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I usally hang in the AE buggy forum but was needing some help. Can anyone tell me what type of car this is? Thanks in advance.

Thats a optima

no it's not; the red chassis indicates it's a clone

terry.sc wrote:That's a Blue Bird Baja Growler. They also did an identical car but in red called the Super Baja.
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=36192&id=5861

see this threat:
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=5675

Mr. ED wrote:no it's not; the red chassis indicates it's a clone

terry.sc wrote:That's a Blue Bird Baja Growler. They also did an identical car but in red called the Super Baja.
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=36192&id=5861

see this threat:
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=5675

Thanks for the help I knew you guys would know.

I'm pretty sure it's an actual Optima with an attempt at anodizing or painting some of the Al parts red.

Yeah, I think that's an Optima with a futile attempt at red anodizing.

There are a lot of optima clones out there...but based on the motor plate design, I'd say this was an optima.

You can tell it's a genuine Optima by the broken shock collars....even the bad clones had better quality shock collars than the real Optima red ones. I'm with the the iffy anodizing real Optima brigade (not that those 5 were lonely).

he nice find.i hope for you its kyosho,its gonna be less of a hassle finding parts

cyberded wrote:he nice find.i hope for you its kyosho,its gonna be less of a hassle finding parts

I bought a bunch of cars off a guy in Florida and he's shipping them to me. This was a picture of one of the cars. I'll be needing more help to determine what all I've really got so please stand by. More pictures to come soon.

lexus-5 wrote:

cyberded wrote:he nice find.i hope for you its kyosho,its gonna be less of a hassle finding parts

I bought a bunch of cars off a guy in Florida and he's shipping them to me. This was a picture of one of the cars. I'll be needing more help to determine what all I've really got so please stand by. More pictures to come soon.

Update on this post...the car had red Marks-a-Lot on it and it wipes off fairly easily. I put it on the Bay because I'm not a big Kyosho fan. Thanks again for the help!