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[don.siegel]

Hi,

Found this in a big lot on eBay last year, and am just now getting around to posting it. I was pretty sure it was a Shinoda, but it was in worse shape than I thought from the very vague photo... It was not specifically with a chassis, but of the couple in the lot, this Jail Door seems to match the body best.

What do you all think? Shinoda or Shinnada?

Don

[TSR]

Don,

Nod on this one, not "nada"! The body is definitely by Thingie and is one of the several iterations of the Lampray. Thingie was the little body company owned by Larry Shinoda, and amazingly this man of great prestige and stature in the full-size car design world made all the bodies himself on a large vacuum-forming machine at the GM "skunk works" lab.

I know because... he told me!

Here is the Lampray with its original sticker:



Note that this one is slightly different than the one in the opening post, because Larry had several interpretations of this car. The chassis is a home-built job using Champion body mounts, Cobra motor bracket, BuzCo "Wheelies" front wheels, Riggen rears, Cox guide, and what appears to be a stock Mabuchi FT26 mill.

Larry Shinoda and Yours Truly in 1993 on my company's booth at the SEMA show, where he was kind enough to tell me not only the whole story, but later mailed to me his two surviving "Thingie" cars:

[Old Pilot]

Possibly a repetition... but... we love to see a pic from these two last cars, or even a simple link...

Lovely stories... (better histories...)

Cheers.

[TSR]

Jesus,

I only have old pictures of them, but I will take new ones next time I get to the LASCM. I am way out of town at this time.

[Cheater]

For those readers who don't know the details of Larry Shinoda's career, Wikipedia has a decent overview:

Larry Shinoda

[tjsguns]

Roller looks right as rain... Love the white fronts!!

The dody... Hmmm... Never remember seeing any day-glo orange around the "Groove".

[TSR]

Tom,

Look again: these cars came FROM "The Groove", and sure enough, there is plenty of day-glo orangy-red paint on them...

[tjsguns]

Dokk,

One of us is color blind...

The stuff you have above looks red to me... and not what I'd call "Day-glo" like the body in the first post.

You and I have had differing opinions on this subject in the past...

I like yer slider frames though... what ever happened to the "Box o' Stuff"???
LASCAM??? Any pics??

[TSR]

Tom,

The pictures on the LASCM website do not reflect the color very well. The cars are effectively painted in day-glo colors, they look like an STP Indy car. Hard to picture with a small digital camera.

As far as the first picture in the thread, looks orange to me, not day-glo...

what ever happened to the "Box O' Stuff"???

??? No idea of what you are asking.