Coming Full Circle
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:22 amGentlemen and Ladies I say hello.
This may or may not be a unique story but it was suggested I post this story here so I'm more than happy to do so.
To make a long story short I started into this hobby about 7-8 years ago. Got into it so deep that it did not take long that I started breathing and eating slot cars. I enjoyed it very much but with too much of anything I got burned out and sold literally everything. One of my personal crowning achievements in this hobby was my first wooden track. I loved this thing and if I remember right it was also featured in a Slot Car issue as well. After long agonizing debates I decided to sell this track to a good fellow slot head in my area.
It was getting good usage so I felt at least that it was going to a good home. In the course of the next 7 or 8 years this track changed hands more than a couple of times after and I lost track of it.
Just last year I visited this Drag Race Slot car shop and to my surprise I saw my old track. I was both happy and sad because even though the track was still getting used, time took it's toll. The track was in quite a mess and aside from a few things, most anything that could be torn off or broken was.
I walked out of there thinking boy, maybe I should rescue it but at the time I had too much on my plate.
Recently I decided to tap my foot into the water again so I asked here in the For Sale section if any one in Colorado had seen this track. I posted a couple of pictures back when it was in top condition along with information I had about it.
Here are a few more of when it was just finished.
Some 1/24th scale cars going at it.
Before long I had a great reply with contact information. I called and before long we worked something out and now the track has come full circle back to the place it was built. Unfortunately with anything time took it's toll and this track was no exception. After being moved to many locations from seller to seller, being placed in storage and even used as a racing marketing tool at a local car dealership it was in a sad state of repair once I got it back home.
So instead of this being a build thread of a new track it has become my personal restoration attempt to bring it back to it's glory days.
The more I thought about it the more excited I get. As corny as it may sound, to me it's a personal mission to bring back something I built years ago that I was really proud of. What's even better is that without the help here I may of not had this opportunity. So here I go. The mission begins and this is it's current condition.
Thanks for looking folks.
This may or may not be a unique story but it was suggested I post this story here so I'm more than happy to do so.
To make a long story short I started into this hobby about 7-8 years ago. Got into it so deep that it did not take long that I started breathing and eating slot cars. I enjoyed it very much but with too much of anything I got burned out and sold literally everything. One of my personal crowning achievements in this hobby was my first wooden track. I loved this thing and if I remember right it was also featured in a Slot Car issue as well. After long agonizing debates I decided to sell this track to a good fellow slot head in my area.
It was getting good usage so I felt at least that it was going to a good home. In the course of the next 7 or 8 years this track changed hands more than a couple of times after and I lost track of it.
Just last year I visited this Drag Race Slot car shop and to my surprise I saw my old track. I was both happy and sad because even though the track was still getting used, time took it's toll. The track was in quite a mess and aside from a few things, most anything that could be torn off or broken was.
I walked out of there thinking boy, maybe I should rescue it but at the time I had too much on my plate.
Recently I decided to tap my foot into the water again so I asked here in the For Sale section if any one in Colorado had seen this track. I posted a couple of pictures back when it was in top condition along with information I had about it.
Here are a few more of when it was just finished.
Some 1/24th scale cars going at it.
Before long I had a great reply with contact information. I called and before long we worked something out and now the track has come full circle back to the place it was built. Unfortunately with anything time took it's toll and this track was no exception. After being moved to many locations from seller to seller, being placed in storage and even used as a racing marketing tool at a local car dealership it was in a sad state of repair once I got it back home.
So instead of this being a build thread of a new track it has become my personal restoration attempt to bring it back to it's glory days.
The more I thought about it the more excited I get. As corny as it may sound, to me it's a personal mission to bring back something I built years ago that I was really proud of. What's even better is that without the help here I may of not had this opportunity. So here I go. The mission begins and this is it's current condition.
Thanks for looking folks.
