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forkzilla
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 Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:48 am Post subject: limo buggy |
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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? |
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tanner_122
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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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 
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forkzilla
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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strohma
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| 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. |
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forkzilla
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| 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. |
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strohma
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| 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. |
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forkzilla
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| Very cool, but a bit more power than I will need. I'd get in trouble with that beast. |
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| 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 |
Looks like a lot of fun. That's one wicked, monster buggy! |
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tanner_122
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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it is haha
we have taken it to the local tractor pulls and nothing can beat it haha
it turns alot of heads
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| ^ hey that pic of that camo thing up there, isnt that the thing that Jaba the Hut flew around in in star wars? [/quote] |
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| 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 |
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If you guys had something like that, you wouldn't need a tire thread. 
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| i could go so fast off road with that flying thing man! floating is the best suspention on the planet! hahahahaha |
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forkzilla
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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] |
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forkzilla
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:25 am Post subject: A few more pics |
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These show some of the progress I've made on the limo buggy.
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To see that thing full of people and having a picture of it jumping off a dune would be 
