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Now that is SUPER cool!
wow, great... beats my RC slot cars. 
Both aspects of that are great for display, but neither one is much for usage. It's interesting, but if I were going to do a dual purpose set up such as that, I would need at least a Mack truck.
That track is just too small to be fun.
$205K. Truly wasted money.
Compared to the hot wheels set I had as a kid, this thing is impressive. Wonder what it cost to build?
You can spend that on a few bottles of collectible wine so .....
@WNGD posted:You can spend that on a few bottles of collectible wine so .....
Maybe you can. Not this kid.
@Stan Galat posted:Maybe you can. Not this kid.
The point is people with money can choose whatever weird hobby it is to blow their money on
@WNGD posted:The point is people with money can choose whatever weird hobby it is to blow their money on
100%. Everything is relative. 20 y/o me would choke pretty hard on this clown-car waste of time and money.
59 y/o me wouldn’t change a thing.
That looks like the seller is "The Bond Group", a used classic car dealer in Waltham, Mass. I seem to remember hearing about a track like that when I was part of the New England 356 club, but I never really saw it. Trust me - There is a LOT of disposable income in Metro-West Boston, where Waltham is, and dropping that much for a novelty in your car collection wouldn't surprise me around here.
We're getting into "Cah Show Season" where people show up with their rare exotic cars at specific Cars and Coffee events to be seen (they usually don't care to see other people's cars). They sometimes know the pedigree of their car (and what makes it expensive) but can't really talk much about what's in it. After all, it's just an investment for them. Like the guy who showed up for a "Porsche Day" event in a made-in-Holland Spyker. Nice car, but he was turned away.
It is a most impressive slot car track, but not $205K impressive. Not even if the track was 4X bigger. But then, that would make it a really big 917!
Actually some budgets are way out there…. But. It needs a Quickjackusa to lift it up so you can play with the slot cars .
As cool as this is, if I were to walk into that room to see a 917, I'd be pretty disappointed to find out what it really is.