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xxxmain wrote:I'm loving the paint job too

Same here. It reminds me of T.C.'s helicopter from Magnum PI.

Those are pretty wild looking cars. I've never raced one, (or even seen one raced for that matter) but from what I hear, they are notoriously hard to get to run right. (or even stay in one piece) But when they do run right, apparently they're unstoppable.

Very nice Ultima.
Race the crap out of it!

jordon0 wrote:also got my little lad a lazer zx-r needs some bits but got it at a bargin price!!
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Nice! On my wish list, I think one of the ZX's is a little higher up the list than an Optima Mid. (but just barely)
The Mid's looking pretty good too, btw.

Basically, I'm going to clean it up, repair the busted bits, and get it up and running. I don't really plan on running it (or any of my vintage stuff) too much. 99.9% of my RCing is racing, so I don't do any 'bashing' or anything like that. However, If we can ever put together a vintage buggy class ...

Here's another shot, showing the rest of the stuff that came with the car.

I'm not sure what car the big msc came from.

Sweet! After about 6 months of searching, I finally found my Ultima! I only managed to take a few pics so far, but here they are. http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo190/tsan_/RC%20stuff/ultima/th_ultima15.jpg http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo190/tsan_/RC%20stuff/ultima/th_ultima14.jpg http://i...

I stumbled across this video by accident this morning:

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It's an SC10 running an old LeMans 240st, with lipo power.
Damn, that's pretty quick!

I've never posted pics of my Turbo Optima on this forum, so I thought I would. (these pics are from before I rebuilt/cleaned it up) I picked this up locally for a very good price in the beginning of this years summer. I've only run it once, but it runs very well. Enjoy. :) http://i374.photobucket.co...

Thanks for the pics! It took me a minute to wrap my head around what I was looking at here: Steering servo + speed control installed *on* speed-control servo... http://www.cool.per.sg/external_links/luminous/luminous_05.jpg I thought the steering servo was under the crank/servo-saver thingie, and th...

Not to highjack your Boomerang-mod thread, (which is very cool , btw) I tried to find some sort of official number of units sold on GH/HS etc... all I've come across so far are those little 'mini 4WDs': Dec 1995: Total Sales of Mini 4WD exceeds 100 million units. I think something like the grasshopp...

Sweet pic.
(Now all you have to do is airbrush that dude's crotch out of the background. )

one with red hot trick chassis,LED flash light body, speed control and remote,ready to run.$500

That's the one!

Ha! I called him about the Optimas a week or 2 ago... he wanted $300 for one of them, and $500 for the other. I almost choked when I heard the $500 price. He kept saying they had the top of the line electronics in them. Again, it's 1980's electronics. They haven't been top of the line for quite some...

That looks cool... very modern. I like the look of yours over the tamiya mod. I agree about the ride height being too high, though. It looks like you could make a taller (carbon fiber?) shock tower, but you'd lose that 'low profile' look you mentioned you were after.