Slot car addiction

Slot Car Collections

For this issue, Slot Addiction sat down to talk with Dominic Grimes, president of the Australian Scalextric Racing and Collecting Club. Dominic also describes himself as a slot car ‘custodian, so his views on slot car collecting are informative and entertaining.

AMC: How would you define a slot car collection?

I see a lot of collections, and to me a collection can be 10, 20, or maybe 2000 cars. It’s whatever somebody has as their thing. It may be a particular driver they saw race back in the day. And that’s why collecting is a great part of the hobby – it makes the hobby very social. You might be at someone’s place for a race, and you get to