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We had to repair and restore this car from the damage inflicted to it by its ace driver, to whom the car builder, the kind and gentle Robert Emott Jr., one of the greatest slot car racer/builder [...]

Make sure to watch or record the Jay Leno’s “Big Dog Garage” show, “Limited Funds Unlimited Fun”, featuring the L.A. Slot Car Museum segment, set to air on September 6th @ 7PM [...]

May 5th Concours at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills was a very successful event despite the freezing and dreary weather experienced over the Los Angeles area, one of the coldest on record [...]

A few years back while collecting for the LASCM, I ran across these, basically display prototypes devised by Ron “Von” Klein for the company’s “new products [...]

Building a museum from the ground up is quite a difficult proposition, but Scott Bader has committed vast resources and energy to this project. At this time, while the main building is completed, [...]

By Philippe de Lespinay February 1967 was a very bad month for the slot car racing industry in America. After two years of uncertainty, the business was now rapidly vanishing as thousands of [...]

We have taken for you, the true enthusiasts, detailed pictures of the models that recently surfaced at auction, and acquired by the LASCM. One of the cars is indeed an early factory test shot of [...]

An agreement between Scott Bader, the founder and guardian of the Los Angeles Slot Car Museum (www.lascm.com) and John Cukras, one of the greatest of all 1960’s professional slot car racers [...]

The success of pro-racing in the United States in 1967, culminating in the Rod & Custom magazine racing series, caused a revolution in the type and style of product selling over the counter [...]

This article offers some visual help to figure the various versions of the “Hemi” motors manufactured in the 1960s by Igarashi. First, it is important to say that there is absolutely zero [...]