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 ...

We've all raced a slot car, right? You pick out your car and carefully line it up with a thin groove running along the center of a track. With the remote in hand, you watch it zip around and around ...

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 ...

Slot car racing has arrived on the Treasure Coast. The Slot Car Raceway and Hobby Shop opened in the Vero Beach Outlets, 1824 94th Drive. As the name suggests, it’s mostly about slot car racing.

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.

For model car racing enthusiasts in MetroWest, Modelville Hobby has been a mecca since Richard "Dick" Cafarelli opened the raceway in Framingham’s Irving Square in 1965. Moves to Waverly Street in ...

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 ...