Slot Car Racing is taking hold all across America - and San Diego is no exception.
Since just last year (1965) an additional 10 Slot car tracks have popped up across the city.
In the telephone books HOBBY SECTION we now also have:
7. Hobby Stop Uptown with Slot Racing Supplies
8. South Clairemont Model Raceway
9. Sunset Cliffs Model Raceway
But there is also now a separate section in the telephone book called
SLOT CAR RACE COURSES, and here we see...
10. Allied Model Car Raceways on Waring Rd.
11. El Cajon Road Runner on East Main
12. Hobbies Unlimited on Euclid
13. Home Model Racing Center Opens with 2 huge tracks
14. International Raceway Center at the Armed Services YMCA
15. Le Mans Miniature has a track at 54th and University
16. Sunset Cliffs Model Raceway in the OB / Pt Loma area.
1966 Pacific Bell Yellow Pages
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I used to turn marshall at the South Clairemont Model Raceway starting in 1967 when I was 5 or 6. The owner paid me a grape soda (5 cents) and a brand new in the box Matchbox car (49 cents)for a full night of marshalling. My oldest brother Dennis raced - made his own copper tubing chassis, hard plastic body (black 63 Vette), skinny hard foam (or rubber?) tires.
ReplyDeleteI would have paid the owner to marshall - and I wish I still had those matchbox cars (or even just the boxes)...
Ty Brittain
"Daddy-O"
IKEA Speedway
Hello Daddy-O
Deletei race at all the tracks in san diego there where two tracks in
ReplyDeletepacific beach and lemon grove racway santee raceway miss some
tom cataldo