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Slot Dreams

Posted August 09, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl

One could easily spend days browsing slot car track videos online - there seems to be an endless supply of extremely inventive slot car enthusiasts showing off tracks such as the one shown here, inspired by Ken Block's gymkhana videos and built by Youtuber sigfurniture.

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08/10/2012 12:56 AM

Pretty spiffy compared to the two car plastic snap together slot car tracks from my youth!!!

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08/10/2012 1:49 AM

True art!!!

Loved the doughnuts!

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08/10/2012 9:18 AM

Gotta love it!

I especially love what appears to be a beat-up '69 Pontiac Trans-Am! I used to own a God's scale one back in the early 80's....

Then the chopped up plastic airplane models makes for some great background scenery!!!

[I still have my old HO scale AFX track and cars from my teenage years. In fact I bought extra track and cars from Ebay to add on to the old set, but haven't put it all togethr yet....maybe now I will after seeing this video!]

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08/13/2012 9:27 AM

I found that the auction houses (not the high end ones, but the estate auctions) are filling up with vintage slot and ho rail track. It is not popular any more, and some very impressive layouts are being sold off. Some are the life's work from from enthusiasts who are heading into the nursing home.

I found that collecting Canadian rolling stock in HO was very inexpensive, though a little hard to find at times.

Now if I can only find the space to display...

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08/13/2012 9:37 AM

We could all build ourselves mausoleums.

Fill them with our favourite toys to take into the afterlife.

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08/14/2012 5:37 AM

Yup, I'm going to have my old trusty longbow in the box with me when I go
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(I'll make sure there are some arrows too)

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08/14/2012 7:48 AM

...and to really mess with the heads of the archeologists that might one day be messing with your bones you could chuck in some ancient arrow heads from all over the place.

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08/14/2012 9:37 AM

LOL... good call
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08/14/2012 10:03 AM

I put a sword and a handful of silver coins in with my Dad when he went to his eternal rest. Some of the other Knights of C. were mad that I would do that to an antique, but most approved.

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08/14/2012 5:34 AM

Some great modelling there
Really atmospheric
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