The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

After 10 years being shut away, I hope this makes a few tongues wag.

http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z71/ ... Sprint.flv

It was taken to a couple of shows in the late nineties, with mixed reaction, now with the onset of the internet, everyone can take a look, feel free to comment good or bad, but hope your entertained anyway

Hope to add a couple of photos and literature later, and I hope a certain gentleman from Holland (Mr Oldencamp - I think that was his name) might be very interested

If it makes anyone inspired, laugh or talk I apologise for taking so long to re-unveil, but enjoy

I absolutely love it, and I want one.

Hope you didn't wheelspin too much on the golf green.....

Fantastic!

That's either a really good model, or there are some very large people and trees near where you live !!

Wow.... Need one now. =D> Please can you add details how you made it (esp. the wheels and the shell).

Great detail on that. Needs lowering on the front a bit though

Fantastic! This WILL be on display at TDCIR won't it?

That's great! Nice detail

What's it based on (like, a TL01 chassis or similar), or is it entirely fabricated? Any more details to the specifications?

What scale is it, too!

Fantastic!

Thats Fantastic, been looking for somthing like this for ages!!

In total i have about 15 rc on road cars, and i currently race a TC3

Most of my cars are models of older cars, they still get used but not for racing!!

Iv e-mailed a company who may be able to make some shells, dont get to excited though as i e-mailed them 2 years ago and they said they would look into it!!

Lets see what happends and ill keep you posted with any reply i receive!!

Nathan

God damn it I want one of those!

Me too!

Cheers
Mark

shouldn't that car be blue?

bring it to TDCIR or even better bring it ti southern dolly day ,it will be worth the 4 hour drive.

Excellent, how the heck do you make the body shell for one of those ?

Not getting a lot of time on PC at moment due to floods and having to move house this week, I promise I will add more info about the model at a later date.

Basiclly its been made from scratch, someone gave me an old cheap and nasty chassis which was lengthened so the wheelbase was in relation to the width. This worked out to be approx 10:1 scale, In the Haynes manual the specification line drawings where enlarged to the correct scale thus giving model full templates of top, side, front and back views. Then depending which way you look at it here comes the sad or skilful part, the whole bodyshell is made of wood, hollowed out inside to take chassis, batteries, speed controller and all the other stuff, and carefully carved externally to achieve the detail. Before painting several coats of sanding sealer applied, this gives the wood a tough coating and stops the paint soaking into the grain, then a couple of coats of Post Office Red. The wheels are turned and polished by a friend and tiny shapes of black insulation tape carefully positioned to give the paint and hole effect. Tyres where from Tamiya Mini cooper, not ideal size but there was not a lot of choice. All chromework is polished aluminium.

Looking back, it took over 100 hours to make and could never even begin to think of attempting anything like it again. Someone asked me if I'd consider making a Jag for them, (can you put a price on 100 hours work) I'm afraid to say to take on a project like this your heart has to be in it, at the time mine definitely was, but I look back and think "how sad was that", but all the nice remarks over the last couple of days have convinced be otherwise, apart from Mad Mart saying the front was a little high.

Hey! only jokin Mad Mart

Thx for the details. This was a really hard work. The interesting question to everyone is:

If there is so much interest in our club what would it cost to produce lets say 50-100 plastic shells of a Dolomite which would made follower projects much more easy?

I would definitly take one.....