Last spring we were privileged to be able to see two photo albums from the 1950s and a box of loose photos from the same period. All this material covered the very early days of tethered car racing in Switzerland and the building of the two tracks at Landikon and Basel. Sod's law being what it is, the OTW camera lens died after just two photos, so it was hit and hope with the phone camera from then on. We have featured Landikon in a Long Lost Track article with the images showing the huge amount of earth moving and civil engineering that was required. Ironically, just twenty years after it opened, the site owner evicted the club.

Update 30th Dec: Purely by coincidence, a group from the Swiss Model Car Club were given access to the now private site in December to photograph the area and the track. They have kindly shared these photos and other material with us that will be published in the February edition.

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