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[ravajack]

This is the smallest AMF track I've ever encountered: Four lanes, track length 50 ft, footprint 9 ft by 15 ft.
Complete with driver's seats, gas pedals, and color-coded steering wheels. Including lap counter and racing electronics.

[TSR]

I want it in my garage! Wait, I don't have the space, there are CARS in there!

[Durf]

But if they are just "cars" then they have been known to live outside... However, if they are "CARS" then you'll need to finish the attic over the garage if possible or just make the garage bigger. After all isn't this what we do in circumstances like this?

Durf

[don.siegel]

Found this in my archives - unfortunately forgot to note where I found it! In any case, it seems to be from the AMF era, so roughly post-1967?



Ravajack, saw that you posted an amazing clip on youtube of Italian racing drivers on an early slot setup (from the BBC I think) - do you know what year that was?

Don

[Ron Hershman]

Yep, that little track was build by AMF in England.

[tonyp]

It would make a nice coffe table in the Hershman castle media room.

[ravajack]

Ravajack, saw that you posted an amazing clip on YouTube of Italian racing drivers on an early slot setup (from the BBC I think) - do you know what year that was?

Sorry, Don, I've got no idea. I can't even remember where I got the clip, but I think it must have been somewhere in the British Pathe archives (www.britishpathe.com).

Things seems to have changed a bit on that site since my last visit, as I can't find the clip now, and also now don't find any easy way to download and save stuff from there. It used to be pretty easy, but...

[Barry Corfe]

This may be a dumb question but...

Did the steering wheel do anything on these tracks?

Interested to know how they worked.

Cheers,

Barry

[don.siegel]

Barry,

You had to turn the steering wheel right to keep the current flowing on a right hand turn and vice versa for left-hand turns - otherwise your car stopped! Back to the center for straights...

Don

[TSR]

And if the steering wheel was not turned EXACTLY at the 1/4 turn, there was no juice flowing and your car would stop.
The designer of this dumb system is hopefully roasting his toes in hell.