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TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:48 pm
by MIKE VALENTINE
Does anyone know what happened to this touring car? I'm looking for more pictures.
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:47 pm
by 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...
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:38 pm
by 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.
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:30 pm
by prp
Nice pics where you found them, the trans is from the TF 4 Kyosho car
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:56 pm
by 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.
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:07 pm
by Charlie don't surf
That look like something out of the mind of Jim Deiter to me-
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:56 am
by Lonestar
Thanks guys - that's why I love this forum
Terry - we're not worthy
Paul
Re: TRINITY TOURING CAR
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:11 am
by EvolutionRevolution
TF-4 rear gear box + spur holder (the gold part). The shocks are Kyoshos too (TwinCap?).