Well in 1985 I collected my first Turbo Optima. It had the Gold Shocks! It was so much more advanced than my Plastic Tamiya Grasshopper . It was built like a tank also!My Tamiya grasshopper was all plastic!
I won many raced in SoCal with other people that took this sport seriously amd raced their RC 10s. I was the outsider!
Kyosho was serious about racing and they kept re-engineering the car into the Mid-then Lazer!
Parts were generally hard to find, but the Optima was well made.
Thank You