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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...