Eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds. One thousand four hundred forty minutes. Twenty-four hours. One day, one night. This is the basic building block of our weeks, months, years, and lives. Most ...

The need for speed is right here in our own backyard! Mach 1 Raceway is home to national-level slot car racing and it’s not just about adrenaline. It’s also sparking STEM learning for kids and adults ...

It was the mid-1960s, and it was all a bit mad. I bought one Airfix slot-car acing set, which grew into a 110-foot four-lane track made from Airfix pieces screwed onto several sections of chipboard ...

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 ...

One of my favorite things to do while eating lunch is to pull out an old volume of Model Railroader magazine and page through it. Lately, I’ve been working my way through the decade of the 1960s, ...

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 ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Matthew Mason is the owner of All-Star Miniature Speedway, a Lynchburg shop for the popular 1960s hobby of slot car racing. Slot car racing involves miniature electric race ...

The economic collapse brought on by the Great Recession was particularly gruesome in the Great Lake State. Michigan faced job losses in the seven figures, with unemployment reaching over 15 percent, ...

You can find a wealth of humorous social media posts that give examples of ‘things men do to avoid therapy’. It could be reviving a hunk of rusted iron into a fully functional steam locomotive or ...

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 ...

Budding racers have long enjoyed slot car sets because they’re a great way to get high-octane driving excitement in your living room. There is a wide variety of choices to suit all ages and abilities.