Here is my first Optima Mid rebuild, a Custom Special, bought as second hand runner. The chassis needed some work, mostly updated electronics, after a glitch during driving made the car run into the sidewalk, which almost cost me a steering knuckle. Also the old silver colored Custom Special body wasn't much of a sight to behold. As in that time I was absolutely convinced I couldn't get acceptable results when I would paint a body, I was happy when Dan offered me to sell a Custom Mid body and matching wing and undertray. And put together, it looked like this:
Another car, that I haven't presented here before, as far as I know, but one of the cars I am the most proud of. Encouraged by Daniel's "Lazer Mid" I decided to make a "hybrid" as well. Using the complete suspension of a Lazer ZX Sport, that I had lying for spares, including the steering bell cranks, combined with Optima Mid Custom chassis and transmission, hoping to combine the best of both buggies. For body a SWB Optima body was used, but trimmed longer, so it would fit the LWB chassis.
With wing painted in colors matching the body, and same for the decals:
And with wing with custom decals, printed by MCI Racing:
It's running a Corally 17 double motor, on 6 cell NiMh. HobbyKing 45A ESC and same brand receiver, servo is a HXT5010, basic servo. Body is from Marwan RC, wing is from Team BlueGroove. Strictly speaking it's an Optima Mid Custom ZX Sport, since it doesn't have the turnbuckles, but I do plan to add these in the future, and the ZX-R logo just looks better than "ZX Sport", I think.