What a nice calm environment, relaxing. no vulgar language . No face to face confrontations, no knives or guns. Grown adults respecting each other. Pass this around maybe some of these kids will learn a little bit.
42lookc this is the first time seeing this for me. Really a cool idea. I love RC cars and trucks. I know this is a lot different but still similar. All about reaction time
We used to have an ho scale 1/4 mile track in the basement. The last couple sections after the finish line ran reverse current before the cars ran into a cushion. We ran 40 volts on cars that usually used 15? The front ends lifted. We even experimented with rear pickups. It keep me out of trouble in junior high.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. As a model train guy I know that hobbies like this are never going to be as big as they were; I'm just happy to see it surviving.
Remember slot car racing when I was a kid back in the 60's Always wondered why they never had a drag strip back then? Very cool. Need some slo mo burnouts.
I started collecting slot cars when I was 10. I’m 58 .I had over 800 at one point. I still have a four lane road track and race with my step kids. I have a lot of memories with this hobby it is really an addiction the good kind.
When I was kid Sunday was go to McDonald's and to the slot car track (full race course, not drag) with the whole family. God that brings me way back. Glad to see it's still alive.
I used to have a cool track that my cars ran by a thumb triggers that connected to the track. It was the coolest thing, I used to play on it for hours with my Dad.
Man i havnt seen this in years! There was a place in Westmont, N.J. had a couple of race tracks and then a drag strip. But that was when i was in grade school. Im 58 now! That was some fun times!
I worked at Tom Thumb Raceway (mostly thumb controllers back then) in North Miami in junior high, 1964/65. No drag strip, 90' to 220' tracks, a great vibe with prize races etc.
My town had a slot car race track. It went out of buisness in 2012. I miss it so much. Used to go there as a kid every weekend and rent one of their cars and race my friends
Man I use to love this stuff back in the early sixties. Rewind Cox motor and milly slicks. Was so stoked when they put the drag strip in. Didn't ever get into the roundies.
You guys have taken slot car drag racing to new heights. Back in the mid 60's when I was a kid my brother and cousins put our tracks together to have a track maybe 30 feet long with pillows at the end to stop the cars. We used 1/32 scale cars and equipped them with slicks, gears, anything to get the edge. We had a Barracuda, Camaro, Charger, Mustang, and a few other body styles I believe. Wish we had this back then. :)
Awesome! They closed all the tracks down in South Florida that I know of. Now I've got a bunch of cars, cobalt motors etc. collecting dust. Great memories.
The NHRA was at its peak in the 60's and Mickey Thompson's mustangs were hot. I had a box of Aurora HO scale thunderjets that I raced at home on my 1/4 mile track. I would bend the connectors so the track was dead after the 1/4 mile so the cars would slow down. I spent hours doing that. I wished they had something like this when I was a kid. I used sponge tires and lifter the back ends of the cars so they would clear those bigger tires. The cars would raise up as they started but no wheelies! Thanks for posting.
This is awesome. Gets kids off the gaming systems and out having fun. Great job. Will have to slip in sometime whenever we get a chance and check it out ourselves.
Super cool video! Ive built model cars my whole life, but this right here! Man it looks like such fun! always been a drag racing fan...In real life! now i wanna try this, but idk anywhere near me that has a track, our hobby shop had slot cars years ago.. haha
Takes me back to the early 60’s In my home town up here in Canada. Every weekend my and I going to the local track to race, sidewinders were the fastest. Much, much bigger & faster than any of the home shit racing cars you got at Xmas. Some of these older guys were racing back in the 60’s also.
Don't know anything about this stuff but love racing. I'd be there in a heartbeat if we had one of these close to me at Scott Air Force Base. I know those cars are expensive but would be a weekly hobby for me. Nice job getting all this video.
A bunch of big kids just like me! Slot cars are so much fun! I wish there was a place like this nearby. It's not just the hobby...I love the comradery!
Enjoyed your vid. I don't race, not this scale....yet. But ive been watching this at my local track and here on YT and I think im going to ease off another hobby im into and start diggin' on this. I dig the building of the plastic model kit bodies and building the chassis aspect......and the camaraderie I see.......im getting down on this. Keep the vids coming.
Wow this my first time seeing something like this but had these type cars when I was like 8 and that was 20 years ago.. I can definitely see myself getting into this
It's just about getting together with a community, working to make something better and enjoying seeing the results like any other hobby or form of racing. I don't get what's so hard to understand for some people. I'm guessing they do nothing themselves?
I set mine back up last night and I have a few more track pieces arriving today. I have a race track like a circuit not a drag track. I got it about 15 years ago and its still alot of fun
Remember this many years ago in Nashville; thought the sport was dead and gone; glad to see it back. Where is your shop, love to come by at some point.
Alot of the folks we race with are also going straight fast! We have a huge learning curve. Gonna pick your brains for some speed secrets. Keep it in the slot.🏁🏁🏁🏁
What a nice calm environment, relaxing. no vulgar language . No face to face confrontations, no knives or guns. Grown adults respecting each other. Pass this around maybe some of these kids will learn a little bit.
Man, what a comfortable brotherhood their mutual pursuit creates. It warms my heart. It truly does. I wish your club all the success!
42lookc - Couldn't have said it better. Video well shot. 👍
VERY cool. There are not enough “o”s to say how cooooool!
I see a brother in this video.
42lookc this is the first time seeing this for me. Really a cool idea. I love RC cars and trucks. I know this is a lot different but still similar. All about reaction time
Tanks
I honestly didn't know this type of slot car racing existed. What a great way to spend an evening with buddies. Cheers to you all.
9pm: 1 more video
3am: watching slot cars drag race
bro same now
Didn't know slot cars were still alive and well. I used to race these back in the 60's! Glad to see the hobby is still going strong!
This reminds me of that American Dad episode when Francine thought Stan was cheating but was a professional slot racer 😹
Glad to see slot car racing is still alive and well!
I miss the 1/64 scale (tyco afx etc...)
it isnt
Imiss the tamiya 4wd race
Still is today but a little slow because of the pandemic
@@browntrout3994 they still do it at the slot car track near me (mid-america slot cars)
Nostalgia right here, did this back in the 90s as a kid
We used to have an ho scale 1/4 mile track in the basement. The last couple sections after the finish line ran reverse current before the cars ran into a cushion. We ran 40 volts on cars that usually used 15? The front ends lifted. We even experimented with rear pickups. It keep me out of trouble in junior high.
Michael Annen Those white slicks...
That sounds sick
It’s great to have hobbies.
BANNED and we will get your guns one day bet on it.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. As a model train guy I know that hobbies like this are never going to be as big as they were; I'm just happy to see it surviving.
Remember slot car racing when I was a kid back in the 60's
Always wondered why they never had a drag strip back then? Very cool. Need some slo mo burnouts.
I love slot cars. I never got into drag racing, but this is so damn cool!
This bring back memories. I had AFX slots though
I started collecting slot cars when I was 10. I’m 58 .I had over 800 at one point. I still have a four lane road track and race with my step kids. I have a lot of memories with this hobby it is really an addiction the good kind.
Where's the burnouts?
Love how things like this gets people from all different backgrounds together.
Slikx666 they're Americans
Slot car racing, no matter the type or scale, is a true brotherhood.
Slikx666 wtf is your nasty profile picture
Thomas Bennett It's a selfie, but instead of my face I used my toe.
They put glue on the tires so they stick. You can flip the cars easy.. 18v motors.
This looks like a really cool hobby I wish there was a place like this in my hometown
When I was kid Sunday was go to McDonald's and to the slot car track (full race course, not drag) with the whole family. God that brings me way back. Glad to see it's still alive.
Awesome Drag race track, wicked job amazingly fantastic well done Cheers KC Tasmania Australia
This is great! I had an oval track when I was little, always shot my car off a corner because I squeezed the trigger too hard.
I used to have a cool track that my cars ran by a thumb triggers that connected to the track. It was the coolest thing, I used to play on it for hours with my Dad.
I still have a few of my slot cars, Almeda Slot car and Cypress Slot car were our most common place to race back then in the 80’s and 90’s.
This is awesome!!!!!!! First time seeing anything like this
I really appreciate places like this. They really make the good neighborhoods better.
Man i havnt seen this in years! There was a place in Westmont, N.J. had a couple of race tracks and then a drag strip. But that was when i was in grade school. Im 58 now! That was some fun times!
That's awesome!
My dad used to race slot cars in the 70s
But not drag racing
Looks like a blast!
I used to love slot car building and racing.I used to go to a track in Corona, Queens mid '60's.
I worked at Tom Thumb Raceway (mostly thumb controllers back then) in North Miami in junior high, 1964/65. No drag strip, 90' to 220' tracks, a great vibe with prize races etc.
Man, I miss the days of Lafayette electronics. I got to miami in 1972. Peace, love, and happiness.
This is new to me. I love this
Christopher Nixon same here it looks like a great hobbie. I dunno how this isnt a sport to be honest.
Very cool video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
My town had a slot car race track. It went out of buisness in 2012. I miss it so much. Used to go there as a kid every weekend and rent one of their cars and race my friends
Very cool, looks like a lot of fun 👍
This is awesome! I didn't know of slot car drag racing.
This man is 1 with the track.. he can feel the track.
Man I use to love this stuff back in the early sixties. Rewind Cox motor and milly slicks. Was so stoked when they put the drag strip in. Didn't ever get into the roundies.
Awesome cars and set gentlemen! ❤️
You guys have taken slot car drag racing to new heights. Back in the mid 60's when I was a kid my brother and cousins put our tracks together to have a track maybe 30 feet long with pillows at the end to stop the cars. We used 1/32 scale cars and equipped them with slicks, gears, anything to get the edge. We had a Barracuda, Camaro, Charger, Mustang, and a few other body styles I believe. Wish we had this back then. :)
Awesome!! Best of wishes great way to encourage kids and parents to stay connected
Awesome! They closed all the tracks down in South Florida that I know of. Now I've got a bunch of cars, cobalt motors etc. collecting dust. Great memories.
Be patient 15-20 years they will come back again !!!!
Send my nephew a couple cars he. Had heart problems
We got the track free from some old store that closed no cars thoe yet
Where are you located?
It's amazing hpw things keep coming round again. We did this with 1/32 railcars back in the 1960's in the Newport (UK) rail tacing club.
I love it guys, such a cool hobby.
Really neat video . Thanks for sharing.
I grew up racing slot cars and these are cool!
I did this as a kid and teen I wish they still had this in the Chicagoland area.. I still have my tool box with my cars
Pretty Cool! I see another hobby to become addicted too!
The NHRA was at its peak in the 60's and Mickey Thompson's mustangs were hot. I had a box of Aurora HO scale thunderjets that I raced at home on my 1/4 mile track. I would bend the connectors so the track was dead after the 1/4 mile so the cars would slow down. I spent hours doing that. I wished they had something like this when I was a kid. I used sponge tires and lifter the back ends of the cars so they would clear those bigger tires. The cars would raise up as they started but no wheelies! Thanks for posting.
This is awesome. Gets kids off the gaming systems and out having fun. Great job. Will have to slip in sometime whenever we get a chance and check it out ourselves.
Super cool video! Ive built model cars my whole life, but this right here! Man it looks like such fun! always been a drag racing fan...In real life! now i wanna try this, but idk anywhere near me that has a track, our hobby shop had slot cars years ago.. haha
I like the camera you got there. Looks like y’all are having fun. Thumbs up from me.
this video and all the folks in it are GREAT!
We used wintergreen on the tires back in the 60's..
i absolutly love the white Corvette body inside the box
I remember doing this in the 80's. Good memories.
What an awesome group of fellas, cool hobby guys
@Jim Cornette stop being an asshole
Cool hobby! Keep up the videos !
This looks like fun for about 10 minutes... Tops
Takes me back to the early 60’s In my home town up here in Canada. Every weekend my and I going to the local track to race, sidewinders were the fastest. Much, much bigger & faster than any of the home shit racing cars you got at Xmas.
Some of these older guys were racing back in the 60’s also.
Awesome track and cars. That looks like a great time.
Great job on this. Not many tracks around now. Awesome to see a hobby club having fun.
Don't know anything about this stuff but love racing. I'd be there in a heartbeat if we had one of these close to me at Scott Air Force Base. I know those cars are expensive but would be a weekly hobby for me.
Nice job getting all this video.
KEEP THIS KINDA COVERAGE COMING...
I didn’t know people took this seriously. I remember I got a figure 8 slot car track for Christmas when I was younger and I absolutely loved it
Man if I visited that place as a kid you wouldn't be able to get me out. Cool stuff, hopefully this is a growing hobby for people of all ages.
Man, my son would love this! I never knew these existed. I'll have to look into it. Thanks for sharing this.
A bunch of big kids just like me! Slot cars are so much fun! I wish there was a place like this nearby. It's not just the hobby...I love the comradery!
Looks like a lot of fun, loved these cars years ago. I didn’t ave a track just a car and raced on a mates oval track. Total killer
Man, these gents are really passionate about slot cars. I dig it.
This vid is so badass!!!!! Nice video guys.
I literally did not know this was a 'thing' until I found this video.....AWESOME!
please make a series of this, its really interesting. thanks for posting!
Enjoyed your vid. I don't race, not this scale....yet. But ive been watching this at my local track and here on YT and I think im going to ease off another hobby im into and start diggin' on this. I dig the building of the plastic model kit bodies and building the chassis aspect......and the camaraderie I see.......im getting down on this. Keep the vids coming.
It's cool that no matter what hobby , there are people who take it very seriously. I had no idea this even existed
nice to see young and old enjoing a cool hobby...keep it up
That's so really cool. 😎
I did this when I was in high school. I had so much fun with my buddies. now I race radio control.
My grandfather had up to 600 of those cars and we would love to have drag races like you guys did
Damn those are fast
Cool, love this:-)
Wow this my first time seeing something like this but had these type cars when I was like 8 and that was 20 years ago.. I can definitely see myself getting into this
Kids I need a more places like this
Kids nowadays with all their fancy computers and games wouldn't last 5 minutes here..
You are replaced with a more diversified people.
@@nighthawk0077 Especially now but I am a kid but I like to do this stuff
Sure miss the slot car days tons of fun
It's just about getting together with a community, working to make something better and enjoying seeing the results like any other hobby or form of racing. I don't get what's so hard to understand for some people. I'm guessing they do nothing themselves?
I appreciate your comment, some really thoughtful ones have been made here too.
just you wait until they get to play with full-sized electric cars...Tesla and Our Gang...
I remember slot car racing at hobby shops around chicago in the late 60s and early 1970s.
I set mine back up last night and I have a few more track pieces arriving today. I have a race track like a circuit not a drag track. I got it about 15 years ago and its still alot of fun
Good ol' days before PlayStation & Xbox.
Looks like a fun way to spend an evening with friends! I'd probably get some music or videos of NHRA drags going in the background though.
Great idea. Thanks!
I had no idea something like this existed! and now I wanna join! :D
Awesome Video!
this looks good ! better than fishing ...well not better but equaly good , i like this.
This is awesome, wish this was nationwide
Ho slot cars was always cool in the 60s & 70s.
Young at heart brothers.love your attention to detail .ENJOY :)
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Remember this many years ago in Nashville; thought the sport was dead and gone; glad to see it back. Where is your shop, love to come by at some point.
Bro wrenching on him! Nice hobby fam!
I would love to get into slot car racing.
This looks like fun!
There used to be a place like this in my home town in Ohio, cool to see.
Alot of the folks we race with are also going straight fast! We have a huge learning curve. Gonna pick your brains for some speed secrets. Keep it in the slot.🏁🏁🏁🏁
That is so awesome. Nice job on the video. Racing I may be able to afford. I did say maybe.... Man those are some serious racers.
I can smell the wintergreen from here!!!!