The Ford Escort Mk l was launched onto the U.K. market in 1967 as a replacement for the aging Ford Anglia 105E, the charming late 50’s introduced version with the inward sloping rear window as modelled by ‘Spot-On’ (a sister Tri-Ang product to Scalextric during the early I mid 60’s). It was the latest in a line of small Fords that stretched back to the side valve engined models of the post war years (sit-up and beg shaped Pops, Anglias and Prefects etc.). Naturally it did not take Ford Rallye Sport long to develop competition versions of the Escort, which included one of the earliest 4 WD comp ..read more

TRIUMPH TR7 -A BRIEF COLLECTORS GUIDE By Phil Etgart ( First published mid to late 1990’s) Long regarded as the ugly ducking of the TR series, in some peoples eyes not “A Real TR”, certainly not as collectable as it’s earlier cousins, the TR7, might just be coming of age judging by the number of beautifully restored examples that I have seen during recent summer. Admittedly the resto’s have been predominantly dropheads, but there’s little doubt that once those candidates for restoration have dried up collectors will move on to the more affordable Tin-Tops. In some respects it’s a shame Homby d ..read more

Mark was looking through Phil’s back catalogue of articles to pick one out for this week, over breakfast this morning – he liked this with all the prices, published in 1997. He was reading it out loud and got to the bit near the bottom that refers to a prize Auto Union – Phil asks “I wonder where it is now” – and it dawned on me (we have it). Yesterday John came to see us, and we purchased some cars from him. Now that is what I call a coincidence, 40 years after it was won, and 26 years after Phil asked the question – Fate gave us the answer. NSCC NEWSLETTER THE FIRST 15 YEARS -HOW SCALEXTRIC ..read more

When Phil wrote this article he was talking about collecting models that were some 30-40 years old – its become a far harder task now. That said the Grandprix cars surface often and we do at the moment have some beautiful Austin Healey examples- The boxed cars are really sought after and hard to find- ROOTS OF SCALEXTRIC-THE MINIMODELS YEARS 1947 TO 1959 By Phil Etgart Anyone who has read any of the articles I have written will know how enthusiastic I am about the range of tinplate models produced by Minimodels under the Scalex, Startex and eventually Scalextric brand names, Whilst most people ..read more

We have recently been sorting through some old paperwork and came across a file of documents and articles that came to us from our good friend and long ago college, Phil Etgart, when we purchased his collection some 20+ years ago! On looking through them, we thought it was wrong for all this information and knowledge about the Scalextric hobby to be lounging in a draw, gathering dust. So, it is our intention over the forthcoming months to share them with you, as many were no doubt written before may of the current collectors started collecting. Some were originally printed in the various colle ..read more

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As we hope you are all aware, we are now well on the way with the organisation of the UK Slot Car Festival, which is finally back for 2022! An amazing two-day event weekend – Saturday May 28th and Sunday 29th 2022. We hope many of you will be able to attend, it’s an amazing event – where we hope we include everything slot car – with a massive list of exhibitors, manufactures and retailers all in attendance to make a special weekend – with the wonderful addition of the British Motor Museum. Scale Models Web Site We are pleased this year to offer CLICK & COLLECT at UK Slot Car Festival 2022 ..read more

Hi Another week has whizzed past! The New UKSF C4284 Capri has proved very popular – It looks superb, and we have had great feedback- Thank you. We could do with some feedback re the web site – Where would you always look when visiting? Just the Recently listed and Featured Items on the front page- or do you follow the menus to your area of interest? Vintage Collectable Scalextric RUSC Spares Spanish Scalextric Catalogues and Paper Work Vintage Buildings and Accessories Or maybe we do not have the link you would be looking for! Have you tried the Search Bar, we had some one the other day say t ..read more

One week on – we have been thrilled by all the kind and positive comments re the New Web Site – Thank You, we appreciate the feedback, and we were able to sort the menus for tablets quickly because a customer advised he was having a problem. We keep adding items all the time and will happily add additional menu tabs if people think they are required. You can sort ‘BY LATEST’ , so we hope you will visit often. Monday will see the release of the 2021 UKSF car – they were already ordered, so have to be sold. We will get them on the site first thing.  Scalextric have done us proud again. Whil ..read more