Who misses these days?

Lots of fun with my kids for several years. I still have several of the Tyco cars.

My favourite was Scalextric in 1/32 scale. We had 70 feet of track and a Le Mans start in the crawl space with half a dozen kids several day a week. Fun time for being a father.

I had an Eldon track and slot cars in the sixties.  There are still slot car raceways in some areas where you can run your own cars, but they're few and far between.  

Some friends and I get together once a week and run our slot cars on a raceway about 25 miles away.  Here's a video running on the King track.

Model car racing and other related remote control activities are still very much alive and well.  The cars just don't run on slots anymore.  They are much more challenging and realisitic to operate and they are definitely not inexpensive.

Who would ever have thought that there would be professional model car racers who make their living that way, flying all over the world to compete against the best of the best!

Amazing video, Frank. That place is only about 30 miles from me. I've never heard of it. Road trip!

MiniGrid in Toronto still has an active slot track and sells a great selection of slot cars. While disrupted somewhat by Covid, they have a large following.

My local track closed years ago but I still have most of my 1/24 scale cars. They tended to have a NASCAR theme but I generally ran Le Mans cars.

I never did that!  

Looks like a track I had as a kid.  When I had kids we got them a similar track and we still have it today.

I sure do ! I was lucky enough to get a 1/32 scale Revell set for Christmas in '65.

Posted by: @jkuvakas

Amazing video, Frank. That place is only about 30 miles from me. I've never heard of it. Road trip!

Food for thought.  Put one in your back yard. 

https://www.pinterest.com/rcxceleration/rc-car-tracks/

In my younger days it was trains.  Slot cars quite a bit later.