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Aurora AFX Ghost Racer

Aurora proclaimed that its slot-car sets offered, “The closest thing to real racing!” And that tagline rang true for many children and adults who reveled in competing against one another with HO-scale slot cars in the hobby’s heyday of the 1960s and 1970s.

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