Of course, clients get their say, once they put down a $25,000 deposit. “So there was this camaraderie, kind of like what you get at a cars and coffee, but we were standing around a slot-car track and just racing and tuning cars.” ![]() “A lot of guys who helped me build my track were displaced autoworkers-engineers and designers from Ford and GM,” Beattie says. It was 2008-dark days of the Great Recession. ![]() In the quiet hours after his wife and daughter would go to bed, running slot cars around that track in his basement became a respite from worries of having lost his job as operations manager at a sign company. “So it became a 27-linear-foot track, and then went to 109 feet.” Eventually, it took over his basement, swelling to 170 linear feet with sections of raceway representing Le Mans, Monza, and the Nürburgring. “I was sneaking all of these cars and extra track into the house,” he says. This story originally appeared in the November, 2018 issue of Road & Track. ![]() That’s why his slot-car track kept growing. For David Beattie, the distance between despair and euphoria can be measured in linear feet.
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