31 thoughts on “Who remembers doing that and having fun?”
I used that track with my Sizzlers, they’d go all ever the room.
I loved those things.
I used them with my Lionel train set. It made for a cool city on a ping-pong table.
I used to let my Sizzlers loose in our bath tub. Talk about fun. Remember SSP’s ? Now those were badd ass. Ohhh… the memories.
Got my ass beat with one of those SSP zip cords too. Almost got to the point where I didn’t want any toys for Christmas or birthdays.
Damn. I hope yer doin’ better in life, heh heh. It’s all good brother. “This is gonna hurt me more than it hurt;s you”. Yeah, I never believed that. Take care man.
Sizzlers in the bathtub?
Now I need a time machine to tell myself to do that.
Sounds fricking awesome.
Shove a cat in there for maximum enjoyment.
Those where the days.
Damn skippy! And before we got the second hand box of track, we used old rain gutters and random pipes as tracks…those were the days.
My favorite car was the solid orange station wagon.
We were so poor that we just rolled rocks down a hillside…..
Bwahahahahahahahahaha innerwebz comment of the day Tam.
How high was that launch ramp?
Yeah, I had a small collection of red tired Hot Wheels and Johnny Lightning cars. Had the battery powered – levered operated ‘car pusher’ with foam tires that propelled the cars around the track. When the lever was properly tuned, the cars just operated for quite a few laps until something caused the car to fly off track. Orange track – purple tabs to connect them – I remember those years well.
I was going to post the same details. I also remember the plastic C-clamp you put on a shelf or a chair’s back to attach the track to as the start hill.
Bought several modern sets for the grandson, and (what a surprise) they’ve screwed it up. Sets that only go together one way (no imagination/creative opportunities so they get bored with it), two different track connectors (incompatible with each other and neither of which work as well as the old ones), and the cars bend their axles too easy which makes them not roll worth a darn.
Same here
I remember my ass getting whupped by a stretch of that track…
Only one? Try several grouped together…
Mom used that tactic. I would have rather had the belt.
We experimented with the height and length of the ramp to get the best speed-to-stay-on-the-track ratio. You know, like the firecracker to height of the tin can ratio. The ratio is 3 BlackCat firecrackers to a 303 tin can. 4 wasn’t much of a gain, and 2 was ho-hum.
Judy, you woke up some of my memory brain cells with that. Thank you
My favorite was the Mongoose dragster.
I used to build a maze of Hot Wheel track in my bedroom before it ran down the hall into the living room. I had two of the battery operated “Boost stations” that would shoot the cars out at what seemed to be 50 MPH. I’d work it out so that the cars would JUST top a chair or ottoman and then roll down it, whip around a corner and head back into my room. Of course, it all had to be taken down and packed away before Dad got home. If I didn’t it would have been the last time I’d see a length of Hot Wheel track except for the one he’d use to whip my ass. Had a LOT of fun with those cars.
Even now I can close my eyes and hear the sound those boost boxes made and the smell the little motors gave off.
Yes to all the above. Kept my track and cars looong after I had outgrown them but they were well loved by younger relatives both boys and girls.
My son, now 29, liked playing with the re-issues of them when he was young.
“What do you want for your birthday?” MORE TRACK
Support was the worst. Hard to beat the dip and flip on spans.
As kids we prefered slot car drag racing. We even did flame burn-outs with zippo lightet fluid.
Did you stick em in the freezer to cool them off as well, hope not it ruins them
I know this is off topic but did anybody else here ever cut the forks off a junk bike and add then beat them onto another one to make a chopper ? Glory days I tell ya.
Oh yeah.
Banana bikes for the win!
We had it so good…
Amen, our kids and grandkids will never understand
Still have most of my GI joe stuff
Yes, we did. Out the door at daylight, home for lunch, gone again until supper time, then back out the door until the street lights came on. The garage was our playground when it was raining and cold, because Mom didn’t want us soaked. And Dad’s hand tools were fair game for whatever we were building or ‘fixing’, except for Dad’s government tool box that had some kind of funky looking padlock on it with a weird looking key.
I used that track with my Sizzlers, they’d go all ever the room.
I loved those things.
I used them with my Lionel train set. It made for a cool city on a ping-pong table.
I used to let my Sizzlers loose in our bath tub. Talk about fun. Remember SSP’s ? Now those were badd ass. Ohhh… the memories.
Got my ass beat with one of those SSP zip cords too. Almost got to the point where I didn’t want any toys for Christmas or birthdays.
Damn. I hope yer doin’ better in life, heh heh. It’s all good brother. “This is gonna hurt me more than it hurt;s you”. Yeah, I never believed that. Take care man.
Sizzlers in the bathtub?
Now I need a time machine to tell myself to do that.
Sounds fricking awesome.
Shove a cat in there for maximum enjoyment.
Those where the days.
Damn skippy! And before we got the second hand box of track, we used old rain gutters and random pipes as tracks…those were the days.
My favorite car was the solid orange station wagon.
We were so poor that we just rolled rocks down a hillside…..
Bwahahahahahahahahaha innerwebz comment of the day Tam.
How high was that launch ramp?
Yeah, I had a small collection of red tired Hot Wheels and Johnny Lightning cars. Had the battery powered – levered operated ‘car pusher’ with foam tires that propelled the cars around the track. When the lever was properly tuned, the cars just operated for quite a few laps until something caused the car to fly off track. Orange track – purple tabs to connect them – I remember those years well.
I was going to post the same details. I also remember the plastic C-clamp you put on a shelf or a chair’s back to attach the track to as the start hill.
Bought several modern sets for the grandson, and (what a surprise) they’ve screwed it up. Sets that only go together one way (no imagination/creative opportunities so they get bored with it), two different track connectors (incompatible with each other and neither of which work as well as the old ones), and the cars bend their axles too easy which makes them not roll worth a darn.
Same here
I remember my ass getting whupped by a stretch of that track…
Only one? Try several grouped together…
Mom used that tactic. I would have rather had the belt.
We experimented with the height and length of the ramp to get the best speed-to-stay-on-the-track ratio. You know, like the firecracker to height of the tin can ratio. The ratio is 3 BlackCat firecrackers to a 303 tin can. 4 wasn’t much of a gain, and 2 was ho-hum.
Judy, you woke up some of my memory brain cells with that. Thank you
My favorite was the Mongoose dragster.
I used to build a maze of Hot Wheel track in my bedroom before it ran down the hall into the living room. I had two of the battery operated “Boost stations” that would shoot the cars out at what seemed to be 50 MPH. I’d work it out so that the cars would JUST top a chair or ottoman and then roll down it, whip around a corner and head back into my room. Of course, it all had to be taken down and packed away before Dad got home. If I didn’t it would have been the last time I’d see a length of Hot Wheel track except for the one he’d use to whip my ass. Had a LOT of fun with those cars.
Even now I can close my eyes and hear the sound those boost boxes made and the smell the little motors gave off.
Yes to all the above. Kept my track and cars looong after I had outgrown them but they were well loved by younger relatives both boys and girls.
My son, now 29, liked playing with the re-issues of them when he was young.
“What do you want for your birthday?” MORE TRACK
Support was the worst. Hard to beat the dip and flip on spans.
As kids we prefered slot car drag racing. We even did flame burn-outs with zippo lightet fluid.
Did you stick em in the freezer to cool them off as well, hope not it ruins them
I know this is off topic but did anybody else here ever cut the forks off a junk bike and add then beat them onto another one to make a chopper ? Glory days I tell ya.
Oh yeah.
Banana bikes for the win!
We had it so good…
Amen, our kids and grandkids will never understand
Still have most of my GI joe stuff
Yes, we did. Out the door at daylight, home for lunch, gone again until supper time, then back out the door until the street lights came on. The garage was our playground when it was raining and cold, because Mom didn’t want us soaked. And Dad’s hand tools were fair game for whatever we were building or ‘fixing’, except for Dad’s government tool box that had some kind of funky looking padlock on it with a weird looking key.