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Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:48 am

I have a home on an island in Lake Erie where it is legal to drive golf carts on the road. I would like a longer one to haul more people, like the photo I posted. Are there any threads about such a beast?

Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:59 pm

:shock: To see that thing full of people and having a picture of it jumping off a dune would be :twisted: :shock: Badass

lol

Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:14 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9t6sOqvoo

this is a friends buggy aka "the beast" not vw but u will like it click the link
sits 8 and has more torque than any buggy out there haha :twisted:

Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:03 pm

the beast
Thats pretty cool, but the island we are on has no sand, it is all rock. I want to drive this on the road only, kinda like an extended golf cart. The golf cart I have now is only 9hp, and would be a dog if I stretch it.

Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:18 pm

Check out Way out salvage web page. They have a bay buss they stripped to a 6 seat baja. It wouldn't be hard to stretch it a little more and make it an 8 seater. If ya do it give me a shout I don't have property but I have friends on the Island I'd like to play with something like that.

Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:15 am

Cool looking bus. I would like a bus chassis because of the gear reduction. Speed isn't an issue because you cant go much faster than 35 because of the huge number of tourists in the summer.

Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:28 pm

Remember you only get the reduction boxes on Pre- 68 buses when they went to IRS the reduction boxes were dropped. Somebody jump in if I have the year wrong.

Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:33 am

this thing is ridicules.

Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:31 pm

Very cool, but a bit more power than I will need. I'd get in trouble with that beast.

Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:28 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3...p;start=20

Im building a 4 door baja

Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:14 pm

tanner_122 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9t6sOqvoo

this is a friends buggy aka "the beast" not vw but u will like it click the link
sits 8 and has more torque than any buggy out there haha :twisted:

Looks like a lot of fun. That's one wicked, monster buggy!

Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:36 pm

it is haha
we have taken it to the local tractor pulls and nothing can beat it :twisted: haha
it turns alot of heads

Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:51 am

http://www.race-dezert.com/cgi-bin/trader/atl.cgi?ct=4&md=second&id=10759 8)

Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:57 am

Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:51 am

^ hey that pic of that camo thing up there, isnt that the thing that Jaba the Hut flew around in in star wars? [/quote]

Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:15 am

Green bug Guy wrote: ^ hey that pic of that camo thing up there, isnt that the thing that Jaba the Hut flew around in in star wars?

haha

Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:24 am

If you guys had something like that, you wouldn't need a tire thread. :twisted: :wink:

Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:20 am

i could go so fast off road with that flying thing man! floating is the best suspention on the planet! hahahahaha

Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:05 pm

Please excuse the phone pic. Here is the 9 passenger buggy I am building to run on an island in Lake Erie. I used 1.750 X .120 1026 stress relieved DOM tubing for the majority of the frame. The diagonal tubing is 1.000 X .095. It will be just over 20 feet when I get the front bumper installed.I am using the front seats and the rear bench seat, along with 4 boat seats in the center two rows. [img][img][/img]

Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:25 am

These show some of the progress I've made on the limo buggy.