Show off your Dune Buggy or SandRail

[FPGT72]

[ppilotmike]

My California Clipper on a 62' pan and running gear.

[alloutchristie]

[Stormin189]

2.7T mid engine sandrail

[c77owen]

My Berrian Warrior. 2082 with 11.5:1 compression, SPG roller crank, W130 cam, 1.25 rockers, dual 48 IDAs on E85 and now with nitrous. Street legal and a blast to drive. Next year will blow it apart and powder coat

[jake18274]

MY TOYS...

[PhillipM]

[racecougar]

Just bought this one a few days ago. Planning to make it street legal. It's a '72 1600, 5-rib, link-pin front, '81 Chenowth frame.

[PhillipM]

It was a little wet this weekend

But she still went well - 7th in yesterdays event and 8th today, out of 75 cars, and 40-50 seconds per stage faster than the next nearest 2wd competitor.
Given the amount of 400 horsepower, 4wd cars there, pretty happy.

[BFB]

I get the purpose of them but those fenders sure deter from the aesthetics of a buggy
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[oprn]

No they are not pretty but pretty doesn't win races, function does. It's all about being able to see after you hit a mud bog. Pretty is for curb and trailer queens and car shows. Each in it's place.
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[PhillipM]

The mudguards?
They're regulation, have to have 120* arc covered, at least 30* forward of the axle, no tyre visible from above, no more than 6 inches of tyre from the rear at ride height.

It's to protect spectators from rocks mainly, there were some nasty accidents in rallying and safari in the EU a while back.
Even then we still put a dent in a marshalls car last year.

And yes, help a lot in the mud or water crossings, you can see the state of the screen sometimes. I need to get it recoated with quartz again to bead the mud off, I haven't got around to it with the new screen yet.

[PhillipM]

...and they're not perfect but they do their job in the water too.

You can see how much they keep the general dirt down even on harder stuff too there.

[Mudbug66]

Built 4 years ago from a junked one to this. Street legal and we cruise a lil with it but we built it for cruising the coast.