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Some pictures of my old cars

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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
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A Turbo Optima from a friend. Very nice made Aluminium-Chassis!
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A Turbo Optima from a friend. Very nice made Aluminium-Chassis!
A Turbo Optima from a friend. Very nice made Aluminium-Chassis!
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My Turbo Optima with saddle-pack-chassis. Great car!
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My Turbo Optima with saddle-pack-chassis. Great car!
My Turbo Optima with saddle-pack-chassis. Great car!
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My Lazer.
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My Lazer.
My Lazer.
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My modifieded Triumph and Lazer with custom-chassis.
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My modifieded Triumph and Lazer with custom-chassis.
My modifieded Triumph and Lazer with custom-chassis.
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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
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My frist RC10 car ever!
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My frist RC10 car ever!
My frist RC10 car ever!
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ID this car! Haha!
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ID this car! Haha!
ID this car! Haha!
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My old Turbo Optima.
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My old Turbo Optima.
My old Turbo Optima.
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If I see this pictures, I think I was so bloody young!

Best time of my life!

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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.

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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!

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

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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

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Awesome pics, thanks a lot Michael.

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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.

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Here we go:

New food!

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Sweet pics Michael, thanks!

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Yeah keep them coming mate they are awesome.

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