August Fly "Starters"

Avant Slot Rollcentre Team Pescarolo

Avant Slot has released the new Pescarolo livery - Rollcentre Team - , ref 50204.

New Super Tires (R) Offering for Monogram Vintage NASCAR's

A new Super Tires (R) offering for Monogram Vintage NASCAR's will be available from Slot Car Corner beginning Thursday, July 31st. The Super Tires part number is 1700. The 1700 is .310" wide with an outer diameter (o.d.) of .825" which is slightly larger than the stock tires. Orders can be placed now by visiting the Slot Car Corner website.

CLR X650 BMW X6 by Lumma

Tuning companies are catching on to the all powerful teaser image, and German tuner, Lumma Design, have issued theirs - with the controversial BMW X6 model. Love it or hate it, the BMW X6 Coupe Crossover is an interesting car and Lumma's CLR X650 is no different – yet in a different character.

With a beefy front bumper fascia, which contains no less than 6 air vent openings, the entire kit gets a dash of aggression with side skirts and quarter panel leg vents plus revised mirrors, however, the added attitude comes from the 40mm suspension drop with the 23-inch arch filling black dished wheels.

As one of the first tuning companies to put together a dramatic styling kit for the X6, the CLR X650 takes the whole X6 hatchback coupe vibe and molds it

More Fly July releases

July "Fly Premium" releases

Nascar Statement on tire situation at Brickyard - prerace

A statement made prior to the start of today's "race" at Indy.

Search this...pdf search engine.

So this isn't slot car related but what the heck. A good search engine if you're looking for pdf's of most anything. Check out the results for "slot car" at this link.

July's Flyers

One car, your choice

Which one car would you most like to see done as a slot car? Answer that question here.

Nascar is ready for Indy

SCX Nascars... all 9 of them

Well here's a photo from the SCX home office in Barcelona, all 9 of the recently released and soon-to-be-released Nascars.


Dave Kennedy
Publisher, Slot Car News
Marketing, SCX North America

(All SCX posts will carry this tagline since, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm going to sign my name as an SCX employee. Also just to let folks know, I will still publish news from ANY and ALL companies that want to have news shown here to their target market...)

RACE PREP 101 - Hands On Class - Aug 9 @ HSARC

Saturday, August 9th 10:00am - 11:30am

Out of the box race prep clinic hosted by HSARC and presented by Larry Edwards

HSARC

11612 Cypress N. Houton Rd. Cypress TX, 77429.

281.807.4026

A complete step-by-step from the box to the track race prep will be demonstrated with a question and answer period.


$5.00 per person, $7.50 group (family) rate, 15% to clinic participants discount on all cars and parts purchased between 9:30am - 12:00am.


Discount valid 8-9-08 ONLY!!! and only in person (not valid online).

Spirit Porsche 936

Spirit will release this livery of the Porsche 936.

Power Slot 1/32 Quad review by Eric Cropper

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Different is good and Power Slot of Spain has created something very different. A QUAD!!! No, I didn’t make a typo. Usually, if someone out there wanted something very different they pulled a Frankenstein and made it themselves. I’ve seen folks take die-cast motorcycles and with a bit of modification had a runner for their personal amusement. Well, Power Slot has done the work for us with this release. So, tighten your gloves, put on your helmet, pull the goggles down and I’ll kick start this review.

The first thing you notice is that the Quad doesn’t come in your typical slot case. It is a cardboard box with a removable clamshell plastic interior. The box has some nice artwork on it depicting various scenes of racing Quads. Below is a close up of the two end flaps of the box.


APPEARANCE:
The first debate some of you may make, “Is it really 1/32 scale?” I’m going to say, “No.” The driver looks more like a young boy driving this Quad instead of a man. The next debate is, “Do we really care?” I again say, “No.” Why you ask? Simple, we need to keep in mind the overall size of this Quad. You have to make it bigger than 1/32 scale in order to have room for all the mechanical parts that make it a slot quad instead of a static quad.

The overall appearance of the Quad is done very well and the finish is great. Colors are solid, vivid and hold little to no flaws. Power Slot pulled off the Quad look with features like the push bar bumper up front, grated foot platforms and the exaggerated fenders found on any real world quad.Read the full review at this link to Home Racing World.

Slotburger slot car now for sale

Would you like to own a very distinctive and rare slot car?

Would you also like to support a truely grass-roots slot car website?


Interested folks can send $47.00 to PayPal account usa-service@tecnitoys.com (Which is Bryan Young), or send a check to SCX Tecnitoys, 229 East Main Street, Wayne, Ohio 43466.
International orders $55.00
Checks payable to:
Tecnitoys North America, Inc


50% of the proceeds will go to help Harry keep Home Racing World a fun and vital place on the internet.

Ferrari F430 Scuderia by Novitech

The Ferrari F430 Scuderia is one car most people would have no problem in adding to my fantasy garage, the 510 horsepower supercar capable of doing 320km/h is more than sufficient to to satisfy most of our lusts. But should you wish for something a little extra why not enlist the help of specialist Ferrrari tuner Novitec Rosso who have just released their own tuning package boosting the engine up to a monstrous 717 horsepower bringing the top speed up to 348km/h and the 0-62mph time down to just 3.5 seconds.

The engine gets new belt driven twin-superchargers with a limited boost pressure of 0.48 bar, the heat insulated intake manifold have been redesigned to provide the engine with pre-compressed air and the it also gets two high performance air filters and eight larger injectors. The extra heat generated from the additional power is cooled with a higher capacity coolant system.

The subtle interior modifications include a new flat bottomed sports steering wheel featuring leather and carbon fibre materials as well as carbon-fibre shift paddles.

BMW 635 Jager from Spirit

Spirit will release the BMW 635 Jager later this year.

Gallardo Superleggera by Edo Competition

Following the tuned Murciélago LP 640, edo competition presents its second Lamborghini project with the Gallardo Superleggera.

Through high flow breathing components such as a massive air box and newly designed high flow catalytic converters plus a recalibrated engine control unit, the Gallardo SLE produces 30hp (22 kW) more to 560 hp (411 kW) at 8,250 rpm. Top speed is bumped up to about 6 km/h (4 mph) to 320 km/h (199 mph) and 0 – 100 km/h (62 mph) arrives in 3.7 seconds and 0 – 200 km/h (124 mph) in 11.7 seconds.

Also, 19-inch three piece racing wheels shod in stock-sized or 245/35 ZR 19 (F) 305/30 ZR 19 (R) Dunlop Sport Maxx tires plus 15mm lowered suspensions and smoked side turn signals round out the package, except for one last detail.

The exhaust system's sound volume can be adjusted at the press of a button via remote control. Check out the video above for demonstration.

Spirit Golf Rally

A BP deco of the Golf will be released by Spirit.

Volkswagen Fox by RDX Racedesign

The Volkswagen Fox may not be on the top of your list for an aerodynamic make-over, but RDX Racedesign caters for a niche market of Fox fans. RDX designed a new front spoiler with integrated grille, side sills and a new rear apron to give the rather conservative small car a brand new look.

The RDX badgeless front end lends the Fox with a Golf GTI-look while the new Audi S6 daylight running lights are an optional extra. The side sills and rear diffuser match perfectly and RDX has left the rear bumper without tailpipe cut-outs, leaving that to the discretion of their customers.

The body kit is fully TÜV certified and approved and costs just over Euro 615.

PowerSlot VW Polo S.1600 By Shawn Smith

Appearance: Before we get too far in let me again remind everyone that this is a brand new company so some growing pains are to be expected. Even so when I first opened the box and pulled out these Polo's I was pleasantly surprised by the general appearance of both cars. The cases, which are really big for such relatively small cars, are simlar in look to case from numerous other companies having a flat black plastic base and a tall clear plastic top. While these Polo's might look a little dwarfed by the case size Power Slot also makes Dakar style trucks so they have to be large enough to fit their other lines. Inside each case is a thick card-stock background with very basic company information on the back.Leaning more towards race liveries than street car looks I went for the white BP South Africa Rally Championship car first and quickly opened the case to get a better look at these new cars. At first glance the car looks great with orange accents like both front and rear bumpers, the rear hatch mounted wing and a variety of other colors that stand out well on the mostly white base paint.The 'Show Car' version, in contrast, is a basic red finish which is difficult to make lacking that 'toy-like' appearance. The overall finish however is nice the glossy although for me it screams to be covered in graphics and have numbers placed on it.

Read the full review at this link on Home Racing World.

Spirit Courage

Another livery of the Spirit Courage "Mazda" powered slot car.

Indy Car video

Odd that IndyCar would put out this video. But then you can't blame them for trying to drum up interest any way they can. Even if the action on the track isn't compelling enough, then why not put out this video, eh?

Mercedes SLR Mclaren 740hp by Renntech

When we first heard of the Mercedes SLR Mclaren 722, we all licked our lips at the prospect of a 722 horsepower engine, but when the final figure of 650hp was released it left a sour taste in our mouth. Renntech soon put that sweet taste back with their own tuning package which boosted the supercar's power up to where it should be at 722 horses, and now by popular demand the tuning house has pumped yet more ponies out of the 5.4-liter supercharged engine bringing total power up to 740hp

For the upgraded tuning package Renntech have re-worked the ECU software and added a less restrictive motorsports-style exhaust system to get the extra ponies to the new Renntech Signature 10-spoke, 3 piece performance wheels.

For an extra bit of added spice the tuner has also provided a nice little video in which you can hear the engine.