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 ...

Slot cars have grown up, and so have their fans. The electric fad of the ’60s are now computerized and intricately detailed to mirror baby boomers’ favorites. Steve Hendrickson, a retired business ...

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 ...

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Long before the popularity of car racing video games, the slot car craze in the 1960s and ’70s had young people and their parents obsessed with racing scale models. Now, a new generation of slot cars ...

Slot car racing is experiencing renewed interest across New Zealand as collectors and hobbyists rediscover the appeal of detailed scale models and competitive home racing. Modern systems combine ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DES PLAINES, Ill. — We’re all guilty of ...

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 ...

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, ...

For many kids growing up in the 1960s, slot cars were a regular part of Saturday afternoons. Even those who grew up after the little cars’ heyday have fond memories of the whirring sound echoing off ...