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Dennis Johnston places ED’s 20,000th order

Electric Dreams recently passed a milestone in its history with the shipping of its 20,000th order since the purchase of the business by its present owner, Scott Bader.  The customer who placed the order was Dennis Johnston of Powhatan, Virginia.  To celebrate our 20,000th order we gave him a $200 gift certificate, which he has already used to buy more slot cars and parts.

Dennis Johnston is a typical Electric Dreams customer and is also typical in many ways of slot car enthusiasts across the United States.  He has been racing slot cars for about 5 years.  He is also a big fan of full-sized racing and draws from it the inspiration for many of his slot car projects.  His track is a 58-foot 2-lane Scalextric Sport layout on a 6×10-foot table.  The track design is based on the Interlagos Grand Prix circuit in Brazil using a track plan from the book Slot Car Racing-Tips, Tricks, and Track Plans by Robert Schleicher.  Dennis tells us he he races magnet cars on 12 volts and non-magnet cars on 10 volts.  He doesn’t use his track for organized racing, but frequently has friends over to race just for fun.  Most of the time he uses it to test the cars he races in organized events on a number of 4-lane tracks in his local area.  A computerized timing and scoring system generates accurate data for both racing and testing.

Dennis enjoys bot the performance and scale aspects of the slot car hobby.  He tells us that all his cars are raced and all are modified with aftermarket performance parts.  He also likes to paint his cars in original color schemes and some of them have custom bodywork.. Some of his cars are weathered to look like they have just completed a long, hard race with body contact along the way.   The track itself features scenic detailing including trees, figures, and buildings handmade from sheet styrene.  They give the layout many touches of color, activity, and realism.  The track has a gritty 60s character to it, he way race tracks looked before massive amounts of money were dumped into them to produce the typical modern look.

Three of Dennis’s custom-painted Mustangs with the pit area in the background.

Here are more photos of Dennis’s track and cars.

2 Ninco Jaguars in action.