Two funny things I saw here as you guys were responding. The letting off and watching your opponent flying off a curve was an awesome dirty trick. Our basement was an old coal room back in the day. It had ledges built into the walls. Our Dad used a ping pong table as the first slot car track base. Then it got extended to the coal ledge all around the room and came back down by the chimney. It was pretty sweet. The 2nd is after the slot cars, we got into HO scale trains. My Dad gave me all the train stuff. Once our kids get older, I'll set it up in our basement. Good fun and memories in that basement due to those cool toys. Haha