>>11369824>>11369826I forgot to post earlier:
Autoworld was an existing product line back in the 60s. They ofered mostly accessories/hop-up parts and were very popular, rivaling other brands like AJ's/Twinn-K. They went out of business in I think the very early 80s. The current Autoworld simply bought the rights to the name & logo, to sell repop Aurora chassis under with new bodies.Basically catering to nostalgia in a clever way, but it's not the same incarnation as far as I know.
Whoever told you their cars wouldn't run on Tyco track didn't know wtf they were talking about. There are variations between all brands of track (Tyco, Tomy, Life Like, Autoworld) most with rail height/spacing and slot depth, but the cars are all cross compatible with each other, and production mass produced plastic track from all brands is so varying in tolerance that even with one brand of car on the same brand of track, you have to tweak pick up shoes and such to get things to run right.
Oh, shit, no, wait...I know what they meant. Derp. Suddenly remembered: Aurora cars ran smaller tire diameters than the later inline magnet cars, and if you try to run an out of the pack Aurora car on Tyco or Tomy track, it'll drag. But that's always been accepted and you just order some $2 slip on silicone tires in a larger size and adjust the pickup shoes accordingly. At least, I assume that's what they meant.
Commercial HO raceways with the continuous rail, routed tracks usually run Tomy spec rail height and they all have Autoworld classes. Just one of those quirks.
Also, tomy/AFX/Racemasters track was already considered the best of the production plastic track ever, but here a few years ago they retooled to make it even better. So if you plan on building a layout, I'd definitely go with that. I know the AW track is physically compatible as far as joining it together but I have to assume it's lower rail eight.
Life Like cars were a weird story.
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