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[Brian Cochrane]

Hi,does any of you guys have a trophy or trophies from slot racing back in the 60's or 70's you care to show off and also tell the details of what you can about it.....Please comment here with a picture of them.I'm interested....Thanks

[Brian Cochrane]

OK,let me get this going...Heres a first place trophy from a very famous Long Island New York  slot car speedway from the 60's.Glen Oaks Speedway, home track to such famous racers as Big Jim Greenaway, and Gunther Faas and so on and so on....

[Brian Cochrane]

[Pappy]

I use to win a lot of races in the 60's at my local tracks. But I always sold the trophies back to the raceway to get the money to buy more brass, piano wire and parts to build more cars. Slot car money was hard to come by back in those days for a kid.

[slotcarone]

I have a few boxes of them but they are frozen in the attic right now!! Earliest ones are from Monogram Midget races at Vic's in Cambria Heights.

[tonyp]

Never saved any.


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[Kim Lander]

only kept one....its here some where....lol

[zipper]

1972 I won the Åland Islands GP - this has never been out of the box.

[Uncle Fred]

My father put up shelves so I could display my trophies.  Only one remains from a NAMRA 1/24 Sports Car Race at EMMRA.

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[Bryan Warmack]

    I didn't save any of my own but 60's champ Terry Schmid recently gave me this very impressive trophy (almost 2 feet high) he won for 2nd Place in a  8/16/67 Car Model race. I don't know where the race was held but I'm sure it's in an old Car Model magazine.

 

[eshorer]

My mom threw all of mine out when she found my stash one day. I guess she thought that was going to deter me. Or something.  :-/ 

Eddie

[Brian Cochrane]

Here some of mine from 1966 67 68 69 Hobbytrack Speedway Levittown Long Island

[Pappy]

    I didn't save any of my own but 60's champ Terry Schmid recently gave me this very impressive trophy (almost 2 feet high) he won for 2nd Place in a  8/16/67 Car Model race. I don't know where the race was held but I'm sure it's in an old Car Model magazine.

Do you know who won?

[Uncle Fred]

Sandy Gross.

[Bob Kurkowski]

First Feature in 1967.

 

Bob K.

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[elvis44102]

Bob,

 

Was this for a race on the "road course" at Parma (in the back)..When i found out we could trade in trophies for merchandise i always got merchandise.

[Brian Cochrane]

Yes,I should mension that back then the track I raced at gave you a choice of a trophy or a store credit.I took the store credit at times instead of a trophy....

[DOCinCanton]

Looks like we got a couple of Cleveland area racers from the 1960s posting here. Good to see. Here are 2 of my trophies that have traveled with me for about 50 years.

 

 

 

 

And the big dog says "So what".

[DOCinCanton]

I noticed that John Wisneski posted above. I remember him from the Cleveland Car Model series. Also, in the various pics on this page, we have Jan Limpach, Paul & Donna Hubble, Gil Pataky, and others. Jim McElhiney was a great motor builder.

 

 

 

[Bob Kurkowski]

John,

 

Can't remember what track at Parma it was from. I was like you and just about everybody else who traded their trophies for parts and I'm surprised I hung on to the trophy. Not sure how many of you people know it but John was Jan Limpach's right hand man.

 

Dan,

 

Good to hear from you. A 500 win was huge back in the day. I remember 50 plus racers every Friday night running 26 D powered open wheel Indy cars on the figure 8 and even more for the 500. Got me a Car Model Magazine win trophy from the Parma round of the series but it somehow got lost.

 

You guys will like this, I went to a 2 hour enduro today to watch and there was this slot box there covered with race stickers that Ken McDowell would always have printed up for the big races and I asked who's box it was and it was Buddy Bartos'. As I was looking at all the stickers on the box there on the inside of it was a racers name. Turns out the box was Don Dueches old box.

 

Bob K.

[sledman]

1964 Trophy from Parma Model Raceways

 

The first race I ever ran, with my dad, older brother and a Parma regular who hung out at the track...no recollection of his name. I was 14 at the time. Our family received three of these trophies, two of which still exist. It would be really cool to find the guy from Parma who has the 4th trophy!

 

The race was a 2-hour enduro with each of the four drivers running for 30 minutes. Odd that we raced an F-1 in an endurance race but as I recall it ran like it was on rails. Ferrari 156 Shark Nose with a Pittman DC-70 (?) motor, probably out of an HO locomotive...about the same weight...running brass bevel gears. Dim memory of the track we were on but I believe it was the road course in the rear of the store. 

 

I have another trophy from a 6-hour race run at Grand Prix Model Speedways in Eastlake, OH, but the engraved plate is missing so it kind of lacks any historical significance. The cars all had head and tail lights and we ran 2 of the 6 hours in the dark. Race was held on an American Windsor with a mechanical lap counter.

 

Photo taken in the backyard in 1964 of the winning car and trophy: 

 

Photo taken in 2018 (today) with detail of engraving: 

 

Ferrari in the pits...not at the raceway...on some lumpy Scalextric track: 

 

[dc-65x]

In 1967 I built a car for my friend and slot car raceway co-worker Larry Rogers to enter the first Car Model Magazine Sports Car race at J&J Raceway in Long Beach, CA.

 

He didn't make the main but we did place 3rd in the Concours event. I still have the trophy but not the car.

 

The picture was taken in 1967 with a cheap Kodak camera and enhanced by my friend Steve Okeefe:

 

 

[havlicek]

I never did any racing, but I did have some surfing trophies that I never kept.  The manufacturer I worked and surfed for as my sponsor kept them in the showroom.  Does that count???   

[Mbloes]

John, where do you surf in New York?

[Pappy]

I surf the net but I've never won a trophy for it.