Custom Works Dominator IV... questions and variations...
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:27 pm
There has been a bit of recent resurgence of Dominator IV cars on eBay and it got me to thinking...
1. All the early ads for the Dominator in ~'89 had yellow plastic. I've never seen single yellow spare parts, so I assume the car used in the ad was just dyed yellow?
2. Some early cars I've seen the plastic parts are like a pure white, while some are almost a translucent white. Is this an artifact of the photos possibly? Or were there potentially different early runs of parts? Different brands of nylon inject differently, plus one batch might have had white dye added?
3. Were there different chassis variations early on?
This chassis version with the longer thinner nerf bar is what you see on every advertisement from back in the day.
This chassis version with the extra battery slots and smaller nerf bar I cannot find in any advertisement. However this chassis appears to be the same chassis on the SRP-1. However the plastics and mechanicals are inherently Custom Works. What gives?
-Mark
1. All the early ads for the Dominator in ~'89 had yellow plastic. I've never seen single yellow spare parts, so I assume the car used in the ad was just dyed yellow?
2. Some early cars I've seen the plastic parts are like a pure white, while some are almost a translucent white. Is this an artifact of the photos possibly? Or were there potentially different early runs of parts? Different brands of nylon inject differently, plus one batch might have had white dye added?
3. Were there different chassis variations early on?
This chassis version with the longer thinner nerf bar is what you see on every advertisement from back in the day.
This chassis version with the extra battery slots and smaller nerf bar I cannot find in any advertisement. However this chassis appears to be the same chassis on the SRP-1. However the plastics and mechanicals are inherently Custom Works. What gives?
-Mark
