Damn you, Craigslist....! (slot cars)

Damn you to Hell!!!!!

http://columbiamo.craigslist.org/tag/5798993130.html

No prices? $$$$$

I saw several that I had, as a youngling.

Sigh, one of these days I'll get my HO slots back up and running. I love running the old AFX cars.

Dude, some of those cars are worth $$$$!!! Go buy them! I'd buy almost all of them from you!!

Oh my. If this were closer I'd be in trouble.

We had some of those (and a few he doesn't have) But they don't look like that anymore AFTER PLAYING WITH THEM!

Why do people buy toys and not play with them? We collected AFX tracks from people just to make the longest track we could on an 4x8 table my dad made for us as kids. It took quite a while to get around, and required two power sources- one for each lane. Awesome.

Wore through so many of the strips, since there were gaps. I had ideas to make it all smooth, but that never happened.

Now it takes a long time to get the oxidation off the surface.

Javelin wrote: Dude, some of those cars are worth $$$$!!! Go buy them! I'd buy almost all of them from you!!

I note that the seller is an 'antique' dealer... they may or may not have an idea of their value, one way or the other but they are likely to not be bargains.

I had this set. Wish I still did.

Electric Trucking was the all time best.

^There is a set for sale on eBay.

mattmacklind wrote: I had this set. Wish I still did.

My older brother had that set. It was awesome

We had these in my neighborhood.

In reply to vwcorvette:

I had a TCR set as well. The figure 8 version with a 4-lane cross-over section. I still have some of it in my attic, but the cars are long destroyed. I was really too young for it and my father should have gotten me standard slot cars. I was never able to get the slot-less cars to work very well, although I've been told it wasn't easy for older kids either.

Some of the cars in the OP look like vintage T-Jets and are probably worth some decent coin. The Tyco and AFX cars, probably not.

I remember that trucking set too. Wanted it so badly.

My senior year in college my two roommates and I all dragged our slot car stuff back after college and set them up in the huge kitchen/dining room in our house. Probably 30' of track, a loop plus the u-turn up the wall. Much studying did not take place for at least a week!