We've all raced a slot car, right? You pick out your car and carefully line it up with a thin groove running along the center of a track. With the remote in hand, you watch it zip around and around ...

Slot car racing is experiencing renewed interest across New Zealand as collectors and hobbyists rediscover the appeal of detailed scale models and competitive home racing. Modern systems combine ...

Long before the popularity of car racing video games, the slot car craze in the 1960s and ’70s had young people and their parents obsessed with racing scale models. Now, a new generation of slot cars ...

Isle of the Kakapo has rolled out RailModeller Express 5.0, an update of the free model railroad and slot car layout design solution for Mac OS X. It sports design tools that enable hobbyists to ...

The tiny model automobiles, known as slot cars, are reduced to colorful blurs as they zip around the race track like frenzied insects. It's Thursday night at Scale Auto Racing Inc. in Cypress, and ...

It was the mid-1960s, and it was all a bit mad. I bought one Airfix slot-car acing set, which grew into a 110-foot four-lane track made from Airfix pieces screwed onto several sections of chipboard ...

A slot car, as defined in the recently published book Slot Car Dreams: The Slot Car Frenzy of the '60s Beginning to End, is "[a]n electrically-powered model car, guided by a blade or pin running ...

Slot car racing, the sport that involves racing scaled-down models of real cars around a multi-lane road course has been around for over a century and, while nowadays kids aren't raving about it amid ...

Slot cars have grown up, and so have their fans. The electric fad of the ’60s are now computerized and intricately detailed to mirror baby boomers’ favorites. Steve Hendrickson, a retired business ...