Mihai has even branched beyond the usual confines of an automotive writer from time to time, however, his heart is still close to anything car-related. He's most at home retelling the story of some ...
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 ...
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 ...
Slot Mods Raceways is back with a new handmade slot car track that hides inside a vintage car. A couple of years ago, one of Slot Mods’ most popular creations—a circuit built into the body of a ...
Most people use Bring a Trailer to shop for cars, but you can also use the platform to buy boats, parts—or one of the most insane slot car race tracks you’ll ever see. The Detroit-based Slot Mods is ...
Do you remember when slot-car racing was huge? Remember the at-home slot-racing sets by makers like Strombecker, Eldon, Scalextric, Aurora and others? Do you remember the big slot tracks in the big ...
Following in that $200,000 Bond DB5 scale model’s footsteps, another thing you cannot actually drive has popped up for sale on Bring a Trailer. Being offered with no reserve is a slot car track which, ...
The builds and blueprints are not something found online in one of those how-to YouTube videos, either. “Just because I was doing it and people were buying them, a lot of guys would say, ‘I can make ...
After more than three decades of bringing families together to share a love of racing, the checkered flag fell Sunday on Dad’s Slot Cars in downtown Des Plaines. Opened by the late Thomas Pelletiere ...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – If you’ve been looking for a break from the constant election coverage, pandemic conversations, and the stress of life’s new normal, Upstate Speedway in Spartanburg could be ...
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.
Do you have a need for speed? In Garland, you won't be alone. That's where you'll find North Texas' only slot car arena. Don't know what a slot car is? That's okay...I didn't either until I stepped ...