We decided to create a forum for slot car enthusiasts who enjoy taking the slot hobby to the competition level. A place for slot racers to share, compare and brag a little about their on-track successes and tuning discoveries. If you've ever thrown a slot car against the wall, you're in the right place.
What better way to start than by sharing your own slot car story or introduction to the hobby. The internet has probably brought most of us together, likely on Facebook; I myself am more interested in each of our old school "offline" stories and each other's early race experiences.
"If everything is under control, you're simply not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
So, chime in. Introduce yourself. Tell us about how you got started and some of the hairbrained things you've done to make these small scale cars go big. You can register using your Google or Facebook account pretty easily. Jump in and create as many conversations as you'd like. Welcome to Slot Car Race & Tune.
I work on this thing pretty often and I sorta know the owner, so I guess it would be okay if I made the first entry. I started racing slot cars about 40 years ago in the basement of our Paterson, NJ basement. We ran on a good sized four-lane oval, with short chutes, built by my older cousin. My brother, I guess inherited, for lack of a better word, the oval when that cousin started racing street stocks at Orange County Fair Speedway in the eighties. We ran AFX and T-Jets with dirt modified bodies since we were big modified fans. When we were very young we spent almost every race season weekend at either OCFS, Flemington o…