lets see your tracks this is mine

 

Your scalextrics looks half decent, mine was pretty crap, think the parents where a little tight when they went shopping for mine LOL

 

mine was mainly ebay finds and boot sales got a few other things for it a few weeks ago that will be going on a new track layout

 

Still got a lot of mine from my younger days

Gets used at Christmas lol

Steve

 

I have just sold 3 plastic storage boxes of track, two controllers two cars and a power pack for Ł40. The buyer even tried to knock me down, tight arse. Tried to tell him my childhood has been sold for Ł40 and he wanted to lower it.

 

I spent over 100 for a senna special edition track and a few other bits

 

My mates had a big 4 bed house share at uni and we started with scalextric but got bored of it so we floored out the attic and installed a radio control car track in it and raced mini mardaves around it.

Was a proper nerds paradise.
I even wrote some crude computer software to allow us to design different track layouts based on where the access harch was and where the beams were etc.

Sadly no pictures though as was 20 years ago and didnt have such things as digital cameras etc at the time.

 

Here's my sons one,
We had an old XR3 from a very old track and the mk1 was a present to me and its bloody fast.

 

Chip I had quite a few Mardave minis,
I fitted a bigger motor but I just kept shredding the foam tyres

 

I upped the voltage on mine by adding a couple of battiers to the battery pack (which needed clearance on the bodyshell, lol) and fitted a fancy motor I had spare from an off road 1/10 buggy. Was literally about twice as quick afterwards, but just span off everywhere, was far too much power for an attic track, lol

 

me, my brother and a couple of freinds put our scalectics together and made the catyluna gp circuit in my parents front room while they where on holiday, it was 4lanes wide and the back stright was 13 track sections long,
we had to put extra powersupplies on the track to stop the cars slowing down at the extreamitys.

we use ninco or fly cars as they where far faster than the scalectric cars of the day.

i will try and find some pictures, but as mentioned above this was befor the days of digital camreas so i'll have to scan them.

cheeRS nick

 

I had an audi touring car set, but got rid of it

 

i only ever had the mighty metro set, wish i still had it,, had no room for it really...

 

I sold all of mine about 6 years ago. My 1st set was mighty metro & I just build up from there with extra track & cars. Had 2 metros, 2 Escort Cosworths, XJ220 Jag & a BMW E36.

If I had the space, I would have a massive set permanently down.

 

ive got the need for speed one, think it got it last april. not used it many times but i love it!

 

mines all at my mam and dads i have got a sierra cosworth Rs200 bmw m3 mini clubman and have got a rare 6 wheeled march and a senna lotus from back in the day

 

Scalextric, great toy to play with.
Still got 2 sets from when I was younger.
Recently bought Sierra Cosworth set and Escort Cosworth set.
When my 6 year old daughter saw it she wanted to play.
Such fun to be had

 

I never had a proper scalextrics when i was younger. I had a dukes of hazzard one but it wasnt by scalextrics. Well i dont think it was lol.

 

I've got a few sets up the loft,
le mans 24hour set with merc and porsche,
wrc rally set with mcrae focus and burns subaru,
drift set with 2 350z's,
rallycross set with 2 xr3's
and a large box of spare tracks grandstands etc etc., will eventually get it all layed out
when my loft is finished.

 

We had the one with stock cars "Fender bender" and "Stick Shifter" when we were kids.

I think they were one of the first with swivelling brushes and could get them sideways.

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Fucking dog used to chase the cars, bite them and take them off the track!

 

what mine does! its funny to find her up though

 

Old old pics of my collection from when I just moved in, old manky freebie sofa



Built this from some of the spare track



Got this a few Christmas ago

 

I love scalextric's! Got a le mans 24 hour set in my bedroom, no room to lay it out though, came with 2 porsches.

 

got loads of cars , most from car boots over the years, must have 60 + now the grandsons love playing with them but the mrs hates it,takes over most of the down stairs when set up lol

 

i have the need for speed one, track set up is exact same