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Things you don't see anymore

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Schlitz was a top tier beer once upon a time.
When guys would make road trips west to load up on as many cases of original Coors as they could fit in their cars and bring home because you couldn't buy it in the eastern half of the country.
 
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EricF said:
Awesome! My father was a designer at Mattel in the early 70's when these things were around. I remember having a box box full of Sizzlers tracks.
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I took many a butt whoopin with a piece of this track. It hurt your parents feet when they stepped on it and made for a convient switch to punish the guilty. I'll never forget the sound of that light flexable "ORANGE" racetrack slicing thru the air on its way to putting a sting accross my backside.

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TechZilla said:
I took many a butt whoopin with a piece of this track. It hurt your parents feet when they stepped on it and made for a convient switch to punish the guilty. I'll never forget the sound of that light flexable "ORANGE" racetrack slicing thru the air on its way to putting a sting accross my backside.

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HaHa! Me too! I guess another thing you don't see much anymore is kids getting their backside whooped.
 
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I delivered tv's and home appliances through high school and into my early 20's. I've moved many a console tv. Most of them were dead and were being replaced with newer style sets. After many many requests my boss was finally able to find that RCA still made console tv's ( in the late 90s!). Lawdy those things were heavy. I preferred delivering a fridge over those monsters.

And anyone else remember those 75 ohm flat wire to coax tv adaptors for your over the air broadcasts?
 
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warwick.hoy said:
I don't remember what they were called,...but they were a short lived toy in the 90's. Like a slot car in 1/24 scale except they were battery powered and not really intended to be replicas of real cars. You could change out the tires on the cars and swap out faster electric motors. The track consisted of a two lane, soft plastic, high walled "chute" and at some point in the circuit there was a crossover where you ran the risk of crashing with your "opponents" car.

Anyone remember these? What where they called?

Also: Toy guns that actually looked like real guns,...except for the orange tip.
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That sounds similar to "Motoriffic" cars, more like 1/32 scale, although I remember them to be more from the 60's, with interchangeable bodies, and modelled after real cars, IIRC. (so maybe NOT the same thing). I had a bunch of those, no tracks though, which was the beauty of these, unlike slot cars, you didn't need the tracks to run them. They aso had a series of boats that were a similar concept, called "Boateriffic".
And in my day, the guns looked like real guns and had NO orange tips whatsoever. You could get cap guns made from metal that were as real looking as you could get. I once had a metal copy of a WW II German Luger that If I'd have pointed it at a cop, I would have been shot dead.
 
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