ElectricGuy007

Comeon people post up your Vintage Kyosho buggies& trucks and cool stories here!

I had a Raider ARR when I was 8 years old, sorry LB forgot to tell you.
The Vintage I mean the Raider ARR, Raider Pro, Turbo Raider, Ultima, Ultima 2, Optima, Optima Mid...etc....


Thread has been changed because I had a Big Brute and miss it alot!!
Sold it on ebay 3 years ago and cant never get one again....[&o]

Eman77

My first "good" buggy kit I built was a Kyosho Turbo Optima Mid SE back in the day. I had it for quite a while, but sold it a year or 2 ago to get funds and room for newer RC projects. I like the buggy, but finding parts is nearly impossible. I run my vintage stuff - not excessively hard, but I have fun. So stuff will break now and again....I just didn't want to deal with that, with this buggy.

Anyway, here are some pics from before I sold it:

ElectricGuy007

Pretty cool! Didnt know you had all these vintage cars or Id buy some directly from you so you wouldnt have to
deal with ebay....[:@]

I wouldnt mind having a couple of them, just not go overboard...
I still have some of my raider ARR parts...like the tranny and the complete front end...but that's all...[&o]

Eman77

Had I known, I would have certainly offered. Back then I didn't post on RCU nearly as much, so I didn't have a feel for who's who. Ah well.

I also sold an SG Coyote (shaft driven 4WD) - that was my first kit, back in the what...late 80s/early 90s? Italian made RC, parts also a pain to get (esp back then). Kind of a wacky buggy. Not sure why I got that one LOL.

No more vintage left that I own though, except this Schumacher Bosscat (as seen in my avatar). Not selling that anytime soon though.

ElectricGuy007

Is the wing on the BOSSCAT plastic(lexan) or the hard wing type that's on the 8th scale gas buggies.

Eman77

It's plastic/lexan.

ElectricGuy007

How often did you run the Kyosho Optima?

1troy7

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Kyosho Vanning. [8D] Does anyone here own a Javelin? That's one buggy I would love to get ahold of.

ElectricGuy007

I wonder if you even ran the Vanning?

1troy7

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I ran the motor on my bench. Took me 3 old ones to build this one. And alot of time.[8D]

ElectricGuy007

What's a Javelin? Never even heard of it.

Eman77

A lot. I bought it new back in the day, when I was in HS, and had nothing but time. I ran it a ton back then. When I revived it (after sitting dormant for years), I still ran it pretty often - never as often as I'd like, of course.

The pics were taken after the "revival".

ElectricGuy007

Pretty sure that car was a belt drive stock wasn't it? At least that's the way I remembered it back then.
IF the parts are so hard to get then yeah I wouldnt have run it at all.

Eman77

Yep, belt drive. I mostly ran the stock LeMans motor in it, but put a Trinity Chameleon2 Pro 19T x 1 in it for the revival. I just bashed around with it...but carefully, given the parts issue.

The steering on that thing was never quite perfect. Had a tendency to wiggle loose, so it had a lot of play in it. Hard to explain, but the design wasn't the best. And getting to that steering servo was a bit of a pain (esp since I had to fiddle with the servo saver setup a lot). Sill, fun to drive.

zagato

I miss my old optima mid. If they made them like that today (alloy & ABS, rather than plastic graphite) I'd have one in an instant.

ElectricGuy007

Look what I have guys!! Barely even been ran. Brushes are still good.[8D]

1troy7

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Here ya go, Kyosyho Javelin

Dale Gribble

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Only Kyosho Buggy that really stood out for me when I was younger was the Kyosho Burns. That car was a pioneer and 20 years later buggies are not so much different when viewed from a high level.

zagato

Very true. Every modern buggy is a total copy of the Burns. When it came out there was nothing remotely like it.

hockeyhead019

Hey guys i have the Ultima Ep. ya it's old but it still works, kinda, i busted the rear shock tower anybody know where i can get a replacement??
sorry no pics though

ElectricGuy007

Post up some pics of that Ultima EP when you get the chance, doesnt matter if its broken or not.
Still dont know what the "EP" stands for...is it like the Ultima ST-Ultima(stadium truck) or other...
I just hope its a buggy.

ElectricGuy007

http://www.vintagekyosho.com/manuals.html

Vintage Manuals for the thread.

ElectricGuy007

For those who wanna know what a Kyosho Big Brute looks like, here check this out.
http://www.vintagekyosho.com/Friends/Mike/100_0142.jpg

Cubpuppy

Picked this up at an auction! Had the box and many nos parts with it. OS FP 10 is the power plant with a Blue Max Radio!. Not sure of vintage but I figure mid 1970's.