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Slot Car Cave CN2 – YouTube
Fundraiser preview for the Children’s Attention Home in Rock Hill at The Slot Car Cave.
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Auction Hunters: Slot Car Racers – YouTube
Ton and Allen find a series of rad slot car racers in yet another epic episode of ‘Auction Hunters.’
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Auction Hunters: Slot Car Racers – YouTube.
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Buzzarama from “New York Originals” – YouTube
Slot car racing in Brooklyn. For more New York Originals visit our website at www.newyorkoriginalsonline.com
Buzzarama from “New York Originals” – YouTube.
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Ford vs Ferrari 1967
Enjoy a full length video from Muscle Mustang & Fast Fords Its Ford vs. Ferrari again as we relive the 1967 season in this great video!
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Yahoo! Local Beta News – New York’s last slot car parlor
Frank “Buzz” Perri has operated Buzz-a-Rama, his Brooklyn slot car parlor, since 1965, and he has no plans to retire.
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Yahoo! Local Beta News – New York’s last slot car parlor.
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Slot cars helping battle autism
If you are interested in the hobby of slot car races or just want to be a spectator, visit http://www.pacificslotcarraceways.com/
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Slot cars helping battle autism | KING5.com Seattle.
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Slot Cars Racing Back Into Mainstream
It’s a sound that takes some getting used to. Little electric motors, racing down a track.
Combine that with the din of yelling. Taunting. “Dilly you gettin’ out here…get on out there!”
It’s night time at Hobbytown USA. But it’s just getting started here.
“Kept me out of a lot of bars over the years.”
Fred Hood is a pro at slot car racing. 69-years-old, and still lovin that sound.
“That’s music, that’s music to me. That means I’m alive, looking down at the dirt.”
Slot cars are making a comeback. The list to race gets longer and longer.
“When the race starts…its a whole other matter.”
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Private Circuits: Custom-built slot-car tracks sell to wealthy hobbyists around the world
David Beattie, owner of Slot Mods, talks about the construction of custom slot-car raceways at his shop. (Detroit Free Press)
DETROIT — Business coaches often advise people to find what they love and the money will follow. That certainly worked in Dave Beattie’s life.
Beattie, 50, of Clinton Township, Mich., lost his job three years ago as an operations manager for an exhibit display company. Broke and with a young daughter and a wife training to be a doctor, he wasn’t sure what to do.
Then an acquaintance who knew of Beattie’s hobby of slot-car racing — tabletop racetracks on which miniature race cars zoom around powered by electric current — admired Beattie’s own handmade track in his basement. He asked Beattie to make him one.
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Reviving ‘60s Hobby – Slot Car Racing
Reviving ‘60s Hobby — Slot Car Racing
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Eastern Iowa Life
February 17, 2012
SWISHER — Zip, click, zoom. Up, over and around. The little 1/32nd-size slot cars eat up the 10 curves on the 57-foot long track in less than five seconds, a scale speed of about 250 miles per hour.
No wonder guys like Jerry Hightshoe, 68, of rural Swisher have revived a hobby of their 1960s youth — slot car racing.
“I wanted this to be a true driver’s course,” says Jerry, retired administrator from the College Community school district, who started building his basement track in 2001. It was race-ready in a year but, as with model railroading, always seems to be a work in progress.
“We’re more into racing than the scenery,” says Bruce Gardner, 64, of Iowa City (right) who joined fellow slot-car racers Art DeArmond, 63, of North Liberty (left), Jerry (center) and Craig Margulis, 57, of Iowa City, in a recent practice session.
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SoMdNews.com: Need for speed
Need for speed
Slot car racing gives hobbyists feel of drag racing
Staff photo by GRETCHEN PHILLIPS
Calvin Starcher, right, owner of Fas Trax of MD in Hughesville, helps Jeremy Fowler, 13, of Mechanicsville before a race.
Calvin Starcher fell in love when he was in the eighth grade, and the feeling never faded.
That’s when a friend from Matthew Henson Middle School took Starcher to the race track for the first time, where he got hooked. When he was 17, he began racing his 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
“I’ve been drag racing all my life” at Maryland International Raceway, said Starcher, 52, who has run Fas Trax of MD slot car racing in Hughesville for six years. “I wanted to do some kind of slot car racing.”
Slot car racing had the same effect on him as drag racing did all those years ago.
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