Andy and I went along to Swindon Oasis last weekend for the annual Scalextric Swapmeet.
It's at least the fifth time we've been but this was the first time we've been stall holders. We paid to share a table where we attempted to thin out our car collections and raise a bit of cash. It was a good day as lots of people want to have a chat about your cars, and fortunately some of them want to buy them too. I still came home with most of what I took along but I sold enough to make the day extremely worthwhile, and I learned a lot from Andy, the master salesman, who pretty much cleared his stock. Keen to do this again next year.
I didn't spend much - a couple of chassis for future projects, a Maserati for spares, and a couple of Nissan 350Z cars with 360 degree drift guides. They were only £3 each and I soon discovered why - they didn't work. But it was only that the diodes had blown in the circuit rectifiers (which allow you to place the car in any direction and it always drives forwards) so I just bypassed them, and all was fine (although now you have to ensure the guide is the right way round before racing). The 350Zs can swing around at corners and drive away in the opposite direction, clearly useless for racing laps but a lot of fun just to mess around with. I also bought another Chase Cars bodyshell as a future project - watch this space.
Stuart visited today for another boys' day of racing and FIFA. The racing was very close and "assertive" - as summed up well by this photo of the finish line:
It's at least the fifth time we've been but this was the first time we've been stall holders. We paid to share a table where we attempted to thin out our car collections and raise a bit of cash. It was a good day as lots of people want to have a chat about your cars, and fortunately some of them want to buy them too. I still came home with most of what I took along but I sold enough to make the day extremely worthwhile, and I learned a lot from Andy, the master salesman, who pretty much cleared his stock. Keen to do this again next year.
I didn't spend much - a couple of chassis for future projects, a Maserati for spares, and a couple of Nissan 350Z cars with 360 degree drift guides. They were only £3 each and I soon discovered why - they didn't work. But it was only that the diodes had blown in the circuit rectifiers (which allow you to place the car in any direction and it always drives forwards) so I just bypassed them, and all was fine (although now you have to ensure the guide is the right way round before racing). The 350Zs can swing around at corners and drive away in the opposite direction, clearly useless for racing laps but a lot of fun just to mess around with. I also bought another Chase Cars bodyshell as a future project - watch this space.
Stuart visited today for another boys' day of racing and FIFA. The racing was very close and "assertive" - as summed up well by this photo of the finish line:
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