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I was reading another thread and a person by the name of Slotting since 1963 made a statement about what was the cut off date for being an old timer. In my warped mind I began to think of that question in Jeff Foxworthy terms. I will offer a few and see if anybody else would like to add their own.

You might be an old timer if you can remember the arm winding tool that you placed in a vice and hand cranked the handle to turn the arm.
You might be an old timer if you can remember hooking a nine volt battery in reverse to the drivers station to get brakes on your latest double wind.
You might be an old timer if you prefer jam nuts behind your wheels rather than Allen screws that go into the hub.
You might be an old timer if you used Cox rubber tires on your latest hand built slot racer because they had the best grip.
You are mots definitely an old timer if you remember having to decide which of the five tracks in your immediate area to attend that night.

OK, people, feel free to join in and expose your rather seasoned memory of slot racing past.

You might be an old timer if you still reek of oil of wintergreen.
You might be an old timer if your thumb is calloused from using a Cox controller.
You might be an old timer if every slot car you own has some parts made by Dynamic.

I must be ancient... I HAVE one of those armature winders! The whole kit, in the plastic box, with the attachments for winding TJet arms as well as the larger ones.

Do the brass bevel gears count?

Richard.

You might be an old time slotter if you used Veco model airplane tires on your car.

You might be an old time slotter if you used Coppertone suntan lotion for traction additive

You might be an old time slotter if you robbed your toy trains for motors.

You might be an old time slotter if the names Bonner and Gar-Vic are familiar.

You might be an old time slotter if you used brazing rod to build your chassis from.

You might be an old time slotter if you used your paper route and lawn mowing money on slot car stuff.

You might be an old time slotter if you remember pin guides.

Enough for now.

Ummm.
I actually built my own copy of the winding tool and actually wound some of my own 16D arms.
And bought oil of wintergreen from the old-time drug store just to spill some in my pit box.....
Other than crazy....I am at least inspired by old-timers.

You might be an old timer if everyone was staring at you when you hooked up your RussKit controller for the first time.
You might be an old timer if you remember French rewinds.
You might be an old timer if you had a RamBuchi motored car.
You might be an old timer if you had Cox Sil-Slicks or Candies on you cars.
You might be an old timer if you mixed oil of wintergreen and glycerine together for traction compound. :)

All of the above-I guess I must be an old timer. ( The white beard doesn't mean anything).


Mike

Good luck with that Mike :)

You might be an old timer if you remember when NINCO was $35.00 :)

Oh wait...maybe young timer?

You wish you could buy a mint condition,COX Chapperal 2-E.For the same price you paid for it in 1967. :think: :think:

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. I came across a wheel and acorn nut from one of those in a box the other day. I have no idea where I got it years ago, but I thought about how tasty that Cox Chappy was.

Rob, I remember those MRC controllers. The blue ones did cost more. I had one of the red ones with adjustable ohms. I had a "Potato Masher" controller too, what a worthless piece of **** it was. :lol:

I remember most of that stuff. Great times.

Speaking of oil of wintergreen: Back in the early 90's when I was into collecting and home racing vintage slot cars, I missed the smell of wintergreen that hung in the air at almost any of the local raceways "back then". So, of all things, I found a bottle of oil of wintergreen at an old local drug store that existed at the time. On race night, I would use a piece of paper towel with wintergreen on it placed in a small bowl. It would fill the air with the smell of wintergreen while I/we (we: The wife and daughter) raced! It was great. In fact, I was also guilty of using that same ploy when sitting at the workbench working on vintage slot cars! In fact, I THINK I still have that bottle of wintergreen SOMEWHERE. (CRS syndrome: Old age sucks.)

I still use brass brazing rod to build chassis with.
How about....You might be an old stot racer if you still have a box of assorted Cox grey plastic 48pt gears for sidewinders and inlines.