Quite the prize for the slot car championships of 1964. A new Ford Mustang and a $2000 scholarship is enough to make anyone’s slot controller trigger finger itchy.
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Quite the prize for the slot car championships of 1964. A new Ford Mustang and a $2000 scholarship is enough to make anyone’s slot controller trigger finger itchy.
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Christmas 1969. I was a month away from turning six. When I got to the bottom of the stairs I beheld the 1/24 slot car layout already set up on the living room floor; the cars were a P-something Ferrari and a Ford J-Car. Family policy was that until Mom & Dad were vertical and caffeinated, children went no further than the last stair. It’s been too long, but I probably ran back upstairs and sat on Dad’s chest until he hauled his ass out of bed.
That set later went onto a big sheet of plywood and was used near-daily in tests of motoring skill amongst the myriad kids living on my dead-end street. Unfortunately, the cellar’s climate rapidly did it in (killed the train set, too). I haven’t had a slot-car controller in my hand for close to 40 years yet still dream about a “lottery house”, a big room, and personal service from Scalextric.