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#21
12-18-2021, 12:11 AM
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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.
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#22
12-18-2021, 12:36 AM
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My 3 year old granddaughter-wants to play Ker-Plunk every time she comes over -I think we had bought it for one of our kids in the 80's-still lots of fun!
Keep on Cruising! Dave
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#23
12-19-2021, 02:12 AM
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I still have my Set from Xmass-1974. We took the Amtrack Empire Builder #8 from Seattle to Spokane for a White Christmas and my Cousin Todd and I badgered our Fathers to NO END to get a pair of different Tyco sets! The Best part was Our "Uncle" was working the Mechanical Steam B unit as a "Traveling Mechanical Department Employee" operating the Heating Car Boilers and we were able to go up front of the train set to visit in the B units amongst all the Fire and piping's, Good Luck doing anything like that Now days.
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#24
12-19-2021, 02:36 AM
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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.
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#25
12-19-2021, 09:06 PM
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Not sure how to post a link, check this out on ebay: Auto World HO Scale 14' Showroom Shootout Electric Slot Car Set
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2000 camaro ss, all motor, best run 11.21 @ 128 sold. 2007 Z06 16000 miles
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#26
12-20-2021, 12:10 AM
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Here's one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393698278990
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#27
12-20-2021, 05:51 PM
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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.)
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#28
12-20-2021, 09:22 PM
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Toys-R-Me
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.
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1965 GTO Unrestored Survivor 389 / 335 4 BBL. 1966 GTO Unrestored Survivor 389 / 360 Tri-Power Early (63-66) Schwinn Stingrays, all Unrestored Survivors
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