HO SLOT CAR RACING - Pro Qualifying

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NEED FOR SPEED! A mid-nineties qualifying session on Ben's 4'x12' Custom (AFX) Riverside layout featuring the Pro R/O-Polymer class at a SCHOR (So Cal HO Racers) race. Roger Courtois, John Wakamatsu, Rick Jocham, Jim Williams, John Cukras, Dave Rothwell, Oscar Morales, G Morgan, Pete Santini, etc...

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[alotmoor]

These particular cars back in the mid 90s were running custom wound armatures in Tomy's and Tyco cars with Polymer motor and traction magnets. They were mosty 36 and 37 gauge arms in the 2.5 to 3.0 Ohm range. Nowadays, you'd run about the same range of motors but in a BSRT, Wizzard, or Slottech chassis with ball bearings.

Send an email to hoparts@cox.net and I'll hook you up with a parts list.

Thanks

[alotmoor]

They have traction magnets. They don't attach to the track, but they are close enough to the metal rails in the track that the cars are pulled downward.

[spoof6977]

Too fast. Sort of on a par with the wing cars in 1/24 scale. I had a 70 foot Aurora track and raced LifeLike and G-Plus with friends who were new to racing but I got more of a kick out of running the old T-Jets. Slower but more "driving" the car was involved. Do a google search for The Fray In Ferndale. Old cars going fast.

[alotmoor]

Interesting... Look closely in the in the 1st part of this video, the guy at the end of the track standing on the left is the "Fray in Ferndale" Multi-Winner and National T-jet champion, Rick Jocham. He got his start racing with these fast guys in So Cal, and still does. This is one of the few places where he doesn't win all of the time. Also, the guy hooking up his controller is the one and only John Cukras - the famous 24th scale racer of all time, designer of the G+ and Mega G.

[jeevanirajiv]

Boring...too fast...like the new transformer movie, whats the point o fwatching if you cant even tell item A from Item B

[alotmoor]

They look much faster to watch than they seem like when you're driving one. Your brain quickly adapts to the speed, and to feel all that speed in your hand is quite a rush actually.

[Dule71]

What kind of motors are you guys running with? Im trying to make one of these cars to race and cant figure the right combo, any help will do thanks...

[xDetroitMetalx]

If you fall off you should be shot in the face in real life. Cause if you went this fast in true scale and crashed into a wall you would die. That might make them slow down a bit more.

[GUION2000]

Those cars have magnets that attach to the track?

[MorkaGraven]

They go too fast!

[manoman0]

you gotta be kiddin' me...

[ronsmodelmart]

could not see cars...tooo fast

[WayHappnin]

Obviously, you haven't raced one of these cars.

[jerseyshorerocker]

The cars in the 60's and 70's actually took skill to drive. This is not real racing. There is no skill involved with magna traction cars.