Slot car racing, which experienced a boom in the 1960s among boys of a certain age, is hoping to make a comeback in Naperville. A track and hobby shop called mid-America Raceway is not only hoping to ...

The 31st Annual Slot Car Racing Championships were held in Ronkonkoma from Feb. 27 to 29. Slot car racing is one of the fastest handmade car races on the planet with speeds up to 120mph and over ...

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People are often advised to turn a passion into a career, but for many of us that doesn't seem feasible. But we met a guy who's gainfully employed pursuing a hobby he's had since childhood. Slotmods ...

“If it’s not fun, it’s just not working,” says Ron Scott, the owner of Cactus RC & Hobbies, explaining the point of the remote control and slot car races that take place at his shop every weekend.

Invented in 1912, the small-scale, obsessive sport of slot car racing has seen its ups and downs over the last hundred years. The hobby, in which motorized model cars speed around a slotted track, ...

The year was 1962 when Aurora HO scale Model Motoring came to Valinda, California and the only full-scale electric cars a human biped could drive legally on the streets were invalid carts made by ...

Frank Tiessen was 10 years old and still living in his native Germany when he got his first “Carrera,” which in Europe of the 1970s could mean only one thing: a set of electric slot cars and track by ...