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So much new stuff in the world of slot to talk about we broke the internet, at least that;s my excuse for it taking four attempts to record this week's episode. There'e new cars, new NASCAR TV shows and speculation about the funding of race car teams. The legal dept say we should know better. We say they are just toys cars. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fighting back manfully as only men can, your courageous (and possibly still contagious) hosts bring tales of Glam Rock, recreating the 1980s with slot cars and lizard based race liveries. In a rare educational moment, Nick enlightens Scott about Chase Cars:innovative chassis which allowed slot cars to exhibit realistic body-roll while cornering. And Nick's been given a useful tool he can't find a...

There's a strong whiff of old England with talk of tweed and Morris Minors, even references to football. By way of balance, we guess at what Carrera are up to Las Vegas and there's almost no talk of slot rallying. We reflect upon the sad news from a British hobby stalwart - you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone - and Nick reports back on what it is like to have your possessions fondled. A...

(Sorry : we had a glitch in the previous upload of EP50 which stopped at 20min when it should be 45min long. This is the full version.) The year might only be days old but Scott has already been spontaneous shopping for shop-themed slot cars - it was a bargain, apparently. Nick has been repurposing a Scalextric Porsche: is his love affair with old Subarus over? We pose the BIG questions: where hav...

The year might only be days old but Scott has already been spontaneous shopping for shop-themed slot cars - it was a bargain, apparently. Nick has been repurposing a Scalextric Porsche: is his love affair with old Subarus over? We pose the BIG questions: where have all the Kaliber Sierras gone and are the latest Scalextric releases both pink or not? Elsewhere, Scott extols the simple joy of runnin...

What better way to fill the hours before midnight on New Year's Eve than by listening to the ruminations of two middle-aged men who play with toy cars. Yes, it's the year end edition of your favourite slot car podcast:Talking Utter Slot. It's a double celebration because the podcast is one year old this week. No, we didn't think it would last this long either. There's looking back, there's looking...

Giddy with excitement ahead of Christmas, or possibly too much Night Nurse, Scott sees strong hints of a new Carrera Ferrari and muses on the morality of modelling dead men's cars. Nick has Super Glued his specs, but paints on through the haze only to discover the much anticipated ScaleAuto Mitsubishi is too wide for Slot Rally GB. Undaunted, he's also converting ancient Airfix kits into yet more...

Excited by upcoming motorsport movies (yes, plural), we wonder if the story of Walter Röhrl might better be told by a grand Wagnerian opera. There's lots of Germanic intrigue, treachery and triumph, not to mention iconic cars from Lancia and Audi, even a secret mid-engined, 4WD Mercedes. Nick has been tempering his frustration with the postal system by stripping in the cause of saintly loveliness...

While Fly's release of a tiny Tom Cruise might be satire, is the model of the late tiny Queen Elizabeth's 911 treason? For one thing, where's the Corgi? Fortunately, Scott has a solution. Nick, fresh back from the Wye Valley Club slot rally in Abergavenny, reports on how the bargain bucket Scalextric Subarus got on and asserts, quite assertively, that a NSR Porsche 911 is not a rally car no matter...

All great quests start somewhere and The Search For The Green Morgan is no different: it starts today. Not to be left out, Nick's quest to repaint as many Scalextric Subraus as he can find on eBay continues despite, checks notes, 'rampant profiteering' by the spray paint makers. Elsewhere there is discussion on the merits of a pig-whale hybrid: unwelcome as a slot car (think Porsche liveries) but...

Family links mean Nick is uniquely excited about the upcoming Avant Slot Mitsubishi Galant BTCC car, sparking hopes for a renaissance of Supertouring slot cars. There's talk of racing Citroën Méhari, hopes for a dinosaur liveried Porsche and curiosity about just how many cogs are under the new Scalextric Land Rover. Meanwhile, in the Ford Puma WRC match, Spain are 2-0 up. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Posing the questions other slot car shows shy away from, we ask this week's guest, Tom Howard, world rally reporter at Autosport magazine: "Have you got axel mankers?" Nick has discovered how affordable old Scalextric Subarus are and has embarked on a mission to relivery as many as possible: where there's a decal, there's a way. Meanwhile, Scott is still digging out old rally cars, this week a cla...

Dave Kennedy: he's King of the slot car news and for once he's the one answering the questions. The answers are revealing and may surprise you. We talk about working for slot car companies, what's good and what's bad, we talk about the expansion in slot car media and we learn what slot car Dave would put into production if he ran a slot car company. Dave's popular Slot Car News channel can be foun...

Are we paying too much for our toy cars? Is £250 daylight robbery or is the new Avant Slot Mercedes double set actually a bargain? Nick's getting more bang(ers) for his buck by kit-bashing re-released snap-fit models to bolster his TV Cop Shows fleet. With so much focus on law enforcement, Scott confesses to arson, or at least very unwise pyromania with classic Scalextric boxes. There's also a gre...

The second part of the conversation with Gareth about his large slot car collection. In this section we discuss the practicalities and challenges of selling a collection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Like many of us, Gareth started playing with and then collecting slot cars. A lot of slot cars. So many he didn't know the exact number. Then it lost its magic and he sold them. This two-part conversation covers both sides: the fun involved in building up a collection and then, in part 2, doing the unthinkable - selling them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You say Mona-co, I say Mon-ah-co. Either way it's all Monte Carlo and Nick's hotel minibar is expensive, as are the latest amazing creations announced by Hobby Classic and Modelant. There's accusations of shaved chassis, bemusement at half-painted models from Fly and, in a public service for those who love us, suggestion of what we might like to find in our Christmas stockings. Yes, it's nearly th...

Brown slot cars aren't as rare as you think, if indeed you ever think about such things at all. We do. We're also wondering if the driver of the new Scalextric Lotus Esprit is carrying a few extra grams? Looking for a quest? Try finding John Lennon's old Mini, just watch out for the rival gangs of Mini and Beatles fans also on its trail. If there's ever another Indiana Jones movie... Meanwhile, Ni...

'It was twenty years ago today...'* From idea to execution took just days and it's still going now: Slot Forum was created by a dispersed bunch of Europeans who'd never met, but who wanted an on-line home, close to home, for their shared hobby : Scalextric and slotcars. Reuniting some key players for the first time in several years, the special episode brings recollections and reminiscences of how...

We're oddly excited about trips to Wales in Winter thanks to the return of the Slot Rally GB Championship next year: further proof we don't get out much. Not entirely unrelated, there's keen anticipation for upcoming rally slot cars and musings on what to run in the new rally classes at the club. Elsewhere, Nick freely admits to having a big but, although this turns out to be a concern about the u...

Can the Dragon Snake shake off its skin issues? Who wants a pink Cobra anyway? Also in paint: Nick's been building wheels and may have to break a vow of abstinence by adding to his Porsche 956 collection with just one more white kit. There must be something in the air (other than pink paint flakes) because even Scott's contemplating trying a Ferrari F1 white kit. All sense has fled. Hosted on Acas...

From re-issued Auto Unions via BMW white kits to slot shops in Austria selling only Carrera digital, there's a distinctly Germanic flavour to this episode. There's discernible joy at the thought of well-made wire wheels, despair at the lack of variety in Spirit BMW liveries (and the subsequent sacrifice of a gorgeous Gitanes scheme) and fond recollections of the 70s with the help of James Hunt, Ge...

How a throw-away idea over dinner became a two-day festival of slot cars and rallying. Gold plated trophies, cars running through water, a hill climb to a castle and lots of happy people. It was never repeated, but it kick-started a fondly remembered, multi-year slot rally championship with events across the country, limited edition cars and many fond memories. Here is how it all began. Hosted on...