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 ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Growing up in Brooklyn, NYPD Lieutenant John Vitale, 40, became a slot car enthusiast when his parents took him to race these mini-cars while on vacation. “I was always into ...

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 ...

Menomonee Falls couple Elizabeth and Hubert Ortin were tired of driving 20 minutes to other communities for their family to have some indoor fun, especially in the winter months. So, they decided to ...

Remember slot cars? In the dark ages before simulators, video games, and even personal computers, there was hardly a boy in America who didn't race slot cars. Set up on the living room floor, a dining ...

He’s 87 years old, but Londoner John Chance-Reed is still into racing cars. The ex-navy serviceman, now hard of hearing, is adept at accelerating down the straight, and easing up on corners so that ...

If you enjoy a good slot car race, you will already know that part of the skill is being able to race around the track as fast as possible without your car flying off at the corners. Something I still ...