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I got this Schuey a couple of weeks ago from a BIN on impulse. It's in very nice condition and is set up as a road car with a really enormous but apparently new Alfa shell. Not being too familiar with the Schumachers I'm a bit curious to find out what I have here before I tear into it. My plan is to convert it to a buggy. The pan doesn't have the normal hole pattern I've come to associate with these cars. Does anyone know what it is?

You have a 1995 Club10 mk.2 Alfa Romeo 155 Touring U475B.

Whats with the Topcat motor cover?

Interesting - didn't know they had made the electro 2wd in onroad.

I do have the gas version though, escort-bodied

Paul

8rad wrote:You have a 1995 Club10 mk.2 Alfa Romeo 155 Touring U475B.

Whats with the Topcat motor cover?

Thanks for the quick ID! Not sure about the motor cover - all of my early Schuey cars (about 4) have this same one. I assumed it was kind of a universal thing, much like the Losi "JRX2" front bulhead.

No. The Cougar 2 and to my knowledge the Club 10 came with a Schumacher logo on the motor cover. Maybe the touring cars had the Topcat motor cover just like the Cougar Mk1. I dont know.

8rad wrote:Maybe the touring cars had the Topcat motor cover just like the Cougar Mk1. I dont know.

Yea sounds most likely

My early cougars all had the topcat cover. Then there was a no name version, and a shcumacher version. -Jeff

Thanks again for the info guys. I'm going to go through my spares and see what I might need to do the conversion. That body will be available at some point if anyone wants it. I'll throw it in the BST in a bit.

It is a Club10/2 touring , that i bought 5 years ago.
The box was missing some parts , like the motorcover ( i only had a topcat one at the time) , and it was missing the short
frontwishbones U1781 for the touringcar version.
I replaced the plastic shocks with some Menace21 and mission ones.

I sold it to Chiprandall a couple of years ago.

The roll centers are oh-so-wrong on this car Sorry to say but schumacher did a hack job on these by just slapping a pseudo-onroad body on a pure offroad car... I know it was the standard back then, but still the suspension geometry is horrendous!!!

And as I said, I own a similar one, so I can afford to be tough about it

Paul

jeroen206 wrote:

It is a Club10/2 touring , that i bought 5 years ago.
The box was missing some parts , like the motorcover ( i only had a topcat one at the time) , and it was missing the short
frontwishbones U1781 for the touringcar version.
I replaced the plastic shocks with some Menace21 and mission ones.

I sold it to Chiprandall a couple of years ago.

Thanks, I love knowing the history behind my cars! This is the second known car I have that was built by a member that went through chiprandall's collection on the way to mine. It's making me re-think the rebuild a bit...

Lonestar wrote:The roll centers are oh-so-wrong on this car Sorry to say but schumacher did a hack job on these by just slapping a pseudo-onroad body on a pure offroad car... I know it was the standard back then, but still the suspension geometry is horrendous!!!

And as I said, I own a similar one, so I can afford to be tough about it

Paul

Compared to modern touring cars maybe, but at the time the only alternatives were pro-10 pan cars with floating rear pod and friction damping, and I remember Jimmy Davis keeping up with those in his modified TopCat at Stafford indoor!

That's a pretty nice-looking chassis, for an onroad conversion. I likey.

Yeah Gary, that orange 95 Team Cougar was mine at one stage. I built that car a looooong time ago now.

bormac wrote:Yeah Gary, that orange 95 Team Cougar was mine at one stage. I built that car a looooong time ago now.

I absolutely love this car Jason. I may be sending it down the road though to help finance other hobbies. God I hate having to choose!