HO scale slot cars are about the size of a Hot Wheels car and were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. They have a pin that keeps ...
“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.
Yeah, at the corner of East Bundy in Southeast Second in Des Moines. This is so cool right up the driveway from the mailboxes three in *** row directly behind the yawning dog. It's just loads and ...
Their reaction times may not be as quick, but the drivers still have their 2-inch vehicles zooming around the electric track with respectable whirrs and soothing purrs. Their courses may not have the ...
A ’60s revival: Before video games, there was slot car racing. If you were a young race fan in the late '60s, too young to own a car and maybe even too young to attend a race, you might have owned a ...
Stan’s Records on Prince Street traffics in more than vintage vinyl. Look in the glass cases above the LP stacks, and you’ll find an assortment of electric race cars from the 1970s. Enthusiasts call ...
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 ...