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 ...

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 ...

2008 was a pivotal year for David Beattie. Staring down middle age and burned out on the corporate scene, Beattie took a leap of faith and turned his hobby of making custom slot-car tracks in to a ...

Slot cars were popular in the 1960s. It was something to do for restless youngsters when they couldn't play outside. But a lot of those kids grew up and took their hobby with them. Fast forward past ...

“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, ...

For news of the day, go to the video above. TOMS RIVER - A fire on Route 37 west Tuesday night heavily damaged three businesses, including a slot-car hobby shop. Authorities said flames shot out of ...

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 ...

Though Jim Cunningham’s home near downtown Little Rock is packed with cool stuff — including a huge steel rack full of vintage racing bikes, the toy car he bought the morning JFK was killed in Dallas, ...