TRINITY TOURING CAR

[MIKE VALENTINE]

Does anyone know what happened to this touring car? I'm looking for more pictures.

[prp]

Hi, never seen this chassis , but the middle chassis look like XX LOSI chassis, rear trailing arm,
the body paint job look like Josh Cyrul bodies...

[terry.sc]

The Trinity Reflex was a prototype built by Jim Deiter in 2001 and raced by Josh Cyrul. It was Trinity testing the touring car market and to test a few ideas. It never got anywhere near a production chassis.

The main chassis is a Losi XX chassis turned around to mount the batteries down the centre of the chassis. Front lower wishbones are Schumacher SST, front upper arms are Trinitys pan car twin link upper arms. Rear suspension is three link using a front steering knuckle as the rear upright, it's a similar design to the Tamiya Avante. I recognise the rear gearbox parts, but can't remember which car they are from. The inline battery meant the steering servo has to be mounted in front of the gearbox, in the front bumper. Here's a few more pictures, you will notice the motor is mounted on the left and right side of the gearbox in different photos as well.

[prp]

Nice pics where you found them, the trans is from the TF 4 Kyosho car

[terry.sc]

The pictures came from rctouring.com, fraz.com and team-orion.ch way back in 2001, and kept on my hard drive. All the websites disappeared a long time ago.

[Charlie don't surf]

That look like something out of the mind of Jim Deiter to me-

[Lonestar]

Thanks guys - that's why I love this forum

Terry - we're not worthy

Paul

[EvolutionRevolution]

TF-4 rear gear box + spur holder (the gold part). The shocks are Kyoshos too (TwinCap?).