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. Now, a new generation of slot cars ...

The beloved venue for slot-car racing, Buzz-a-Rama in Kensington, Brooklyn is now closed for good. The shop, which was opened in 1965 by Buzz and Dolores Perri had several electrified racing tracks, ...

It was the mid-1960s, and it was all a bit mad. I bought one Airfix slot-car acing set, which grew into a 110-foot four-lane track made from Airfix pieces screwed onto several sections of chipboard ...

Slot Mods Raceways is back with a new handmade slot car track that hides inside a vintage car. A couple of years ago, one of Slot Mods’ most popular creations—a circuit built into the body of a ...

Stan’s Records on Prince Street traffics in more than vintage vinyl. Look in the glass cases above the LP stacks, and you’ll find an assortment of electric race cars from the 1970s. Enthusiasts call ...

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 ...