Building a private race track has long been a fantasy that only the mega-rich can carry out. For those that are just regular-rich, there is Detroit-based builder Slot Mods. Slot Mods will build a ...

When he was 14, Ed Shorer loved nothing as much as slot car racing. All his free time and spare change were spent at the track, where he and his buddies, gripping hand-held electric controllers, raced ...

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 ...

This video is no longer available. 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.

The Slot Car Track in Kannapolis lets racers experience the fun of controlling a race car. Drivers start your engines. From the big races at Charlotte Motor Speedway to the small dirt tracks, racing ...