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The Many Aspects Of Slot Car Track Layouts

Perhaps the most detailed component of slot car racing is the track layout. While the main objective of the hobby is to race, collect gorgeous cars, and enhance these cars’ performance and capacity, there are plenty of enthusiasts who take pains to build elaborate slot car tracks with layouts that would cause even the best drivers to be envious. As if the layouts for the track weren’t elaborate enough, many track builders go so far as integrate very intricate details into the race track, making these look […]

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The Digital And Conventional Types Of Slot Cars

The types of slot cars available in the market these days are basically divided into the limitations that technology imposes on the make of the car. One is the good old system of conventional slot cars and the other is the new form of racing presented by digital slot cars. Conventional Slot Cars Conventional slot cars are actually fashioned from the traditional system racing slot cars – racing electric-powered cars on wooden or plastic tracks. This type of cars has a motor that is directly connected to […]

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Slot Cars – Their Components And Scale Sizes

There is more to slot cars than just being miniature mock-ups of real race cars. Most of them are lovingly made from scratch by slot aficionados and most of these cars can be modified to achieve better performance. Driving skills matter a lot in slot car racing because nothing’s really keeping the car on track aside from the blade or pin in its bottom. So you really need to be proficient enough to make sure the cars don’t fly off in the track’s twists and turns. Slot […]

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Slot Cars: Racing Tracks And Track Layout

Slot car racing is a competitive hobby which makes use of miniature replicas of genuine race cars. These mock-ups are guided by slots or grooves so they stay on track as they race against each other. This hobby ranges from usual family gatherings around home tracks to serious competitions wherein contenders carefully make or modify their own race cars for superb performance. Some competitions are even made up of series of races to determine the ones who qualify for the national championship. Slot Car Tacks Home Racetracks […]

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Slot Cars As Learning Toys For Kids

Toys are effective learning tools for kids since they effectively integrate fun with learning. Kids love to play, and most of the time that’s the only activity they care for. Hence, parents have to be ingenious in their attempts to sublimate their kids’ learning into more pleasurable activities. If your child is a boy, chances are he’ll be more inclined to play with toy cars, even more so with the ones that can move really fast! Also, it’s a proven fact that kids have a natural inclination […]

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Pimping Your Ride – Or Making Your Car Look And Drive Better

The popular US TV series Pimp Your Ride, which has been exported to other TV markets in recent years, is a logical conclusion to the popular hobby of auto modification. People all over the world look at their cars and think “I can make this better – faster and better looking, and it will corner better when I’m done, too”. Basically, it’s The Six Million Dollar Man but with cars. You can modify your car to a greater or lesser extent. Some people will settle for a […]

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Racing For Sport – Formula One Motor Racing

The single word “car” can be used to describe any one of a number of different kinds of vehicle, from the comfortable family sedan to the armored people carrier, and indeed to the sports cars that are driven around tracks by professional drivers. You’ll never see a Formula One car on a public road outside of special circumstances, but it’s a car all right. The Formula One car has little in common with a road legal vehicle. The shape is different – it is much lower and […]

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Road Safety: The Drag Race

There will always be a number of people who enjoy taking their cars on to the open road and seeing just how fast they can go, something which has led to a fairly large number of unofficial “drag races” taking place on public roads. The argument usually made by the drivers in such races is that they only race on quiet roads, usually at times when no-one else is likely to be on the road. One potential argument against this is that you can never be certain […]

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Cash For Clunkers: Trading In An Older Car For Cash

Cars are like people, in many ways. They need to have the proper care taken of them and to be treated in a certain way if they are to keep running smoothly. The longer they are in service, the more likely they will be to develop faults. Eventually, they need to be retired before they do some harm to themselves or others. Numerous governments are now creating schemes whereby an older car can be traded in for money against the purchase of a new one. The thinking […]

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Trading In For A Younger Model

Some people drive the same car from the day they pass their test to the day that they decide to stop driving, or have that decision made for them. Others, and these are the larger group, will update their car on a more or less regular basis. There is a reason for this, and it is fairly simple. As cars get older, they become more prone to faults and some features may become obsolete. There is a lot that you can to to keep your car more […]

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