Maybe this is a post for Live and Let Diecast but did any Oppos play with/race slot cars as kids?
These were my favorites, and I wish I still had some of them:
Tyco Porsche 908 in BF Goodrich livery. I remember getting this with a track that went up the wall. It also included a Lamborghini Countach. I don't know if it's true, but my dad told me that these Group C cars could go 200 mph and could actually go upside down at that speed because of the downforce they produced.
I also had the Dukes of Hazzard set, with ramps that could jump, and a General Lee and lights on top of the cop car:
When I was about 9, my uncle gave me a bunch of his old slot cars and taught me how to rewind motors and fix the cars without having to get an adult. I got a shoebox full of parts, including quality pressed-brass gears.
Some of the cars he gave me became classics, too. These are apparently in demand in slot-car circles. I wish I still had them, so I could hang out with my nephews and built slot car tracks...
I had a Trans Am AMX:
and a Bill Thomas Cheetah, with silver-painted velocity stacks:
and a Petty Charger/Roadrunner set:
And a Mustang that kept losing its grille/headlights until I used model glue to get it put back together properly - it was just like the one below but green.
I find it odd that most of the pictures I can find of these old slot cars are tiny photos from old Ebay auctions.
Finally, I have one of the stranger ideas from Tyco back in the 80s - The TRX racing set — consisting of two cars - one powered, and one tethered. I had these exact Firebirds. It didn't work as well with the jumps from the Dukes of Hazzard set. Plastic bodies flew.
