Model Racing Cars Aka Indoor Car Racing Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1956)

Mr Adams designs miniature cars that can drive on indoor rails.
Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset.
C/U 2 men, Alban Adams and Christopher Crockett, who make their own model racing cars. C/U model tyre home-made in special moulds. The cars are perfect replicas of various Formula 3 cars built to a scale of one sixteenth. They run on an eggcup full of diesel oil.
C/U Alban Adams putting finishing touches to one of the racing cars. Some of the cars are put on racing track with a simple fitting which keeps them on single track lines. (Looks like an early Scalextrix). Top shot of 4 cars racing round the track.
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[@IronheadGarage]

Such cool stuff was built back in the old days.

[@edg.3100]

How freekin awesome... Look at these guys working on THIS stuff in suits and ties FFS... It's like a different world....

[@tadheath5856]

Bring them back!!!!! they are cool!!!!

[@alfredwilliam1184]

Thank you, just made my night, brilliant.

[@Captain-Nostromo]

British paté is an awesome Channel
Shows a lot of good stuff😎

[@prl.5108]

Wonderful little models and terrific detail.

[@fretted]

I always wear a suit and tie when building models!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Standards have to be maintained old chap!

[@garygullikson6349]

There must have been special narrators that talked like this for any kind of model movie.

[@ten132]

WOW I need one!

[@falconer100]

The sound track referenced around the pole racing. This was rail racing. Maybe wrong sound track. Still an awesome clip with awesome cars.

[@adolfocamaraescobedo]

I liked the part with the lady rowing.

[@coloradostrong]

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[@jr9455]

absolutamente extraordinario.

[@jamesHadden-l6l]

Remember the HO scale Bought one of the larger scales a Ford GT When I took my HO scale to a local indoor car track All the other cars were a lot bigger

[@jordipena7984]

Slot Cars fantástic 👍👌👏

[@LegoNPC-o9c]

Cool set up for that one

[@EnglishTurbines]

Diesel Slot Cars.....not seen that before...🤔😳😏🇬🇧

[@tompekarna]

I always wear a necktie and sport coat when i work on my tether cars

[@davestambaugh7282]

Diesel oil and either. Don't forget the either. It is crucial as is the oil.

[@michaelolsen2158]

Superfine video 👍👍💖

[@zafiriskapetanakos]

Perfect !!!!!!!!!!!

[@LCMNUNES1962]

👍👍👍👍 MUITO LEGAL 🇧🇷

[@rustyholland7139]

Are there any of these tracks still running?????????

[@kenstevens5065]

Standing trackside those small engines would be as noisy as the real thing!

[@biddlelove2135]

I remember the windrush people inventing these!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@GrouchoMarx-MaGeorge]

How times have changed...for the worse.
Let's bring our old Britain back,make it British again.