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Like many of us I played with slot cars, HO scale as a child. In the late 80's and through the 90's I managed to put together a nice collection of HO cars from 65 to about 2000. I had about 150 cars when I sold them all around 2008. Fast forward to 2022 and a friend posted on FB about a routed 4 lane wooden track for sale locally. It was able to run 1/32 or 1/24 scale cars and I didn't give it much thought until another co-worker suggested we go look at it.
Why I asked, neither of us has room at our homes for it. Let's just go look he tells me.
So we bought it a few hours later. Somewhere in the course of time I had acquired 2 1/32 scale cars, a Monogram Daytona Coupe, and a Scalextric Boss 302 #15, my favorite car of all time. We still had the issue of where to put it but we soon solved that by convincing our bosses that we could use it as a training tool at work. We are both driving instructors and it made perfect sense to us. A room was secured at work, permission granted, and we soon had our track in our possession. Before we could take it to its new home we decided to take it to my friend's shop and re-work much of the support under the track as it wasn't to our standard. My co-worker was a carpenter by trade earlier in life so we have done much work over the last month or so getting it ready. We should have it completed in a few weeks. I'll try to update this thread with pics of the project soon.
In the meantime I constructed a track in my garage at home. It's a 12'by 12' "L" shaped track that I call Slippery Point. I built a shelf along two walls in the garage to use as a table but lately my thoughts have turned to maybe a 8'x16' table using my "half" of the 2-car space..... I use it to test and tune cars, many cars. What started as 2 cars is now up to 22 cars with 4 more arriving at various times this month. I decided to focus my attention on 66-72 Trans Am cars which means mostly Scalextric and Pioneer cars. First thing I do is remove magnets, lube the car, and true the tires as best I can. My next project is wiring my Scalextric analog track for a DC power supply and Professor Motor controllers.
Anyway, I look forward to learning from those on the forum and hope I can contribute as well.
See ya!
Why I asked, neither of us has room at our homes for it. Let's just go look he tells me.
So we bought it a few hours later. Somewhere in the course of time I had acquired 2 1/32 scale cars, a Monogram Daytona Coupe, and a Scalextric Boss 302 #15, my favorite car of all time. We still had the issue of where to put it but we soon solved that by convincing our bosses that we could use it as a training tool at work. We are both driving instructors and it made perfect sense to us. A room was secured at work, permission granted, and we soon had our track in our possession. Before we could take it to its new home we decided to take it to my friend's shop and re-work much of the support under the track as it wasn't to our standard. My co-worker was a carpenter by trade earlier in life so we have done much work over the last month or so getting it ready. We should have it completed in a few weeks. I'll try to update this thread with pics of the project soon.
In the meantime I constructed a track in my garage at home. It's a 12'by 12' "L" shaped track that I call Slippery Point. I built a shelf along two walls in the garage to use as a table but lately my thoughts have turned to maybe a 8'x16' table using my "half" of the 2-car space..... I use it to test and tune cars, many cars. What started as 2 cars is now up to 22 cars with 4 more arriving at various times this month. I decided to focus my attention on 66-72 Trans Am cars which means mostly Scalextric and Pioneer cars. First thing I do is remove magnets, lube the car, and true the tires as best I can. My next project is wiring my Scalextric analog track for a DC power supply and Professor Motor controllers.
Anyway, I look forward to learning from those on the forum and hope I can contribute as well.
See ya!
that's awesome.
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