by Gerard Richards » Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:38 am
Thanks fella's for all your great personal memories from the legendary first great era of slot car racing. I knew there were quite a number of tracks sprinkled around Auckland, but wasn't aware there were so many during those fabulous times. Also great to hear about tracks that operated in other centres as well.
Oldfart mentioned a big track operating in Rotorua, which was interesting as I have a memory of visiting a track there in the mid 1980's when I was a travelling salesperson, which was still operating as a commercial venue. I wonder if this was the same one. It might have been the longest running commercial operation in the country.
However the owner of longest running honour remains the Henderson Miniture Motor Racing Club, which began in a Railway Building next to the tracks in Henderson in 1964, and continues to this day in the same location. I briefly raced some contemporary off the shelf slot cars there a couple of years ago.
Thanks Milan for the pictures of your Custaxie, which I remember seeing in the flesh many years ago on a visit to your wonderful collection of motor racing treasures. Its great to see a early surviving example of the NZ Slot Car racing industry still intact. I also still have a "Checkpoint" clear plastic body '69 Camaro car in Dennis Marwood colours from that era in my now abbrievated collection. I also have another early Kiwi relic, an "RSL Classic" 1964 Porsche 904GT, which was a fairly low grade entry sort of car, that I was given in 1970... A slot car expert tells me this was an Atlas chassis that was manufactured under licence in NZ.
It would seem that there was very little documented of this period of early NZ slot car racing, but it is certainly great to hear all intriquing memories of some fairly marginal operations
Thanks fella's for all your great personal memories from the legendary first great era of slot car racing. I knew there were quite a number of tracks sprinkled around Auckland, but wasn't aware there were so many during those fabulous times. Also great to hear about tracks that operated in other centres as well.
Oldfart mentioned a big track operating in Rotorua, which was interesting as I have a memory of visiting a track there in the mid 1980's when I was a travelling salesperson, which was still operating as a commercial venue. I wonder if this was the same one. It might have been the longest running commercial operation in the country.
However the owner of longest running honour remains the Henderson Miniture Motor Racing Club, which began in a Railway Building next to the tracks in Henderson in 1964, and continues to this day in the same location. I briefly raced some contemporary off the shelf slot cars there a couple of years ago.
Thanks Milan for the pictures of your Custaxie, which I remember seeing in the flesh many years ago on a visit to your wonderful collection of motor racing treasures. Its great to see a early surviving example of the NZ Slot Car racing industry still intact. I also still have a "Checkpoint" clear plastic body '69 Camaro car in Dennis Marwood colours from that era in my now abbrievated collection. I also have another early Kiwi relic, an "RSL Classic" 1964 Porsche 904GT, which was a fairly low grade entry sort of car, that I was given in 1970... A slot car expert tells me this was an Atlas chassis that was manufactured under licence in NZ.
It would seem that there was very little documented of this period of early NZ slot car racing, but it is certainly great to hear all intriquing memories of some fairly marginal operations