriver]

You guys remember the AFX Magazine?



Me and my best friend took a idea out of one of those magazines to make alunimin foil bodys for the cars. You would take the body off the car, then take 4in. by 3in piece of foil that you had already doubled over so it was 2 layers thick. Then you would center the roof of the plastic body in the foil, then start slowly forming the foil around the body of the car. By pressing slightly, you could get the foil to detail itself nicely. The we would take regular model paint, and decals, and paint the foil bodys before removing then off the plastic body. You had to make sure before you painted the foil, you didn't rub a hole in the foil though. They came out like they did in the pictures. To hold them to the motor frame, we would use some double sided tape that was really sticky. Then press carefully to the motor. WHY? It was kinda cool that when you hit the other car, or came off the track and hit a guard rail, you would get body damage. We would crash, them straighten them out with a small screw driver the best we could, then keep going til the car bodys either tore up, or were unrecognizable. I would build on like every 2 days so I had a lot of them to use.

[cudaken]

 Thanks for the link. Is the Johnny Lighting the hot car now? Sounds a little lame to me as far as the name goes.

                                     Cuda Ken

[cudaken]

 Dam Dog, I thought I had time on my hands.


                   Cuda Ken

[TruckDriver]

I was in my teens Ken when we made those.

[BigBlockSam]

when i was a kid i spent my money on slots too. i use to soup them up and race my friend Brain who was into it too. most of those cars didn't make it to now.
i still buy slots off of ebay. i have 4 , 50 count displays on the wall in my living room and tons of them put away because of  lack of space. i wanted to share some with you guys. Rene

[SeattleCharger]

Me and my best friend took a idea out of one of those magazines to make alunimin foil bodys for the cars. You would take the body off the car, then take 4in. by 3in piece of foil that you had already doubled over so it was 2 layers thick. Then you would center the roof of the plastic body in the foil, then start slowly forming the foil around the body of the car. By pressing slightly, you could get the foil to detail itself nicely. The we would take regular model paint, and decals, and paint the foil bodys before removing then off the plastic body. You had to make sure before you painted the foil, you didn't rub a hole in the foil though. They came out like they did in the pictures. To hold them to the motor frame, we would use some double sided tape that was really sticky. Then press carefully to the motor. WHY? It was kinda cool that when you hit the other car, or came off the track and hit a guard rail, you would get body damage. We would crash, them straighten them out with a small screw driver the best we could, then keep going til the car bodys either tore up, or were unrecognizable. I would build on like every 2 days so I had a lot of them to use.

    Never heard of that foil trick.     That is amazing that thing is made of foil you pressed on there and removed then painted.   Cool.     

[TruckDriver]

    Never heard of that foil trick.     That is amazing that thing is made of foil you pressed on there and revoved then painted.   Cool.     

When the car was all painted, you would take a scissors, and cut off most of the excess foil, and carefully (I used a exacto knife) to trim around the wheel wells. Then what you couldn't cut out, you would press in the underside carefully.

BTW; every so often, I'd go through all the work of making a body look good, and whoever I was racing would crash in front of me, and my car would hit his tire, sending my car airborne onto the floor upside down. So, I not only ended up with front end damage, I had to reshape the damn roof before we would continue. THAT SUCKED! One of the best bodys to use was the '55 Chevy sedan. They held up pretty good when painted. We did not paint all of them though just for speed purposes to manufacture them and race them.

[cudaken]

 Drove my self a little nutter today looking for someone that carries HO cars. I was feeling like I was looking for 69 Hemi carbs with the right date codes for a while. I think I may final hit pay drit, well find out Sunday.

On the tin foil, I have lite weight clear plactic bodys. You paint them from the inside so the paint does not fly off. Never care for them much, guess because they where not Daytona's, or Mopar's.

                    Cuda Ken