I'll start off with the first one I bought around 3 years ago, a 1st gen chain drive Optima. This one has been driven a few times so it's in need of a bit of a clean up.
A quick bit of personal history, I bought one of these back in '85 when they came out and it was eventually converted to a Turbo Optima after my brother bought one. I later bought an Optima Mid and the Optima pretty much went into retirement. From '85 to around '91 or so I had the Optima, Optima Mid and Lazer ZX. I raced all three but wasn't really into racing all that competitively. I later sold all my RC cars to a friend that I raced with back then who still has them.
Here's some pics of the old girl. Enjoy.
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It's had a bit of a knock at the front that slightly bent the under guard and front brace, very common with these cars.
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I took some pics of my shelfer Javelin as well which I'll post up next. There's also two more 1st gen Optima runners and a Javelin runner that I'll get pics of later on.
Keith
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