New Vintage RC Guy from Sunny Tropical Malaysia

Post by **alcyon** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:24 am

Hi everyone, names Rama and I am from Malaysia. Some of you may already know me from other forums, youtube or ebay.
I was born in 1976, and will be turning 38 this march 11th. I started with hobby grade RC cars in early 1990 when I bought a beat up Tamiya Boomerang with a sanwa dash stick radio. The boomerang was missing its body and front gearbox internals. But having a Tamiya was a big deal to me, considering I only owned toy grade rc cars before that. I really had fun with that Boomerang , and got to know more RCers. A guy told me a LWB optima mid was for sale cheap, and I promptly bought one. I only saw Kyoshos and Yokomos in magazines in 1989 and one ad in RC car action showing the Optima mid and Turbo Optima Mid SE painted half white and half yellow was what hooked me on the Mid. So in late 1990 I scrimped and saved with a friend of mine and we bought a used Optima Mid Custom. Then my brother bought a used Turbo Optima Mid. The funny thing was we couldn't afford radio gear so we bought the cars first and learnt about the mechanicals. Suffice to say when I did run the Mid I had even more fun with it, and did some pretty stupid things like attaching a 13 turn modified to the Mechanical Speed Controller, well which caused the MSC to meltdown. In 1993 I bought a used Lazer ZX.
All these cars I still have until today, except the boomerang.
In 1997 I quit toying around with my mids and went to touring cars. I got the Vintage Offroad bug back in 2011 and here I am again. I rebuilt my optima Mid custom with numerous period mods and modern parts as well as my own designed parts. I am trying to get the Mid to be competitive against modern cars, its been an uphill battle but I feel I am getting there.

Post by **THUNDERSTRIKE1** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:12 am

Welcome to the forum,Don

Post by **slow_jun** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:17 am

Assalamu alaikum,welcome sir, nice to hear stories of how guys started out,i also started around the same time,but with a Grasshopper,sad to say that how much i mod it to be competitive it just dont drive well enough to race it,so ended up selling it and getting a hoshots II,well you know the the results so ending up with a optima mid CS which happily stayed till i got my losi and Rc10,then the rest is history! Hahahah welcome to the addiction!!!!

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Post by **JPAE07** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:38 am

Welcome!

Post by **Coelacanth** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 1:35 pm

Welcome to the forum! As an Optima fan, I'm looking forward to pictures of your cars and rebuild projects!

Post by **alcyon** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:28 am

Coelacanth wrote:Welcome to the forum! As an Optima fan, I'm looking forward to pictures of your cars and rebuild projects!

You are legendary my friend . Your obsession with blue alloy and your creations are one of a kind and top notch too.

Post by **SONYtec** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 2:36 pm

Welcome!!!

Post some pictures.

Post by **alcyon** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:52 am

SONYtec wrote:Welcome!!!

Post some pictures.

I have! In the kyosho section.

Post by **alcyon** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:53 am

slow_jun wrote:Assalamu alaikum,welcome sir, nice to hear stories of how guys started out,i also started around the same time,but with a Grasshopper,sad to say that how much i mod it to be competitive it just dont drive well enough to race it,so ended up selling it and getting a hoshots II,well you know the the results so ending up with a optima mid CS which happily stayed till i got my losi and Rc10,then the rest is history! Hahahah welcome to the addiction!!!!

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If you are coming to malaysia look me up.

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