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 ...

A slot car, as defined in the recently published book Slot Car Dreams: The Slot Car Frenzy of the '60s Beginning to End, is "[a]n electrically-powered model car, guided by a blade or pin running ...

It didn't take long for the car to gain speed and then fly off the track while rounding a banked curve. Of course, the car was being driven by an amateur. This is not the Indianapolis 500, but a race ...

The Slot Car Track in Kannapolis lets racers experience the fun of controlling a race car. Drivers start your engines. From the big races at Charlotte Motor Speedway to the small dirt tracks, racing ...

SWISHER - Zip, click, zoom. Up, over and around. The little 1/32nd-size slot cars eat up the 10 curves on the 57-foot long track in less than five seconds, a scale speed of about 250 miles per hour.

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 ...