My story is not remarkable, in fact, probably quite the norm. Born in 1961,
I raced slot cars with my dad in the mid and late 60's. I didn't know how
lucky I was that dad built us a small routed track in our basement. When
the commercial track at Alan's hobbies in WaterlooIowa closed around 1970, my slot car racing
took the form of HO with Aurora
thunderjets and the big track was sold. Dad and I started flying RC
models and never looked back. Briefly, the old American orange track of
my childhood was put back into service and I got to race with my older boys
James and Jared, (now 25 and 22), on
that track in the mid 90's. Sadly, economics took over once again and
that shop closed. I dabbled with flexi cars a bit, when and where I
could find a track. They are fun to drive, but hard to love.
About four years ago, I stumbled upon 1/32nd scale
racing. I was suspicious, the cars just looked too good to actually be
fast and race well, but I had to try, so I bought the smallest Carrera set I
could find for 65 dollars. To say the least, my rediscovered hobby
sort of took off from there.
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