I only discovered slot cars around three years ago, since then Ive collected a few of the non-magnet late 60s to early 80s Scalextric F1s. With a little TLC I am really impressed with how well they drive, they are perfect on a home track and not slow by any means! Thanks for the heads up about PSR tyres, I had no idea they sold them.
That's really interesting Rob, thank you. I think Pendle are missing a few tricks with tyres on their website... Pendle if you're reading this.... size filters please!
Great video Rob, ive just bought some reproduction tyres for my early 2000's Ford GT from ebay and the performance difference is amazing from the original non run hard as nails scalextric tyres!!! Thanks for another great informative video budfy 👍👍👍
Takes me back Rob. I really became impassioned with Scalextric aged 13 (back in the summer of 1976) and then there were just three F1 cars with chassis trays presented in the plastic jewel case format and these to include the Lotus 72. This Lotus 77 came along to replace this the following year and, of course, I had to have one when they came out in the autumn of that year. I haven't seen or touched mine since around the 1990s and yes it would be interesting to go dig it out and check the condition? More on point in the here and now I do at least keep my bone joints lubricated with mineral supplements! Of course, and after all these years, Scalextric has just released their Mario Andretti Lotus 78 from the following year. As with the Lotus 72 a somewhat more aesthetically pleasing car than the 77. What I wouldn't have given for Scalextric to have had the 78 model in their range in 1979 as opposed to here in 2024? As it is the Policar Ferrari 126 C2 from last year raised the bar with this era of F1 and so, today, Scalextric has missed the boat with me. It's much the same with their Ferrari F40 offering from the early 1990s (which I then passed on). Give me the latest Revoslot F40 with their Brumos livery, any livery really, any day of the week. Life is too short to come over 'all nostalgic' but maybe that's just me. Still, all the replacement tryres are most excellent and it's good that folks still care for these old things. Personally, I find we need a circuit with a low radius R3/R4 sweep at the end of a long straight to properly get the measure of a tyre but these new compounds have certainly demonstrated they will be up to the job on most any surface. All in all, a great calibraition. 😀
Thanks for posting Rob .That was really interesting and its good to know we can get tyre's for our older cars. Question Rob...what glue do you use for the rims, and is it difficult to later remove the rims from the axel after glueing 🙂
Old Scalextric wheels relax over the axle over the years and become slack, so a dot of superglue bonds them back on. Removing them later is not something I need on scalextric cars. I will be doing a video very soon on replacing the whole classic Scalextric rear ends where you can then use bolt on alloy wheels, problem solved, glue no longer needed.
Now Rob, I’ve no problem describing cars like that Lotus as “really old”, however in my mind that 1992 Ferrari F40 was only released by Scalextric yesterday 😂 Is there a chance of using adjectives that don’t make me come face to face with how the decades are whistling past? Please?!
Single crossovers are common on Rally style tracks or single stage tracks, it means you use both sides of the track to complete one full lap. Nothing will short as long as the cross over rails are not touching in the middle rails, the outer ones can touch. See 20:04 and 20:10 of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nzR5a8as4Rw.html
@@douglascook258 Yes exactly, it's a single lane, single car sprint track. I never get any visitors to play cars with, so no need of multi lane track. Also my club is a rally club, so we only run single car timed runs.
