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

[69_500]

Well if you ask my wife she is currently raising 2 sons that are 2 years old each. I think i'm growing up again with my son. I might be a little more advanced than him, but then again I'm a bigger kid than he is. Other than I'm potty trained, but he is working on that so that will put him on even par again.

[BigBlockSam]

I'm 47 yrs old, but inside I'm still about 13. my wife and i have decided not to have children. less responsibility.

[69_500]

Ah kids aren't any responsiblity at all. You just feed them, wipe their butts, and send them on their way. When they fall down they tend to come find you and tell you what happened.

[OneBadSuperbird]

Yeah mainly at car shows is when I get ribbed on about my age. Most people that don't know me assume that my car is my dad's. Then again some of those people remember my dad, so I guess that isn't too far of a fetch for them to think that.

BigblockSam, your saying I'm older than you are? Hmmmm,

Oh and John, I have some of the old AFX cars too. Funny story about one of those. I have a blue Daytona that is in the case, and the case has never been opened but yet the car is broken. The car was broken when I got it years ago. The entire roof is off of the car. Package has never been opened, and   the car is still fastened to the baseplate. One of these days' I'll get another blue one, and maybe I'll take the convertible one and play with it.

Hey I have that blue Daytona too!  That was always my favorire car.  Mine is the Flamethrower model with the operational headlights that got brighter as you gave it more throttle.  The crossbar is gone of off of the wing and I don't think the headlights work anymore but of voutse, I've managed to pick up a few more AFX Daytonas over the years in both blue and yellow including a brand new unopened one (with it's roof still intact no less!) but I don't think I have an orange one yet.  I think that's the tough color to come by. 

[OneBadSuperbird]

I'm 47 yrs old, but inside I'm still about 13. my wife and i have decided not to have children. less responsibility.

Wow and here I thought I was old.  I guess I'm the whippersnapper!   

[69_500]

Yeah from the looks of it me and John are the young whippersnappers. See what happens when you get into cars at the age of 18. Time flies by but your still a whippersnapper.

Yeah I picked up another blue AFX car about 2 years ago, but it doesn't seem the same to me. The first one was one of the few Daytona's I got when I was little. And its the only one I can remember never opening up.

[OneBadSuperbird]

Yeah from the looks of it me and John are the young whippersnappers. See what happens when you get into cars at the age of 18. Time flies by but your still a whippersnapper.

Yeah I picked up another blue AFX car about 2 years ago, but it doesn't seem the same to me. The first one was one of the few Daytona's I got when I was little. And its the only one I can remember never opening up.

Yup, you're absolutely right.  I sit here and get bummed out sometimes that the years ARE flying by but then I stop and think how much I've gotten to do by being into Mopars for SO long and then it don't seem so bad!

[cudaken]

Funny I happen to read this tonight. I was at 41 Husk Mopad today working on his Challenger. Allen been talking about getting a pool table for his great hall of beer can's. Needed to have seen the original posting about the Club House / Mopad.

When I was around 12 my day bought me a HO track and this Daytona was one of the cars. Well as I sort of grew up track was lost but I hung onto the Daytona. My daughter turned 10 and one Christmas I bought a POS figure 8 track. Well I brought out the prizes Daytona and again I went off the deep end. Old house had a 1700 square feet garage. Track became 19' by 6' and 110 feet of track. Used dual transfomers one for each lane. Suckers where fast, being a ture Rodder they did not het left stock either. Rewound the motors, gold pick ups and other tricks. Daytona would run the 19 foot rear straight away at arould 1.1 second. Would get dissey with out cam 2 watching the cars.

Allen, do you really need a pool table? Track has been but up for 12 years now after I bought the current house.

                           Cuda Ken

[SeattleCharger]

Of course Cuda Ken would have the built up Mopar slot car too, lol.

[69_500]

Ken that is the orange Daytona AF/X car we were discussing earlier. I have a pair of blue ones. One unopened that is broke and then another one.

[BigBlockSam]

we use to use a battery charger instead of a transformer " more power scotty" here's some daytona's out of my slots collection. the orange one in the middle is a tyco pro that survived my childhood. Rene

[OneBadSuperbird]

Wow, way cool stories and pics guys!   

[SeattleCharger]

we use to use a battery charger instead of a transformer " more power scotty" here's some daytona's out of my slots collection. the orange one in the middle is a tyco pro that survived my childhood. Rene

     Very nice collection.     When I was a kid playing with slot cars, I basically just used the ones that were included in the track, I would look at the store sometimes, but couldn't afford what I thought was so much money at the time, being a kid.     You could upgrade and buy some special racing ones, now I can't remember the name.      Got one once, it would stay glued to the track, and was really fast.   But they just looked like Formula 1 cars.     I don't remember muscle car bodies.     Those Daytona and Superbirds are really cool.   You are lucky to have all those.

[BigBlockSam]

thanks SeattleChargerDog

  i dig my slotcars. when i was a kid , i couldn't afford much either. so as i got older i started picking up some of the slots i wanted when i was a kid. Rene

[69_500]

I'm really digging that Petty Superbird slot car. Do you recall what company made that one? I haven't seen one of those before.

[cudaken]

 I think they where made by AFX and where called Magnum 440 XP's. Seems there was a Mopar fan at AFX.

Can you still buy the Wing Cars?

BigBlockSam, what amp charger did you use? Don't want to waste another 440, HO that is.

                                             Cuda Ken

[BigBlockSam]

that Petty Superbird  is not that old. maybe 1999 around there.i think it's a tyco. it came in a twin pack. i don't remember exactly what amp it was. it was my dads 12 volt batt. charger.   i got the itch to play with them now. maybe this yr. i won't set up the train under the tree. i'll set up the slot car set. Rene

[OneBadSuperbird]

that Petty Superbird   is not that old. maybe 1999 around there.i think it's a tyco. it came in a twin pack. i don't remember exactly what amp it was. it was my dads 12 volt batt. charger.     i got the itch to play with them now. maybe this yr. i won't set up the train under the tree. i'll set up the slot car set. Rene

I'm no expert but Tyco came out with the Petty Superbird and a yellow street Superbird in 1992.  The way I know this is that I scored both of em at a hobby shop on our first trip to Colorado and that was in 1992!

[69_500]

Ah 1992 no wonder I missed it, I wasn't even in America in 1992.

[OneBadSuperbird]

Ah 1992 no wonder I missed it, I wasn't even in America in 1992.

They didn't have the Tyco Superbirds at the Wal-Marts in Thailand?   

[69_500]

Can you believe that? Didn't even have a Walmart in thailand. Heck they didn't have an American fast food restaurant in the town we lived in until my Senior year in High School. Well unless you call Mister Donuts a fast food restaraunt, as they came to town in my Junior year of Hign School.

But then again I do have some great Charger toys that were for sale over in Thailand that I'm sure that no one here has. Because not many here can read Thai writing, or have ever even seen a Toy case with a Charger in it, with Thai on the outside.

[BigBlockSam]

92 it is then. i'm bad with dates. i know i have 2 or 3 of those twin packs packed away somewhere. Rene

[OneBadSuperbird]

Can you believe that? Didn't even have a Walmart in thailand. Heck they didn't have an American fast food restaurant in the town we lived in until my Senior year in High School. Well unless you call Mister Donuts a fast food restaraunt, as they came to town in my Junior year of Hign School.

But then again I do have some great Charger toys that were for sale over in Thailand that I'm sure that no one here has. Because not many here can read Thai writing, or have ever even seen a Toy case with a Charger in it, with Thai on the outside.

Wow, that Thai Charger stuff sounds cool.  Do ya have any pis?  That would be way cool to see.

[OneBadSuperbird]

92 it is then. i'm bad with dates. i know i have 2 or 3 of those twin packs packed away somewhere. Rene

I seem to remember those twin packs being a Petty Superbird and a late model Petty Grand Prix and the yellow Superbird being sold separately but I can't remer sure.  I have some stashed away in the basement somewhere.  They are pretty cool but the bodies aren't nearly as we;; proportioned as the AFX Daytonas. 

[69_500]

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.