Spurgeon, Bard. "Racing for Laps, and We Don't Mean Santa's: The Slot-Car Revival", The New York Times, December 27, 1996. Accessed July 27, 2009. "Still, like kids of all ages, I was thoroughly enjoying the 1990s revival of a 1960s fad: slot-car racing.... During its heyday, the slot-car racing industry was a $500-million-a-year business."