Tyco Chaparrals

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Needless to say growing up in a working class family with (8) kids disposable income was very difficult to come by. So when I got my first slot car set I was hooked. I’ll never forget the smell of overheated slot cars on a Christmas day from having been run for hours. I’ve been in love with slot cars ever since.


I only had a hand full of cars growing up so when I got out on my own I began collecting all the cars I lusted after as a child/teenager. AFX, Tyco and Tomy are the focus of my collection.

Tyco was late to the game, Aurora being the dominate manufacturer at the time. So to gain attention they upped the detail level when they introduced their Tyco Pro series.

Here is my Tyco Chaparral collection:


Chaparral 2D:



Chaparral 2G:




Chaparral 2J:

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Nice Chaparral collection. I also recall the smell of overheated slot cars. I bought a Strombecker slot car set with paper route bonus money one Christmas sometime in the 1960s. We have a toaster that produces a very similar odor and causes the dog to freak out.

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Great collection JC. I love these kinds of things. When I was in the 9th Grade there was a barber in my home town named Felix Schuey. I didn't know much about him other than he was a pretty "hip" guy, older silver/white hair We would have basketball practice Saturdays about a block and a half away. so in the morning dad drove me, my towel, some clean undies and trusty gym bag to practice! after practice and a shower (soaking wet hair, who cared if it was winter) a few of us would gather up our gear and head to Schuey's. Into the front door, past the barber chairs and stations, on the other side of the 2 pool tables, stood a scale mile oval H.O. track. In the Shop window Felix had displayed different sized pinion and drive gears (most Aurora, a few "exotic" Tyco's managed to show up) there he had on display cards with the gear sets, the contacts, and some bodies, oil, guide pins aluminum or brass... but, he also carried A.J. racing slicks! you weren't nothing without a set of A.J.s on your ride! I'm thinking at the time they were just under a buck, but that was big money for us. not to mention the cost of a new body. Man those were fun days yelling and screaming and getting all lathered up smelling the ozone as your car near burned up running those long straightaways with improper gearing. Every once in a while on a slow day Felix would bring his cars out and just paste us all into the styrene pavement of the track we would leave dejected and forlorn only to walk around the corner and up the street to either the State theater or across the street to the Columbia theater (rat's and all old wives tale the Columbia was soon to close because of age) for the Saturday Matinee, special times.....great memories thanks J.C..

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Wow a dedicated track Bill - how cool would that be!  Growing up in small rural town we could only dream about such things.  No hobby shop within miles either so hop up parts where non existent, that is until I discovered Auto World!  Here are two with some AJ aluminum rims and silicon slicks.