Yes!! my favorite hobby store back in the early 1970's! I remember all of the model planes hanging from the ceiling.

Can't remember when they finally removed the track from there but every time I drive by there I just smile.

What did I need to do to get one of those things? I had never seen a race track in a store before. There were people racing cars on a big track. When I went to the room, my eyes almost fell out of my head. We are walking around the store and I see a 'back room' and this weird noise coming from it. So one day my grandfather takes me there to buy a model. 12ish (circa 1964) and at that time Tiny Tots in Greenbrook, NJ, sold models, toys, etc., in addition to a section with kids furniture.

Remember it well and believe it or not the store is still there. I had moved on from the scale model cars, and now I was engineering suspension systems for real cars.Wow. So my wife Nan and I packed up, moved back to the Indianapolis area, and I took a job at Firestone Industrial Products. While it wasn't full scale racing, I was proud to have designed a range of successful 1/10th scale r/c and 1/24th scale slot cars that won national and world championships.Īfter a couple of years working at Parma in Cleveland, Ohio, it was time to move back to Indiana to be closer to my son and family. I became an engineer designing r/c cars and slot cars at Parma International. After graduating from Purdue, my r/c car hobby turned in to my first professional job. The technical aspects of racing, wether r/c cars or real cars, are what lead me to study Mechanical Engineering in college. I learned to enjoy the technical aspects of building the cars, as well as the competition on the track. We eventually became so involved, that my dad became part owner of a local high banked oval r/c track. Everything from fast and nimble 1/12 scale on road cars, to the large 1/4 scale cars. My dad and I got in to racing scale radio-controlled cars. As a teenager, I started racing myself, but on a smaller scale.

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