So, now we get a race car when there's not a racer minifigure picked.

@Brickbuilder0937 said:
"So, now we get a race car when there's not a racer minifigure picked."

Wouldn’t fit anyways. Unless you strap him to the top, like a luge.

Heeee this is just SUCH an adorable and charming vintage toy. I love this website.

@PurpleDave: Nah...I'd go more 'Skeleton Sled', you know; "Face your fears" (and the ice wall coming at you at 50+MPH:))

That trailer doesn't look like something I'd expect to see in a set from 1972.

Had these sets; this one and the plane and the caravan. Unfortunately the female part of the trailer connection was very prone to breaking. Intact female connectors are collectors items, as are the printed Legoland bricks and the printed headlight and grill bricks. Great little sets.

@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @Spritetoggle said:
"At this point, I'm starting to believe LEGO's fondness for "vehicle on trailer pulled by other vehicle" transcends even time and space. In all ways it is. In all ways it was. In all ways it shall be. An existence reaching beyond even LEGO, nay Humanity, itself.

I guess it wasn't a giant turtle we were riding on, after all."

well, that got existential quickly."

Just imagine: As it all began, fundamental particles would lead to atoms, some of which would eventually come to form the LEGO trailer sets we're all familiar with. In the cold, dead universe to come, those atoms will still have once been LEGO trailer sets. Should the universe collapse back in on itself, the universe that springs anew will be formed with energy that was once the matter comprising those same LEGO trailer sets. Perhaps there's even a little bit of a previous existence's LEGO trailer sets in all of us.

Love this set, amazingly I actually have this set too.

Some interesting SNOT activity going on at the back there, how was that assembled?

When you have to call a taxi because your pit crew's abandoned you.

@cm5878 said:
"Some interesting SNOT activity going on at the back there, how was that assembled? "

I believe the black plate was stuck in the underside of the plate above it.

Btw. This is also the set with the only miniwheel pieces in red.

I love how that kind of race car would have still been relevant vack in the day. Just as lego has evolved to the point where we get stuff from Speed Champions, so too did real life evolve to give us stuff fór Speed Champions.

And I had no idea those printed bricks had been used like that. I have a few. Maybe I secretly had some of these sets all along!

@Spritetoggle said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @Spritetoggle said:
"At this point, I'm starting to believe LEGO's fondness for "vehicle on trailer pulled by other vehicle" transcends even time and space. In all ways it is. In all ways it was. In all ways it shall be. An existence reaching beyond even LEGO, nay Humanity, itself.

I guess it wasn't a giant turtle we were riding on, after all."

well, that got existential quickly."

Just imagine: As it all began, fundamental particles would lead to atoms, some of which would eventually come to form the LEGO trailer sets we're all familiar with. In the cold, dead universe to come, those atoms will still have once been LEGO trailer sets. Should the universe collapse back in on itself, the universe that springs anew will be formed with energy that was once the matter comprising those same LEGO trailer sets. Perhaps there's even a little bit of a previous existence's LEGO trailer sets in all of us."

I'll have whatever he's drinking... just hold the LEGO trailer sets!

@Spritetoggle said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi said:
" @Spritetoggle said:
"At this point, I'm starting to believe LEGO's fondness for "vehicle on trailer pulled by other vehicle" transcends even time and space. In all ways it is. In all ways it was. In all ways it shall be. An existence reaching beyond even LEGO, nay Humanity, itself.

I guess it wasn't a giant turtle we were riding on, after all."

well, that got existential quickly."

Just imagine: As it all began, fundamental particles would lead to atoms, some of which would eventually come to form the LEGO trailer sets we're all familiar with. In the cold, dead universe to come, those atoms will still have once been LEGO trailer sets. Should the universe collapse back in on itself, the universe that springs anew will be formed with energy that was once the matter comprising those same LEGO trailer sets. Perhaps there's even a little bit of a previous existence's LEGO trailer sets in all of us."

I think someone has been watching a little too much Battlestar 2.0. Try the OG, it’s repetitive in a totally different way.

@Spritetoggle said:
"At this point, I'm starting to believe LEGO's fondness for "vehicle on trailer pulled by other vehicle" transcends even time and space. In all ways it is. In all ways it was. In all ways it shall be. An existence reaching beyond even LEGO, nay Humanity, itself.

I guess it wasn't a giant turtle we were riding on, after all."

Or it is, but the giant turtle is on a trailer being pulled by some other giant reptile. An alligator, perhaps.

I quite like it. Except, you can't get in on BrickLink now, or for the day past, since the site has been hacked/partially hacked, and it's been offline since yesterday evening.

Strange there's no mention of it on Brickset.

@brick_r said:
" @PurpleDave: Nah...I'd go more 'Skeleton Sled', you know; "Face your fears" (and the ice wall coming at you at 50+MPH:))"

Between the three sliding sports, luge is fastest, bobsled is next, and skeleton is slowest (and by “slowest”, I mean maxing out at around 81mph, instead of 96mph for luge). This is offset by the fact that you don’t have a giant sack of meat and bones to cushion your head’s impact against the wall. Then again, I can find reference to two luge fatalities, but nothing for skeleton.

@PurpleDave: I know of one of the fatalities you speak of: it happen at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC (technically Whistler, BC but VanCity grabbed the glory). I even remember seeing the footage once, before the news and sport outlets censored it...freaky is the only way to have described it...:|

I also forgot to say: I really liked that trailer design, it was simple, fit most of the cars and trucks of the time-period (ah, pre-'bloat':)); and yes, I know it wouldn't work 'now'; but still...:)

@brick_r:
Seems there have been at least three. The 2010 Olympics incident is the one most people have heard of, but the first one was at the 1964 Olympics, and the second was at the 1969 World Luge Championships. What I’ve read about the 2010 incident is that there was nothing wrong with the sled, and the track was designed properly for the projected speeds, but it ran faster than anyone expected. That’s a track where they were pushing 96mph. Faster speeds resulted in the one competitor’s luge actually losing contact with the track in the last pair of turns, which means total loss of control, and there was no way to avoid being ejected from the track.

Short term, they moved the men’s start to the women’s start, and created a new women’s start further downslope. Long term, I hope they added some sort of barrier to keep anyone from being able to go over the wall in the lower sections of track. Unless the old men’s start has been completely removed, you know someone will eventually try to use it again.