Kyosho optima pictures
 

For the vintage fans :thumbsup:

swwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet wish i still had mine :yawn:thats what a 4wd buggy should look like propper old school ,

Optima Vintage
 

Thats a nice Optima there!, my own is not finished yet, i attach a picture. I just need to replace the shock collars and then cut the body mount holes and its finished!.
Cheers

Here's mine (my avatar) :)

You see mine in my avatar also !

Needs a bit more time with the screw driver!

Another of my Optimas
 

This a a very rare Kyosho Turbo Optima Mid Special, it has UJ's in front carbon fibre chassis (only available on this car or as part of a conversion set (approx £100) or bought as a part for approx £70!!, has the yellow telephone dial wheels also which were only on this kit or bought seperately and the very rare Square block tyres front and rear. I bought the car as a runner and cleaned it up a little and added the bodyset and decals (all done by myself and im not the best with apaint can!, although i have 9 more to do so im getting better!).

Cheers

But why has it alu shocktowers ??? Mine had frp.

mvh Isobarik :cool:

My mates still got his optima mid lwb he raced in the early nineties .
It has the frp shock towers and an anodized chassis.
If i grab it from him sometime ill pop some piccies up.

My old mid swb had frp shock towers aswell , it was the turbo mid .
That one above in the picture looks like the standard one.

http://www.oople.com/forums/picture....&pictureid=283the Salute. Still runs well...

My baby
 

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Sorry for the biiig pics.
Bodyshell is an early RC10 one, Protech I believe. My dream is to find a Javelin roll cage, sweet :drool:


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Chassis has been anodised by a small local company. Color is a bit dark though, more than the Celebration one, but it matches rather well with the shocks.

Turbo Optima Mid Special
 

Nope your wrong sorry its a Turbo Optima Mid Special, it did come originally with FRP shock towers but as some of you know they broke very easily, so many racers replaced them with alloy ones either home made or from optima mid, these are from Optima mid, i have the original FRP shock towers (i have 11 sets of them) which go on the various optimas i have (i think at last count 23/24). I enclose the pictures of the latest 2 to be completed. They are an original optima with ORIGINAL Kyosho celebration gold chassis, alloy wheels bridgestone tyres and an optima body done in JPS livery. The second is a Optima mid custom in box art)

My car is now for sale.

You can find the add in the for sale section.

Cheers

Now on ebay.

http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI...m=110391424705

OPTIMA
 

The Optima was my first 1/10th electric car and at the time was hot on the racing scene. I must have driven that poor thing to death (and then some...LOL). Never realy raced it outside of the 540 class as back then I was a junior and the car was fast enough for me anyways.
Sadly I traded it for a newer model back then and i think it ended up in R/C heaven after the guy who got it from me beat it to within a breath of its life-
Years later and realising the collector scene was in full swing and nib kits were still in circulation i simply had to relive the memory and own one all over again. I tracked down a new built car and even got it with a very nice kit box to boot! I also got hold of a Kamtec shell and had a go at painting a box art paint scheme.
Not happy with just owning a sweet new built i also had to have a runner. This time I got an absolute junker in a trade with a mate and needless to say pretty much half the car went into the trash. After sourcing a nib belt conversion set ( and taking out a bank loan :lol:),a complete new set of alloy chassis bits,universal swing shafts front and rear, Option House Gold Shocks,hardened final pinion,48dp spur set and a few other odds and ends and i was set with a cool vintage racer. Ive driven this car a whole heap and had a ball with it. Its been great reliving old memories-:thumbsup:

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Damnit I'm jealous...

I have just inherited an Optima Pro but it needs some serious work to get it ready.
As my Yoke 870c is now race-able maybe I'll have to make a start on it.

It certainly won't end up as good as that though...

Bormac you must be the ultimate vintageguy on this planet.. i'm very impressed and please keep it up :thumbsup:. Does anyone know if you can fit uj:s on a Ultima the first version? Got ispired to build me an vintageracer too. Cheers

Thankyou for the compliment Twister. Im not sure if its true but Ive certainly raced and drive more vintage buggies than anyone else I know.:D

wow wow wow :drool::drool::drool::drool::drool::drool::drool:: drool::drool::drool::bored: im going to cry now wish i still had mine , sold it about 9 months ago cause it just sat there gutted , i really wish kyosho would bring this baby out in its true stlye but with all the latest teck i d sell everthing to get one

Car is now on ebay. 2 days to go :thumbsup:

http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI...m=110391424705

have an old Kyosho Turbo Optima Mid SE, that needs some parts. ... Status: offline, hi, do you still have the kyosho? i know this is an old thread. ...
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Loving this thread!

I'll try to remember to bring my RC10 goldy up to Huddersfield when I visit my sister, then come down to the track and give you a thrashing!! :thumbsup:

Turbo Optima Mid
 

If any of you guys are interested in a complete Turbo Optima Mid with original box and instructions (112b speed controller, 27nhz rec'r and Attack R tranny plus a couple of motors and a new 7200mA Nimh) have a look in the for sale section. Here is a pic from when it came out of the loft a couple of months ago...

Hello Gallo, I wanted to ask you, did you sold this Optima?

Hi Optiman, nope, still have it. I made another bodyshell for it, nothing fancy, a Marwan repro. It is now fitted with a MC116 I used on my Egress back in the days. I'd like to fit a better steering though, I have to think about it.

Why, may I ask? :)

Hey, How are you doing, I love your Optima JPS, its really original, and I would love to post it on my Dedicated Optima Site: www.kyosho-optima.fr/photos

Of course, I will give you full credit and link.

And if you could make a nice picture with a neat background that would be great!!!

Thanks, love that car.

My built mids.

Also have NIB:

Optima Mid Custom
Turbo Optima Mid
Turbo Optima Mid Special

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...psslicpezy.jpg

See this is what I said earlier you have too much cool stuff

Dan if you ever want to sell your NIB TOMS let me know

Ok Dan I'll bear you in mind :)

Justin, my wife doesn't agree ;)

I see you have a complete TOMS and one missing wheels, are they both built with the Kyosho carbon chassis?

Hi Dan,

The one with wheels is full carbon fibre which a friend CNC cut for me - it's very pretty.

The one without wheels is actually a Custom with my old runner shell, I just fitted the custom special shell to my modified LWB runner so thought I'd build up a custom with the spare 'special' shell.

I have 2 pairs of NIP yellow option house rims for it too.

Dan

I like the stripes on the custom special shell. I believe in catalog pics the shell had different decals to the box art.
I would still love to get the TOMS stickers the prototype had made, it looks more like the turbo. Look up the magazine scans I posted here and you will see what I mean.
I still haven't painted a shell lol

Got a link?

+1

Always interested to see new or different body decal/paint ideas.

Check for threads started by me, its the turbo mid sp magazine scan thread. I would paste the link but I'm at work on my phone

Found it: http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107272

Any ideas what the colors of the stripes were?

Unfortunately no, and haven't seen any color pics :-(
If you look closely you can see it is complete stripes going from the tops to the sides, I suspect the bits that can only be seen in some pics are yellow, that might help explain the yellow wheels

The decals themselves don't look overly complex

It seems the stripes are 2 or 3 color, about a cm from the edge the color changes, and this can also be seen on the sides, so it's not a matter of reflection. Maybe yellow or white body with couple of different tones of blue, like the Ultima II?

The only other pic is this one here

http://www.retromodelisme.com/scan_p...o-page-27.html

Now not sure if this brochure is included with the Turbo Optima Mid Special and maybe someone with a NIB kit has a better chance of figuring out the colors

It seems even the decals infront of the windscreen are a single stripe with the centre part a lighter color

I think we really need to try and get these decals made

My NIB one is in the UK so I won't be able to check it for a while but thanks for sharing as I haven't seen that before!