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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...