Oak Park, IL
I have an NOS Taxi red plastic ramp for sale for $250. Pictures attached.
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Quoted from bobbyconover:Someone please buy this and repro it!
Someone contact Pinball Inc!
Unfortunately that ramp is made using injection molding. We are set up to make thermoforming (vacuum), two different animals.
-James
Quoted from PinballInc:Unfortunately that ramp is made using injection molding. We are set up to make thermoforming (vacuum), two different animals.
-James
Quoted from PinballInc:Unfortunately that ramp is made using injection molding. We are set up to make thermoforming (vacuum), two different animals.
-James
Why couldn't this ramp be made with thermoforming with a proper mold and just be made in clear plastic instead. I have no idea but am assuming that red plastic is the reason for the molding process being different or am I completely wrong? I would buy one clear or red.
Maybe it could be made differently? Using separate spacers and a different light separator for the skill shot bulbs? Maybe cut this part out of 1/4" thick clear plastic, and then the rest of the ramp could be thermoformed like the other red ramps now available. 2 pieces, wouldn't be as user friendly but is better then a patched up, broken or missing original.
NB
My God! I didn't realize that these ramps were so valuable! 
I bought one of these spinout ramps from a fellow collector on UK ebay last autumn for about £16 ($24). It had just been listed as a pinball ramp on ebay. The previous owner of the Taxi that I had at the time tipped me off about the sale, and said these ramps were quite rare. The seller even included a second ramp in the sale which had a inch long crack in the corner of the entry end of the ramp.
When I sold my Taxi just before Christmas, I included the damaged ramp in the sale, and I sold the other good ramp to another Taxi owner on a UK pinball forum who was after one, I sold it for a lot less than $250 though! 
I have one that I took off my old machine before buying a NOS to restore. Most of the tabs are broken, but the cup is very nice. If anyone is interested in it, send me a PM.
Quoted from Patofnaud:Bannana you posted the pics of them on your Xenon thread by mistake.
No, I updated the entire thread to include Xenon plastics and Taxi parts. You just caught me in the middle of it. 
I didn't want to post them here and jack this thread.
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