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

People get the chance to race in a grand prix by steering models of the cars round a track. M/S of a man fine tuning a 6 inch model of a car. It is for the race track which seats eight people at steering wheels up the side. They control the cars as they race round the course, it is operated by coins in a slot. Various shots of the race in progress, cars race along and occasionally crash and spin round if not controlled properly.

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[SlotraceDK]

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

RETARD!

[34D2234]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[suranareekk]

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[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