Diem Turner
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Is/was the Dogfighter a POS? I came across it when l looked into the possibility of acquiring a Dominator in this day and age (a short excursion that was, lol...) and saw that Custom Works had made a couple of different cars over the years since then but I got a bit of sticker shock as well when I saw the price tag (and I think they were rollers like the OG Dominator, weren't they)? Thankfully everything was sold out so I never ran a serious risk of purchasing one of their later vehicles but, hand on heart....had they been available, I very well might have pulled the trigger just because of my nostalgia over the CW of old.Yessir-I thought about a Dominator resurrection build a time or two, but I figured it’d go just about how you just described.. Then I thought maybe just grab up an old Dogfighter then; talking upwards of $1400 for a complete dumpsterfire…. This is why the ‘80’s Tamiya builds are more my (wallet’s) speed for shelf queen stuff lol.. Besides-I just can’t bring myself to spend a metric ton on that kind of stuff because I just look at it and see hardcoated pipe, modified Italian .21, 6 sets of 1/8 tires, new 1/8 esc, etc..
Yep-I’m super happy with my Tekin stuff since ol’ Bob closed up shop..
The irony being that, all in, over the last two years I'm somewhere between $5-6k deep on this Infraction GT conversion so I guess it's not really the money as such. The thing is though, if (when?) I wreck this car, I know that the parts to rebuild can be found just about anywhere in quantity so, aside from my pride, there's no risk of permanent damage. Totaling out a Dominator where finding OEM parts is akin to finding new snippets of the dead sea scrolls, that's an entirely different proposition. Driving it would be one thing. Driving it seriously, pushing the envelope...yikes.