Slot car racing was born in the early 1900s ... a high-end private track for his garage. Soon Beattie’s “custom scenic track” skills were being featured on “Jay Leno’s Garage” and ...

Whoever bought this high-end custom slot car recreation of Fiat's famous rooftop test track on its legendary Lingotto Factor in Turin, Italy is certainly living la dolce vita. The Lingotto factory ...

Staring down middle age and burned out on the corporate scene, Beattie took a leap of faith and turned his hobby of making custom slot-car tracks in to a full-time vocation, setting up shop under ...

building a custom track takes about 3 to 5 months, and pricing starts at around $50,000. Head over to the Slot Mods website for more info. Get the latest car news, reviews, and features.

In 2004 he asked his wife to buy him a small slot car course as a Christmas gift. Within a year, he had custom-built an extravagant 20'x20' track, the largest in the US, in his basement.

"I was racing slot cars with friends in the basement," says David Beattie, founder of Slot Mods Raceways, when we caught up over Zoom. "I ended up building a custom wooden track. It was in my ...

but we're talking about automotive art versus a functional car. And actually, the price is $50,000 less than a custom Porsche 917 track from Slot Mods recently sold for at auction, so one might ...

A custom built, big-kid dream slot-car raceway ... Watch a video of the GIR car-slot track in action here. Named “Gussack International Raceway” after its first owner, the lucky bidder can ...

Hill's fondness for slot car racing led him to build a custom table complete with landscaping and technology that calculated car speeds.