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#1
Posted 06 March 2006 - 05:35 PM
I wonder how many different scales slot cars come in?
#3
Posted 07 March 2006 - 03:50 PM
So,
sounds like well-wishing and fishing for a rich but ignorant bozo...Buy This Now for $3,750
Philippe de Lespinay
#4
Posted 07 March 2006 - 05:55 PM
The A-Jets were Aurora's 1/32 line with the Challenger motors. The 1/48 line was "Super Model Motoring", announced in late '63, and released at end of that year or early '64...
Some of these are easier to find than others, but they seem to be holding their value pretty well, although without going super high...
Don
#5
Posted 07 March 2006 - 06:03 PM
The "A-Jet" labelling was re-introduced with the 1964 1/32 scale cars, then again in 1970 with the Can-Am cars with the "Motorific" style motors...
Philippe de Lespinay
#6
Posted 08 March 2006 - 05:52 PM
Pretty amazing stuff, Philippe - you don't still have one of those packages around by any chance do you? The 1962 copyright date is pretty strange, since they weren't released till late '63 at the earliest - old packages?
Maybe the A-Jet was their original name for the T-Jet?
Don
#7
Posted 08 March 2006 - 06:31 PM
We should have some in the Kollektion. I sold a lot of those but I believe that we retained some. I do not know if any racing sets were issued or just cars.you don't still have one of those packages around by any chance do you?
Those cars were originally marketed in September 1962 without any success under the "A-Jet" name, then re-introduced on cards with different graphics in September 1963 under the new marketing "Super Model Motoring" scheme. They were not any more successful and vanished rapidly (two years).
Meanwhile K&B issued the 1/32 scale program, sold it to Aurora, and those became the second itereation of the "A-Jet" cars. That died in 1968.
When Jim Russell took over the program in 1971, he made larger cars and a new track and they were called again, "A-Jet". No luck either and those are the rarest of all the 'bigger than HO" Aurora cars.
I got the whole story and docs from Jim Russell hisself.
Regards,
Philippe de Lespinay
#8
Posted 09 March 2006 - 10:11 AM
#10
Posted 09 March 2006 - 10:25 AM
Philippe de Lespinay
#11
Posted 09 October 2007 - 11:28 AM
I used to sell a ton of O gauge tires before I put away those molds. They are still fairly popular among vintage HO enthusiasts.
I remember back in like 1964 the local hobby shop had their HO racing track set up using O guage track. It was a blast to race T-Jets on because of the wider lane spacing. The pickup spacing is the same as T-Jet. Actually, some Aurora T-Jet sets included sections of O guage curved track as part of special layouts.
Weird Jack Stinson
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#12
Posted 10 October 2007 - 04:01 AM
Marcus P. Hagen -- see below, my five favorite quotes: applicable to slot cars & life in general.
[ "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.". . Daniel Patrick Moynihan ]
[ "Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its students.". . . . . . . . Hector Berlioz ]
[ "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness." . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Barry ]
[ "Build what you like to build, they are all doomed." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prof. Fate ]
[ "The less rules the more fun. Run what you brung." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larry LS ]