When I was kid we had a king track on the 2nd floor of a roller-rink. By the time I had the money for a car they closed the track! So I got a small Aurora track for Christmas when I was about 12-13. It came with a white Mustang and some other passenger car. I immediately got the defacto “hop up” kit with a new pinion and truck hubs with 4 tall rubber Aurora truck tires. One day I was doing burn-outs with oil and suddenly the car went from slipping around to shooting across the room; the oil ate up the tires a little (like lighter fluid we use today) and was a traction fluid!
I soon got a Gulf Ford GT40 and performed surgery on the chassis, removing any piece of plastic that was not needed. I soon had a lightened and air-cooled chassis that looked like the AFX; which came out a year later. I drilled out the idler gear, changed the pinion and crown and got some new hubs and sponge tires. Eventually I got some silver pickups and brushes. Both the Mustang and GT40 smoked all of my friends who had much bigger tracks. My cars created showers of white sparks as they chattered down the track, bouncing on the pickups as they wheelied from the torque! Eventually I got a white porsche and another car, both AFX with all the hop-up parts out of the box. I still modified what I could though! I only ended up with about 5 cars but they were prizes I spent several hours with. The GT40 and at least one of the other cars is in a momento box at my parents house … but its driving me crazy b/c I cant find them!
** At least I now have an HO drag strip – and the cars (from AW) are very close to the Pancake-AFX spec.
"... get on your bad motor scooter and ride!"
Sammy with Montrose