Slot Cars at the Greystone Mansion!
The 2014 Greystone Concours d’Elegance took place at the historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills on Sunday, May 4. This year celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Porsche Speedster and well [...]
Newsletter April 19th, 2013
The Los Angeles Slot Car Museum (LASCM) has been invited to display part of its vast collection of vintage slot cars at the Greystone Mansion Concours d’ Elegance.
The Cars of Virtuoso Performance
As we mentioned in our August 4 newsletter a member of the Electric Dream Team recently had the fun job of visiting the Virtuoso Performance race shop in Hayward, California to assemble a slot [...]
Newsletter August 19th, 2011
Electric Dream Team recently had the fun job of visiting the Virtuoso Performance race shop in Hayward, California to assemble a slot car track that the VP staff was going to take to Laguna Seca [...]
LASCM Visit, February 2008
Some of the racers competing in the First Annual Checkpoint Cup retro races were offered a guided tour of the Los Angeles Slot Car Museum. Host Scott Bader and museum curator Philippe de Lespinay [...]
Rebuilding a survivor: Rick Durkee’s Team Russkit Chaparral 2
When Jim Russell created the world's first professional slot car racing team in 1965, he trusted Mike Morrissey to find the "right stuff" within the So-Cal racers. Mike selected Len Vucci, Ron [...]
First-Ever Angle-Winder Slot Car Revisited
Gene Husting built his (and pro-racing's) first angle-winder car in late 1967, after he saw a picture of a 1/32 scale car built by Midwest racer Roy Moody. When he showed up at Gallagher's J&J [...]
