Some pictures of my old cars

Post by **siebenelch** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:45 am

Hello there!

I found some old pic of my cars.

My first season I drove a Turbo Optima with a saddle-pack-chassis to keep the COG lower. This car was really great to drive!

After I was driving for Kyosho-Germany and I had a Triumph and a Lazer. For the Lazer I made a new super-narrow chassis and the Triumph was heavy modifieded (40 degrees Front-Kickup-option!).

Both cars was not really fast, because the handling and ballance was not good. At that time, Yokomo and Associated was the winning-cars.

Michael

Post by **siebenelch** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:09 am

Here we go..

Turbo Optima in action! Lats version had Lazer-suspension (!)

And the legendary strange car called "Schmiedepetersiepen"! It´s a german project at the middle 80´s from a driver from Berlin. First electric Off Road car with Thorsen-differential and CF-tub chassis. Very spectacular! But I could beat this car with my Turbo Optima in one big Race in Germany. Haha!

And a picture of my first RC10! I made a saddle-pack-configuration. So I was able to move the pack more forward, or rearward to adjust the handling of the car.

Michael

Post by **siebenelch** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:21 am

If I see this pictures, I think I was so bloody young!

Best time of my life!

Michael

Post by **siebenelch** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:36 am

Here is a Tamiya BigWig from another german racer and a chaindriven Kyosho 4WD-Tomahawk. Both cars and driver was very succesfull in germany at that time.

Michael

Post by **adam lancia** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:58 am

Nice stuff there Michael, the Turbo Optima with Lazer suspension is pretty interesting. I've got a Lazer that I still race with the newer cars...do you happen to have any other pictures of your Lazer and any modifications you made to it? I've mostly interested in how much more narrow you made the chassis. I assume you moved the cells as close to the belt as you could...? Awesome stuff!

Post by **jasen** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:42 pm

do you have any pictures of the tomahwk with the body off

Post by **siebenelch** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:51 am

Hi!

Yes, the battery-slots of the Lazer-chassis are very close to the belt. Maybe a distance of 10mm from left to right.
my Lazer was superlight. Around 1500 grams. I need to put alot of weight into the car.
And i drove a Pro Optima-Body on it. Looked very nice. But I have no picture with body on.

Unfortunately I have no picture of the 4WD Tomahawk without the body. The driver had another spectacular 2WD Tomahawk made from alot of carbon parts, what has a weight of 1100grams total!!

I will scan some other pictures I found.

Michael

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:44 am

Awesome pics, thanks a lot Michael.

Post by **Mr. ED** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:43 am

Thanks for putting up the european pics. I've never seen any of them before.
The only magazines that made it into belgium in the early years were from france and an odd one from the netherlands.

The lazer arms will fit the optima-mid also. Wonderfull how they stuck with the same hinge lengths and locations throughout 3 generations of 4wd buggies.

Post by **siebenelch** » Fri May 02, 2008 6:19 am

Here we go:

New food!

Michael

Post by **adam lancia** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:09 am

Sweet pics Michael, thanks!

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:55 am

Yeah keep them coming mate they are awesome.

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