Bins of slot car parts, plastic model car pieces, ... Homegrown: These 50-Year-Old Tether Cars Are Still Racing Hard. Story by Cameron Neveu • 1w. I t was 6:00 am on a Saturday in 1974.

While 200 mph isn't that unusual in the world of tether car racing, the Vector is the first electric powered model of its kind to do so. George and Roger are not yet done either.

Racing of tether cars, or spindizzies, began in the 1930s, with miniature cars powered by model-airplane engines competing against one another. Skip to content Skip to site index.

For a few short years before and after World War II, the ear-splitting shriek of hand-built model race cars, known as spindizzies or tether cars, could be heard across America. Sitting at his ...

Despite the car’s diminutive diesel engines, they had enough power to propel the 40 carefully-crafted models around the track at up to 60 mph. Power was sent to the wheels via a tiny centrifugal ...

It seems like more than one of these tether cars with M5 engines was built by a skilled craftsman named Don Edmunds, but similar to the Morton M5 engine, it’s hard to nail down an exact figure.

The large-scale model used in the first Star Wars film has plastic parts taken from Ferrari and McLaren race cars, among many others. The original Millennium Falcon built for the first Star Wars ...