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[Quickcars]

Never heard of these guys. Anyone have any info?

They look pretty neat besides the odd guide system.

[Pechuga_VLC]

Yes, certainly.

GAMA (Georg and Adam MAngold) was a toy-factory in Fürth (Deutschland) that did slots.

The brand of slots was called a "GAMA Rallye " and was made in 1/32, 1/40, and 1/24 scales.

The typical circuit consists of the pair of Porsche C6 (in your set, a mirror is mistaken) and Ferrari 250 GTO '64 (wrongly named by GAMA as Ferrari 275 LM) in this first version with the steel chassis.

7010 Trainer Autobahn (1967-1978)

7001 Porsche C6 white, no lights (1966-1978)
7002 Ferrrari 250 GTO '64 red, no lights (1966-1978)

As you can see, the guide system is not compatible with Scalextric and this is one reason why GAMA Rallye is a very unknown brand.

However GAMA Rallye is a brand that I love.

[fox]

Paul,

there were more Gama cars like a CanAm McLaren (think it was an M8 A) and a Matra and also Formula cars that were bit too big in scale though and looked toy like carrying huge spoilers.
There was an interesting feature though with the Gama cars: they could do a 180° spin and drive on in opposite direction. There were also kind of plastic hooks that could be attached to the guide to prevent cars from leaving the slot.
Ebay.de has couple of these and they still sell quite cheap compared to Carrera or Fleischmann cars.

As for 1/24 cars I only know about plans to release a Porsche 906 Carrera and a Porsche 910. According to a friend of mine (and a hardcore collector too) Gama made a couple of prototypes of each but never released or sold them officially.

Somehow I didn´t get it to insert pics in my post so here are two links to the 1:24 GAMA cars. Have fun!



http://slotberlin.co...en/Gama_910.htm

http://slotberlin.co...en/Gama_906.htm



Best

Martin

[TSR]

As for 1/24 cars I only know about plans to release a Porsche 906 Carrera and a Porsche 910. According to a friend of mine (and a hardcore collector too) Gama made a couple of prototypes of each but never released or sold them officially.

That's correct, and some of these prototypes have been offered for sale over the past 5 years.

Before making slot cars, Gama made many toys before and after WW2, including these beautiful 13" friction or electric powered tinplate 1953 Cadillacs selected from my personal junk:

[fox]

I also remember the rarest 1:32 Gama cars being a yellowish brown Opel GT and a silver Porsche Carrera RSR.
The basic for the 1:24 Porsche 910 was kind of a toy GAMA produced similar to the US "Amaze-a-matic" cars that ran different layouts by inserting a card.

Right Philippe?

Best

Martin

[TSR]

Correct. There is a great book on German toys that described the history of most German toy companies that survived ther second war, and describes their products from 1945 to their exctinction for most in the late 1960s. Slot car racing saved JNF (Johann Neuhierl) but not Gama. Gama continued with 1/43 scale die-cast models but they did not survive.

[Predator]

Hi

I've just buy this complete track in deutchland via ebay









Lotus seems incomplete ( rear airfoil missing ) and the ferrari too ( motor and exhausts)

But in france they are relatively rare to find in a such good state.




They go with some of their friends :

[Prof. Fate]

Hi

Back in the late 50s a couple other companies toyed with a similar guide system. There was a aftermarket kit for the Strombecker 1/24 static models with this as a conversion. Went with other sets that did rail guides and did "round the pole" stuff.

I think Scalex even tried something similar.

Lots of "dead ends" in our hobby.

Fate