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I've been poking around for a day or two so thought it time to say hello.
I'm a semi retiree living in Canberra Australia and have been involved with cars, at a relatively sedate level, all my life.
I didn't get into slot cars for a long time because, when the craze hit, I was already working as an apprentice mechanic and trying to be grown up and cool-although I did build an Airfix Mini which broke (I also tried all sorts of things with 1:1 cars with similar results).
About ten years ago, I bought a Scaley Bathurst set with a couple of British Escorts liveried as Brock and Johnson cars at a garage sale. I thought my daughters would get some fun out of them (they never did).
I also harboured an itch from long ago when my younger brother got a F1 set (Cooper and Vanwall?) for Christmas back in the '60s and I resented the fact that I was having to be so grown up and cool.
I used to race in the Online Racing Series but petered out when it all got a bit too hard (It relied on consistent lap times and I couldn't get anywhere near the leaders even with a car set up to run automatically).
I have 1:32 and HO but don't use the HOs any more. I think there is also half a set of Micro Machine 1:87 somewhere in a drawer (thinks: Hmmm, this could power a Goggomobile Dart or something equally silly if one of the Scratchies [fellow ORS refugee Fergy, p'raps] could lend a hand.
Oops, nearly midnight and Bathurst is on tomorrer
Goodnight and congrats on a great forum
Charles
I'm a semi retiree living in Canberra Australia and have been involved with cars, at a relatively sedate level, all my life.
I didn't get into slot cars for a long time because, when the craze hit, I was already working as an apprentice mechanic and trying to be grown up and cool-although I did build an Airfix Mini which broke (I also tried all sorts of things with 1:1 cars with similar results).
About ten years ago, I bought a Scaley Bathurst set with a couple of British Escorts liveried as Brock and Johnson cars at a garage sale. I thought my daughters would get some fun out of them (they never did).
I also harboured an itch from long ago when my younger brother got a F1 set (Cooper and Vanwall?) for Christmas back in the '60s and I resented the fact that I was having to be so grown up and cool.
I used to race in the Online Racing Series but petered out when it all got a bit too hard (It relied on consistent lap times and I couldn't get anywhere near the leaders even with a car set up to run automatically).
I have 1:32 and HO but don't use the HOs any more. I think there is also half a set of Micro Machine 1:87 somewhere in a drawer (thinks: Hmmm, this could power a Goggomobile Dart or something equally silly if one of the Scratchies [fellow ORS refugee Fergy, p'raps] could lend a hand.
Oops, nearly midnight and Bathurst is on tomorrer
Goodnight and congrats on a great forum
Charles