Fast Track

Fast Track, manufactured by the Sullivan-Nolan Advertising Company in January 1943, is a one-ball payout machine converted from two earlier Bally games, 'Sport Page' (1938) and 'Blue Ribbon' (1939). As part of the WWII-era conversion trade, Fast Track represents how manufacturers repurposed existing hardware -- in this case, gambling-oriented payout equipment -- to keep operators supplied when new production was restricted.

As a one-ball, payout-style game rather than a conventional multi-ball scoring machine, Fast Track's gameplay centered on a single ball launch and outcome-based payout rather than flippers or extended play, since flippers would not be introduced to pinball until 1947. Specific details about its layout and mechanisms are scarce.

Given the limited information available, it is difficult to pinpoint distinctive aspects of its design or theme. Fast Track's rarity as a surviving example of a wartime one-ball payout conversion makes it an intriguing piece for collectors and historians interested in the pre-electronic pinball and payout-machine landscape.