Hi, I need more! I absolutely love your website. I check back often to see if it has been
updated.
I'm rather new to the larger scale slot cars, having grown up with AFX and Tyco. In the
sixties I remember seeing 1/32nd scale cars and thinking they weren't very impressive,
although I never got the opportunity to race any. I have many fond memories of racing
the HO's and I still have all of them. We used to tinker endlessly, sand, switch armatures,
rub eraserson contacts, oil or not, you probably kknow what I'm talking about.
Anyway, I have two small boys, who by the way of a pine block derby in Cubscouts got
introduced to slot cars by me, dad. How did I do this? A few years back while shopping in
San Antonio I discovered Jim Hioneycutt's Magnatech Raceway. I raced, we all raced, and
I got hooked.
I bought a Scalextric set, cars, more sets, more cars, you know the drill. One thing led to
another and I was determined to built a track. I visited with Jim Honeycutt many times, he
is very helpful. If you are in San Antonio Texas go check out Jim's 4 eight lane tracks.
Head up to the Crossroads Mall at I10 & loop 410 on the NW side of town. I looked
through your website countless times. The tracks and information are inspiring, the racing
clips are very enjoyable too. I could really go on about it for awhile. So back to my
project. I bought 1000' roll of magnetic braid from Jim (not cheap) and 3 sheets of 1/2"
MDF, router and bits.
The track I wanted to build I determined was going to be a rather large undertaking. So I
started routing a three laner on two sheets of MDF end to end. Dust and bits, plus
sneezing was faing to yield the desired effects. So the months went by without a
completed track. I set up a nice four lane Scalextric/SCX track at the local Trade Days
flea market (pic attached).
Then one day I was shooting for some food, and up through the ground, ? Oops, wrong
story. One morning I was checking out the eBay auction listings, and there came up out
of nowhere, 2 six lane routed tracks. They weren't cheap, but I came to find out that there
had been over ten grand invested in them from the original owner. Everything
considered, I got a pretty good deal. The guy I bought them from had had Jim Silknitter
"Silky" build two tracks on site in a retail space for him. One is a six lane road course. It is
a real beaut, each lane is 100' (pic attached). The other track is a 50' oval (pic attached).
I'm looking for a place to set them up. They need lots of space and retail space is
expensive. Something will come up.
updated.
I'm rather new to the larger scale slot cars, having grown up with AFX and Tyco. In the
sixties I remember seeing 1/32nd scale cars and thinking they weren't very impressive,
although I never got the opportunity to race any. I have many fond memories of racing
the HO's and I still have all of them. We used to tinker endlessly, sand, switch armatures,
rub eraserson contacts, oil or not, you probably kknow what I'm talking about.
Anyway, I have two small boys, who by the way of a pine block derby in Cubscouts got
introduced to slot cars by me, dad. How did I do this? A few years back while shopping in
San Antonio I discovered Jim Hioneycutt's Magnatech Raceway. I raced, we all raced, and
I got hooked.
I bought a Scalextric set, cars, more sets, more cars, you know the drill. One thing led to
another and I was determined to built a track. I visited with Jim Honeycutt many times, he
is very helpful. If you are in San Antonio Texas go check out Jim's 4 eight lane tracks.
Head up to the Crossroads Mall at I10 & loop 410 on the NW side of town. I looked
through your website countless times. The tracks and information are inspiring, the racing
clips are very enjoyable too. I could really go on about it for awhile. So back to my
project. I bought 1000' roll of magnetic braid from Jim (not cheap) and 3 sheets of 1/2"
MDF, router and bits.
The track I wanted to build I determined was going to be a rather large undertaking. So I
started routing a three laner on two sheets of MDF end to end. Dust and bits, plus
sneezing was faing to yield the desired effects. So the months went by without a
completed track. I set up a nice four lane Scalextric/SCX track at the local Trade Days
flea market (pic attached).
Then one day I was shooting for some food, and up through the ground, ? Oops, wrong
story. One morning I was checking out the eBay auction listings, and there came up out
of nowhere, 2 six lane routed tracks. They weren't cheap, but I came to find out that there
had been over ten grand invested in them from the original owner. Everything
considered, I got a pretty good deal. The guy I bought them from had had Jim Silknitter
"Silky" build two tracks on site in a retail space for him. One is a six lane road course. It is
a real beaut, each lane is 100' (pic attached). The other track is a 50' oval (pic attached).
I'm looking for a place to set them up. They need lots of space and retail space is
expensive. Something will come up.
Please contact Paul with any comments or questions
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