One of our club members used to have quite a time blowing up one of these cars for the kids. Andy C. played a trick on him by taping the tripping mechanism, so that it couldn’t blow up. The frustration level got quite high before he realised he was the object of the joke. It wasn’t long after that, that he quit with the blowing up of the car. Putting that car back together can get pretty old pretty quick.
When I was growing up, (seems like just yesterday, but was really a two or three years ago) my neighbor, Gary, had one of those Lionel missile launching cars with an “exploding” boxcar. Being boys, we increased the muzzle velocity of the launcher and could get a missile clear across the basement. We got pretty good at hitting a moving target, too, usually his sister… :lol:
If I get it it’ll probably blow up in shipping!Is there a warranty?