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[Rods2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530336/First-Scalextric-set-50-years-ago-given-inventors-grandchildren-Christmas-present.html

[Vamps]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530336/First-Scalextric-set-50-years-ago-given-inventors-grandchildren-Christmas-present.html

I remember those little bottles of oil...............

[AndyRoid]

That takes me back a bit.

My first Scalextric set allowed you to build either a figure 8 or oval track with a banked curve at one end, came with two F1 style cars (one of which wore the JPS livery), and a humungous (humungous to an 8 year old anyway) blue circular shaped transformer.

[Keith ABS]

  Still got mine. Boys bought me a new set four years ago, the top gear set. ford gt 40 and a porker. got loads of extras over the years
keith B

[Big_Al]

Strange how you can clearly remember odd things from your childhood . . .   

 I  was 8 when Mum & Dad got my brother & I our first Scalextric for xmas that year  (1964)

We had to share it as a main present as it  cost (& I can clearly remember this ) £4 19s 11p

When you consider Dad wages were about 12/15 quid a week then . . . it would have been a lot of money back then 

Seem to recall the cars supplied were a green BRM   & a red Porsche

[Varche]

My four memories.

A friends transformer without a plug. He poked the bare wires into the wall socket with a matchstick to hold them in!

Saving up to buy a right angle crossover piece.

Me and another mate building our own large 3D rallycross track from hardboard and silver foil

Melting wheelarches on my Bengt Söderström Lotus Cortina to take bigger wheels off a different car


Happy days. I guess now the equivalent is PS5 and a 100inch plasma screen playing Grand Theft Auto 9

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I would love one even today.

I had one in the sixties along with an informative booklet on how to build all the exotic racing circuits in Europe, such as Monza.

My set came withe the famous 'Dunlop tyre bridge' and a brace of 'Monte minis'........which, if memory serves, were red with a a white roof.

Dreary old Horny train sets were what  the nerds got off on, whilst the 'happening exciting kids' were lured by the glamour by scalextric.....  

[Varche]

I would love one even today.

I had one in the sixties along with an informative booklet on how to build all the exotic racing circuits in Europe, such as Monza.

My set came withe the famous 'Dunlop tyre bridge' and a brace of 'Monte minis'........which, if memory serves, were red with a a white roof.

Dreary old Horny train sets were what  the nerds got off on, whilst the 'happening exciting kids' were lured by the glamour by scalextric.....

We only had Hornby trains in Yorkshire. The mind boggles

Another friend had a minic motorway and train layout as well as a Scalextric and a wind up Train set. Anyone remember Minic? Very realistic but a bit tame compared with the larger Scalextrix. Probably a lot rarer too.

[Rods2]

My Scalextric track and cars are in the attic somewhere from I when I rescued them when my dad died many years ago. I used to build cars with custom motors, chassis made out of brass with lightweight very thin vacuum molded bodies, paint the inside and use a sheet of transfers to customise them further, and then finished off with alloy wheels fitted with sponge tyres, with high current controllers and they used to fly, you would lap a normal Scalextric car within 2 laps on a small circuit, less on a large circuit. These days if you were building these, I guess for realism, you would put them in a Red Bull livery. 

[SteveAvfc.]

Ha i got my very first Scalextric last Crimbo from my best mate and that was fifty years in the making. Wont let my kids play with it in case they break it, any ways its mine