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#51 Mad Mark

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Posted 18 April 2023 - 03:37 PM

Think Its safe to say I have more thingies than slot cars based on real cars now.
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was able to snag another garvic car that had a nice chassis and motor and put together a second really clean firebird.
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Posted 18 April 2023 - 04:49 PM

Do you have a Riggen "Mach One"?

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Posted 18 April 2023 - 05:11 PM

Do you have a Riggen "Mach One"?

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I have a 26d anglewinder Riggen spyder with paint spilled all over the body that I’m not sure how to remove at the moment.
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Posted 18 April 2023 - 05:20 PM

I don't know of a Riggen Spyder.  Suppose it is an open top car.
The Mach One was also a 26D, but an inline car.

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Posted 18 April 2023 - 06:22 PM

I don't know of a Riggen Spyder.  Suppose it is an open top car.
The Mach One was also a 26D, but an inline car.

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i have this one. its a bit worse for wear with cracked dry rotted front tires and I stole the motor out of it and dont have a replacement. i also had the REH anglewinder cox 36d one but its kinda goofy with that giant motor. Your sure is sano and shiny!
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Posted 16 July 2023 - 10:02 AM

Some thingies on track. got to try my asp for the first time and runs pretty good! Just swapped out disintegrating front wheels and dry rears.

Dont mind the wrong green hehe.
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Posted 06 December 2023 - 10:29 AM

Assorted thingies along with freshly built asp out of blister. finally got a manta ray and viper box to go with my multiple cars also!
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Posted 12 August 2024 - 06:59 PM

Thought Id put this here for fun. Some thingie polishing.

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Posted 07 September 2024 - 04:16 AM

I hadn't seen this thread at the time (notifications don't really work very well). 

 

To answer an earlier question, no, the Choti I found years ago on ebay isn't a sidewinder or anglewinder, and it's much heavier than most of the NorCal Thingies. But still a conventional inline. I believe that most of these NorCal cars had U-Go type chassis, with a single piano wire rail, fixed guide and very wide tires in the back, very small, thin tires in the front. 

 

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Here it is alongside a period Shinoda I fournd. This one also has a slightly atypical chassis, not so much in the Dynamic motor carrier as in the motor: an MPC Hi-Rise! Probably a kid who pirated his Manta Ray since he didn't have the dough for a new Dyna-Rewind... 

 

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Carry on, gentlemen. 

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Posted 07 September 2024 - 08:58 AM

And another Thingy using a Dynamics chassis as a base. I used several before Thingys came around. Although I scratch built some faster cars, I had more success with the Dynamics simply because they were consistent and easy to drive. And when guys discovered adding a pan under the die cast parts, they were unbeatable. 



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Posted 07 September 2024 - 10:49 AM

A lot of the Shinoda Thingies used Dynamic-based chassis. Here's just one page from the Things About Thingies article... 

 

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Posted 07 September 2024 - 12:02 PM

We have never seen a period angle winder. Did angel winders come too late or were the  thingy folks just not into it ??? 


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Posted 07 September 2024 - 12:16 PM

I think the arrival of the anglewinders, 1968-69, overlapped with the period when Thingies were disappearing, because not that much advantage over the period semi-scale cars... which were looking more and more like Thingies (as was the real Shadow, come to think of it). 

 

But if somebody from a Thingie hotbed has other memories, would love to hear them. 

 

Don 



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Posted 07 September 2024 - 02:20 PM

I will ask Gene next time I talk with him. He was at this event you show and one of those cars may be one of his?


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Posted 07 September 2024 - 02:49 PM

I thought PDL had an anglewinder version of a Choti or other "thingie" he used to post a photo of. He might have said it was a rebuilt  inline. It would be in the LASCM if it exists.


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