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 ...

RAPID CITY - An electric slot car set is traditionally a popular toy under the Christmas Tree, but three Rapid City men fondly remember when racing the tiny cars was anything but kid stuff.

If Jimmy Attard needs to feel young again, he heads downstairs to the basement of his Dearborn home. It’s his fountain of youth, his trip back in time. “Down here, I don’t realize I’m in my late 60s.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Matthew Mason is the owner of All-Star Miniature Speedway, a Lynchburg shop for the popular 1960s hobby of slot car racing. Slot car racing involves miniature electric race ...

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 ...

It didn't take long for the car to gain speed and then fly off the track while rounding a banked curve. Of course, the car was being driven by an amateur. This is not the Indianapolis 500, but a race ...

DEARBORN, Mich. – He may be in his 60s, but Jimmy Attard is absolutely living out a dream a whole lot of us had as kids. Attard has spent decades transforming the basement of his Dearborn home into an ...

For many kids growing up in the 1960s, slot cars were a regular part of Saturday afternoons. Even those who grew up after the little cars’ heyday have fond memories of the whirring sound echoing off ...