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The day it came seemed like a childhood dream come true I unpacked it, set it up on the floor, and sat just looking at it for hours, but the real task lay ahead of me despite my overwhelming joy. Time to build the board, get it wired, install a slot car timer, and start racing again. It took a little longer than I had anticipated, more like 3 months to be exact.
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There is even an underground vault packed full to the brim of boxes containing unopened slot cars, which requires you to take an elevator. N ewcomers and veteran hobbyists will appreciate the massive archive of a bygone era in slot car racing history.
On the day of our visit, we were fortunate to meet renowned slot car racing champion and expert Keith Tanaka. During their peak in the early s, slot cars took over America and became so popular that commercial slot racing tracks grew to the thousands. Estimates suggest that, at one point, there were as many as 5, raceways in the U. Practically on every street corner, commercial raceways hosted race tournaments that attracted slot car devotees by the masses, both teenagers and adults.
With roots dating back to the s, historical records often credit Lionel, a U. However, evidence discovered by Philippe de Lespinay, author of Slot Car Dreams, raises some doubt about the widely accepted claim. Officially introduced by the late s, slot car kits and models were available in a wide range of body styles, different scale sizes, and manufactured by scores of companies throughout the U. Like real-life cars, model kit components included, among other items a motor, chassis, body, wheels, tires, bearings, and axles.
Car Model magazine, a publication dedicated to everything slot cars, would publish an entire directory of tracks around America. Early on, the racing hobby attracted professional race car drivers. Several had contracts or verbal agreements with slot car manufacturers, which brought forth the release of race car scale models, including the legendary Chaparral 2. Slot car racing saw a revival in the s that started in Spain.
Renewed interest in the hobby has since then grown exponentially, some of it during the pandemic lockdowns. Several commercially successful raceways with a longstanding history are still operating, mainly in the U.
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