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I was having a look through a 1950's Eagle annual the other day and came across an advert for Subbuteo motor racing. Now I had the usual football version and a school friend had the cricket one. I also vaguely remember a rugby version but I had never heard of this one so I asked Mr Google and he informed me that there were four versions of the same thing - motor racing, horse racing, speedway and cycle speedway - all using ball bearings shot down a tube to move the vehicles! LINK Apparently none sold very well and they are 'Mega Rare' today. Has anybody got one or memories of playing with it?

While we are on the subject, I have a well used Waddingtons Formula One board game in the loft. This sold very well in the sixties and there are loads on eBay. Anybody still play with theirs or have distant memories of 'tyre wear 1, brake wear 2' on their little card dashboards?

There must be other motor racing board games out there - who can add to the list?

 

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I recall one - perhaps called "Grand Prix". All that I can remember about it is that you could make a choice to go through a corner "one gear higher" and then roll the dice to see if you made it.

EM

Yes, this was the USA version of the same thing - virtually identical and marketed by Parker Brothers of Monopoly fame. They had some sort of link with Waddingtons and sold each others games on either side of the pond.

 

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It seems there are an awful lot more of these out there than I initially thought. Here are links to ebay listings for 5 more of them:

Isle of Man TT

Silverstone

Damon Hill

Alan Jones

Monaco

 

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EDIT - Well you would have pictures but bloody Slotforum is up to it's usual sugar, refusing to allow JPGs from Imgur and I can no longer be arsed to try and work out what it's whinging about.

Why are you mucking about with hosting sites when you can just upload them directly to the forum from your computer? INSTRUCTIONS