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It looks like 2010 is very much the Year of the American Car, with TransAm, SCCA, and CanAm cars, along with the usual crop of NASCARs, coming from several different manufacturers.  The classic [...]

Some great new cars in this week from Ninco & MRRC, a message about magnets from the Consumer Products Safety Commission and an update on a project to provide a 70s-vintage CanAm body with a [...]

We like the looks of the Carrera 27134 Mustang, but it could use some help in the handling department.  Well, as it happens, we had a set of wheels and tires from a Scalextric Ferrari F430 lying [...]

The Pioneer Mustangs have arrived and they are cool! And if tht weren't enough, we just received a large shipment of items from Ostorero, including chassis, wheels, tires, decals, and motors for [...]

We get a lot of requests from customers, especially those just starting out in slot car racing, asking us which brand of race set or track system to buy. Even some hobbyists who have been racing [...]

The front-motor in-line arrangement seems at first to be an unlikely drive train configuration for a slot car since it places the motor’s weight at the opposite end of the car from where it’s [...]

We often get e-mails from customers asking about procedures for breaking in new cars.  There are all kinds of exotic, expensive, and intricate techniques being touted and debated on web sites, [...]

Slot car racing has been around sine the 1950s in its original form, the "conventional" or "analog"  version in which each car runs in its own lane.  Now, however, the new digital version, in [...]

The Porsche 936 is one of my favorite LeMans cars.  When Spirit introduced their 1/32 scale 936s I was really looking forward to racing them with my race-tuned and modified Fly classic Ferraris, [...]

We all know there are lots of not-so-well designed slot cars on the market. I'm not talking about the common gripes, such as knurled axles and press-on plastic wheels, too-delicate wings and [...]

New cars from Monogram, Racer and Proto Slot coming in this week... And finally... check this one out! How many of us have been waiting decades for this car to be modeled? The Proto Slot GM019P [...]

In the time since the first Pioneer Mustang race car was released we have been totally impressed by the quality and performance of Pioneer's cars.  Being the incorrigible kitbashers we are, we no [...]