Hot Rods Drag racing..... slot cars?

what scale are u using 1/25?

 

yeah, 1/25 scale.

 

just got back from the track after not going in a year and man is it fun i couldnt believe how good all my cars that were built 10 years ago still work.

this one really suprised me. not bad for 16 bucks

 

John, Speedzone Raceway & Hobbies
201 Pine Street
Mt Holly, NJ 08060
The other is called Sonny's and is located in toms river, don't know the address. I think the other track is in Neptune, not sure of the name.

 

Stomking, My son took that pic at Beaver Springs at the Jalopy Drags in 08.

 

Son of a gun! Beaver Springs is a nice looking place! Wher is it?

 

i have about 15 cars. maybe 2 drag cars. there arent many placesaround here anymore. i really got into it in the mid 90s when a local guy opened a place in town with all home made tracks. the tracks sucked but he did make a drag strip and i could ride my bike there. i built a frame and had a group 20 in a little fiat. the ones guys use for altereds. i cant remember where i got the body or who made it, but it was cool, it was small im boing to say 1/32, but then again the fiat was a tiny car. i have a spring steel dragster now but no where to use it.

 

It's -8 degrees here, and if the car starts, I'm off to the raceway to do some fine tunning on my slots today....

 

hows this for period correct. not mine just stole the pic off another website

 

It is a nice track. Located in Beaver Springs PA, near Selinsgrove.

 

How far are you from Mt. Holly? The new palce there has 3 tracks, drag strip, oval & road course.

 

I'm planning on going to the world of wheels show Saturday morning and then heading over to the raceway around 1:30. The track is only a couple of miles from the Xcel Center. I use a yellow plastic racebox.

Matt (they call me Cheetah Matt at the raceway)

 

cool, I will have to look you up. I will have my two boys with me.

 

I'll see what I can do also.

 

Got hooked racing at freight house square in Tacoma then followed the track owner to 6th ave in Tacoma. We raced 1/32 scale have a small home track but its so much funner on a bigger faster track.
Still tracks (or track?) in Tacoma (fantasy world has one at there warehouse) Drag track in Edgewood have yet to go they are 1/24 scale.

 

Almost missed this great thread!

A couple of buddies and me own a slot drag track in - of all places - Austria and race with our friends from Switzerland, Germany, Malta, Finland, England etc.

Tons of pics and info on www.slotdragster.com
here are a few of our more H.A.M.B. friendly cars:

fellow hot rodder Juerg Broder from Switzerland (drives a 31 Ford Sedan):





Alex Mahl from Austria (drives a 51 Mercury Leadsled):



Peter Kouba from Austria:



Thomas Schaefer from Switzerland:


Roger Lueber from Switzerland:




Daniel Singer from Switzerland (57 Chevy):




Kurt Fink from Austria:



me (Kescha Platonow) from Austria:









Great to see there are more of us crazy slot racers on the HAMB!

Cheers,
Kescha

 

And some impressions from our track:















Kescha,
www.slotdragster.com
www.kpgraphic.com

 

Wow slotdragster, those are some of the coolest slotcars I've seen!!!

 

My latest build, A tribute to KS. I like the KS Opel a few posts back. Where did you get that body. All those dragsters are killer too.

 

Thanks for the comments - the Opel is an older AMT kit (late 90s/early 2000 reissue). The Willys looks great, as well!

 

This is getting good!

 

Slotdragster,Those are some great cars!!!! I love all the Gasser looking cars..

 

New Mustang Body for my son. Not a HAMB Friendly car but I think the paint job came out sweet.

 

there has some incredible cars... keep the coming

 

I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma. We're getting a new drag slot track built right now. It should be open in May. The old one across town shut down and the new one is being built about one hundred and fifty yards from my home! lol. i'm pretty excited about that. Anyway, i will be posting more pics of my drag slots in my album. I only have one in my pics right now. My freshly built 63 nova Hardbody car.

 

I love that blue, Cheetah looking car (#58)

 

New 32 Ford sedan Altered. Made it to the semi's 1st time out.

 

New 69 Camaro.

 

65 Nova AWB all finished.

 

This brings back memories. I was on a carrier in the Navy in the mid '60's. On our way to Viet Nam, we bought out all the BX inventory of slot car stuff (Pearl, Subic Bay, Sasebo). Limited space, so we used 2" x 12's end to end to build a removable strip. Digger frames were welding rod. Rewound the motors and got only a run or two before they burned out and had to do it all over again. Got to be a pretty big deal and a fun break from building bombs 12 hours a day.