Really nice job - such fine details. There's a red TR7 rally at the British Motor Museum. Well worth a visit. The Castrol version reminds me of the Stratos with those colours.
Absolute masterpiece Chris - the attention to detail is just ridiculous and I loved the Castrol variant! Great to see you back - I could watch these vlogs every day!👍👍👍👍
Hi it's been a while but worth the wait, nice and simple but very effective, hopefully another video in the near future, keep up the excellent work, Rich
Outstanding job, love the rally features and details. Always looking to stand them alive again and rescue. Thank you for sharing all your awesome skills....👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 .
I can see why Corgi opted for a plastic base.. To keep it from rusting unlike the real thing. Great little model again! love the work on the pop-up headlights and spotlights, adds a lot to the rally look of the car!
This is unreal. What a resto-mod this is. Love it. Also like the Castrol variant, though slightly jarring in my eyes in that it’s a bit too close to the Alitalia Stratos. Absolutely loving these though 👏🏻👏🏻
Top work as always Chris. You know my thoughts on the stupid looking wedge. But you've done a great job ! I did always enjoy seeing Tony Pond wrestling cars around, and nice touch on getting Co Driver Freds name on there !
SidewaysKing75, I've been doing customs myself for about nine years, and have looked at various videos / seen various presentations, and I must congratulate you on your exceptional work that is probably the best I have seen. I have always loved the Triumph TR7, and though Corgi did a fantastic job as usual, but it was obviously designed as a toy but as you demonstrate, has HUGE potential!. I wish Corgi went slightly smaller with the scale to make it closer to 1/64, but the design was perfect. It's always begged for the custom look (Minilites and a neon "safety color" paint job come to mind immediately). Thanks for this presentation.
Great result as ever and a bonus car like this one is even better. The TR7 or 8 with its quirky looks grows on me. I'm not sure it grows that mutch, that I ever want one.
Awesome build mate . The only good things about the TR7 was the V8 engine and the legendary Tony Pond driving it flat out in a rally . Memories of my childhood, nice one 👍
I love TR7's and loved what you did to both of them, I preferred the Castrol livery, ironic I just orderd the same car of eBay before watching this and was going to do a racing green 1970s version now I want to do a rally, great video and thanks for posting the links to help others
When the TR7 was first revealed at the Geneva Motorshow in the early 70s, legendary designer Giorgetto Giugiaro (of Bertoni and Ghia fame) approached it and took a long, studious look at the side of it. He then walked around the other side before apparenlty exclaiming 'My God! They’ve done the same to the other side as well!’ British Leyland design at it's finest.
Excellent stuff, great details too... 'm thinking of restoring one in bright amber yellow, not only to be Purdey's car from The New Avengers (Joanna Lumley's character) but it can be the "classic" sports car Lance from Detectorists drives.
Great work once again. I'd been meaning to do a tr7 for a while, and this really makes me want to do it, but wider arches and lowered. I like the Castrol one, it looks right.
I had the larger one these as a child, and re-painted it to look like the rally versions. They were designed Terence Mann, and my brother had a black one with the gold sonic alloys that were crumbling. The headlamp motors only ever lasted a few months, he soon got good at reguild, frankensteining different motors together. And if I can remember they were a heavily modified wiper motor, a bit anaemic on the power for raising the lights..
Great video as always SK, worth the wait :), in the meantime I have been watching other 1/64 youtubers, but I like about yours is the Barn Find start, commentary including talking how you go about what you do. I had a good look on your site the other day and those garages and extras look great. I saw a product the other day which I think you might be interested in dabbling in is Vacuum Forming to replace tattered windscreens or even doing a clear bodyshell and paint from the inside? (just an idea :) ) I will PM you regarding a suggestion as well :) Keep safe Phil
Many thanks Phil as always.... I was going to look at vac forming after seeing a few videos on here but I just keep cutting the acetate and using that instead LOL! 🚗🚕🚓🏎😁👍
Pop up up and down headlights 🎵🎶🔊 awesome as per usual and if you haven't heard the song that goes to the lyrics at the beginning of this post please for you enjoyment go check it out here on the tubes
Love it. Missed the videos. As an adult I always look at the tr7 as a terrible attempt at a lotus. As a child it was simple a: No. sadly that was my same opinion on the austin/rover metro
Yes you're right, they were all kind of sci-fi futuristic technical orientated things and aged massively in a short space of time as a consequence 🚗🚕🚓🏎😁👍
Nice job SK75 with this TR7 it's really good looking rally car that appears to be tarmac/gravel setup in something coming from modern event don't you agree sk75 but anyway thanks once again for new video my friend so see you later bye now.
Many thanks, I think I'm OK...... the only one that has avoided me all these years is the Matchbox Vauxhall Cavalier only because I want to do a BTCC version 🚗🚕🚓🏎😁👍
Excellent work you did with the car...very impressed!...out of curiosity for you're craft and skill...I don't suppose you'd do any commissioning?...like would you modify any 1/64 cars if someone sent them to you/payed you to do so?...(nothing overly complicated of course just something simple) 🙂
I'm good dear brother and hope you are too..... I have lots of plans and ideas and little time again to make and film so I just sit and look at what could be🚗🚙👍🏻Keep working your magic my friend
Lovely job! The real vehicle was never one of my favourites. In the late 1970's anything made by British Leyland was seen as a bit of a joke, to be brutally frank. However, like you, the TR7 looks okay until that vertical rear window - it's a design choice akin to putting a brick chimney on a Supermarine Spitfire. Never saw many, to be honest. I did like the yellow one driven by the character Purdey (Joanna Lumley) in 'The New Avengers', a favourite show of mine.
i always thought it was like the old stories of British Leylands cars that were made on a Friday afternoon were thrown together to knock off the shift. I read somewhere a mechanic found a half eaten cornish pasty inside the door card of a Montego following a bad smell the owner had complained about after a few months of ownership! I reckoned this car was designed on a Friday too 11.59am and they needed to complete the design by noon hence that rear window and arseend LOL! Many thanks and hope you are well🚗🚕🚓🏎😁👍
@@SidewaysKing75 - Ah, the classic 'Friday Afternoon Special'. Hope you and yours are staying well, too. Cheers! P.S. Any chance of doing a restomod on a Matchbox Cortina Mk.II?
Nice job. I agree entirely about the TR7, it really was an ugly little car. I seem to remember in its final days it morphed into a V8 soft top.Was that called TR 8.
