TAMIYA  Master's Coachwork Series  #10202  1/12  Caterham Super Seven  BDR  Cycle Fender Special

About Car : 

The British Caterham produced Super Seven lightweight sports car, is not only distinguished for its driving pleasure, but is equally famous as a back-yard car assembly kit.  It is well known that the original Seven was a creation of Colin Chapman, founder of the renowned Lotus group.  The success of his race car in numerous events, led him to design and build racing cars for fellow competitors.  It is believed that the Lotus Seven, introduced in 1957, grew out of Chapman's enthusiastic interest in Austin Seven cars.  The Lotus Seven was a direct development of his successful Lotus Mk.VI racer of 1953.

The early layout of the Seven, called the Series-1, had simple body panels attached to a sturdy space frame, with motorcycle type fenders and little protection form the elements.  In order to avoid the heavy purchase tax on new cars, Chapman took advantage of a tax rule and offered a complete kit which could be assembled in a short period of time without any special tools.  This meant that a car enthusiast could get a very high performance car at an amazingly low price, when compared with factory assembled cars.  The Series-2 cars used FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastic) front and rear fenders, and nose cone.  The improved and popular Series-3 cars had a wider tread, a Ford Escort rear axle and front disc brakes. The Series-4 is often described as the most civilized Seven, and the Cosworth engine version is known as the "Super" Seven.  Although the Lotus Seven proved a big success, Lotus was heavily involved with Formula One Racing, and this led to a ceasing of production of the Seven in 1973.  This was heartbreaking news for sports car enthusiasts, and a small firm called Caterham Cars, obtained the sales and manufacturing license from Lotus, and continued producing the Series-4 cars.

In 1974, Caterham switched production back to the basic series-3 cars and have continued producing this version, continually upgrading it with modern automotive technology.  Their top of the line Super Seven BDR was introduced in 1986, using the powerful Cosworth BDR engine.  This liquid cooled, 1,690 cc in-line 4-cylinder, DOHC 16 valve engine yields 180 horsepower, providing the 600 kg car with an awesome power to weight ratio.  In order to efficiently utilize this power and hug the roads, the front suspension is a double wishbone type with stabilizer, while the rear uses tough De-Dion axles. Beginning in 1988, the car has disc brakes at disc brakes at all four corners. The Caterham Super Seven continues on with Colin Champman's creation of a true sports car offering raw power and fun to drive pleasure in a do-it-yourself one to one scale kit. (This contents from Instruction book)

• This assembly kit reproduced the type of simple front and rear fenders called "cycle fender".  
• Including the variety of material such as the aluminum, metal materials, cloth, rubber and material plastic.  In addition, you can enjoy the vehicle assembly process as same as the real machine.  
• The cycle fenders and nose cone, using the pattern of carbon fiber makes full finish of racing mood. 
• The carburetor is equipped with the aluminum air funnel, the wheel designed the mini light made of die-cast.

About Kit :  Multi-Material Kit 

• The kit was reproduced "Realistic one-piece molded space frame" and "Aluminum body panels & Bonnet".
• Accurately scaled Cosworth BDR engine
• Die-cast metal suspension parts are functional front and rear.
• Operable rack & pinion steering.
• Completed size : Length 28.5 cm / Width 13.2 cm / Height 8.5 cm
• Paint and Glue are not included.

Kit Condition :  Un-build old stock / Please check attached photo. 

•  Box : There are some scratches, dents, peeling on the edge and dirt spots.  There are dis-coloration on the side of the box.  Overall it was slightly aged condition. 
•  Parts : All of the plastics of parts are unopened, no missing & no damaged.
•  Assembly instructions : Japanese & English.
•  Decal and other parts : No missing, good condition.

Size (Box) : 57.0 X 37.0 X 10.0 cm
Weight (Box) : 1,550 g

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