Still image from video below. I grew up in the 1970s and recall having Aurora AFX and Tyco slot car sets and later slotless car sets like Lionel’s PowerPassers, where the cars could change lanes. Tra...
Photo by Kurt Ernst. Whatever you do, don’t call them “thingies.” Now that concours-level slot cars have earned a spot among other handcrafted small-scale vehicles at one of the country’s largest sho...
A Ford GT40 Mk I battles a Cobra Daytona Coupe. Photos by author. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve been holding out on you. I’ve never discussed my collection of historically significant raci...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week. ...
Cox Chaparral slot car kit; image by the author This is it; the big race. Your car is perfectly positioned on the grid for maximum launch. The gearing, tires and motor have all been checked and reche...
