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Anyone had one of these as a youngster? (Original Post) True Dough Jan 13 OP
Yes! gay texan Jan 13 #1
Yes. Drove my mother nuts. marble falls Jan 13 #2
My HO scale racing sets were Aurora House of Roberts Jan 13 #3
Same here. Bought a lot of extra track, including an intersection, and it took up my parents garage. Little gray mobeau69 Jan 14 #27
I just got a new set every birthday and Christmas House of Roberts Jan 14 #31
I remember those hop-up kits but never got one. Used mobeau69 Jan 14 #33
I did, They always flew off of the tracks , especially going around curves. debm55 Jan 13 #4
As long as True Dough Jan 13 #10
I don't drive on interstates, True Dough. I take the back roads. debm55 Jan 13 #13
Be careful. Some of those backroads are way more dangerous. mobeau69 Jan 14 #34
Yup. n/t FSogol Jan 13 #5
Trains were the big thing when I was a kid; sets like these came a bit later. patphil Jan 13 #6
Was that the super deluxe model or something? Shermann Jan 13 #7
You're right True Dough Jan 13 #9
I had something similar to that. I believe it was called Motorific Torture Track. Borogove Jan 13 #8
I had one. The straightaways , where a kid would speed up, almost always lead into a curve , That is where the car would debm55 Jan 13 #11
Do they not sell them now? I'd think kids would still love something like that... No? hlthe2b Jan 13 #12
Had an earlier set. Aurora maybe. cachukis Jan 13 #14
I've got one or 2 sets in the basement Marthe48 Jan 13 #15
Didn't have the track set but had a number of cars. marked50 Jan 13 #16
My son had one. sinkingfeeling Jan 13 #17
No. I wanted one but it was a "boy's toy." Lunabell Jan 13 #18
No, but I wanted one as an adult! 😄 But priorities dictated otherwise. electric_blue68 Jan 13 #19
My Husband and I got one when I was pregnant with our Daughter. I was 23, he was 25. dai13sy Jan 13 #20
I did not but my best friend next house over did drray23 Jan 13 #21
Great memories True Dough Jan 14 #22
I don't think saw I ever saw those (ads) as a kid, otherwise I might have wanted one!😄 I had wooden train tracks... electric_blue68 Jan 14 #23
Yes. OldBaldy1701E Jan 14 #24
My younger brothers had one LogDog75 Jan 14 #25
I had a small figure 8 track with two 50s style hot rod cars. Very fun.... wcmagumba Jan 14 #26
From JCPenny no less. EarnestPutz Jan 14 #28
My three older brothers had them. Two became Formula race drivers. My nephew is a pro racer. Nanuke Jan 14 #29
That's a beauty. Mike 03 Jan 14 #30
Yes, I did! Niagara Jan 14 #32
Not exactly JoseBalow Jan 14 #35
Us kids had two racing car sets, one that was very much like the one you picture... Archae Jan 14 #36
All us kids shared the toys, we had one almost exactly like that. Clouds Passing Jan 14 #37

mobeau69

(11,820 posts)
27. Same here. Bought a lot of extra track, including an intersection, and it took up my parents garage. Little gray
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:37 PM
Jan 14

controls with little steering wheels. Loved it.

BTW, it was officially named Aurora Model Motoring.

House of Roberts

(5,838 posts)
31. I just got a new set every birthday and Christmas
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 04:44 PM
Jan 14

until I didn't need any more track. IIRC the sets were about $30.
Later on they came out with a hop-up kit to make the cars faster and put bigger softer tires on them. They really screamed after that. When I moved up to 1/24 scale cars at an amusement center, I gave the little ones to my younger brother.

mobeau69

(11,820 posts)
33. I remember those hop-up kits but never got one. Used
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 05:45 PM
Jan 14

to take them apart and clean or replace the little copper brushes and they would run like new. Built mountains with plaster and put a tunnel through one. Good days.

patphil

(7,370 posts)
6. Trains were the big thing when I was a kid; sets like these came a bit later.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 08:40 PM
Jan 13

i was in my teens when they really got going during the 1960's. By then I was looking forward to driving the real thing.

Shermann

(8,807 posts)
7. Was that the super deluxe model or something?
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 08:40 PM
Jan 13

I had one back in the day, but I recall it being much more basic. I also recall it rarely worked reliably.

True Dough

(21,684 posts)
9. You're right
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 08:51 PM
Jan 13

This one does look rather deluxe. The one I owned was about half the amount of that track. Still lots of fun though!

debm55

(42,170 posts)
11. I had one. The straightaways , where a kid would speed up, almost always lead into a curve , That is where the car would
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 08:55 PM
Jan 13

fly off.

cachukis

(2,870 posts)
14. Had an earlier set. Aurora maybe.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:01 PM
Jan 13

The Tyco cars were too fast.
It was like replacing a Dunlop Maxply with a composition raquet. The finesse was lost.

Marthe48

(19,992 posts)
15. I've got one or 2 sets in the basement
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:03 PM
Jan 13

My husband and his brother went out one day in the late 70s and bought a small set to play with. A little bit of drinking going on. And I think we got a set at a sale. My brothers had them too. It seemed awfully hard to get them set up and working

marked50

(1,460 posts)
16. Didn't have the track set but had a number of cars.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:20 PM
Jan 13

There was a place that had tracks so you could race your cars. For a fee of course. Loads of fun.

Lunabell

(7,285 posts)
18. No. I wanted one but it was a "boy's toy."
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:34 PM
Jan 13

My wife bought me one when we first got together when she found out my parents would not buy me a "boy's toy." We played with that thing for hours!!

dai13sy

(520 posts)
20. My Husband and I got one when I was pregnant with our Daughter. I was 23, he was 25.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 10:39 PM
Jan 13

No one would let me work at the office so I got a stay-at-home job and still did office work but on my breaks I played with my track.

drray23

(8,097 posts)
21. I did not but my best friend next house over did
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:33 PM
Jan 13

So the neighborhood kids would gather over and we would have competitions all with rounds and eliminations. We spend hours playing this.

electric_blue68

(19,939 posts)
23. I don't think saw I ever saw those (ads) as a kid, otherwise I might have wanted one!😄 I had wooden train tracks...
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 01:13 PM
Jan 14

I loved my train tracks/trains: straights, curves, switch tracks, bridges, very late 50's, early 60's.
They probably added items later.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,128 posts)
24. Yes.
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:01 PM
Jan 14

But, it was decidedly smaller. The funny thing is all of the stuff I used to do with the power supply. The tracks and the cars never lasted long, but the power supply had many applications.

LogDog75

(284 posts)
25. My younger brothers had one
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:31 PM
Jan 14

This came out when I was in my later teens but my two younger brothers, ages 10 and 11, had one. I'd help them set it up and show them how to keep the cars from flying off the track.

Niagara

(10,126 posts)
32. Yes, I did!
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jan 14

Hours of fun even if my racer slid off the tracks around the dead man curves because of the need for speed!

Archae

(46,998 posts)
36. Us kids had two racing car sets, one that was very much like the one you picture...
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 07:09 PM
Jan 14

The cars had motors inside them.

We also had a "Matchbox" racing car set, no motors were in the cars, rather a peg that projected underneath the car would engage with a coiled stiff wire, that was driven by a motor on one segment of the track.

Since the Matchbox set was from a basement, I ended up doing a lot of work on it to get the coiled wire back in action.

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