I’ve had a right stroke of luck and have been lent a truly mint condition (as built almost) Optima Mid. It’s so utterly factory and mint I’m scared to use it!
It’s my mates who said it was his pride and joy and it’s been in the loft for nearly 15 years he thinks. I can’t decide what to do though. It’s got a Parma pro stock motor which with charging the original saft batteries was not much more than walking pace fast. I wonder if just newer cells will sort that? I’ve got a stick pack of cheap cells on order to run in this and to utterly abuse as my pack of cells for vintage this winter. Will it take a 19t motor and half decent cells OK belts wise, they are old remember?
The Optima has the original Kyosho mechanical speed control which has a reaction time of about 2 seconds with the std acoms servo on it, so I was going to try to put an electronic speedo in there as well as not to disturb the original wiring, trouble is the only spare speedo I have is a Tekin G11 which isn’t very small.
I’ll get some pics up tonight!
Dan
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