Super like you when a kid I didn't really have proper model trains, the budget never stretched to it, but I did have Aurora slot cars - my brother having the larger Scaletrix slot cars. Personally I preferred the Aurora anyway, I always felt the detail was better, they naturally held the track better due to the magent placements. But above all else I used to love stripping them down, polishing the armatures, oiling the bearings etc... to make them as fast and quiet as I could.
I've still got all my cars, including a whole bunch I picked up cheap when a chain of model stores here in the UK called Beatties hit financial problems and were selling stuff off cheap. What I don't really have at the moment is track, but I keep looking at the second hand sets myself and of course if it come to it they should run perfectly well on the micro scaletrix track so long as the voltage is the same. Those of course are still readily available now, but the cars are not a patch on the Aurora ones in terms of detail and realism.
I've still got all my cars, including a whole bunch I picked up cheap when a chain of model stores here in the UK called Beatties hit financial problems and were selling stuff off cheap. What I don't really have at the moment is track, but I keep looking at the second hand sets myself and of course if it come to it they should run perfectly well on the micro scaletrix track so long as the voltage is the same. Those of course are still readily available now, but the cars are not a patch on the Aurora ones in terms of detail and realism.
Happily collecting things all my life... 
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