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[Mark H]

pretty beat up body with a bunch of mounting holes, i dont like how the body sits so im thinking of cutting a bunch off the bottom and slamming it down with cut out wheel wells. and cut out the front scoop area for the guide to stick through.

 

what do you guys think?

[Maximo]

Mark,

Then you will have a low chop-shop GT40 Mk2, but not a "thingie".

A thingie requires a fantasy body of a car design that is not an actual real car, which the GT40 Mk2 is.

For $5 or $6 bucks you can get one from various sources known to these pages, like Truescale, Gene's World, 32 Deuce, O2R-noda, Howmet, Outisight and others including Electric Dreams and McLeod Western Booth.

Paint it up and then you will have the real McCoy!

That and you will become a member of the Thingie Kingdom!

http://truescaleprod...ex.php?cPath=31


-Max

[Mark H]

i see what your saying David but i still consider cut up real cars as thingies and i think they look cool!

 

this body is going to be for the chassis its already on (dont think anything else would fit right). i would build a real thingie but i dont have nearly enough vintage parts to make one. waiting for that beater on Ebay with good parts to sacrifice.

[Gator Bob]

I say go for it   and put a bigass spoiler on it

 

Mark .... got a Hemi in it? ....... show the bottom shot.

[Mark H]

this is a old pic so nothing. but it has a testors 26D in it now. its a real simple iso chassis that works real good actually.

 

i want to cut off the body mount but leave the part between the rails because it looks cool and do pin tubes. the mount on there now is off center and it bugs me.

[Gator Bob]

Ready for a re-make-over'....

[Mark H]

before

after

[macman]

Looks like one of Edo's cut up Cucs... I would reduce the size of the fronts to a minimum, with a 1/16 axle instead of what you have now... that would also be period correct, as I understand it.

[SlotStox#53]

Looking good, although still a cut up GT40 its about as far removed from the production car as you can get. So its a thingie in my book , waaay to low or cut up for scale lovers looks weird so a thingie.

Looks like the original "getin thingie" or "gitting thingie" I remember reading about in one of the 60's70's slot/model magazines about a jail door chassis with a severely cut up & slammed chaparral or Lola body ,cut to pieces and scraping the track surface (or as close as the rules allow)!!!

-Paul

[Mark H]

i have buzco wheels on the front of it now with tiny model car tires on them. and some worn out rears.

 

i think im going to call this the GT20   get it?

[Mark H]

finished hacking the body. turned out pretty good. i left my camera at my aunts so no pictures for another day or two.

 

now i need to do pin tubes and space the wheels out a little.

 

also looking at the body im thinking of heating it between the rear wheels and swooping it up making a spoiler in the back. hmmm...

[don.siegel]

Good project Mark! 

 

Just as a historical note, the word "thingie" was used for these cut down actual cars before it was ever applied to the free-form designs. I don't have a scan offhand of the "Gettin' Thingie", but here's its predecessor, the Superlight, Superfast Thingie, by the same Floyd Manley, which is just a cut-down, minimalist Honda F1 body. This was from late 66 and the Gettin' Thingie came out a year later or so (early 68 I think, I can find the article if anybody's interested...) 

 

Don 

 

[SlotStox#53]

Here's part of the Getting Thingie article found on here..  WOuld love to see the full article Don if you can find it

 

http://slotblog.net/...saga-parte-due/

[MantaRay]

I'm gonna start hacking off a 57 chevy......................ridiculous....................kinda like a wing car body on a thingie.....just me.....flame on................

[Mark H]

Here's part of the Getting Thingie article found on here..  WOuld love to see the full article Don if you can find it

 

http://slotblog.net/...saga-parte-due/

ha! my chassis uses those same Buzco "brass straps" thats funny.

[don.siegel]

Yep, and the last one of these that just came up on ebay finished at a fairly high price for a strip of brass - guess other people want to build the Gettin' Thingie! 

 

Here are the first and last pages of the article, from February 1968 issue of Model Car & Science - would have thought there were floppy body mounts by then, but articles were generally from at least 3 months before the publication date... 

 

 

[Mark H]

thingie or not here it is:

 

pics are a little blurry, camera wouldnt focus.

[Mark H]

[SlotStox#53]

Looking good Mark , Love it!

[Mark H]

im looking at this car and thinking i could cannibalize it. it has the cool 1/16 riggen fronts. id feel kind of bad about it but this car doesnt work real well. i drive my old cars.

[macman]

You are defiantly getting there! now do something about that drop arm... they tend to cause more de-slots than anything, particularly if it is loose... some electrical tape will keep it from moving for the time being, till you come up with a better way of limiting the drop arm's movement. Drop arms really are not necessary on todays smooth tracks, why do you think slotcars haven't had them for over 40 years???