Zingers..Red Zinger Race..Coors Classic

 These inspired me to draw Hotrods in the style of Big Daddy Roth and I am still a great fan of his era of rodding and artwork...

 Hot Rod Magazine review

Zingers!
Any gearhead worth his widgets has a deskload of today's hugely popular Muscle Machines die-cast cars from Funline, the cartoonish hot rod toys with massive meats and mills exploding from both ends. We hear that a life-size Muscle Machines Stude is in the works, which, once you've checked out these pages, will seem like an inverted replication of history.

These are the Zingers!, the "hairiest, scariest fistfuls of muscle yet," according to the ads for the line of MPC plastic models introduced in 1971. In the days when wild show cars reigned, legendary promoter Bob Larivee Sr. drew crowds by commissioning full-scale versions of top-selling toys. Perhaps the most well-known is the Red Baron, built in 1:1 scale in 1969 by Chuck Miller of Styline Customs based on the Tom Daniel-designed Monogram model. When Larivee wanted fullsize Zingers!, he called on Styline to build the VW, the van, and the Vettes shown here in these Mike Brenner photo outtakes from a story in the July '71 HOT ROD. The dune buggy was built by show-car builder and drag-racer Steve Tansy. The life-size Zingers used real engines with half-scale bodies, and others on the show circuit (and in the model-car line) included a '57 Chevy and a Super Drag dragster.

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Red Zinger Cycle Race

. The race then became the Coors Classic. The race made household names out of riders like Davis Phinney, Berhard Hinault, Jeannie Longo and Greg LeMond and the 7-11 Team. Maybe that little bit of exposure to professional cycling is all it took to plant the seed for American road racing to enter Europe