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 ...

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 ...

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 ...