1966 slot car racing, early days of London slot car racing, not scalextric

[1zforce]

@michaelr2331 There is also a king slotcar track in Miamisburg (spelling) Ohio.

[redlineamerica]

LOVE IT!

[AntLambo]

Record lap time on a blue king these days is around 1.5 seconds! Maybe less now.

[vornam]

Excellent idea, to make steering necessary in the corners; the unexperienced driver/ess slows down (and keeps the slotcar on track and sane)

[Gig540]

Awesome thanks for sharing! The track kind of looks like the "Purple Mile" Any chance it is?

[gammarotor]

@Gig540 It's a "Blue" King style track. they are still made today only without the seats and steering wheels.Hasse Nielsen is one of the builders. The layout is the same but with varying amounts of banking in the turns.Also the turn radius' . Check out Slot Cars of Katy here on youtube.

[suranareekk]

slotcarrdagon

[ghfakar]

Well, I don't know where I have been for the last 45 years, but I NEVER saw anything like this! This is great! And so the steering was used in the corners so that if you didn't steer the car stopped? Now that MUST have helped with competition instead of just who has the fastest slot. I know you get competition by slowing down or speeding up in and out of a corner, but this would really complicate things. In our day of video games and different racing views, we should be able to do this well!

[MADDD0GGG]

Looks exactly like the 'Blue King' at the Buzz-A-Rama in Brooklyn.

[busterbrown17]

Thats good but not as good as amrixan slot cars go usa slotcars our slot cars could beat those big fat british slot cars

[jeffelman]

Memories of Tom Thumb raceways with the steering wheels.

[stomp919]

This is 2011 and i gotta say this is totally badass!

[sbeer6er]

steering wheels?

[teamlaguna]

SUPER COOL, Love the steering ., they should still have more of these still running across the country !

[bbo40]

those were the days !

[minimaluhftv]

The steering wheel had an effect you retard!!!! It was to keep the car on the slot or it lost power in the turn

[34D2234]

now you know how all those slotcars on ebay got fucked up

[porthopebloodboy]

retards are steering like they can lolz

[SlotraceDK]

Watch the video again and you'll see that the steering wheel has an effect!!!

RETARD!

[qqq3825]

@porthopebloodboy- Seems like you're the retard

[34D2234]

the old 1/24th allstate slotcars were like those, you had a controller with a steering wheel and button for gas and brakes. i sometimes see them on ebay, some of the complete restored sets go for over 800.00, and you only get about 26 ft of track.

[surfnwho]

What a great video of slot car history. A genuine American blue king before they abandoned the steering wheels. Truly a fantastic find.

[SlotraceDK]

what's with the steering wheel?

[garblue52]

When you got to a corner, you had to turn the steering wheel in that direction or the car stopped. Again the wheel had to be straight for the straights. It was made by American Model Raceways and used at fairs, and exibitions like the CNE Canadian National Exibition into the 70's but replaced by hand speed controllers in slot car raceways early on. The cars at the CNE were clipped into the track and wouldn't de-slot.

[adeshization]

i just love slots cars...........

[byan70]

old hickory tenn..whoops

[byan70]

madison tn had one

[Hubs88]

Same layout as a King track.

[oggy1953]

this looks very much like the track at Tottenham Raceway back in the 60s, do you know if that is the case. very interesting though

[pesisbest]

a wicked way to race slot cars