Slot car racing, the sport that involves racing scaled-down models of real cars around a multi-lane road course has been around for over a century and, while nowadays kids aren't raving about it amid ...

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 ...

Building a private race track has long been a fantasy that only the mega-rich can carry out. For those that are just regular-rich, there is Detroit-based builder Slot Mods. Slot Mods will build a ...

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 ...

Some people have all the fun. One such person appears to be David Beattie, the founder of Slot Mods Racing, a company that hand-builds bespoke 1:32-scale wooden raceways. We've featured his modified ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Invented in 1912, the small-scale, obsessive sport of slot car racing has seen its ups and downs over the last hundred years. The hobby, in which motorized model cars speed around a slotted track, ...

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 ...