[Arthur]

Courtesy of Austin – a fellow hobbyist:

Are there any Beatles fans out there? Must be one or two; gotta be!

What do the Beatles have to do with slot racing, anyway?

Well, I was surprised to come across this photo (and others), while searching a completely different topic.

It seems that not only Elvis, but the Beatles were also addicted to slot racing.

According to his biographer, John’s attic was entirely devoted to his model racing track. A Scalextric set accompanied the Beatles on their 1964 British tour and was always set up backstage. They also set it up in some of their hotels during other tours.

Looks like there are more addicts out there than we knew about!

The Happy Canadian Scale Modeler!

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[f1nutz]

I’ve seen other pics of them but not this particular pic.

[Porsche911]

Funny, I vicariously came across this exact pic the other day. I also have seen one(thought I’d saved it) of Keef with his son Marlon, AFX set in hotel room…..

[Porsche911]

Got it! Believe from T.O 77

 

[Ken]

Thanks for the fun fact! Looks like they didn’t really have “a hard, days night” after all. We now know what they were doing when they should have been “sleeping like a log”.

Cheers,

Ken

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