Slot car racing

[Cliff Fr]

I'm interested in starting a slot car racing club. I have a home track in our basement. Yes I said basement, lol. We live on the edge of the Ocala National Forest. Anyone have interest in doing this? There's a club in Tampa but thats too far away for me. TIA

[Davonu]

Boy, that brings back memories. :)

Not sure how many tracks there would be though. Your basement might be the clubhouse! :D

[Cliff Fr]

Boy, that brings back memories. :)

Not sure how many tracks there would be though. Your basement might be the clubhouse! :D
Yeah I was into in it's heyday in the 60's. Nowadays it's mostly home club tracks. There is a commercial track in Winter Garden though.

[Cliff Fr]

Boy, that brings back memories. :)

Not sure how many tracks there would be though. Your basement might be the clubhouse! :D
Someone new to the Villages asked about a slot car track a few months ago.

[Bay Kid]

Thanks for the memories!

[bagboy]

Just a few months ago I gave my daughter 3 slot cars I had for 50 years to sell. An orange Mako Shark, a red Cheetah, and a little white road racer. For awhile we had a racing place at the end of our street in a closed grocery store. They had 4 big tracks. It was fun while it lasted. Now I wonder if they were sold, for how much, and where's the money?

[nyjets53]

I’ll be looking forward to racing when I get down there…only a couple years and I’ll be able to escape NY…

[Bay Kid]

Just a few months ago I gave my daughter 3 slot cars I had for 50 years to sell. An orange Mako Shark, a red Cheetah, and a little white road racer. For awhile we had a racing place at the end of our street in a closed grocery store. They had 4 big tracks. It was fun while it lasted. Now I wonder if they were sold, for how much, and where's the money?

I believe I still might have some in my attic? New mission!

[Hdljet]

I'm interested in starting a slot car racing club. I have a home track in our basement. Yes I said basement, lol. We live on the edge of the Ocala National Forest. Anyone have interest in doing this? There's a club in Tampa but thats too far away for me. TIA

Is your track 1/32 or 1/24? What type of cars? I have everything from vintage to wing cars. Fast Eddies is a long drive!

[howfast]

I'm interested in starting a slot car racing club. I have a home track in our basement. Yes I said basement, lol. We live on the edge of the Ocala National Forest. Anyone have interest in doing this? There's a club in Tampa but thats too far away for me. TIA

Sign me up! Former slot car track owner (Tri City Speedway Rochester,N.H.).

[Cliff Fr]

I believe I still might have some in my attic? New mission!

Let me know!

[Cliff Fr]

I just took down a huge HO scale setup in Summerfield because no one wanted to race. May put it back up in my garage loft. What scale is yours?
Mine is a Carrera track that can run 1/32 and 1/24th scale cars

[Cliff Fr]

Is your track 1/32 or 1/24? What type of cars? I have everything from vintage to wing cars. Fast Eddies is a long drive!
It's a Carrera track with a track mate timing system. It runs both 1/32 and 1/24 scale.

[Cliff Fr]

Here are pictures if a few cars

[Cliff Fr]

Is your track 1/32 or 1/24? What type of cars? I have everything from vintage to wing cars. Fast Eddies is a long drive!
Pm me when you have a chance.

[OhioBuckeye]

LOL, that’s what I thought too, BASEMENT! Now you got me thinking, with the sandy soil how do you keep it from getting water in it? Didn’t think a builder would build a home with a basement!

[Cliff Fr]

LOL, that’s what I thought too, BASEMENT! Now you got me thinking, with the sandy soil how do you keep it from getting water in it? Didn’t think a builder would build a home with a basement!

It's actually built into the slope of the land and none of it is fully in the ground. We've never had any water intrusion. It's not low lying land and we are not in the flood plain even though we have a marsh in the back.

[Dennys37Packard]

Sounds great. Please keep me in the loop. I used to go to a great one in Westmont, NJ. I still remember carrying my two cars and tools etc in an old Skill Saw metal storage box with a red handle. Gave them away before I moved here. Grrrrr.

[JerryLBell]

I know of RC race car clubs and tracks down here but don't know of anyone with a dedicated space for a slot car set. The houses here don't have basements (of course) but also are kind of smallish to dedicated a space for a good-sized track. I have seen a few houses on Conservation Trail with HUGE garages that could manage that, but they run well north of a million and a half bucks, which puts them out of my price range! Sure does bring back memories of my brother's HO scale slot car / train car combo track in his basement in Michigan. Running the train during a race certainly made for a challenge! My cousin had a very small 1/32 scale track the he and I raced on many times as well. What fun!

[Boffin]

Yep, interested.

[OhioBuckeye]

We’ll that’s really neat! Thanks for sharing that. You’re the first person to say they had a basement that I ever heard & never got any water. Well sure loved living in Florida, we live in Texas now because one of our children. Texas is a neat state but it takes some getting use to. Again, thanks for sharing & telling me about your basement.

[Boffin]

I'm interested in starting a slot car racing club. I have a home track in our basement. Yes I said basement, lol. We live on the edge of the Ocala National Forest. Anyone have interest in doing this? There's a club in Tampa but thats too far away for me. TIA

As I said in a previous post, I am interested. Moved down from Omaha and brought my entire set up with cars and “kit”. It is all Carrera 1/32 // 1/24. Please let me know what is going on and how this idea of a club is progressing.