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Maybe these days with just about every dream car you can think of available as an RTR or kit from some manufacturer or other, is it time we revived the Thingie?

I know they almost tore the hobby apart back in the old days, but I must admit to a high degree of admiration for those imaginative souls who designed wholly orginal shapes for slot cars. What would be the perfect shape for a slot car these days, if all prototypical accuracy was ignored?
Lets carve some wild cars, suck some zombies in those home-made vac-formers, get the creative juices flowing into some wild shapes and bizarre colour schemes!

Back then, I seem to remember some pretty serious real car designers threw up some shapes for commercial track slot-racers. Why not try it again now, when the hobby seems to have hit new heights? Or are we just scared of a new schism?

By the way, this is actually just a very thinly disguised ploy to get some more vintage slot car pics posted. Where are those great West Coast Thingies of yore?
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There is a nice feature on the Shinoda bodied thingies over at VSRN. Take a look here.

Kind regards

Russell
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This has to be the ultimate Thingie:




Ronny Hellquist's Dual-Engined Flat-Iron Slot Car, pictures by Don Siegel and courtesy of Scratchbuilt .com.
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So that's what she meant when she spoke about Edo's "thingie"....
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"Actually, we were all pretty "mature"; talking at the dinner the night before the race, a whole group of us were born in 51-52-53; but it was the two youngsters Brad and Ezio who took all the marbles!"

Which is why I prefer proxy racing....


Great event! Great pictures! Thanks for posting.

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Russell
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Edo, here's an article from Scale Auto Racing News about a 1/32nd scale "thingie" which I built for John Ford in early 1995. Yes, I looked 10 years younger then...




Now, if that hasn't put you off "thingies" for life, nothing will!


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Russell
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Superb, Edo! I'm sure that you have already seen Dave Dobner's wonderful collection of Shinoda thingies on the VSRN website. If not, look here.

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Russell
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Thingie fans will be pleased to know that repro La Bostella's are now available from www.slorcar32.de.




What a beauty!

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Russell
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"Watch this page for the Ultimate Thingie and her pilot but you have to be quick to catch it because it's going to stir up a scandal and I bet it will be taken away by moderators!!!"

I can hardly wait, Edo!
I hope it won't be
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Russell
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"I've been asked very nicely to remove a picture that was not proper for a family oriented forum."

Damn. I sat up all night waiting to see the picture, then dozed off over the keyboard and missed it....
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Edo,

The report on the 16th Vintage Slot Car Meeting and photos in GSR #46 are great! Strangely, most of the particpants in the Thingie race actually look like "normal" people!


Kind regards,

Russell

PS: I'm sure you know that Professor Motor stocks a range of 1/24 vintage multi-coloured Candies "Competition Super-Grips" and "Gum Silicones" silicone moulded tyres on 8 hole or 5 spoke chrome plastic hubs - 5-40 threaded for 1/8th axles - 1.125" O.D. 1/2" wide.
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