Old ways for old days

tdonaldson · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:57 am Post subject:

twenty years from now people will look at a picture of me riding loose in the back of a Suburban at 6 years old and think my parents were total unsafe morons for allowing it.
It was just the thing to do back then. That guy is probably having an awesome time!
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bossride · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:03 pm Post subject:

I also like this one:

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bossride · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject:

Vintage sand drag racing, how safe does this one look? LOL

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bossride · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:47 pm Post subject:

You might have seen these, but they are awesome:

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vw_hank · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:11 pm Post subject:

those were the good old days,, build it and go have fun!! but now that the government has micromanaged are lives to the point that thy tell us what type of oil we are allowed to cook are food in Sad

In the name of public safety Evil or Very Mad

only the big money guys are alowed to have "TOY'S"
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JiI · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject:

I like that last blue rail. Smile

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bossride · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:09 am Post subject:

Last batch and I'm out... but I love the old school stuff... Tunnel jobs and homemade stuff that gets laughed at today, like the bus...

I think this may have come from here or the ovals section, but it was one of my favorite bajas... type III power and all. It's neat.

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vw_hank · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:04 am Post subject:

That bus is bad A$$!!!!!!!!!!! Id roll,, Id even enter it in the loco shows just to piss folks off Laughing

find some pretty 23 to park next to Wink

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sicksforeveedub · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject:

All these pics are awesome... makes me wish I was around back then. Gotta love the simplicity of those rides and the ingenuity of the builders. The blue front-engine corvair-powered thingy is like nothing I've ever seen before!
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69bajaguy · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject:

vw_hank · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:34 pm Post subject:

If you show up at any sand dune/ORV park with that "blue front-engine corvair-powered thingy" now, you would be told to put it back on the trailer and take your ass home!!

Looks like it would be loads of fun tho Very Happy

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bossride · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:09 am Post subject:

I think things were probably a little more low keyed back then. Those buggies didn't go very fast or jump very well, and they were just crawling around exploring and maybe doing some climbing. Unlike today's fully suspended Corvette-powered stuff that goes 100 and jumps city blocks, their donor vehicles had little horsepower.

It does look like fun, though...
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joescoolcustoms · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:04 am Post subject:

Yikes!

Some of those buggies look to be bone jarring jumping. Very little protection form leg injuries like the very last photo with just a foot peg for the lady to keep her legs on. Imagine what could happen if her feet slip off the peg. Even if they only had a 36'er pushing it around, it can still go fast enough to turn over or bump enough to get feet/hands onto the moving tires or just drug hard in the sand.

Thank goodness for improved safety, but so cool to see the old school pictures! Thanks for posting them.
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Mal evolent · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:22 am Post subject:

love that cut up Karmann Kabriolet

some of these are just go karts on steroids.
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Longrifle · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:10 am Post subject:

Love these old pics too...takes me back to when I was kid....more,more,more. I laughed at the buggy jumping the dune and the passenger still holding the Budweiser..too funny. The lady on that yellow dune buggy is gonna break her legs or get killed on that foot peg set up....scary.
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bossride · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:21 am Post subject:

For those that haven't seen any REAl old dune buggies, they started out as cut down passenger cars:

They morphed a little to have the seats over the back wheels and longer front ends by the early '60s:

And then once the figured out how to get tires to float on the sand, and added more horsepower, they started with the dually wheels:

This one was recently restored:

http://youtu.be/WSKWn_HFpac
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Mal evolent · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:53 am Post subject:

the old cut down passenger cars were known as "doodle bugs" back in the day.
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bossride · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:11 am Post subject:

Man, I'm sorry for hi-jacking your post... I love old stuff. Smile

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Mal evolent · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:29 am Post subject:

posting pictures of cool old rides was the point of the post. you didn't hijack it, but you certainly own it.
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norcalmike · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:51 am Post subject:

this thread rocks!


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