There's a magical place in Southern Michigan where cars from the past are made new again. Where childhood memories are never forgotten, and those grand old slot cars that have long since disappeared from the face of the earth show their faces again.
That place is EJ's Hobbies in Grand Rapids, Michigan has been reproducing great slot cars of the past for years, and doing quite well, I might add. Often using actual N.O.S. bodies from Strombecker or Eldon to model his works of art.
EJ's has something special. For a little bit more money than a ready to run slot car you can get a kit that takes you back to the days of old, the days when kits were abundant, cheap, and fast! Back when model kits were often used for slot car conversions, and were never molded in color. Everything in kit for was molded in white. If you wanted color, you painted it. EJ's newest offering is a reproduction of the Eldon Dodge Coronet. It's the car that Americans have been asking for, or at least one of. The shape of things that were, and quite possibly, the shape of things to come.
How much would you spend on a vintage slot car kit? $200? $500? $1,000? Once you got it, would you build it? Or would you put it on display and wonder what it would be like to assemble, then race it? What if I told you that you could get a vintage quality kit for under $60? E.J.'s Hobbies of Grand Rapids, Michigan has produced a quality 1:32 scale kit, complete with an original Strombecker Ferrari 365P2 body. Though the running gear is not vintage Strombecker, the technology is old school.
