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biotex
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 Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:06 pm Post subject: Identify this buggy |
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I have been thinking about ideas how to build a pan buggy out of my spare parts, and ran across this picture of one I really like. Very simple but strong it appears to my untrained eye.
This looks like perhaps it was built from a kit. Anyone know where it came from? I'd sure like to purchase one.
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md perf
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those are pretty simple bends, I would guess home made.... maybe not, but that's my .02
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Dale M.
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I am not aware of any "kits" for this type of buggy...
Looks like one of a thousand "pan" buggies made in backyards and garages by persons wishing to participate mainly before tube frame "rails" became popular.... OR by people doing it on the inexpensive route...
Find a fab shop (race car?) and get your tubing and have it bent to your specs and weld one up, that is what hundreds of people do....
Dale
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biotex
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| Dale M. wrote: |
I am not aware of any "kits" for this type of buggy...
Looks like one of a thousand "pan" buggies made in backyards and garages by persons wishing to participate mainly before tube frame "rails" became popular.... OR by people doing it on the inexpensive route...
Find a fab shop (race car?) and get your tubing and have it bent to your specs and weld one up, that is what hundreds of people do....
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Dale,
I have a tube bender and the software. Problem I have is getting metal. My dies are 1 3/4" and the local metal shop has to order 10 joints minimum. Next closest place is a 300 mile round trip. I just figured if there was a kit already designed and available, it would probably be a lot cheaper than what I could do. Cheap is good for this project because I'm trying to find a use for some spare parts I have that are taking up space.
Looks like I have another winter project ahead of me. Not necessarily a bad thing...
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Dale M.
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Anybody in "neighborhood" build race cars or off road cars?.... Maybe they have a few "sticks" you buy off them or share an order...
Find out where the serious car crowd hang out and ask where the get their materials...
Dale
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biotex
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| Dale M. wrote: |
Anybody in "neighborhood" build race cars or off road cars?.... Maybe they have a few "sticks" you buy off them or share an order...
Find out where the serious car crowd hang out and ask where the get their materials...
Dale |
Perhaps you have heard of "The Back Forty"? That is where I live. LOL. Anyways, how things change! I ran into a buddy at an intersection where we stopped and chatted. I mentioned I was into dune buggies now, and he directed me to pull out of the intersection cause he wanted to show me something. He takes me to a storage yard he owns just outside of town, and in the corner barely visible in the weeds is a buggy. He points to it and says take it and the spare engine. He then left. I sit there looking at it trying to figure out what it is, but not really wanting to get out of my truck and go look at it too close without my boots. It is buried in a yard full of junk mostly, and the sun is about to set, and this is the time of year rattlers get aggressive etc...
I went home and figured I would go back this weekend and take a looky, but I couldn't stand it so I grabbed a tow rope and my Jeep (4x4 with lockers) and head back to the yard. I hooked up the rope to the frame and put in low lock front and back, and dragged it into an open area without weeds.
It looks to me like it is a corvair chassis/engine buggy. Square boxed frame with coil springs. Steering box way outboard up front etc... getting too dark.
I am going to winch it up on a trailer today and drag it home. Might be a ton of work to fit a VW engine into it, but I like the idea of those coil springs for some reason. I'll post up pictures in a new thread later. Either way, it is free, so perhaps I can use some of the cage or whatever.
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