Vintage Slot Cars
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760305668 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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No HOs In Any Area Code Philippe has not written the slot car version of the Gutenberg Bible I'll grant you, and you won't need a fork lift to unload the book when it arrives, as it's simply not as weighty a tome as apparently one or two reviewers would have liked. Me, I loved this compendium of the slot car phenomenon -- focused on the manufacturing luminaries of the craze in the 1960s heyday, many of whom were from Los Angeles. Several years ago I made a point to visit the buildings that once housed the various manufacturers in the Los Angeles basin just for fun It was amusing to walk into these places and ask if I could root around the . Greatly needed and much appreciated. goodoldmac Beautiful color photos are on almost every page of this book, covering the "golden age" of slot cars (roughly coinciding with the '60's)Those of us old enough to remember those glory days (never mind how old!)will drool over the shots of the Cox, KB, and Monogram cars (and probably bore to tears those around us with long speeches about how things were in the "good old days")The "backbone" of the home slot racer, Strombecker,is well represented here as its earlier British counterpart,Scalextric. The fact that remainders of the Cox inventory wound up in land-fills will bring tears to the eyes of many of usThe book is . A Customer said For the vintage reader. You probably had to have been there to have enjoyed this trip back to my junior and senior high school days.As I read the book my mind flashed back to the slot car magazines I read at the time. There is much historical information I didn't know or had long since forgotten. I didn't and still don't remember the author as such a major player in the industry. Constantly he interjects himself into the book, to the overall detriment of the subject.Having chapters for each manufacturer was one of the strong points of the book. Looking for models I owned, raced, or dreamed of owning and racing was one of the highlights of
With forewords by real-life racing greats Jim Hall and Dan Gurney, the author also discusses the short-lived world of professional slot-car racing, in which he was a participant.. With the help of dozens of great color photographs, this nostalgic history looks back at vehicles, tracks, packaging and racing memorabilia from such popular slot-car manufacturers as Aurora/AFX, Tyco, Scalectrix, Strombecker and Cox, as well as dozens of smaller toymakers. During the slot car industry's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, nearly every town had a commercial track where enthusiasts pitted their vehicles against one another in scale-sized motorsport showdowns. Among today's collectors of classic toys, slot cars rank right up there with toy trains in popularity