Evidently this is a very rare arcade game, as there is very little info about it on the web except on the pinball repair website linked from the title below.
1963 Southland Engineering Speedway
Anyone here ever see one of these?
Posted 28 March 2014 - 10:50 AM
Evidently this is a very rare arcade game, as there is very little info about it on the web except on the pinball repair website linked from the title below.
1963 Southland Engineering Speedway
Anyone here ever see one of these?
Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
Posted 28 March 2014 - 10:59 AM
10-to-1 Dokk has.
Posted 28 March 2014 - 11:03 AM
Digging a little deeper into the pinrepair.com WEBSITE, it seems there were several other slot car arcade games produced, or at least advertised.
1963 Southland Engineering Time Trials
This is by the same company as the game in the first post and obviously is very similar to it.
American Machine and Foundy (which after 1970 became AMF, once one of the largest recreational equipment companies in the United States) also produced two very similar slot car arcade games.
American Machine and Foundry Little Indy
American Machine and Foundry American Indy
Gregory Wells
Never forget that first place goes to the racer with the MOST laps, not the racer with the FASTEST lap
Posted 28 March 2014 - 01:11 PM
20 laps for 20 cents and it makes $18 an hour?
If my math is right, that means 90 pairs of players per hour.
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Must have been the same guy that talked all of those businessmen to open slot tracks. Trust me - you'll make a fortune!
There was another rare slot game shown on American Pickers. Guy said only six remain if I remember correctly.
Joe Lupo
Posted 28 March 2014 - 03:06 PM
Posted 28 March 2014 - 03:48 PM
Posted 28 March 2014 - 04:09 PM
Posted 28 March 2014 - 11:17 PM
I remember the first one but never saw the others.
Posted 15 February 2017 - 05:03 PM
Believe it or not, a buddy here actually found a pair of these Southland Speedway cars in a flea market in France, and I traded him a couple other vintage cars for those. The question is: how did they get to France, and at what point were the original Strombecker bodies replaced by a Scalextric Electra and Lister? Lots of theories, no answers... seem to be all original, with a Pittman motor, not sure which one: those are DC70 brushes, but seems smaller than that model. Anyway, for your pleasure:
And the chassis next to a couple of the original body types: the Strombecker Type-D Jaguar in red and blue - although the photos above seem to show the earlier version, with the full cockpit...
Was one of these games imported into France? Not too impossible I guess...
Don
Posted 15 February 2017 - 08:28 PM
Matt Bishop
Posted 16 February 2017 - 11:03 AM
"Highest earning power of any LEGAL game today!"... my emphasis... LOL!
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Posted 16 February 2017 - 03:11 PM
I'm surprised no one has commented on the claim that it could bring in $18 per hour.
At 20 cents per play, for the two racers, that would be 90 games in 60 minutes.
One two-player play, every 40 seconds?
Seems highly unlikely.
Marketers of things like this like to use the idea of *potential* income.
Not likely any game like that was ever used to its potential 24/7/365.... the owner would have been very successful and I don't many millionaires bragging they made their $$$$$$$ by owning/operating "pinball slot car" games.
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Posted 16 February 2017 - 03:13 PM
Oh yeah!! I just read more of the ad:
LOCATION TESTED!
Where was this located and how long did it produce $18.00/hour? More marketing BS....
BTW, I preformed a Google map on this location and the building is now a media post-production studio.
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