Dangerous toys and 1950's vs 1990's kids.

Great thimble drome style car building shop. I made many 1/32 and 1/24the retro slot cars but nothing like this. Note the extreme risk to kids at car level whizzing around at 60mph! The Bevis clip is a good comparison of the info age vs the do it yourself age of popular mechanics. I have 100's of the pulps the best reading kids can have.

[@brianclamp4237]

And we lived to tell the tale. With a sense of adventure.

[@ToyKingWonder]

I love that clip, I have seen it before. The guy is not only making cars, HE MAKES HIS OWN TIRES! That is too cool.
You can still buy cars like this today, new. For fun, I bought an old Cox Shrike, which is a wheeled tether car with a prop on the back. I restored it, made my own tether, really not knowing what I was doing at all. Amazingly, it worked! It has a Cox Black Widow engine on it, and I put it on a 20 foot string. It is so fast the frame rate of the camera could not keep up!

[@garygullikson6349]

I always get a kick out of narrator's voices on these old newsreels about model stuff, they all sounded Gabriel Heater, (showing my age)

[@gmc6790]

5lbs @ .25HP. Not bad power to weight ratio.

[@JBofBrisbane]

Brisbane had a track for racing tethered cars, in Kalinga Park. It was a concrete ring, with a low catch fence inside a taller fence to keep the kids well and truly outside. Cars regularly reached speeds over 150 MPH. Sadly, only a few years ago the Airport Link Tunnel construction has obliterated this track, and the only one left in Australia is at Luddenham, west of Sydney.

[@ivanviharev292]

А где можно скачать чертежи таких моделей ????

[@kidsii]

It's interesting how safety in toys has progressed from the fifties. In what other ways, besides spoken of in this video, have toys become safer?