This video is no longer available. 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.

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

AUGUSTA — In a corner room of the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday afternoon, a group of approximately 50 people gather around a miniature racetrack. One by one, 31 different racers take turns driving ...

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 ...

Most people use Bring a Trailer to shop for cars, but you can also use the platform to buy boats, parts—or one of the most insane slot car race tracks you’ll ever see. The Detroit-based Slot Mods is ...

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 ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – If you’ve been looking for a break from the constant election coverage, pandemic conversations, and the stress of life’s new normal, Upstate Speedway in Spartanburg could be ...

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 ...

Slot Mods is a Detroit-based company that creates handmade, completely bespoke slot car tracks for some of the world’s most high-end clientele. If you want a Slot Mods track, you typically have to ...

If Jimmy Attard needs to feel young again, he heads downstairs to the basement of his Dearborn home. It’s his fountain of youth, his trip back in time. “Down here, I don’t realize I’m in my late 60s.