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As i just hopped on the egress rere bandwagon - i'd be very interested in body off pictures of Jamie's Egress and higher resolution pics of the body itself. Only found very few low res ones of the car with mounted body as part of magazine scans yet. Thx for any help.

I guess you've already seen this image from CAT3K?

The suspension arms are not original

Hi guys here's something special for you.

Jamie is giving me this car to restore for him which I'm very happy to do. I have several pics which I'll upload soon but I may need the help of the great members on this forum to get some key parts and also the decals for the shell and wing.

The front and rear are intact but it looks to need a new chassis. Critically the bespoke parts are all present and intact such as the factory blue machined wishbones and other bits.

Keep watching....more very soon. This is a quick post whilst I'm away with work.

Feel free to email me on [email protected] if you can offer anything for the restore.

Thanks,

Dan

Wow... that's really cool!

At the REEDY Race in France:

That's great thanks prp if anyone else has pics please post them here

Some pics from my phone kindly uploaded to a friends photobucket account:

Those blue arms look wicked. Any idea what are they???

Custom machined protoype parts made by Tamiya for Jamie to test....a rare beast indeed and a nice platform which evolved into the Manta Ray/Top Force I believe.

It's the Jamie's car ?

prp wrote:It's the Jamie's car ?

Yes this is his actual car which I am restoring for him (my pleasure).

Over on TC the guys asked some questions which I put to Jamie today and got a very quick response:

1) Any history behind the colors of choice for the Egress body shell?

JB: At that time I did not really have any fixed colours, so sometimes it was just plain white with decals (I am hopeless at painting RC shells) other times it was orange and white (I think)

2) What were the problems you faced with the original front suspension?

JB: The biggest issue I had with the front suspension was it either had Zero or close to zero caster, this made the car very nervous initially and then lack steering in the middle of a corner. At the Reedy race in the USA in 1990 we ran with the original set up and even had wishbones with two screw drivers through the pivot pin holes and heated up with a flame to try and twist the wishbone to give some caster. Once the suspension was changed the car handled well if not perfectly, but was very good on the bumps...

3) Why modify the rear suspension? Any problems there?

JB: No issues as I remember but Taki-San and Sugiama-San handmade completely new front and rear suspension at the same time for testing.

4) what do you think of the re-released new Duralumin front knuckles and new front shock tower design?

JB: Honestly speaking I did not notice as my memories of the car were with the modified suspension, so these details did not jump out to me.

5) You were in the middle of a very important era where you were involved in the evolution of Tamiya buggy design. What inspired you on the evolution process? Were Kyosho Optima mid or Yokomo Dogfighter or Schumacher Cat designs influential?

JB: It was not so much the design of the car it was all about the feel on the track, I never drove a Dogfighter or an Optima mid for any length of time but I was very accustomed to the Schumacher cat which was hard to drive but also very rewarding as the hard work resulted in very fast laps. When I initially went to the Egress it was nervous and lapped too slow, though I did win some races with it... here is a good race the car was actually not very good and I spent the whole race holding off Mark Tatman who was much faster, I think I won this national but I can’t remember - whatever it was a good race and the car was STD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpjS3AGvrw

Great, thx for sharing !

Did you know Jamie beat Masami in 2 of the 3 A-finals in 1987?

Also, Masami TQ'd the 1st qualifier with no shock oil in the shocks of the CAT XL that was given to him. Legend.

tiger1 wrote:Those blue arms look wicked. Any idea what are they???

look like super clodbuster ball end parts. yes i know the superclod came way after this car.