Reminiscing of xmas as a kid

[markinnaples]

Loved Tyco, but IMHO the Aurora AFX sets had cooler cars. I also had the Sizzlers track and bought my son his own Sizzlers track a few years ago. Between those toys, my Evel Knievel wind up jump bike and Sonic pull race cars, I was all about wheels even from a young age.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by markinnaples

Loved Tyco, but IMHO the Aurora AFX sets had cooler cars. I also had the Sizzlers track and bought my son his own Sizzlers track a few years ago. Between those toys, my Evel Knievel wind up jump bike and Sonic pull race cars, I was all about wheels even from a young age.

Playing cards clothes pinned to the frame of your bike for the spokes to make the "motor" noise ?? Man, I got my butt chewed for taking a couple of those, but in the end, I got the whole deck because I had ruined it. 2 cards in the front and 2 in the back made a HECK of a racket...

[AnthonyS]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

Playing cards clothes pinned to the frame of your bike for the spokes to make the "motor" noise ?? Man, I got my butt chewed for taking a couple of those, but in the end, I got the whole deck because I had ruined it. 2 cards in the front and 2 in the back made a HECK of a racket...

So, taking that thought a step further... we used to use hockey cards...

And get this, the one year I really, really collected hockey cards was when I was 9 in 1979... we used those in our spokes...

Just in case you want to know why this stings a bit more than it should:

https://www.latimes.com/sports/hocke...on-sale-record

How many of those did I chew up?!

gah.

[2000ss]

Not sure how to post a link, check this out on ebay: Auto World HO Scale 14' Showroom Shootout Electric Slot Car Set

[njsteve]

Here's one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393698278990

[muscle_collector]

Originally Posted by markinnaples

Loved Tyco, but IMHO the Aurora AFX sets had cooler cars. I also had the Sizzlers track and bought my son his own Sizzlers track a few years ago. Between those toys, my Evel Knievel wind up jump bike and Sonic pull race cars, I was all about wheels even from a young age.

loved those pull string cars. my cousin and i would get about 10ft apart and see if we could crash them into each other.

[3X24SPD]

Had a few of those Tyco & Aurora sets. Loved them as kid. They didn't survive. Lasted longer than those Kenner SSP Racers going over the cliff with M-80's in them though...

I do still have the Dodge Scat City 1970 Challenger Drag Racing Set though, with the little 4-speed shifters.

Related, and waxing somewhat nostalgic, I recently purchased a modern slot car set for sale on the Hammacher for a "dueling mustangs stunt loop set". Google it, it's a cool setup.
It's a cheap gift to really make a kid's Christmas. Even a big kid.

I thought nothing would ever top the present that my dad gave me when I was 14 and we were just finishing up building the 302 motor for my 69 Z28.
I bought the car without a motor- and we built a 302 for it the old school way with a 327 block and a 283 crank. I sure do miss him.
My dad wrapped up the oil pan we needed for it- and put it under the tree.

When my daughter was about 13, she bought me a vintage Evel Knievel Stunt bike. I put it on display at the top of the stairs and I look at it every day and just love it. What a great kid she was to buy me that.

[Oldss]

For Christmas when I was 10, my mom and dad got me a go cart. It was a used home built cart. Dad sand blasted the frame and put on the good ol red primer and painted the wheels white. It came with a 340 cc snowmobile engine on it, so that was promptly removed for something smaller. He didn’t find an engine in time for Christmas, so I got it without a power plant. That night I went down in the basement and spied the snowblower in the corner with an 8 hp Tecumseh engine. I promptly started to tear things apart to see how I could rig things up on the cart to get the throttle cable and chain lined up. Several days later it snowed, so dad got up at 4:30 in the morning to blow off the driveway before he left for work and guess what?? Somebody had some explaining to do. That was in 1982. The temperature out that Christmas morning was 60 degrees.

[427TJ]

Got the Aurora Golden Gate Bridge set for Christmas in 1969. Still have all my slot cars but sold the track in 1985.

(Photo via eBay.)

[60sStuff]

Toys of the 60’s.

I received complete slot car tracks and cars as a kid in the 50’s - early 60’s for Christmas, plus I’d buy my own from mowing lawns over the years.

I still have a few displayed in a stacked book case.

Those were the days.