New Inward 1963, The Slot Automobile Natl Championships Was Broadcast On The This Evening Demo Amongst Johnny Carson, The Prize Was A '63 T-Bird Roadster, Given Away Past Times Stirling Moss To A 12 Twelvemonth Old

the Aurora Plastics Corporation of West Hempstead, N.Y., was a major histrion inward table-top racing of kids slot cars, in addition to kicked off the Ford-Aurora Grand National Model Motoring Championships.

Well, kids toys had all of a precipitous larn big trouble concern inward America... mini bikes, skates, conk carts, etc.

Anyway, kids from Rapid City Nebraska made the finals inward three, winning 2 of the v Ford-Aurora Grand National Model Motoring Championships function from 1962 through 1966.

the '62 finals were on the Today Show, won past times xv yr old, the prize was a T-bird. Sterling Moss was the race's honorary Grand Marshall.
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the '65 finals, taped inward Philadelphia were broadcast on the Mike Douglas Show., in addition to the prize was a Mustang, the winner was a 14-year former ninth-grader

Both the Mustang in addition to the Thunderbird convey been bought past times the 1 guy that appreciates their history equally contender prizes for a slot automobile national championship, Bob Beers, an avid slot automobile hobbyist, specializing inward Aurora HO cars.

He collects anything in addition to everything related to the hobby that he tin sack larn his hands on, in addition to is the writer of The Complete Color Guide to Aurora H.O. Slot Cars