Go with a Zing!

In the late 1960s, and through the early ’70s, the car show world was at its peak. Promoters knew the value of show cars and TV or movie cars in drawing huge crowds, and no doubt the merchandising opportunities they presented too, and so a whole business sprung up around the building and exhibition of ever wilder show cars. Most were full-size cars, albeit often fashioned around household items, but the Zingers! were something else entirely.

a collection of half-scale cars with full-scale engines

You can read the story of how they came about over on p47 so all we’ll say here is that they began as a range of 1:24 plastic scale models, produced in 1971 by Model