Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If Jimmy Attard needs to feel young again, he heads downstairs to the basement of his Dearborn home. It’s his fountain of youth, ...

This video is no longer available. Long before the popularity of car racing video games, the slot car craze in the 1960s and ’70s had young people and their parents obsessed with racing scale models.

It didn't take long for the car to gain speed and then fly off the track while rounding a banked curve. Of course, the car was being driven by an amateur. This is not the Indianapolis 500, but a race ...

AUGUSTA — In a corner room of the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday afternoon, a group of approximately 50 people gather around a miniature racetrack. One by one, 31 different racers take turns driving ...

Frank Tiessen was 10 years old and still living in his native Germany when he got his first “Carrera,” which in Europe of the 1970s could mean only one thing: a set of electric slot cars and track by ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Growing up in Brooklyn, NYPD Lieutenant John Vitale, 40, became a slot car enthusiast when his parents took him to race these mini-cars while on vacation. “I was always into ...

There’s a miniature world inside Bill Warnecke’s Yucaipa garage. There’s a town and trees, hills and clouds, people, billboards, guardrails, and, of course, slot cars. Warnecke’s son, Billy, 22, said ...