On Sunday 16 August 2009 Brooklands historic race track, was the venue for a new slot car world record. An army of volunteers constructed a 2.75 mile race track around the original Brooklands race circuit using 20000 pieces of scalextric track. The world record was achieved by two slot cars completing the course in 2 hours.
The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors. When the barn was full, he padlocked and “soldered” the doors shut. (Perhaps welding was too permanent.) Web sites varied on the number of cars: 58, 100, and 180 were speculated. According to Morais, there are 180 cars in the barn. Cotter’s research indicates that the cars are probably located in an area near Lisbon, in Portugal. Thus, it seems that the …
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The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and…
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