This Place has 3 MASSIVE indoor race tracks!

Wanna race slot cars? This is the place to do it. In this Hobby Shop Tour episode, we check out Fast Track Hobbies in Rocklin, CA. In addition to their 3 indoor tracks, they have a whole ton of other hobbies available. You are likely to find what you want and need right there on the shelves. We also catch up with award winning scale builder Elio Deanda (from Axialfest in 2019!) who shows us his latest build and invites you all to his next event Scale Challenge West. So awesome to chat with staff member and fellow RC Girl Allison about her role in the shop after 3 years there.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the video! It has been a ton of fun learning about so many different facets of the radio control hobby and hearing stories of how people got involved.
FAST TRACK HOBBIES
www.fasttrackhobbies.com
4420 Granite Dr
Rocklin, CA 95677
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[@starfighter2952]

I'm sooooo glad there is still slot cars tracks somewhere.

[@sneescampers]

like trying to find pinball machines out in the wild ay.

[@starfighter2952]

@sneescampers My go to place when I was a kid had three slot car tracks. And sold testers gas powered cars and planes, all sorts of models, balsa wood kits, etc. And most of all, mini bikes.

[@laska907]

Some of my favorite memories from childhood are evening trips to the mall to race slot cars with my dad

[@starfighter2952]

@laska907 my dad was a slot car race announcer at are local hobby/slot car/mini bike shop.

[@1stjohnrocklin]

I’m not an RC guy, but I come to FT Hobbies to buy their bass/balsa wood for model railroading. Last time I went there I saw you coming out after your shoot. Not sure why your video even popped up, but was excited to see a familiar fun local hobby store. Great video!

[@PaulPadoan]

Get your kids into this kind of hobbies, no money or time left for drugs.

[@TexRobNC]

I miss slot cars. I used to do them at a track off 1960 in Houston in the 80s and 90s as a kid. These things are a real shame that they have died off, because honestly it should make a comeback. I guess the home tracks maybe hurt the desire to have these, but nothing replaces the real thing.

[@jamesolson1386]

Nice to see that great hobby shops still exist. Thanks for everything you do for the hobby.

[@JB-xi2yv]

No kidding! In Cali no less?!

[@Moondoggy1941]

@@JB-xi2yv Finally something great in my state and luck would have it on the other end of it.

[@johnhennessy7887]

1967 in Queens NYC I loved to make and race these cars.... Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Smith for years of fun.

[@-ZIO]

What part of Queens? I would drive from Ozone Park to go to Elmsford Raceway when my cousin lived in Westchester.

[@johnhennessy7887]

@@-ZIO Glen Oaks...260th st and Union Tpk.

[@brotzmannsax]

@@-ZIO I lived in Ozone Park in the 60's off Liberty Ave and 88 St. and we would walk down Liberty Ave. to City Line and go to hobby shop off Elderts Lane to purchase slot cars, Matchbox and Aurora racing cars and tracks on Saturdays.

[@spikespa5208]

On a cross-country family trip in '67 my older brother slot raced his way from CA to Boston, via Montreal, and back. Pitting his scratch-built-frame cars against locals at any track he could find. He was so jazzed about the new (at that time) body tech: clear plastic paint-on-the-inside bodies. Nice to see the hobby is enduring still.

[@laska907]

I’m not even two minutes into the video and I had to pause to say this place is MY DREAM STORE! I could, very easily, part ways with every dollar to my name at this place. Talk about a dream hobby shop 😍

[@rodger2499]

This brings back memories when I was 10 years old (50 years ago) growing up in Venice Ca. There were two local slot car tracks where my dad would take me to one of them almost every Friday night. Too bad there weren't more places like this with 1/24 scale slot cars.

[@Airsally]

Awesome shop,and track m I raced slot cars back when I was 14-15 yrs old. Every Fri night at a local track. Back then we built our own chassis with brass tubes and brass rods and some piano wire,and soldered them all together. Fun stuff.

[@Everett-xe3eg]

I remember owning a slot track as a kid. I couldnt wait to get off the track and into the front yard. This large one looks really fun

[@TAllyn-qr3io]

When I was a teenager living on our ranch in S. Idaho, a buddy and I bought six Tyco slotless car sets and we had a huge finished basement. When we weren’t out moving sprinkler pipe, farming or feeding livestock (summertime spare time) we would get high and race cars. It was awesome but, I wish we had something like this. After retiring from the military I moved back to Idaho and we don’t even have a decent hobby store here. Hobby Lobby is crap! This place on here would blow my mind and I would finally be able to buy some Nitro for my 1/8 scale buggy and 1/8 scale truggy. Looks fun as hell there! 🤙🤙🤙

[@johnmajane3731]

I didn't think slot car tracks still existed. Hobby Shops sure have changed. I remember seeing shelves full of kits, now full of ARF foam models.

[@customstreetbuildz8577]

That’s one of my go to spots fast track hobbies been going there since the sunrise days at the old pep boys building. Also Rc Country in Rancho Cordova they used to be on Folsom blvd. my favorite two hobby shops here locally in Sacramento.

[@HellaNorCal916]

My 3 kids and I have a lot of great memories of RC County when it was on Folsom. The high ceilings and RC airplanes hanging all over definitely makes a positive impression on small kids. 😊

[@mariomarquez5559]

Rc country… the place where they rushed you out the door with the most expensive rc car they can sell and when you comeback for advice they have no time.

[@hobbycow5346]

That has to be the most massive, epic hobby shop I’ve ever seen! I don’t have anything even close to me, let alone a place like this Disney World of hobbies. If this place was anywhere near me, I’d be there every day, buying stuff, racing, and filling my drool bucket. 🤤

[@johntuffy5721]

ditto :)

[@OregonMotorcycle]

My wife and I were just here when we were visiting family down there. Country RC is another awesome place. Sacramento has some really nice shops.

[@dougtaylor7724]

Back in the middle and late 60’s those tracks were amazing. There were magazines and suppliers. It was huge. As a little kid we went with older brother and would sit at the hard turns where people would run off. You would pop up and put somebody back in the groove. They would say I’m on green or whatever. If they were a jerk you would put the car in nose first and pull it backwards a few inches. That would make the woven pickups to come loose and fail sooner. 😂 The nice guys would give you a quarter top.

[@SlowFlyer85]

Awesome Hobby store back in the 70's when I live in NJ at Wall Stadium they had a Hobby shop and put up the first slot car track and every Friday night and Saturday the place was pack to run there cars on it was a big thing back in the days great Video enjoyed it alot thanks 😊😁👍👍👍👍

[@magnetik5348]

I miss slot car racing. (and being around great shops like Fast Track) I spent so much money (@ $3.35 min wage) at my local spot growing up in Houston in the 90s. I'd probably be dangerous today. Met so many cool people. My arms are still cut up from all the times I volunteered to marshal during races for free time. It was scary in group15 races with wings coming at your arms when reaching into an underpass to pull out a flipped car. I ended up using duct tape on my arms eventually. lol

[@FinnegansGarage]

need to add this spot to my road trip list of places to visit. its incredible!

[@miners_treasures]

Slot cars all started for me in Plano, TX at Slots of Fun owned by John LaRue. I learned how to build, race and ultimately help others build their car better. Jesse Kensinger, Bruce Huntley, Bob and Brenda Herrick (owners of DRS), Frank Reedy and a few others all helped me. Most of these were world record holders and I will never forget them.

[@miners_treasures]

@@16-BITFPV King track in Plano, Texas

[@16-BITFPV]

​@@miners_treasures I always love hearing about different tracks people have raced on.

[@kentonian]

What an incredible place! Most importantly what a super sweet bunch of people, especially Alison 😍 Good luck to all of you from England xx

[@robsp32]

I wish we still had huge hobby stores like this near me, my nephew would love it

[@brotzmannsax]

Great store and tracks, I've never seen a hobby shop so massive. Back in the late 60's I used to go on Saturday mornings and spend the day racing my slot cars, a red Maserati and black Ferrari, great memories.

[@nickc8819]

Growing up my family didn't have much money, but when my Dad bought us a slot car set, for Christmas, we spent hours, days, weeks of enjoyment. The cool sounds, paint and decal colors, the smells, the detailed motor, complex but simple, I will always cherish those memories!!

[@mikecollins8241]

I got (back) into slot cars a few winters ago (stuck inside!) HO scale like when I was young.. so much fun, I have built a 4x8 table complete with scenery/ building etc.. so much fun and SO fast! Racing 2 cars at once (by yourself!) is a real challenge :)

[@smoothrc28]

Great hobby shop!! Every state should have a hobby shop like that. Thanks For Sharing!!!👍👍👍👍

[@richard1472]

Back in the day, every town had a hobby shop like that, or at least, something similar. (Sigh) I need a moment... 😢

[@user-yf6pc6dc3g]

Wish they still had these track around at Louis . It was a blast 20 years ago

[@musoseven8218]

That's an awesome shop - superb in fact. Thanks for sharing 👍✌️😊💜

[@NicolasValentinScotland]

Watching from Scotland , those little cars are flying . Great set up . ❤

[@jimbryant2157]

Rocklin sure has changed in the 25 years since I lived 'next door' (in Roseville). It was so small ('How small was it?') that there was only one stoplight (at the corner of Pacific and Rocklin Rd) - and it blinked! We used to go to the GI Joe surplus store with my dad and dream of getting a .50 cal machine gun to mount on his Wiley's WW2 jeep so we could play Rat Patrol!

[@faroutgolf3650]

Pismo Beach had 4 race tracks we used as kids in the 1960's. It's been awhile since I thought about how wonderful those times were. I'm glad to see the great hobby still in existence..

[@showmerc9649]

That was my local shop for years before I moved to Alabama. I even won a Losi Baja Rey in one of their in store raffles. Love your channel 👍🛻

[@edwardranno7119]

As a kid we had slot car tracks in northvale NJ ,we went every Sunday afternoon

[@franksprecisionguesswork501]

This is great! There used to be a slot car track in my town that closed down maybe 20 years ago. One can only hope that this hobby resurfaces and gets the kids off of the keyboard and back in to something that I think is more conducive to learning physical skills and human interfacing.

[@DAVIDEPWDD]

So Awesome..... I had a older cousin that would take me to the track on Saturdays. Being a little kid I could barely see the track but always in awe....... That was the beginning of building from slot cars to later r.c. planes, boats, and cars even though don' have much time these day still near and dear to my heart. Building and creating v.s. kids being glue to a video game this provides so much more. Love reading all the comments of everyone really makes me smile and thanks for sharing all of your experiences so so cool.....

[@jomomma8291]

I would be in heaven! What a shop.

[@bouncenerd]

Love that place! Visit them every time I come down the hill.

[@user-pu4jh5bz5m]

Awesome video. Love the Slot Car tracks. Brings me back to my youth.

[@nickc8819]

Great memories growing up with slot cars. Let me win the lottery, I'll open up a cool shop + like this!!

[@andyb9994]

I love your Hobby shop tours, so many cool shops and so many cool people!!! The people are always so awesome 💯

[@RCGirl]

Yes they are!

[@aracnid007]

There was a FasTraK Hobby here in Ohio around 20 years ago. A smaller version of this shop. He was big into slot cars also. Had a track they called the Mountain Track. Held National events there. Those things are crazy fast.

[@christopherbyrne1617]

I have been there! Moved from Rocklin 4 years ago to Florida. Fast Track is a great slot car place!

[@Kheti1234]

My kids and now grandkids love racing slot cars here! Then after we race slot cars I go look at their huge selection of models, while they look at the toys, stuffed animals and other great kids crafts they have. We also enjoy looking at their great selection of rockets and they have some great rubber band guns, even some fun wind chimes. Every time we go see something new. Dwight and I belong to the IPMS Dragon Lady Scale Modelers out of Yuba City. Thanks to his generosity we’ve had some great model shows and other events we probably couldn’t have had without him.

[@billjohnson1809]

This is brilliant! Love the dedication these people have for their hobby.

[@13_TH_559]

What a big shop and place 2 race 🤩 I wish we have this here in germany. Ty for present

[@thrasha]

I used to race thesein the 90's. So much fun to race and build. I miss seeing these types of places since they're so rare now.

[@jonathanmcdonald5411]

Awesome! Thanks for the video tour of an amazing hobby shop.

[@K8Nicole]

Thank you RC girl. ❤ This content.

[@RCGirl]

Thank you!

[@jwoocrew]

Awesome! I love this place my go to hobby shop that has everything you can spend the whole day there interacting with the slot car track and just looking around. It's a little out of my way to go as I'm off Bradshaw and Hwy 50 but I take every advantage to going and attending all the events Dwight puts on. Something most Hobby Shops don't do to give back to the community. The workers there are always so helpful and knowledgeable passionate about what they do. If I knew RC Girl was going to be there I would have showed up to introduce myself. Oh well missed opportunity as you will be moving out of Cali. See everyone in April!

[@simonblackwell7906]

Thanks for everything you do love watching the verity of hobby’s you show 😍 Now I want to go slot car racing hopefully we still have clubs in Australia 😝

[@teediggy1785]

I wish hope and pray we get another slot car raceway back in Connecticut I was so good at the flexicar series races when I was younger beating the old timers and the outlaw 12 groups as well amazing sport always super fun and welcoming

[@QuinnsRC]

I'm really liking your hobby shop tour videos. Great job! I've never seen slot car tracks that massive before!

[@Yodaforce2023]

My slot experience was back in the 80's. Just looked at my car the other day. Good times

[@myutyoube]

Such a HUGE store!! Thanks for the video RCG.

[@jgilruth369]

Man I am pretty stoked I found this. Gonna truck over to sac and try this again.grew up racing slot cars

[@mygtr2021]

thanks for sharing! that store totally reminds me of my youth. From kites, trains, to slot cars, to rocketry, models, RC cars..

[@JamesBond-hz2tn]

Another great hobby store👌

[@tonydownunder5703]

Cool stuff 👍👍👍

[@larrydemonte2218]

Slot cars started for me in 1973. Buzz a Rama In Brooklyn New York

[@RGHTBrainDesignDrive]

These are the tracks from Slot Cars Unlimited that used to be in Santa Clara, California at the corner of Camden and Union. So cool to see them still being used!

[@qrisemrc]

I feel this every time I watch the video, but I am so envious of the size of the RC and hobby market in the United States.😁❤️👍💕

[@53roger]

wow this place brings back memories. when we were about 8 yrs old my dad had several tracks setup including trains on an old dance hall floor. The place was about 40' x 40' and completely covered with tracks of different sorts. I remember during that time frame in our town and another town about 15 miles away they had slot car track very similar to the ones here in your shop. Wish they were still here. I would love to take my grandson.

[@timbreedlove1385]

Rc girl fantastic vid. Very well done keep up the good work . I will keep watching.

[@romulusxyz6722]

Was really cool hearing her story about how her dad inspired her career choice. I've got a few built SCX24s, and my 6yr old daughter wanted one for Christmas last year (2023). She picked out the yellow Jeep!

[@justadsa]

such a great hobby shop, and a great owner, who's a great friend to have. glade to see you give them sometime on your channel. if your in Sacramento, Roseville, Rockland area, you should definitely go check them out. I've known the owner sense they come to sac, and he was just a employ there, and helped me threw a lot of stuff threw out the years. they definitely deserve all the awards they've gotten threw out the years.

[@danielsotelo3942]

I love the smell of a slot car track and shop, which is like a burned out hair dryer and burning light oil. God there's nothing like it... I grew up in Highland Park Calif, by Glendale in the 60s ~ 70s and they had hall with 4 massive slot-car tracks. Though I was young I held a good paying job cleaning 10 pool tables at the local pool hall every morning before going to school. So I had plenty of money to spend the whole day on the weekends racing my slot cars. Later they opened a slot car place by Burbank Airport ran by a very nice elderly couple. Its nice to see Hobbies doing a comeback.

[@marksmith2726]

That's awesome!!! What a great shop really wish i had a place like that to go to in Australia.

[@BlueOceanRoss]

Hey RC girl. Thanks for the look at a really cool shop/track! I hope your doing well. Thanks for doing what you do.

[@soma_rc]

Man, that shop is huge 😮

[@mushieslushie]

I didn't know this place existed. When I was a kid there was a slot car place in Roseville on Harding, but that place has been gone for a long time and I had no idea there was anything like this still around.

[@95666]

Cool! This place is 5 minutes from my house, they have everything.

[@RCGirl]

Yeah they really do.

[@garymcaleer6112]

How cars have improved since my day. Some fond memories watching this. There's a club in S. TN. I stopped by to see how they were getting along.

[@RCRoads]

This really brings back memories. It was nice to hang out with other slot car enthusiast.

[@TaurusPresents]

The ultimate candy store for RC enthusiasts. I suspect that if I enter such a place at opening time, I will still be looking around at closing time. 🆒🔥💪 Thanks for sharing 👍

[@onazram1]

The place is insane!

[@dhtm3577]

My best Christmas next to getting a Schwinn Sting Ray, was the year my brother and I got a Strombecker slot car set 1/32!!! Never grow up!!😅

[@chrisrobertson9264]

What an amazing amazing place 👍😉

[@TheAwesomeYouTuber1]

That brings you back to my childhood slot car racing. Of course the truck we use Weather as big but it was still fun.

[@slotcardude68]

Keep those slotcar videos coming!!!

[@andrerodriguez7603]

There use to be a RC slot track in Pasadena Ca. in the early 60’s. Unfortunately it didn’t last long and became “Henry’s Toy Store” for a couple of decades.

[@fcsolich]

This is a great shop. It's my main hobby shop. they go it all.😊

[@janinsweden8559]

Wow...awesome shop!

[@v1-vr-rotatev2-vy_vx31]

Started slot car racing 1963 Clearwater Florida.. spent a lot of years racing usra rules Los Angeles and San Diego,, raced a long side with some of the biggies back then...

[@davekat4680]

……got to dust off my slot car box and get up to rocklin 👍 thx RC girl 🙌🏼

[@robertruiz5417]

Amazing video ❤ love it I visited there when I cross treked Americas Hobby shops after retirement fom the military

[@stevecox8576]

All I have to say is NEAT-OH!!😊

[@XBOXShawn12thman]

JUST AWESOME!!!!!

[@motorcycle-man]

These guys at 5:00 are the best. Love their energy. I hope they are doing well.

[@RCGirl]

Yeah they really are! I stumbled across them while walking around the store and asked if they minded being filmed/asked questions and they were so nice!

[@RizwanGnag]

Superb..keep it going.. I'm sure you will raise the standards of RC racing just like Kev, Tomley and Claire.. love and respect from India, Mumbai 🎉

[@eightballsidepocket]

This place looks awesome! My favorite local shop wasn't even half of this place. 😂

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Glad the girls love cars too

[@TWTexasA1]

As a model builder I’d go insane at this place….🤪🤪🤪😂😂👍🏼👍🏼

[@charlieshankles]

Great review. Im loving this series. I just got into mini-z racing which is similar just no slot. Keep up the great content

[@zaccarrollart3493]

When you make it to Virginia check out Barn Burners Slot Car Club, the club has scale silverstone club, spa and are building watkins glen!

[@muthatrucker6485]

Loved you in the terminator TV series BTW

[@kc6nfv746]

Put the wings even in a flexy slot car makes it take the turns so much better not many tracks left in southern California

[@ninooliastro2285]

Amazing video!!! I wanna check out this hobby shop!!!

[@Scale_RC_and_Slotcars]

You really should get a slot car track !indoor racing ...no need to charge batteries, no cancellations because of weather and really not too expensive to get into 🤗

[@TheDeLeonSlotCarRaceway]

Hey Harry, imagine meeting you here, you like these slot cars?

[@TLankins]

Dwight is great to deal with. Fast Track was my local when I lived in Lincoln. Great group of people and a big crawler scene.

[@skxj]

Big crawler scene as in real jeep crawling or RC crawling ?

[@MrJearley6]

Thank you for this video!!! This is cool !!

[@user-mq9mw8fq6n]

Great video. Thanks 😊