Stirling Moss Ford Aurora Slot Car Race - I've Got a Secret

[tcharn65]

#1 racer grew up to be my junior high school phys ed teacher in PA. He, understandibly, never mentioned this to any of us.

[cubbiebear528]

I wonder if # 1 still has the trophy, and the "real" Ford Mustang? For that matter did he use the $2000.00 scholarship? Maybe, he just dropped out did drugs, and died in the 'Nam.

[Keyboardman88]

In my opinion, the Aurora T-Jets with the Pancake motor were the bst cars to race...you had to have a certain degree of skill to race them. later on and even on into today, the cars have magnets to keep them on the track. Might as well just switch on the transformer and let them run by themselves...what fun is that.

[mrfixitman123]

Wow i never seen this ever in all my time of racing and collecting these cars.

[deweypug]

These are 'Thunderjet 500' slot cars made by Aurora...

[formulaonehotwheel]

This is so cool. Reminds me of my younger days collecting and racing AFX and Tyco slot cars. Great video!

[7StarsFromTheMoOn]

great vid memories of the past love slot cars

[matrox]

Those guys are all in there 60s now.

[sizzlerjoe1]

Have over 250 ho slots from around the world. lots of track too-good to see this...

[ELPerroBuddy63]

@sizzlerjoe1 I really envy you because I never got a chance to go overseas and pick up slot cars from different parts of the world. I have been collecting and racing for 38 years and I have 4000 cars,132 sets,17 trophies and a long client list of repair and restoration. EBAY exploded my collection and brought me connections from folks from Japan, Germany,Australia and the 2 major haven cities for slot cars; Chicago and New York. I have all of Englands Playcraft Highways before T-Jets came out.

[38Squid]

Ohh look out there's been a shunt! Classic!

[enthusiastm]

Thanks for posting! I've seen ads from early 1964 for Aurora's big challenge in which contestants were to qualify by beating Fireball Roberts' time. Sadly, he died later that year in a Fiery crash.

[explodee3]

Warms my heart to see this The Greatest of all hobbys taken to this level.LOVE IT

[binnyman]

Ed Sullivan even had a segment on a show one night where Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart, Dan Gurney,and Graham Hill raced Aurora slot cars !!! Just think: 4 legendary racing champs, racing slot cars !! I wonder if there is any video of that show out there ? BTW, I still have about 100 cars, and over 400 feet of track. Now, all I need is the time to build a permanent layout, oh, and Da Missus' OK to use the whole garage !!!:P Peace:-)

[HAZIDEAD]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[mdog2700]

I love this hobby so much i make my own from plastic and metal toy bodies. Feel free to view m-dogs slot collection here on the tube. Thank you for posting this awesome footage from back in the day !

[PaBasser]

This is too cool. I used to have the Stirling Moss Aurora HO track. It was my first race set, that was given to me by my Uncle Bill. We spent many hours in my basement, my friend Randy and Cory's basement and occasionally, my cousin Steve's basement. Tyco had the best cars. I lost track at how much money I spent on all my gear. Love the banked turns. First cars were a Jaguar and Ford GT 40. My favorite and fastest was a Tyco Chaparal.

[jbdbsb]

Wow, that's cool! I still have all my "Model Motoring" stuff. People think these old sets are boring because the cars are so slow. But ya know, these old set took skill! The new slot car sets are whats boring. They require no real skill, you just hold the controller wide open. The magnets are so strong holding the cars to the track. They do indeed go blindingly fast, but require no skill to race. Now the old stuff actually required skill to go as fast as you can AND stay on the track.

[WizDforums]

That may have been the case years ago when magnets were first introduced but improvements have been made on the motor side of things to the point whereby I use little more than half throttle on straights and quarter throttle for flat curves.

You're obviously not speaking from experience and should be more careful that you don't discourage new racers with your outdated and incorrect opinions.