Popular slot car magazine
The magazine Model Car & Track was the most popular magazine during the "boom" of slot car racing. The first issue was printed in 1963.
MC&T
Delta Magazine Inc. in Los Angeles has published Model Car and Track. In the sixties the magazine brought monthly the latest news about slot racing products, custom tracks and scratch tips. The first issue, which was printed in the winter of 1963, was presented as "The complete book of table top racing". This highly interesting publication gives a superb overview of the slot racing scene at the beginning of the sixties.
Monthly publication
The magazine started as a bimonthly and shifted in 1964 to a monthly publication. Only forty-six issues are printed of Model Car & Track.
Books of MC&T
The editors of Model Car & Track and Model Car Science have published the "Model Car Racing Handbook" of 1966 and 1967. Both magazines merged in 1968 at downfall of the hype of model car racing.
Robert Schleicher
Robert Schleicher, the current publisher of Model Car Racing has been one of the contributing editors. Currently Schleicher reprints some articles of MC&T in MCR. Especially layouts from the past, often of circuits that are closed now, become recycled.
Collectors item
Nowadays many vintage slot car enthusiasts collect the magazines through Ebay. The price of Model Car & Track was 50 cents in 1964. These days a bid range of 10 to 20 US-dollars is common, of course depending on the quality of the particular issue.
Jan Willem van Capelleveen
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