[NYVette]

Slot cars can be great fun. I am an owner in TV but not a permanent resident at this time. However, almost anything vaguely automotive is of interest to me. Years ago I was a member of an Austin-Healey car club (I had a 3000 Mk3) and at the monthly meetings we would sometimes set up a slot car track. The idea was for members to buy tokens to enter a race and win the tokens of the losers. At the end of the night the cash collected selling tokens was split for the club treasury...a sort of 50/50 contest and added a real competitive spirit to the race. After all...you had a quarter bet on winning. A quarter doesn't seem like much, but the races were only ten laps of a not very large track, so there were many races in one night. I would be saving quarters all month in anticipation of the meeting.
I still have my 1960 Aurora Model Motoring slot cars.