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#51 Noose

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 09:45 AM

Here is an oldy but goody.

My price sheet from 1968.

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 11:34 AM

Shading instead of fogging?

Must be a gravy/sauce deal. LOL.

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#53 Noose

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 11:41 AM

LOL yeah.

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 12:37 PM

Any pictures of #8...?

I would like one of those and seven (1/32) dwarfs to match please. LOL.

Joe, you were quite the entrepreneur at a young age. Love those old 'script' typewriters. :good:

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 12:45 PM

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 12:50 PM

Nice shot, great looking cars... I think mine was a 36D though... Did they come with both small and big block 'chrome' motors?

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 12:51 PM

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 12:57 PM

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 01:00 PM

Bob, not sure on the motors.

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 03:01 PM

Hey, Noose, what was the difference with the "concourse" bodies compared to the regular ones?

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 03:13 PM

Hey Noose what was the difference with the "concourse" bodies compared to the regular ones?

Back then lots of extra detail. Now it is always there. C'mon, I was 16 then.

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 03:43 PM

Nice shot, great looking cars ... I think mine was a 36D though ... Did they come with both small and big block 'chrome' motors?

Bob, only the very first ones came with the 16D motors; it was shown in the ads, and in the first article on these cars, but it must not have lasted very long, because all the ones found have been with the two types of 36D motors.

Philippe just added some info on a thread about this very question - I think he's looking for a MIB version of the 16D car for the museum.

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#63 tonyp

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 03:51 PM

My 1/24 GT40 had the 36D. We were about two years behind the west coast back east so I doubt we ever say the 16D versions.

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 04:06 PM

Thanks, I would have guessed the 36D came first then the 16D... but that would've been the 150.

With the heavy body maybe the 36D... :mosking: handled better. :mda:

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 04:13 PM

36Ds were faster.

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 04:20 PM

Good thing you weren't testing your 'race cars' on the King in Closter when I was on track with a Cox car .. could you just picture that Tony ...

"Hey kid .. while your over there picking up all that broken plastic ... make yourself useful and put me on orange ... there better not be any chrome in my slot." LOL

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Posted 28 August 2015 - 10:32 PM

This contest never came about because Fireball died as a result of complications from a racing accident around the time this ad ran.

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Posted 29 August 2015 - 01:14 AM

Did any racer ever get their prize of a new car back then?

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Posted 29 August 2015 - 04:56 AM

Yep, Aurora ran four or five of these competitions, with the final on a national TV show each time, even on the Tonight show one year. Another one was on What's my Line? with Stirling Moss as race marshall - there are some clips on YouTube I believe, and I got a compilation DVD with clips some years ago via ebay.

Bob, I think the '64 championship did go ahead, despite the death of Fireball, because I entered the race at my local hobby shop, and pretty sure there was a final that year. Still have a Mustang tie tack (remember those?) somewhere...

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Posted 30 August 2015 - 05:48 PM

Today's ad:

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Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap

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Posted 30 August 2015 - 06:09 PM

6368 Arizona Circle… those were the days! If only the dumpster dive collection existed today! Some amazing things were tossed out regularly…

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Posted 30 August 2015 - 08:16 PM

"Imagine me beating the Fireball's time".

Aurora must not have had a Greg Wells to get rid of "the". LOL.

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Posted 30 August 2015 - 08:53 PM

LOL.

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#74 don.siegel

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Posted 31 August 2015 - 08:21 AM

The "the" is actually perfectly legitimate there - English often has many different grammatical possibilities, and no academy...

About the '64 championship, just found this on the Net, on a site called SlotcarAcademy - haven't double checked yet, but it sounds right - and I still didn't make it to the nationals, or the regionals, or the municipals, or past the door of the hobby shop - and that's why I've always hated Mustangs!

In-store racing competition

Beat the Champ was an in-store racing competition in 1964. The tracks were based on Ford's Dearborn, Michigan, test track. A celebrity should record a fast lap and the public was invited to beat that time. The Ford Mustang was chosen as the official competition model. It was allowed to tune the model but not to modify the car. Unfortunately something went wrong. The chosen champ was the Nascar driver Glenn "Fireball" Roberts. Just after the start of the Beat the champ competition the driver crashed at a 600-mile race in North Carolina. The car got fire and the Roberts burned over seventy percent of his body. He was not wearing a fireproof suit. The Aurora champ died five weeks after the crash.

The concept of the competition was changed and the race of four finalists (local winners) was organized at the Steve Allen Show (I've got a secret, Sunday, November 14, CBS) on national television. The host Steve Allen, the famous driver Stirling Moss and four referees had a close look at the race of the four talents. The winner won a Ford Mustang and a $2,000 college scholarship.