Tomy Intruder seeks new life..

[pugboy]

The old girl want to come out of retirement for one last swansong and I can't find any blasted spares. If anyone can help, please contact me, I'm after any spares, or if not, if anyone has one, just a template for the shock towers would be great.

Many thanks

Chris

[traffman]

Cant really help you there , but i was being nosey as i used to race one back in the early nineties.

I bought a carbon rear tower off fibre lyte which i promptly broke so i resorted to a nice alloy one .

It was a great car and i enjoyed every minute of it.

[Garry Spice]

i had one of those.got wayne darwells dad to spray the shell.he painted it red but done the bumpy bit white.looked like a pimple running around!

[purpletimbo]

Whereabouts you based, I have one to copy from, I don't think there's spare towers though, well it's an Adonis, but same parts?

[Darren Boyle]

Fibrelyte will still make you one, give them a call

[pugboy]

Thanks for your replies guys, I used to love the car, simple but worked really well straight out of the box. I'm thinking maybe the answer is if I could get a template then I could either go to fibrelite, or alternatively just get a local workshop to knock one up in aluminium, then at least if i roll it again it probably won't snap!

So Mr timbo, I'm pretty sure the Adonis is essentially the same car, just with one or two mior differences. i don't suppose you could just draw round your shock towers and then scan and email it to me? I know it's a bit of a mither so if you don't want to I understand. I'm based in Stockport, South of Manchester.

Thanks again.

Chris

[pugboy]

Thanks again guys, some useful leads there cheers!

[purpletimbo]

Right she is here in front of me, now mine has all alloy chassis top deck towers etc as you can see, but there's a numbered bag in the box with a CC set of parts to replace all the chassis alloy, but not the towers.
Was the rear in two parts, I have one floating part, and a matching pair on a parts sprue







Theres spare belts bearing kits cvds a white front bumper and door mirrors in there as well

[terry.sc]

These are the wing mount, not shock mounts.


The easy option is to contact Fibre-lyte, if they have ever produced a part in the past it is likely to still be in their database so easy for them to make them again. If they don't still have them on file you can produce the DXF file they can use to make some more, if you haven't got access to a CAD program then they will charge more to draw it out for you.

If you can get a drawing of them I can reproduce them in fibreglass sheet for you and I might have some Tomy spares somewhere but I do know I haven't got any shock mounts. I'm in Stockport as well so we can be sure my shock mounts will fit.

[purpletimbo]

Well on close inspection my front one is slightly bent, so a strip down is on the cards, maybe a scan to scale for fibrelyte replacements, or just alloy as mine are maybe?
wing mounts makes perfect sense, as mine has never been a buggy, it has a pan car shell and wheels, no manual unfortunately, but all the parts bags are numbered.

[pugboy]

Thanks again guys. Purple, don't go to the trouble of stripdown yet, I'll contact Fibre-Lyte and see what they say as Terry suggested.

Terry, did you use to work with Derek in Stockport Model Shop years ago and go racing at Cheadle Drill Hall, I used to go there when I was a wee nipper! Thanks for your offer on the fibreglass replacement, I do have access to AutoCAD so can draw in DXF format. I am thinking now I could butcher a template out of paper/card and then draw it up on CAD from that, then either get it done in fibreglass or aluminium. Terry if you do have any other bits it'd be of interest as I am thinking of trying to race it next season rather than shelve it as an ornament, to see if I can give these upstarts with their B44's a run for their money!

Things are looking up, cheers for your trouble guys.

Chris