Thread: Playing with the kid's toys

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I did a lot of racing at a commercial track when the fad first hit in the mid 1960s. I eventually built a slot car track for my kids with two 4X8 sheets of plywood joined in an "L" shape. I made most of the chassis out of brass tubing, and usually used high-rpm Japanese Mura brand electric motors. The place also had a slot dragstrip. A lot of us built special boxes with a rack of batteries in them to apply a reverse current for braking when we let off the throttle. When the kids tired of the slot cars, I stored it, then eventually turned it into a model train layout.