Yup, when I was cloning the Zingers Bob Larivee Jr from the ISCA sent me his file on the zingers that had probably 50 or more 8x10's and those were some of them. I had copies made and sent his originals back
When I restored the dream rod, the Larivees sent me their file on it also, here are just a few of those photos
Mark, normal people can't own everything. The power to predict the future and know what to keep and what to sell is something that few possess that works accurately. You don't need me to tell you this but you have done well in collecting. I would place more value in real items rather than caricatures of cars. You have a well balanced collection. For a guy that went to work everyday, you did good.
So i would guess these are fiberglass bodies? Anybody know what happened to the bodies? ORRR how were bodies produced?
Steve Tansy built the dune buggy and the Dragster, The dragster body was fabricated from sheet metal. The Dune buggy was a go kart body that was available at the time. Chuck Miller built the rest of the Zingers, the body bucks were sculpted in clay just as the designers in Detroit used to build prototype car bodies. He then pulled a mold and built fiberglass bodies. Chuck built 100 go karts in 1971 using the bug zinger body. He still owns the mold to this day. When I built my clones my pal @guffey who is a genius and the master of finding things, found me a dune buggy go kart body that was the same kind Mr Tansy used, I am friends with Chuck and he made me a bug body from the original mold
Okay, I'm showing my ignorance on these "Zingers", I vaguely remember the model kits, but they came after I was done building models. Are the ones shown 1/2 or 1/43 scale but with full scale engines, tires, and wheels, and the engines apparently with no internals?
would love to have 57,or vette body to haul on trailer. I guess i want to much And many thanks for info.
I remember going to the back lot of Jim Brucker's "Movieland Cars of The stars" many years ago and seeing what appeared to be some Zinger type cars. The real treat was that while speaking with Jim Brucker, Von Dutch came out of his school bus, which was on the back lot, and came over to speak with Jim. It was a great experience.
The dragster was for sale at the Pate swap meet in Tx. some 20-30 years ago.Cant remember how much but I couldnt afford it.
Chuck Miller recently cloned the Zinger Corvette. I think he has some others in the works. He also cloned the Red Baron.
Photo showed up on a Tri Five Chevy FB page yesterday. Was going to mention @Moriarity currently owns it but decided against doing so.
go ahead and mention it, I wouldn't mind talking to a former owner. If anyone responds I can PM you my email address
... The Corvette and the Van along with the Red Baron were in SE Michigan last summer when they inducted Chuck Miller into our historical museum's hall of fame ...
I am fairly ignorant on the topic, but there are usually some on display at autorama in Detroit. I haven’t been for a couple of years though.
Were those zinger cars all offered as plastic models by Revel or something? I think in those days I was freezing my butt off in upstate New York, snowed in and building little plastic models over the winter. I built just a few wacky looking plastic models back in 1965, like The Wacky Woodie and other normal stuff like Tommy Ivo’s car and some little red Ferrari. A car called The T-Bug… Anyhow I just started me wondering, how many different cars went from reality to plastic models? . . . and if any cars went the other way? From the child’s plastic model to reality? I don’t know that much about car models, because mostly I built wooden model airplanes when I was a kid. I thought it would be amazing if someone had built a life-size Wacky Woodie
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