H.O. Slot cars T-Jets

[tuffone20]

I just saw there was a place for model car racing and hope it's ok that I post my H.O. t-jet slot cars that I have painted & decaled. After all it is a forum of modeling And I hope this isn't too many photos all at once? Sit back and enjoy.... yep!! too many photos so I'll break in down...

[tuffone20]

Some more cars...

[tuffone20]

And one more set of cars.

[Zoom Zoom]

Those are awesome! Personally the T-Jets have been my favorite slot racers; they're detailed enough to look good, you can set up one heck of a great track w/o using your whole house, the cars are fast enough to be fun and drift through the corners and not be so fast you can't even see them. I have the really fast HO scale cars, and they're alright...but my favorites are my T-Jets. I've got a few 1/32 scale cars that I've used on a couple of friend's tracks, I just don't get the appeal of racing them...they are really too fast to have any real fun...they're constantly going off-track, you can only hold full throttle for a nanosecond at a time, they traverse a good size course in seconds...I'd rather just look at the car sitting on the shelf vs. bothering to run them. T-Jets have the fun factor that none of the big guys can manage.

It's great that there are so many cool optional wheels/tires/bodies/decals that you can get from the aftermarket for them.

Here's my favorite T-Jet, a resin AMX with optional Magnum 500's. Runs like a scalded cat, for a T-Jet The Johan kit was built by Paul Matthews, I detailed the AMX to match it:

[tuffone20]

Nice looking model & t-jet!! They are my favorite as well! And I like how you can hang them out and still keep them in the slot and they are not so fast that you can't see them and enjoy what they look like. I've raced everything from a Neo car down and t-jets to me are the most fun. I used to have a track in my garage at my old house and when I moved to the house I'm now in I couldn't do what I did at the other house and so I ended up selling my track. Here are a few photos of the track and a t-jet race I had.

[84vanagon]

WOW! Neat Marty!

Keep showing us more of those beauties!

I just purchased a '63 Tyco track (minus cars) to run mine on ("vintage stuff rules"!).

I never thought to post H.O. pics here. I have two Plano tackle boxes full of H.O. to bore y'all with. Most of them are "runners" as there were two tracks in D/FW that we RACED on. Both of them have closed down . An R/C place has acquired the tracks, and we're supposedly going to have commercial racing again!

The T-Jets and non-magnatraction A/FX are my faves.

[tuffone20]

Glad you like my cars! I'll try to post some more soon and lets see what you got. T-jets are what I like to race the most and we are hoping to get some t-jet racing going again here in Phoenix.

Thanks for looking.

[Danno]

Nice looking units, Marty! Wow! I have a hard enough time seeing 1/25 scale.

Keep us posted (pardon the pun) on your TJet racing. I don't know anything about the slot racing activity here in Phoenix, so I can't help you hook up with anyone, but I'll be interested in seeing what you find.

Good luck!

PS: See my post in response to your question about Phoenix model clubs! Come check us out!

[tuffone20]

Nice looking units, Marty! Wow! I have a hard enough time seeing 1/25 scale.

.Keep us posted (pardon the pun) on your TJet racing. I don't know anything about the slot racing activity here in Phoenix, so I can't help you hook up with anyone, but I'll be interested in seeing what you find.

Good luck!

PS: See my post in response to your question about Phoenix model clubs! Come check us out!

Danno, thanks, it gets hard to do some times but I enjoy racing cars that look good and like real race cars

We have 2 clubs that race slot cars and between the 2 there are about 8 or 9 tracks, and I'm trying to get the t-jet racing going

I saw it and will try and make it Saturday night.

Thanks