Compatibilities: HO Scale Slot + Slotless Vehicle Products

among various manufacturers and their products.

H.O. Slot + Slotless Compatibilities
_____Vehicle to Track Compatibilities_____
The first condition is easy: Slot cars don't work on Slotless tracks and Slotless cars don't work on slot tracks. The exception to this rule is Aurora Screechers Magna-Steering cars, which are slot cars without a guide pin. They use magnets on the pick-up shoes to steer the car around curves. These cars will not make it through a Thunderjet wiggle track, no matter how slow you go. But they will work on slot or slotless tracks. The second condition is also simple: Matchbox cars and tracks only work with Matchbox cars and tracks. Matchbox used a narrower standard for their power rails so other brands of cars do not work on their tracks, without changing pickup shoes to reach in closer toward the slot. Inversely, their cars need shoes that extend outward from the slot to reach the rails of other brands of track. The third condition is: Tyco X-treme slot cars work only on Tyco X-Treme tracks. These cars and tracks are designed with a T groove rather than a pin slot. The chassis can be modified to accept a guide pin and be used on standard slot track. The fourth condition applies to one piece of track made by Aurora Thunderjet and is: the blow-out track. The Blow-Out track will jam when multiple guidepin vehicles such as AFX Semis or Tyco Turbo Trains are used on it. It will also jam if the same lane is tripped three times in a row without the other lane being tripped. The fifth condition applies to Aurora AFX Specialty Dragsters and Aurora AFX Magna-Traction Specialty Dragsters. Aurora AFX Specialty Dragsters and Aurora AFX Magna-Traction Specialty Dragsters are only good for straight line racing. They do not make loops, banks, hills, humps, wall crawls, inversions, hairpins, or even common curves with a guardrail. The sixth condition applies to Ideal TCR Slot cars. Ideal TCR Slot cars come with a wider than standard guide pin which needs to be modified or replaced to be used on other brands of tracks. The remainder of Car to Track compatibility is probably easier to explain and understand by the specialty tracks made by various manufacturers that limit the use of some brands and/or models of vehicles. These limitations apply to stock vehicles, most vehicles can be modified or altered to make these limitations less applicable.
Car to Track Compatibilities Legend
	Likely			Possibly			Unlikely
Amrac	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Winged
M1
Atlas	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Worm Drive
Aurora	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Vibrator
Thunderjet
Thunder bike
Bushwhacker Snowmobile
Screeechers Magna-Steer
Screeechers
Super II
AFX
AFX Specialty
AFX Magna-Traction
AFX Specialty Magna-Traction
AFX Lighted Overheads
AFX Big Rigs
AFX SP-1000
AFX Super Magna-Traction
AFX Cat's Eyes
AFX Speed-Shifters
AFX Blazin' Brakes
G-Plus
Super G Plus
Tomy Turbo
Tomy Super G Plus
Tomy Mega G Plus
Auto World	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
T-Jet
X-Traction
X-Traction Flame-Thrower
T-Jet Ultra G
X-Traction Ultra G
4 Gear Dual Ultra G
iWheels
iWheels Flame-Thrower
Super III
Bachmann	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Bachmann
Darda	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Darda
Eldon	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Eldon
Faller	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Faller
Hornby	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Hornby
Ideal	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
TCR
Johnny Lightning	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
T-Jet
X-Traction
Life-Like	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
M1
Fast Tracker
Lionel	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Lionel
Marchon	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
MR1
Sky Fighters
Monster Trucks
Marx	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Marx
Matchbox	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Matchbox
Mattel	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
440 Electric Hot Wheels
440 X2 Electric Hot Wheels
X-Treme Moto
Harry Potter
Model Motoring	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Model Motoring
Rasant	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Rasant
Rokar	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Rokar
M1
Rotafast	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
Rotafast
Tyco	Hills	Humps	Hairpins	Banks	Loops	Wallcrawl	Inversions	Grade
S
S Steering
TycoPro
HP-2 Curve Huggers
U-Turn
HP-7
Motorcycles
440 Cliff Hanger
440-X2 Super Cliff Hanger
US1 Electric Trucking
Turbo Hopper
Quad Hopper
Turbo Train
Fast Traxx
X-Treme