A slot car or slotcar is a powered miniature automobile or other vehicle that is guided by a groove or slot in the track on which it runs. A pin or blade...
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Slot car racing (also called slotcar racing or slot racing) is the competitive hobby of racing with powered miniature autos (or other vehicles) which...
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Slot Car Rides are amusement park rides that are propelled by an onboard electric motor through a slot car track, speeding up and slowing down to entertain...
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slot cars, is a type of electric motor, which has a flat commutator and vertical shaft. It was a feature of the highly successful Aurora HO slot cars...
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Company – Japanese slot car and radio controlled car Apex Replicas – Australian producer of 1:18 and 1:43 scale diecast and resin model cars Arcade – Primitive...
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Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder (known in Europe as Grooverider: Slot Car Racing) is a racing video game released in 2003, developed by British studio King...
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In the model car hobby, an inline car is a type of slot car or other motorized model car in which the motor shaft runs lengthwise down the chassis, perpendicular...
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Sidewinder is a type of slot car or motorized model car in which the motor shaft is parallel to the driven axle (usually the rear), and power is transmitted...
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Carrera is a slot car brand introduced in the early 1960s by Josef Neuhierl GmbH & Co. KG based in the Franconian town of Fürth, Germany. The name Carrera...
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Family Slot Car Racing (Okiraku Slot Car Racing in Japan) is a racing game developed by Arc System Works for WiiWare. It was released in Japan on February...
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but commercial slot car racing experienced a rapid decline in popularity late in the decade. By the end of the 1970s, the slot car hobby had diminished...
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1:64 scale (category Toy cars and trucks)
slot cars, introduced in the 1960s at about 1:76 scale, now average around 1:64 scale. Pictured is an early example of an approximately 1:64 slot car...
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StreetPass Slot Racer (サクッと! スロットカー, Sakutto! Slot Car), known in North America as Slot Car Rivals, is a racing game developed by Good-Feel. StreetPass Slot Racer...
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Aurora AFX (category Slot car brands)
AFX (initials of "Aurora Factory Experimentals") is a brand of slot cars models and sets introduced by the Aurora Plastics Corporation in 1961. The AFX...
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1:24 scale (category Toy cars and trucks)
traditional slot car sizes - and the earliest. Lionel's (USA) 1:24 electric autos of 1912-1916 became the first known commercial slot cars. In 1955, the...
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Radiator Springs Racers (category Cars Land)
Radiator Springs Racers is a slot car ride in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure. The attraction features a third-generation version of transport...
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G & R Wrenn (category Slot car brands)
and with a twin conductor rail on each side of the 'slot' the system was capable of running three cars at a time on each lane. The smaller scale meant that...
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1:32 scale (category Toy cars and trucks)
car Slot car Gauge 1 Schleicher, Robert (2002). Slot Car Bible. US: Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781610606738. Dempewolff, Richard F (1963). Table-Top Car Racing...
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The Model Car Hall of Fame is an annual awards ceremony for the die-cast toy, scale model and slot car industries. Founded in 2009, initially as the Diecast...
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Scale model (section Slot car racing)
Cars in 1:24, 1:32, or HO scale are fitted with externally powered electric motors which run on plastic road track fitted with metal rails on slots....
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Scalextric (category Slot car brands)
Scalextric is a brand of slot car racing sets which first appeared in the late 1950s. The Scalextric were first invented by engineer B. Fred Francis, when...
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Jouef (category Slot car brands)
Hornby. Apart from model railroads, the company also produced model cars and slot cars. Manufacturer Georges Huard founded Jouef in 1944 toward the end of...
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Lionel Corporation (category Slot car brands)
proportion to the growing prevalence of space and military-themed toys and slot car racing sets. These changes coincided with the decline in rail travel as...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth(センター・オブ・ジ・アース) is a slot car dark ride at the Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. One of the park's...
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(NA: Mii Force) StreetPass Zombies (NA: Battleground Z) StreetPass Slot Car (NA: Slot Car Rivals) StreetPass Traders (NA: Market Crashers) Nintendo 3DS June...
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Mini 4WD (category Slot car racing)
Mini 4WD (ミニ四駆, Mini Yonku) is a powered toy car generally 1:32 in scale equipped with 4WD. The cars are used for racing, built to run on a U-shaped track...
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Airfix (category Slot car brands)
by Patrick Stephens Ltd. In 1963, the Airfix slot car racing system was introduced. Airfix produced cars with front-wheel Ackermann steering and, later...
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Matchbox (brand) (redirect from Matchbox car)
range of toys, including larger scale die-cast models, plastic model kits, slot car racing, and action figures. During the 1980s, Matchbox began to switch...
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commonly recognised in motorsport. The Spanish Fly slot car brand has recently brought out model cars with the distinctive design. More recently, they[who...
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Adventure. Slot Racers is a joystick-controlled game with nine game variations programmed within the cartridge. The object of the game is to pilot your car through...
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