Slot car Racing in New York (?) !!

The Slot Car Racing Club of New York

started around 2000 with the idea of a place to have a weekly slot car racing meeting.Well, in truth it seemed to be very difficult to find local slot racing enthusiasts... in New York City!

Anyways, we kept it going with about 4 or 5 regular members. Sometimes we would have visitor guests that read about the club on the internet slot car forums (mostly on Slot Car Illustrated at the time). They came from Texas, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsilvania,and from Europe- Norway and Italy!

We started racing on Carrera plastic track, but soon later I started building a 4- lane wood routed track.

here is a picture of the track, in the testing stages,with computer laptiming software(there was no scenery or 'decorations' yet).

Ferraris in the Sun...

These Ferraris were photografed in Italy, by my brother while strolling through the streets.(!!!!)
(blue Ferrari Vignale, red 360 Modena and the mighty F40)

Racing on Routed Tracks

my old home track



Quickcars track-Brooklyn, NY



These are all pictures of some routed tracks that I have built, from a simple 2-lane figure eight to a 4-lane club track layout.












Fernando's track-POA, Brasil













SCRCNY club track-
NewYorkCity













Robert's track-NJ

"In the beginning..."

Images are worth a thousand words, so let me start with my first scratchbuild slot car chassis, about 5 years ago,and painted,detailed and finished resin body by A2M. Ladies and gentlemen, the 1/32 scale Cheetah!

above is the chassis,soldered wire and brass, framed to 2 old REH motor brackets, the rear one holds the rear axle and i made an adaptor/reducer for the motor shaft, while the front REH bracket had "ears" cut off and holds the motor .

when i look at this chassis now, the 'raw' construction and soldering feels a little

rudimentary, but at the time I was very 'proud' of this acomplished feat.

Over time, and as my soldering skills improved, my chassis evolved into more complex frames and designs, with moving pans and suspension - much inspired by the late 60's and early 70's commercial racing competition examples of that era that I've researched thanks to the power of the internet.

I will post some of my other builds here, as well, little by little, as this is a 'work in progress'...

Just to illustrate, the following is one of my more recent chassis (although a 2009 build) for a 1/24 scale Revell Ferrari 430 model kit conversion to slot car. Here you can see some of the upgrades to the design (side pans movement to isolate body from motor/running gear vibrations). I will return to analisys of this project later on . Keep tuned on...