One thing that was missing from my two layouts was a Safety car....

Having looked on eBay for a few weeks, the choice wasn't huge.   So I widened my search to include Police cars, and found this lovely looking Mclaren 720 S from Scalextric.   I got lucky,  with a brand new car,  in a damaged box, for a decent price. 

The choice of the Mclaren fits perfectly with our main club class, Scalextric GT3......

On the track is was slightly disappointing.   The Siren only worked properly on full throttle,  just omitting an annoying repetitive tone otherwise.  And the Flashing roof lights didn't really get going properly either,  so.......time for a quick modification 

Cut the wires to the siren,  which also sorted the lights,  as they now appear to get more power,  and flash left and right perfectly.   I wasn't bothered about the siren, but did want flashing safety lights.   The cars performance is great, quick and nice neutral handling. 

Some nice chequered decals covered up the main Police signage,  and Shell decals have covered the small Police lettering on the sides of the front and rear bumpers.   Very pleased with how it looks.

I've been using Slot.it SCP controllers for more than 10 years of my slot racing history, starting with the SCP1. I won't claim to know, or be able to teach, everything there is to know about it, but I've helped a few people figure their controllers out over the years. After several recent requests, I threw together an uncut (I hate editing) instructional video to help new and prospective owners come to grips with the available settings on the controller. I hope those interested in the SCP(3) will find this video helpful.

Hi,

I want to build a 4-lane raceway with my son, who just got into H0-racing with me. After buying several sets and a few single track parts over the past two months I’m still looking for:

12 6“-curves for Tyco (not original Tyco) and 
16 12“ original Tyco curves.

I’d prefer someone from the EU due to tax and customs regulations. Thanks a lot in advance!

A few pictures of my track

Anyone know of a UK source of decent Raid decals to brighten up a Hummer please? (Including the HUMMER name if poss. a la the Powerslot Hummers.)

Thanks.

Amazon UK have a bit of a sale on for Scalextric cars. LINK Some quite good bargains to be had. Their sales don't last long so be quick, they will soon disappear.

Ahoy!
I’m Tom 45 years old and I have 4 lovely daughters 
I started with slot when I got a set at early age from Santa Claus, who didn’t have a set when they were kids. ?
I had my first decent set about 15 years ago and started to collect cars and made a permanent track at that time. 
Sold everything a few years later. 
Got into modeltrains, rc cars, but the slotcars kept interesting me. 
About a year ago I placed an advert to sell one of my rc cars, a guy responded if I maybe was interested in a swap, my car against a slotcar set and a big box of extra track......
So I got back into slotcars. 
I have a big attic and the planning was to build a permanent track, not to big, and as a former modeltrain guy I wanted to build it as realistic as possible. 
Also the cars have to look as realistic possible, I learned myself to weather in my train period. 
So I tried it on my cars, I call it “the last lap look “
Recently I started to make slotcars out of static models as I found a 1/32 VW bus in a recycle shop nearby. 
So I’m really loving this hobby, it’s relaxing and a pure pleasure for me to build, customise and working on the cars and the layout. 
What more does a man need

People moan about the current domination of Mercedes in F1 but that has nothing on the Nissan Skyline during the Group A period of the Japanese Touring Car Championship. Between 1990 and 1993 the car won every single round, 29 in all. It was so dominant that everybody else eventually gave up and 1993 basically became a one make affair. It also won the Bathurst 1000 in 1991 and 1992 and stuffed the DTM BMWs at Macau in 1990.

           

   

The driver is a bit odd. He is nicely decorated with helmet and overalls both carrying sponsor logos but is way too tall. His helmet is jammed against the roof above the roll cage and the poor chap would suffer severe injuries in a rollover.

   

   

       

Just a quick hello to all my fellow slot car enthusiasts around the globe. I have been racing slot cars since the 1970's. First in HO scale then in 2003 in 1/32 scale. I have had many different tracks set up over the years. My largest was 457cm X 355cm. It was a Ninco two lane first in analog then in digital. It was just too large for my home. 
Now I run on a Scalextric classic/sport digital track that is 304 X213. Most of my racing is with my two sons who are nine and fourteen. 
Looking forward to your ideas suggestions and posts.

I have a total of 10 AW T-jets. 5 are the older version with no magnet. I examined all the cars for gear tolerance etc. I put 6-volts to test all the cars, and then selected the smoothest running chassis with the least motor vibration and best tolerances.

I recently set up a drag race test track with 12-volts. I oiled up the chassis, etc. The best car from the lot screamed like the gears were going to come flying out of the chassis. So I threw the other cars on to test them. They made even more noise! Ouch.

I tested the stock Micro Scalex cars and they are all bullets! The AFX cars also run great!

Had I bought these T-jet cars from a store. I would be taking them all back for a exchange or refund. What an eye opener.

The plastic idler gear flops around like a dead fish on all 10-cars. These chassis are not very good at all.

I tinkered with one chassis for several hours yesterday. The results of doing back to back tests gave one promising run where the gears didn't make noise and the car was much faster. Then the noise instantly came back and the brakes went on.

Can anyone please suggest how to make a stock AW T-jet run smoothly?

Thank you very kindly in advance,
Ken