If Jimmy Attard needs to feel young again, he heads downstairs to the basement of his Dearborn home. It’s his fountain of youth, his trip back in time. “Down here, I don’t realize I’m in my late 60s.

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 ...

Older players enjoy it as well, like this gentleman who calls it a "high-quality durable fun product." He adds, "35 years ago my parents offered similar toys to me ...

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 ...

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 ...

The need for speed is right here in our own backyard! Mach 1 Raceway is home to national-level slot car racing and it’s not just about adrenaline. It’s also sparking STEM learning for kids and adults ...

Yeah, at the corner of East Bundy in Southeast Second in Des Moines. This is so cool right up the driveway from the mailboxes three in *** row directly behind the yawning dog. It's just loads and ...

After more than three decades of bringing families together to share a love of racing, the checkered flag fell Sunday on Dad’s Slot Cars in downtown Des Plaines. Opened by the late Thomas Pelletiere ...

DEARBORN, Mich. – He may be in his 60s, but Jimmy Attard is absolutely living out a dream a whole lot of us had as kids. Attard has spent decades transforming the basement of his Dearborn home into an ...

Menomonee Falls couple Elizabeth and Hubert Ortin were tired of driving 20 minutes to other communities for their family to have some indoor fun, especially in the winter months. So, they decided to ...