But legendary car designer Larry Shinoda found a new home for some cast-off concept designs of the Sixties: Slot car racing. His hobby became a huge, semi-secret success.

James-Michael Gregory Harlan has created what is possibly the ultimate slot car track, the White Lake Formula 1 Ring. Its a 20-square-foot space, the ring is 1/32-scale, the lap is 145 feet long ...

Today, Slot Mods occupies a 5000- square-foot space in Clinton Township, Michigan. The day we visited, three tracks were under construction, a typical workload for the shop’s small crew of artisans.

Jimmy Attard races his slot cars in the basement of his Dearborn home on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Attard, who worked for Ford Motor Co. for 32 years as a chassis designer before retiring in 2005 ...

In posts shared to Instagram, Slot Mods has photos of the factory taped to the wall for inspiration, including the assembly floor, shots of the design room where car bodies were sculpted from clay ...

In the 1960s, home versions of slot car racing tracks were available, but that wasn’t the only place to race. “You could find places all over the U.S. where you could go race your car, if you ...

Slot Mods Raceways has been building impressive slot car tracks for 14 years and will now construct one inside race cars like the Porsche 917 or Ford GT40 By Owen Bellwood November 24, 2023 1:00 ...