I was a Hot Wheels kid, but secretly, I pined for slot cars. Buzzing with current and fast as hell, slot car sets made by companies like Tyco and Aurora made my manually powered die-cast trinkets look ...

It comes out once a year or so. Usually around the holiday season, when space is cleared in the extra room and the old ping pong table is set up as a surface. That's when we dig it out of the closet - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Older players enjoy it as well, like this gentleman who calls it a "high-quality durable fun product." He adds, "35 years ago my ...

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 ...

Some boys never outgrow their toys… and for those kids who refuse to grow up, there’s the Carrera Slot Car Race Set. Since 1963, Carrera has been one of the world’s most prestigious slot-car makers, ...

Do you remember when slot-car racing was huge? Remember the at-home slot-racing sets by makers like Strombecker, Eldon, Scalextric, Aurora and others? Do you remember the big slot tracks in the big ...

Frank Tiessen was 10 years old and still living in his native Germany when he got his first “Carrera,” which in Europe of the 1970s could mean only one thing: a set of electric slot cars and track by ...