After reading comments and suggestions I personally narrowed my options to the following:
1)For pure fun my #1 choice is; The Tamiya Lunchbox, Black Edition.
2)For a fun, but with better handling than the Lunchbox it would be; The Tamiya Frog.
3)From this point on, looking for more performance, but still willing to do some maintainance and since it's my favourite buggy; The Kyosho Turbo Optima.
4)For even more performance on a vintage platform with mantainance involved; The Kyosho Turbo Optima Mid SE but with Gold shocks. I will also concider a Lazer, but have never had any expirience with them.
5)And for a "vintage" expirience without any hassle of expensive or difficult parts to find, tough as nails chassis and zero mantainance; The AE B44 hacked up and with a Optima vintage body.
I've been tinkering with the idea on this last option, and it is very doable and in the end I think the result would do it for me. Let's face it, locally there's NOT ONE other racer running vintages, so I would be competing against modern buggys all the time. Since I am an average R/C driver I will never get a vintage on the podium, and only will end up staining the vintage reputation.
I've seen the B44 Grayseal conversion and I could do something very similar making parts to make up or mimic the chassis of the Optima but with a mid motor layout. For the rear I could make the Option House motor guard that encloses the ESC with a fan instead of the rear motor....
But... What's the fun on that?! The whole idea of fun and vintage is all gone in CAD design, figuring out stuff, etc...
So after thinking what I am really after, which is a NO STRESS pure fun expirience, a Tamiya Frog it would be!!!
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