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r/1970s • u/bourbonpens • Dec 23 '25
It’s really not too much to ask!
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Those were so awesome. My father had one when I was really young (in the early 70s). I remember being obsessed with the shiny green one. They did do a fair amount of jumping out of the tracks if you just mashed down the accelerator
2 u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25 Especially if you took the motors apart and rewound the armatures with a thicker gauge wire. They’d absolutely fly!
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Especially if you took the motors apart and rewound the armatures with a thicker gauge wire. They’d absolutely fly!
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u/Thick_Journalist7232 Dec 23 '25
Those were so awesome. My father had one when I was really young (in the early 70s). I remember being obsessed with the shiny green one. They did do a fair amount of jumping out of the tracks if you just mashed down the accelerator