For about a year of my life slot car racing was really big. I would play at my house on a smaller scale with my Tyco track and I would do HO scale racing on weekend at a friends house. We would have marathon races of 400+ laps and I would inevitably lost my patience and gun it on the wrong corner and fly off the track. Great memories.
I had tried to find Tomy or Tyco tracks for my son but Santa brought a 1/43 scale SCX track.
Something about the old Tycos, whether it was a baja track, a slinky section or a TransAm jump were special. Something the big tracks don’t have.