Slot Car Dreams

320 pages of slot car history with 750 photos - soft cover

This nostalgic history looks back at vehicles, tracks, packaging and racing memorabilia from such popular slot-car manufacturers as Aurora/AFX, Tyco, Scalectrix, Strombecker and Cox, as well as dozens of smaller toymakers.

Over the past three years slot cars have become one of the fastest-growing segments of the hobby industry. Slot cars have also become so fashionable they have received exposure in automotive and general interest magazines. The time is right for a meaty, loaded follow-up to the highly successful 2002 MBI release, Slot Car Bible. In this new title, Bible author and Model Car Racing magazine publisher Robert Schleicher provides enthusiasts with more tips, tricks, and track plans for 1/32-scale and HO slot cars. This title will offer a wealth of tuning, maintenance, and driving technique information and will include chapters on snap-together raceways and building cars from kits. It will also have performance tests of new products and plans for creating NASCAR replica cars and tracks.

Covers slot racing cars and tracks, how to duplicate real race tracks in scale, troubleshooting and performing maintenance on slot cars, racing terms, and how to organize a race event.

Do you like fast cars like Porsches, Ferraris, Trans-Ams, NASCAR and Formula 1? Imagine having the car of your dreams in the palm of your hand and then racing it! This is possible with Slot Car racing! Which people of all ages, gender; family and friends could enjoy together! Slot Car racing is a creative hobby and quite popular all over the world like England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil and the USA. Slot Car racing can bring people together and turn them into life-long friends since it's one of the most interactive & action packed racing game! A Day at the Races shares true accounts of the author's racing experiences as we journey through the Slot Car racing world through his eyes. He shares what Slot Car enthusiasts experience when prepping, racing and then competing for a championship event. The author touches on various subjects such as Slot Car Club racing rules & strategies, car set-up, gear ratios, racing categories, 1/32 scale figures, scenery and lots of Slot Car photos! Also included is a bonus chapter where the author interviews the most influential people in the Slot Car Industry from Scalextric, Slot.it, Carrera, SCX and many more! Keep it in the slot!

This sensational slot car salute presents a wealth of information on beginning and advanced techniques for collecting, building, tuning, and duplicating the amazing little cars that were at the peak of their popularity in the 1960s and '70s. All the rage among youngsters and adults alike, slot cars and more than 50 track layouts duplicating famous circuts like Daytona. Indy and Monaco, are featured here in photographs that vividly recount the enthusiasm surrounding this popular hobby. Follows Schleicher's popular Racing and Collecting Slot Cars 0-7603-1024-6.

What is your Why? What defines true success in your business, career and life? It's got to be more than money, more, even, than secure and satisfying relationships. It requires continual growth... taking well-considered risks for greater rewards. And that means making a vehicle "career or business" to give you the freedom and resources to control the What, When, Where, and How of life. Making the Vehicle to Reach Your Dreams gives you means to do so. This is not your typical management tome. It's a brisk and entertaining read. Phil Fournier's experiences as an owner, the "Bigger Picture" observations of his adviser Ken Stark, and their contrasting life stories provide valuable insights and information. Owners and managers will smile in recognition at Phil's Business Vignettes. His business development diary and progress reports trace the journey from a small, dysfunctional auto shop to a successful business that essentially runs itself. Some of what you'll learn: That strong spiritual beliefs can help to create lasting success Essentials for designing and running an excellent business vehicle How to manage yourself better How to solve people problems more effectively How to produce positive change How to manage frustrations and setbacks Techniques for better pricing, selling and communicating That your business is its own ultimate product Practical tools to improve your working and personal lives That having fun is a key to success Making the Vehicle will help to build the skills you need to create the company, career and life you love.

FOREWORD by Philippe de Lespinay (Los Angeles Slot Car Museum Curator). Thingies stand proudly as slot-car rebels in this newest work by author and slot-racing enthusiast Carlo Tonalezzi. Vibrant photos of these classic model cars adorn the pages as a brief history explains how they helped to propel the hobby into a global phenomenon. Enjoy images of the BZ Banshee, Classic Industries ASP, Dynamic Bandit, Cox La Cucaracha, and many more. All photos taken on American Model Car Raceways vintage tracks. "Coffee Table" style photo book with over a hundred big size color pictures. As model car racing refined itself and became more competitive, enthusiasts started to make their own chassis, wire their own motors, and pursue faster and faster cars. But with this heightened spirit of serious competition came a decrease in the number of fans who could keep up. The pool of racing enthusiasts who had the time and money to keep pace with slot racing technology was shrinking. Hobby companies, themselves competing against one another for the highest profits, were spitting out chassis, gears, and kits faster than the average racer could put them together; and by the time they did, an even faster car had made their new model obsolete again. To the newcomer who wanted to be competitive on the racetrack but didn't have the time or means to build a model from scratch, enough was enough.The hobby industry knew something had to be done. The void was filled by an industrial designer named John Power. His efforts materialized as a Ready-to-Run slot car released by Classic Industries. The Manta Ray was extremely well received, and other "rebels" soon joined the gang: the BZ Banshee, Classic Industries ASP, Dynamic Bandit, and Cox La Cucaracha, to name a few. So the futuristic dream cars, or Thingies, were born. Ready to race right out of the box, they were aggressive looking--and, most importantly, they were fast!