Some clever soul in New Zealand wired a 1:32 scale slot car with a video camera to record driver-view footage, thereby fulfilling the promise of our 1980 selves. Of course, we'd considered our dream ended after dad's steel-bodied Super 8 camera smashed one of our AFX car bodies into dust, killing the imaginary driver instantly. The video clip is more than 11MB, but the feelings of vertigo seemingly never end.

Camero Slot-Car Camera [Asciimation]

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