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eBay I am selling my huge 1960’s Aurora Model Motoring Thunderjet 500 slot car track and cars. Started out as a simple figure 8 for my birthday about 52 years ago and over the years and on into into high school it grew into a huge track and 34 original Thunderjet cars plus some from Auto World and Tyco. The track grew off the top of a dining room table down the wall to a 180 degree banked turn, a scale mile long back straight then back up onto the table covering maybe 50 square feet. It was so large I had to use a transformer on each lane or the cars slowed on that back straight. We used that back straight for the A/FX long dragsters that couldn’t do corners.Most of my cars are typical and an inventory them follows, the very special ones are being sold separately, I hope you will take a look at them, too. I am 67 now and ran these with my two sons then a little bit with my grandchildren. The cars still run, I have polished the pickups and armature plates on most of them and cleaned the brushes in the pancake motors. Why? I guess I still care about them and take a little pride in them as I did 52 years ago. I’d like somebody to take over for me and keep them going and enjoy them as I did. I have nobody to race with anymore.Various bits of the track have been cleaned over the years to make up small setups at Christmas and whatever but most of it could use the Pink Pearl Eraser cleanup or whatever the current slot car people do to clean tracks and the track rails. Most all of it is in good shape and I have a lot of the “special” tracks, even the side service road exit-with it’s instructions!. I even have the HO scale railroad crossing to combine both hobbies into one layout. Please take a look at the pictures and my inventory. I am happy to answer questions or send more pictures.There are 26 original TJet cars included, two Auto World (pancake motors like TJets), one built TJet chassis, three A/FX bodies, four complete A/FX cars, one Tyco 1906 Corvette, and two A/FX incomplete cars.TRACK INVENTORY:There is enough track here for many different layouts. Assemble and disassemble to your likes. Playroom, man cave, she shed,-get it on!-180 degree banked curve set, small piece broken out of one corner piece but works fine still and would be a fairly easy repair. 4 corner pieces and two 9” straight pieces total kit-2 spiral curve supports, various trestle supports and bridge beams, vintage 1963-1969.-one split Y-track 18”, really two 9” pieces.-three transformers: an A/FX 13.6vdc small orange one with two pistol speed controls and two original Thunderjet 500 20vdc with a thumb speed control each.-four 9” hill sections, kind of like Steve McQueen in Bullit!-one 9” bump track-one regular corner lane cross over-one 9” straight lane cross over-one service road turn off kit with paperwork. Two halves add up to 9”. Two single lane pieces.-one 9” straight start track with burns out rollers and start release.-one 9” straight lap counter.-one 9” straight squeeze lane track-one 9” wiggle straight-one HO train railroad crossing -one 9” straight double lane cross-three 9” straight cobblestone Indy brickyard track-three 6” straight track-thirteen 7” straight track-Seventeen 9” straight tracks, one with damage-two 15” straight track-four half radius curves-thirty nine full radius curve track.-a whole bunch of guard rail-a big bag of track section connectorsI am enclosing the layout diagram of my full set just for fun PUBLICATIONS: Original Stirling Moss HO Model Motoring Service manual from original figure 8. -Auto World Thunderjet 500 Speed Secrets booklet, from the late 60’s.-Water damaged “HO Model Racing “ produced by the staff and editors of Car Model magazine form the 60”s. Missing cover.-Aurora model Motoring Service Manual form the 60’s Instruction paperwork form the Model Motoring service road turn off.CARS: Non ThunderjetAll track worthy unless noted.-A/FX Bronco-body and incomplete motor-A/FX police car with alternating top lights-A/FX #7 Superbird with incomplete motor-A/FX Roaring Rolls-Tyco 1960 Corvette with original hood scoop-A/FX Dodge panel van-Auto World 1957 Studebaker Hawk, Has pancake motor like a TJet.-A/FX Ferrari 512M Body #2 dated 1974-A/FX Porsche Racer #2 dated 1973. No tires, motor missing top gear and clip.-Auto world 1970 Barracuda Has pancake motor like a TJetTHUNDERJET 500 CARS:all are running, most have had the motors cleaned, armature plates polished, pickups polished, motor brushes cleaned. magnets checked. Most all have 1960’s Auto World slicks in back. The wheel wells are mildly trimmed except as noted. Mods like paint and decals are noted.-1969 yellow Chevelle No tire or wheel well mods!-1969 El Camino. No surfboards. No wheel well mods!-Green Cheetah-Ferrari GTO 250 top cut off, hand painted-red Ferrari GTO 250 no tire or wheel well mods!-1969 Camero pale yellow No wheel well mods!-1969 Camero turquoise number decals-Ford Galaxie 500 hand painted dark blue-Shelby Cobra Daytona ,decal numbered 007-Red Lola GT painted, striped, and numbered-Ford model J Partially painted and numbered-Jaguar XKE painted pink (sorry for that!)-Green ’41 willys drag coupe numbered-1969 “wild Ones” Cougar white red stripe #3-Chapparal 2F no wing-1966 Volkswagen Bug. Decaled like Herbie the Love Bug-1969 Ford GT turquoise decal numbers-1969 Ragtop GTO Orange Chevrolet Corvette Mako Shark green, back deck painted red-1965 Red Mustang front cut into gasser style, striped-1963 red Riviera, No wheel well mods!-1969 white Charger-1963 split window Corvette hand painted and some front wheel well mod-1960’s Toronado, hand painted gold, missing rear bumper.-1966 Mustang Fastback ‘Hot Ones” #7. No wheel well mods!-one complete Jet motor and chassisPARTS:18 Pairs of magnets, many pickups, pick up springs, motor brushes, armatures both A/FX and Jet, gears, chassis, wheels, hubs, tires, axles. 2/3 bottle of TJet oil-a little thick after 52 years!Shipping: It's just a UPS based guess. I don't know exactly what the box will cube, it hasn't been packed yet so I don't know what the actual weight will be after I carefully pack it. Weight of the item is about 40 pounds. If it is over $65 I will eat it. I prefer not to ship out of North America due to the complexity and addition cost. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

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