Dangerous toys and 1950's vs 1990's kids.

Great thimble drome style car building shop. I made many 1/32 and 1/24the retro slot cars but nothing like this. Note the extreme risk to kids at car level whizzing around at 60mph! The Bevis clip is a good comparison of the info age vs the do it yourself age of popular mechanics. I have 100's of the pulps the best reading kids can have.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• gas
• fuelled
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• car
• racer
• moddeller
• micro
• sprint

[ToyKingWonder]

I love that clip, I have seen it before. The guy is not only making cars, HE MAKES HIS OWN TIRES! That is too cool.

You can still buy cars like this today, new. For fun, I bought an old Cox Shrike, which is a wheeled tether car with a prop on the back. I restored it, made my own tether, really not knowing what I was doing at all. Amazingly, it worked! It has a Cox Black Widow engine on it, and I put it on a 20 foot string. It is so fast the frame rate of the camera could not keep up!

[JBofBrisbane]

Brisbane had a track for racing tethered cars, in Kalinga Park. It was a concrete ring, with a low catch fence inside a taller fence to keep the kids well and truly outside. Cars regularly reached speeds over 150 MPH. Sadly, only a few years ago the Airport Link Tunnel construction has obliterated this track, and the only one left in Australia is at Luddenham, west of Sydney.