by mattb » Wed Dec 20, 2017 8:08 pm
Not trying to hijack the thread, but this is kind of in a similar vein.
Here is a Christmas picture from 64, I would guess. After getting the Model Motoring AC powered set around 1960 and eventually converting it to DC, I got a Strom set a few years later. It was never very good, the cars did suck pretty good. Probably like all the early sets, the tires were crap. My brother and I each got a 1/32 Cox Ford GT , also. I think that the close by commercial track must have opened about that time. Probably we took the 1/32's to the big track and while they weren't that good, it started a whole new hobby for me. By summer time I was doing brass tube frames and vac bodies and racing on the big track when I could, before my paper route or after cutting grass. The big commercial track was probably about 60-70 feet long! A simple triangle with an outside loop.
The Strom track was never raced on much, but I did set up a small oval just for testing my 1/24 car. I only had 1 1/24 scale car. I built a Chap 2D and it was so good that I never built another car. I just always raced the 2D. Thankfully my mother kept that car year after year and I still have it. Until I went back to school in the fall, I was at the track most every day and raced every Monday nite. After starting back to school I had too much going on to keep racing and that was the end of it for me until I got back in around 1985 or so. My
father-in-law is the one that got me into it again with his box of old cars and telling me about the track that was still in Louisville.
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