KCForce Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) I was just zipping around surfing the web and I found a picture from 1967 of the Meteor roller coaster that used to exist in Wildwood, NJ. A company is selling it, so I will not post it here, as I do not own the picture, but here is the link to the page on amazon if you'd like to look at this rare coaster. Quite cool actually. It's item #44. Enjoy. Oh, and has anyone here ever ridden it? (EDIT, oops, thanks so much Capatalize, I guess as they add items, it changes item number!) www.amazon.com/Meteor-Roller-Coaster-Wildwood-Photographic/dp/B00334A0OG/ref=sr_1_45?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1279870263&sr=1-45 Peace! KC Edited July 23, 2010 by KCForce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capitalize Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/Meteor-Roller-Coaster-Wildwood-Photographic/dp/B00334A0OG/ref=sr_1_45?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1279870263&sr=1-45 I think this is what he meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Band-Aid Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 How did a coaster like that slip past my radar? I haven't seen anything like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCForce Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) How did a coaster like that slip past my radar? I haven't seen anything like it. I had only seen one very small picture of this coaster before with a close up of the train. I love this picture because it shows most of the ride. It started out at Freedom Land USA, and then went to Wildwood to the Sportland Peir. Sportland Pier had a Gallaxy later on by the same name. Here's the info I found at rcdb.com: www.rcdb.com/2807.htm It's a very unique coaster, and one of the earliest steel coasters if it was around in 1957...I also have seen a picture in Robert Coker's Book that shows a steel coaster from the same time period of a similar type coaster that ran on a triangular track. But Matterhorn at Disneyland is still the first tubular steel track coaster from what I can determine, coming along in 1959. I wonder how it rode? Looks like it would be fairly smooth, but who knows? Edited July 23, 2010 by KCForce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathbydinn Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 So I guess this would be a more modern version of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastermoosh Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 So I guess this would be a more modern version of that? Nope. You can clearly see the ride you linked to has two track rails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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