Model motor vehicle highway system

In a toy car system of the type having a track with a pair of energized rails to provide current to an electrically powered model car or other vehicle and a slot between said rails to engage a guide pin in a bottom of a said car, the improvement comprising:

• an elongated continuous length of a flexible sliding pin engaging device disposed in said slot, said device having a length significantly less than the length of the slot defined by a complete circle of track required to operate a toy car system, said device engages a pin in a powered car to move along with said powered car, said sliding pin engaging device having a length to extend beyond said powered car and position one or more additional non-powered cars, each of said non-powered cars having a guide pin depending from said car, said cars placed behind, ahead or behind and ahead of said powered car in random order to create the appearance of a flow of traffic along said track without direct rigid mechanical connection of a powered to a non-powered car, said flexible pin engaging device constructed of a material and in a form to slide freely in said slot without rotation about a longitudinal or transverse axis of said pin engaging device.