Wow ! , this thread got the memories all stirred up,,,,50 or so years back, just as my Testosterone was kickin' in, I'd already owned a few motorcicles,,and had a love of Monogram 24th scale model kits, a local slot car track opened up, I just HAD to get into it, and as I had Sat morning job which payed $3 a week !, I was cashed up, so bought a brass tube sidewinder chassis, and an under rated 26D engine, the fave engine of the day was a 36D, very grunty, but low revvin', I figured if I geared the car lower, the smaller engine would work, so I used 4/1, slapped a '64 Galaxy body on, and went racing.
The shop had a "dyno" , my car went 67 Ft per second on it,,big "Boppa" had a rich mans car, did 70 FPS, but on the track, I whooped his azz, Boppa's just spun up and vibrated the tires, the Galaxy pulled huge wheelies down the main straight, the rear bumper on the braids, button off, jab the controller, the azz would hang out, kissing the wall around the "big" banked corner.
I was unbeaten for a few weeks in the weekly comp, until one day, the constant wheelies had taken their toll on the rear bumper thickness, and as I went under the overpass, the nose clipped the underside of the track,,,the car was instantly turned into twisted brass tubing, and pieces of plastic, which rocketed off the banked corner, hitting the front plate glass window with enough force to smash the glass.
Great fun for me, but I wasn't welcome after that (wonder why?) ,, the owner went broke, the track was never seen again after a while, but the memories are still with me.
