by mattb » Wed Dec 21, 2016 6:46 pm
P10110002.JPGProbably 64, Strom set and 2 Cox 1/32 FordGT's, could be 65, but I think 64. I traded my Ford GT at the local track for something else when i finally built a brass chassied Chaparral and did serious racing on the little track at that shop in 64, maybe 65. The strom set probably went in the garbage. It was pretty crappy. Their sets would have been fine when they would have had decent cars.
My first set was a battery powered Ungar (Eldon) set, may have had the red track, don't remember much about it. Second set was an Aurora vibe set with yellow Jag and red Mercedes?, not sure about the cars. Stayed with it for a couple years, got the DC conversion stuff for Tjets and ended up with the Strom which was only a test track for my 1/24 scratch built cars. I wonder today how all those cheap sets would have performed had they just put sticky tires on the cars, and enough weight for them to get traction. I'm sure Monogram sets were great out of the box. Ajets and Revell were probably pretty good, too.
Those were good years and as I get older I realize how hard my parents worked to give us those great holidays.